Bhakti Notes

Govardhana Hill, India Although tiny, the cataka (skylark) is famous because it is willing to die without water rather than drink water from the ground. The cataka opens its upturned

Govardhana Hill, India Srila Bhaktisiddhanta tells the following instructive story: An overly protective mother who worried constantly that her son would one day drown, hired a man to teach him

Govardhana Hill, India Robert Mitchell, feature writer for Computerworld, entitled a 2009 essay about privacy: “Google knows more about you than your mother.” (A title that is not only clever but

Govardhana Hill, India The word, sacrifice, comes from a Latin word that means, “holy.” Regarding sacrifice, in the Gita, Lord Krishna says: “The all-pervading Transcendence is eternally situated in acts

Sacrifice Govardhana Hill The word, consistency, which comes from the Latin, consistentia: “standing firm,” means conformity in the application of something. Those who take a consistent approach to their practice

Vrndavana, India My dear false ego, It has taken me quite some time to find the courage to write you this letter; and I realize that it may come to

New Delhi, India Morning fog at the San Francisco airport yesterday morning delayed many flights, including mine bound for New Delhi, via Newark, New Jersey. After an hour and a

Burlingame, CA To be implicated means to bear the responsibility for an action or process, especially a criminal or harmful one. The word, implicate, comes from Latin implicatus,“folded in.” One who

Burlingame, CA To be implicated means to bear the responsibility for an action or process, especially a criminal or harmful one. The word, implicate, comes from Latin implicatus,“folded in.” One who

Burlingame, CA As the first rays of the rising sun favored my backyard garden today, I watched a finch guzzle fresh dew from the fold of a sunflower leaf. Just