Workplace Meditation by Nagaraja Dasa
I work on a laptop computer, which I take home with me every night. When I come into the office in the morning, I have to get down on my hands and knees to plug my power cable into an electrical outlet under my desk. While I was doing that one morning, I thought about... read more
A Taste of Salted Bread
In the former Soviet Union, Hare Krishna devotees risked being imprisoned and tortured for distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books. The following excerpts are from Sarvabhavana Dasa’s book Salted Bread, which focuses on how he and his friend Sacisuta Dasa... read more
Two Seeds That Grew in Iron by Urmila Devi Dasi
Two leaders of the Moscow temple project flourished in devotion to Krishna behind the Iron Curtain The goal was a nation of atheists. Over three generations seventy years the government had an explicit, determined policy to create such a nation. As in the other Soviet... read moreLetter from an Observer by Devi Deva Dasa
After being asked to help with the Moscow temple project in 2000, I began to pay more attention to the Russian news. Two things became clear: Moscow’s newfound wealth, and the power Russia has come to possess within the international community. It is extremely... read more