On Sunday I was in Ipswich, the oldest continually inhabited Anglo-Saxon town in the UK. It goes back to around 400 AD, when those Angles, Saxons and Jutes first came over here to take our jobs and marry our women. Because they called themselves Englisch they gave our country and people the name. They lasted [...]
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 [...]
Buddhist monks engaged in mock debate at the Seda Monastery
Last night I spoke to some of our brahmacaris and youth on the subject of argument and debate in Krishna consciousness. It was not a scheduled talk but I was a rather inferior substitute for Jayadvaita Swami, who was sick and still recuperating in Sweden.
I began [...]
Cakes, Books, Gaur-Nitai and happy devotees during the monthly sankirtan festival in London’s Harrow district
Me a sankirtan ‘weekend warrior’? Well, almost. If a mere two hours in a shopping street entitles me to the ‘warrior’ tag. I was accompanied by my wife, Guru Carana Padma - herself a sankirtan heroine of yesteryear - and my [...]
The old English town of Guildford, Surrey. A great place for Sankirtan
I drove out to Guildford in Surrey this evening for the monthly gathering of English Vaishnavas there. Guildford is a quintessentially English town, lying in one of the ‘home counties’ just outside London. Its around 50 miles from the capital and is a very [...]
So apart from a nifty logo and a successful launch, what are the congregational preaching teams actually doing this year?
I wrote some short pieces on each of our eight petals and you can visit the Manor’s website and have a look at them here
The launch of the ‘Year of the Congregation’ went well last weekend. Around 75 of our congregational leaders and preachers came to the event, held at a conference centre run by local Catholic nuns. We chose a venue outside the temple because the Manor is bursting at the seams on a Sunday, and this particular [...]
Thats our slogan for the Educate petal of this years congregational campaign - and it sounds simple and obvious enough. We want every member to be well educated in the knowledge, skills and values of Krishna consciousness. And to act on them.
Some years ago, we pondered on a rather obvious question: “How much knowledge does [...]
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’ [...]
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