India Diary by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
Flying to India. I am going to do research for the biography of Srila Prabhupada. My head is groggy from sitting fifteen hours in the plane seat. Suddenly the plane starts jerking up and down. A little bell rings, and the "Fasten Seat Belt" sign lights up.... read more
Exposure to the “Cold Cruel World”
Higher Education Gurukula, "the school of the guru," has no equivalent in Western education. It is all at once a place of spiritual formation, character development, academics, and vocational training. A student enters usually at age... read more
The Anatomy of the Social Body by Mathuresa Dasa
Centuries of political experiments have not altered the basic structure of the body politic. Why? Throughout recorded history, in every society on the face of the earth, we find different classes of men or divisions of society. Despite all varieties of... read more
Moving to Second Avenue by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
In the early summer of 1966, Srila Prabhupada was sharing a Bowery loft with a young American friend. But when the boy went crazy on drugs and drove him out, suddenly Prabhupada found himself in the street, homeless and alone. Srila Prabhupada decided to... read more