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February 11, 1975; Mexico City, Mexico; Camp: ISKCON, Mexico City Touching down in Mexico City proved to be an extraordinary experience today. Srila Prabhupada, a transcendental emissary from Goloka Vrindavan was greeted with honor by his devotees here. Srila Prabhupada by-passed all the ordinary mundane customs check points and airport facilities and walked directly from…

Once, long ago in India, there was a king who desired to see God. Calling for his chief minister, he asked, “Can you show me God? Can you clearly tell me what God is doing?” The minister, although highly learned, could not immediately think of appropriate answers to the king’s questions, so he requested that…

The spiritual master in the heart of the surrendered devotee is the Supreme Lord Himself. He manifests as the beloved initiating spiritual master and the instructing spiritual masters. It is the Supreme Lord who, acting as the spiritual master in the heart, enlightens us with buddhi-yoga, or divine consciousness. And this consciousness helps us understand…

After reading about other’s recent attempts to make good on this sort of thing (read here), I thought to have a go on tradeMe.co.nz. My auction description reads thus: “I knew that this Grilled Cheese Sandwich was special as soon as It came off the grill. I experienced an immediate sense of a divine presence…

The Associated Press From correspondents in Miami November 16, 2004 A 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich a Florida woman says bears the image of the Virgin Mary was back on eBay Tuesday after the Internet auction house initially canceled bids that went up to $US22,000 ($28,486). Owner Diana Duyser, 52, of Hollywood, Florida, said eBay earlier…

I put this website together with the hopes of strengthening family ties. It seems our family (extended and immediate) is spread out over quite some distance on the globe. I did a degree in this sort of internet stuff so I thought it to be a waste not to try to utelise it for matters…

In 1996, ISKCON’s Ministry of Education (MED) convened a conference in Germany to examine where ISKCON was going in terms of education. Change of direction It was felt that the Society’s formal educational structure, which was then almost entirely at the primary school level, was tackling education from the wrong end: that a class of…

A blonde, wanting to earn some money, decided to hire herself out as a handyman-type and started canvassing a wealthy neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house and asked the owner if he had any jobs for her to do. “Well, you can paint my porch. How much will you charge?”…

Yesterday HH Ramai Swami arrived and will be giving class until Thursday morning. He is a very enlivening and jovial sannyasi. I think that he sets a good example of how devotional service is joyfully performed.