Some years ago the GBC appointed a group of "deputies" to assist them in their work. They have been doing very valuable service behind the scenes, without getting very much public recognition. They have done a lot of preliminary work which has...

While most devotees seemed to be relishing being in the holy dhama and hearing about the Lord’s pastimes, I was having a difficult time. I found it very difficult not be disturbed by the degraded condition of most of Vraja. I try to think that it is just the covering of Maya that is just hiding the real nature of the dhama from fools like me. But I also feel that we (I) have to do something to help.

Every year for 20 years the Vraja Mandala Parikrama has celebrated Govardhan Puja at Varsana. The festival is always very sweet. The devotees bulid a beautiful duplicate of Govardhan Hill and a sublime cow dung murti of Giriraj Krishna. Many devotees, including HG Deena Bandhu Prabhu, come from Vrndavan for the intimacy of this festival.

We have a very interesting story of how Rupa Manjari devi dasi became a practicing vaisnava. She graduated from the university majoring in political science. She had a serious drug problem while studying, but due to some accident she gave that up, that is when she started to believe in God.

Just after the Berlin Ratha Yatra I flew to Singapore for Janmastami. Since that was the last thing, I will write about it first. I will cover the Berlin Rahta Yatra soon. In Singapore the devotees celebrated Krishna Janmashtami in a big way.