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It is that time of year again. Xmas. And, the debate of whether to put a Xmas tree in the temple room was discussed in our temple management meeting.

Generally this condition is caused by ghosts trying to enter the body while the owner is sleeping. One way to keep them away is to sprinkle Ganga-jal each night around all the entrances to the room–windows and doors. Chanting the Nrsimha mantras or the Narayan-kavaca before going to sleep is also very effective. And sleep with a Bhagavatam nearby your head.

Casarca ferruginea, a variety of duck, also called chakava (surkhab). Legend relates that pairs of these birds are souls of two sinning lovers, who are said to sleep apart at night, and call endlessly to one another, “Chakava, may I come to you?”, “No, Chakavi”.

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The True Story, Oak says the Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz’s tomb but an ancient Hindu temple palace of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya). In the course of his research Oak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh.

July 29 - August 10, 2005
Poland

After the difficulties we went through on July 7, I started having nightmares every night. One evening, after a week, I talked about it with Sri Prahlada das. “It’s been a long time since I had a Krsna conscious dream,” I said. “Since the tour …

July 5 - 28, 2005
Poland

Our spring tour had been a success. We had put on 12 big festivals with a total attendance of over 60,000, so our spirits were high as we began the summer tour in early July along the Baltic Coast. Our ranks had swelled to over 220 …

June 21 - July 4, 2005

The official website of HH Indradyumna swami is at http://www.traveling-preacher.com/

One day, when Monika was seven years old, she surprised her mother. “Mommy,” she said, “I believe in reincarnation.”

“Really?” said her mother, a devout Catholic. “Where did you ever get such an idea? Certainly you haven’t learned this in church.”

“I don’t know, Mommy,” Monika said. …

June 9 - 20, 2005

On the flight from Moscow to Warsaw, I counted the money I had collected for the festival program in Poland. I had gone to Russia to raise funds for increasing the security of the program, but my collection didn’t come to much. In fact it barely …

May 26 - June 1, 2005

My three-day visit to Tatarstan went by fast. It is said that if you enjoy what you are doing time passes quickly but if you are bored or annoyed time drags on. And I was doing what I enjoy most: sharing my good fortune with …

May 24 - 25, 2005

Just over a thousand devotees came to the festival in Dniepropetrovsk, a large city in Ukraine. It was a three-day event: a day in glorification of Srila Prabhupada, the appearance day of Lord Nrsimhadeva, and my birthday. It also marked the 18th year of my service …

May 16 - 23, 2005

I took a flight from Warsaw to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, with Sri Prahlad das and Rukmini Priya dasi. We landed in the early afternoon on a warm spring day. As we walked outside from the international terminal to the domestic for our connecting flight, …

January 21 - February 10, 2005 - Sri Lanka

The day after returning to Colombo from our trip to Matara we quickly busied ourselves for the relief work ahead. We used funds donated from overseas to purchase the basics required for cooking: tons of rice, dhal, and vegetables, as well as …

As my flight made its descent towards Colombo, the capitol of Sri Lanka, I gazed out at the tropical scenery below. Sri Lanka looked much the exotic land described in the in-flight magazine. It seemed all the more so when, after landing, I drove into the city with the local …

Like most people, in the early hours of December 26, 2004, I had no idea what the word tsunami meant. Had I been a tourist on the beach at Phuket, Thailand, sunbathing on that ill-fated day the “harbor wave” (the Japanese translation for tsunami) hit, I probably would not have …

January 2005 - Sri Lanka

I have been quite moved by what I have seen and experianced during my two weeks of disaster relief work here in Sri Lanka. I have travelled the world as a monk ( sannyasi ) for 35 years and have seen many disturbing situations; war in …