Disease by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

Jan 1, 1993 | Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, The Vedic Observer, Volume-27 Number-01

THE HEROES OF MY YOUTH were the great healers of humanity. While it's true that in those days I could be seen with other American boys paying homage to the likes of Elvis Presley and Joe DiMaggio, I rendered them only lip service. My real if somewhat secret... read more

ISKCON’s Dharma-Cakra A true story by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

May 1, 1992 | Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, The Vedic Observer, Volume-26 Number-03

Part III (Conclusion): The Prophecy Fulfilled ON THE NIGHT of February 15, 1990, during a power failure, I was led across a rooftop high over New Delhi; the city had disappeared in darkness below, while overhead the firmament spilled open with a bright brocade of... read more

ISKCON’S Dharma-Cakra by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

Mar 1, 1992 | Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, The Vedic Observer, Volume-26 Number-02

PART II: THE JOURNEY ONLY LAST NIGHT I had been led across a Delhi rooftop to a small candlelit room filled with ancient books and burnished yantras. There Panditji, the astrologer and seer, had by his occult art pierced the veil of the future and seen a... read more

ISKCON’s Dharma-Cakra A true story by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

Jan 1, 1992 | Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, The Vedic Observer, Volume-26 Number-01

Part I: The Prophecy DASHING ALONG in a lurching little car, we were on our way to see Panditji when Delhi suddenly went dark. Our headlight beams, slewing and bouncing, threw up rapid-fire scenes of blacked-out apartment blocks, empty eroded lots, and here and there... read more

Of Death and Editors by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa

Sep 1, 1991 | Ravindra Svarupa Dasa, The Vedic Observer, Volume-25 Number-05

AFTER I MISSED my last column, a memo from our hard-boiled editor slithered off my fax machine. "Near-death is a valid excuse for not writing," he conceded grudgingly. "But since you've survived, you might as well write." I didn't find out... read more