Making Our Lives A Devotional Tapestry

Recently, I have been teaching myself to do needlepoint tapestries. My goal is to one day make these as pictures of Krishna and His various pastimes. In the meantime, however, because I am teaching myself, I have to do whatever projects I can manage.
Anyone who knows needlework, knows that any type takes a lot of patience.

Battlefield Bhajans

My friend Partha-sarathi dasa is a devotee of Lord Krishna. He also happens to be a soldier in Iraq.

He has taught me that regardless of our situation, or of the political or economic environment we are in it is the consciousness with which you face your karma that matters. Your Krishna Consciousness that is!

Watering the Seed of Devotion

Lord Jagannatha appears in a Potato

A day before Dallas Ratha Yatra and everyone is in ecstatic preparation for the Lord festival. The Lord kindly gives His appearance prior to his debut Chariot festival. Pritha was peeling potatoes for tomorrows feast and while blissfully engaging in that seva she discover the smiling face of Lord Jagannatha.

Purification From Chanting

Recently one of the talks I gave in The Japa Room was about the purification process of chanting the Maha Mantra.
I am sharing one of the quotes I used here for anyone who is not able to come to The Japa Room.

Road Kill Revelation

Sometimes it is said that “beauty is only ‘skin deep’”. One meaning of this expression is that we are attracted to the outward beauty of the body without understanding its' inner components and that it covers the soul or the true beauty within. When the inside of the body---“blood and guts”---becomes visible, the soul remembers that the person or creature is not their body.

Glorifying the Holy Names

Looking for recipes

I was talking to Kurma Dasa the Chef recently and on the issue of cooking there was something he continued to affirm, and that was that we should follow a recipe.

So there you have it a recipe should be the basis of your cooking plan.

A Fool for Love

Is it really so surprising
that anyone--even a senior--
would be a fool
for love and intimacy?

Looking For Solutions In All The Wrong Places

Everybody wants a solution to some problem they have. We are all looking for solutions to this difficulty or that difficulty.
Since the material world is full of all kinds of difficulties, there is no end to this search for solutions.