Its good for devotees to get together for some strategic planning, and assessment of strengths and weaknesses. Here’s a wartime picture of an RAF operations room where the strategy depended on the newly invented radar. Our Vaishnava weekend gathering was near Bawdsey, where the first radar was developed.
We had a little get together/ spiritual retreat [...]
The Japanese Gooseberry bush. Sadly, mine no longer looks like this
I was chanting in the garden this morning and noticed that every single leaf of my Japanese Gooseberry bush had been eaten away. The culprits are tiny caterpillars, almost too tiny to see. But there are lots of them and they have a voracious appetite.
Its [...]
Many, many moons ago, way back in the last century, when the ISKCON movement was just becoming established as ‘a confederation of centres, farms, schools and restaurants’ and anybody who was anybody lived in a temple, the temple president was the natural person to care for the spiritual lives of the devotees.
The president was the [...]
In the first two of the seven purposes of ISKCON the word ‘propagate’ is used twice, as in ‘systematically propagate’ and ‘propagate a consciousness of Krishna.’ Srila Prabhupada seemed to like this word and used it quite a bit in his writings. It comes, of course, from the Latin propagare, meaning to ‘multiply from shoots’ [...]
Over the holiday, whenever I could fit in some extra reading, I have been working through three types of books. The first was a big stack of Catholic catechisms - instruction manuals - and other Christian and Jewish ‘confirmation’ books aimed at bringing a spiritual seeker from the level of exploration to the point of [...]
Some Hindus have a problem with vegetarian policy at new Hindu school
There’s been a kerfuffle in the media in the past few days over the entrance policy for the new Hindu school in Harrow. Various parties have submitted statements to newspapers and been interviewed on the radio.
The Krishna-Avanti Hindu School is to be built and [...]
Appearing in the television series “Essentials of Faith” I managed to upset a congregation member by speaking on Hinduism. Here’s my view…
Recently I had an extended e-mail correspondence with Paul, an old friend of mine with whom I had not spoken for around fifteen years. Paul was angry with me because he felt that I [...]
‘Keeping good men good.’ My local Catholic priest explains what it means for him
Mindful of my current interest in ‘keeping good men good’ I had the opportunity to speak today with a local Catholic priest, Father Raymond Legge. Although both he and I know that the history of the church has certainly not been unblemished [...]
A cucumber is deceptively simple, and organisationally ingenious
While at the ISKCON European Leaders Meeting last month I gave a presentation on how I felt our movement could be helped along in its progress if we thought of it as an organic structure. I studied Biology prior to joining and I guess I look at life [...]
The recent departure of Balabhadra Dasa from ISKCON, and the account of the circumstances leading up to his departure, will no doubt prompt some of my newer readers to ask the obvious question: “How could this possibly happen?”
How is it that a man who was has been a Vaishnava for more than thirty years, a [...]
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