Seminar on Seven Habits by Sridhar Swami
(In Sridhar Swami's life, Srila Prabhupada's sparked a 35 year spiritual journey that began far from its ending point in holy India. Sridhar Swami described himself as a shy person before coming to Krsna consciousness.)
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Lecture on Vedic Root of Western Tradition by Suhotra Swami in 1998 at Helsinki
(A year later he based himself in Germany, from where he later expanded his preaching to East – European countries and Scandinavia. In 1982 he took to the sannyasa asram.)
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Lecture on Material Force and Efficient Course by Yadunanadana Swami on 16 Feb 2013 at ISKCON Amsterdam
(Yadunandana Swami principal of Bhaktivedanta College, teacher, and spiritual counselor is a sannyasi (monk, religious mendicant) in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).)
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Lecture on The cure for all dispondency by Satsvarup Das Goswami on 17 April 2013 at Brindavana Morrisville
(Satsvarupa Das Goswami is a senior disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), better known in the west as the Hare Krishna movement.)
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Radhanath Swami narrated that in 1978, Bhakti Tirtha Swami was in India. At that time in history, not a single foreigner had ever been inside Jagannath’s temple in Puri, in the state of Orissa. Bhakti Tirtha Swami had been once told by his guru that in this lifetime he would see God. So he thought, “Maybe I will see God as Lord Jagannath in this temple.” He had a black complexion and thought perhaps the ever vigilant temple priests at Puri may think he is from from South India and they would allow him in. He tied a towel around his head to look Indian. There were big crowds, and he walked right by the gatekeeper. He went deeper and there was a massive crowd, thousands of people near the main altar of God. At that time, Bhakti Tirtha Swami thought, “If they catch me now they are going to really beat me, I don’t know what will happen”.
All of a sudden, the pandas, the official door keepers in the temple stopped the crowed and began choosing people that they thought had money and called them forward. One of them called Bhakti Tirtha Swami Maharaj forward, “You come.” He spoke in Oriya language, and Bhakti Tirtha Swami was afraid because if the panda spoke to him, he would be caught because he only spoke English. The person started asking questions. Bhakti Tirtha Swami couldn’t understand a word. He just remained silent and was praying to the Lord. The person brought him right up to the altar and pushed his head right on the altar, and let him stand there to offer his prayers of love. He then took him to circumambulate the temple, and meanwhile so many other pandas tried to get money from him but this one panda was saying, “He is mine, he is mine.”
After he had this amazing experience,, the panda who was actually the chief priest of the temple called him out and spoke to him in English, “I know who you are. I don’t agree that you people shouldn’t be allowed in the temple, so I have arranged this audience for you with the Lord.
Bhakti Tirtha Swami was so overwhelmed with this divine spiritual experience that the next day he thought he would do it again. However this time the pandas discovered he was not an Indian, and they started screaming at him and chasing him and Bhakti Tirtha Swami ran. He narrowly escaped and realized we should be satisfied by what God has given us.
Radhanath Swami says that Bhakti Tirtha Swami was the first foreigner to have ever personally got the audience of the Lord at Jagganath Puri. His guru’s prophecy had indeed come true “You will see God in this lifetime.”
Your Servant
Sukavaka Das
The old man looked up, stared at me, and then looked down again at the paper. “One thousand years ago,” he said, “you were a king in Karnataka. You were very wealthy and distributed much of your wealth to hospitals, schools, and temples. At end of that life you retired to the forest.
“In your previous birth you had two wives. At the end of that life you prayed, ‘If I take birth again I don’t want to be a grhastha. I want to be a sannyasi and devote all my life to God.’ So in this birth you took sannyasa at the age of 29. Correct?”
“Yes sir,” I replied. “Correct.”
“It is the result of your previous actions and desires,” he said. “In this birth you’ll get immense blessings from your spiritual master.Because your chosen path is bhakti you won’t take birth again. You’ll be liberated at the end of this life. You’ll live into old age, and you’ll die a natural death. You won’t die from a prolonged illness.”
-HH Indradyumna Swami Diary Volume 6, Chapter 20
Your Servant
Sukavaka Das
At the Friday-night harinam in Auckland, I was lurking around the peripheries of the devotees and talking to passersby. I saw a respectable-looking Maori woman sitting on the steps of Aotea Square watching the harinam. I felt a bit intimidated to talk to her, as she held herself with gravity and had a look on her face which I grossly mistook to be fear or at the least distaste. I approached her anyway, and in response to my attempts at small talk, she reached into her handbag and pulled out “Journey of Self-Discovery”.
With wide, hopeful eyes she asked, “Are you the people who sell these books?”
It turns out that she has an amazing story. Patty was a dedicated Christian pastor, all set to be ordained. She decided, before making this commitment, that she wanted to broaden her knowledge about God by studying theology at a university. Meeting a book distributor on the street, she thought that the book could be useful in her thesis.
Lecture on God and Google Human Relationships in the internet age by Radhika Raman Prabhu on Nov 2010 at Towaco
(Radhika Ramana Das, also known as Dr. Ravi M. Gupta, is a notable Vaishnava scholar. Presently, he is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and a member of the faculty at Bhaktivedanta College.)
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Lecture on Art of Happiness by Gauranga Prabhu on 07 July 2009 at ISKCON Bangalore
(Gauranga Prabhu, disciple of H.H.Radhanath Swami Maharaja Graduated from IIT Bombay in 1993, his interest in Krishna Consciousness dawned during his college days.)
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Lecture on Art of Self Confidence by Nirantara Prabhu on 17 April 2013 at Brindavana Morrisville
(In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious "Global Excellence Award" for congregational preaching services from ISKCON.)
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Lecture on Understanding and dealing with Conflicts by Braja Bihari Prabhu on 20 April 2010 at Dallas
(Braja Bihari Prabhu is a disciple of HG Bhurijana Prabhu(ACBSP). He is a Conflict Resolution practitioner with he International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)
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Lecture on Science or Nescience by Drutakarma Prabhu
(Michael A. Cremo, also known as Drutakarma dasa was born in July 15, 1948 in the United States. In 1966 he entered the School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.)
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Lecture on Simple Solution to Complex Life by Kratu Prabhu on 24 Jan 2008 at Dubai
(In 2002, he became an initiating spiritual master in ISKCON and is ever since vigorously traveling and preaching all over the world.)
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Lecture on Ordinary and Extraordinary Person by Mahatma Prabhu on 10 April 2013 at Mauritius
(He is the founder of Touchstone Training, a company that teaches the practices of devotional service through interactive seminars and worships.)
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Seminar on Transcendental Engineering by Sankarsana Das Adhikari Prabhu
(His Divine Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari appeared in this world in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on 7 November 1947, the tenth day (Dasami) of the most holy month of Kartik according to the Vaisnava calendar.)
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Lecture on What Happens After Death by Jayapataka Swami
(Jayapataka Swami continues to contribute to Mayapur’s development as the International Headquarters of ISKCON by serving as a co-director. His service in Mayapur includes: Mayapur Development Committee member, Exhibits and Theme park Department Head of TOVP, and promotion of Sri Mayapur worldwide.)
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Lecture on How to Cultivate Humility and Gratitude by Kesava Bharati Das Goswami on 04 Dec 2011 at ISKCON London
(Kesava Bharati Das Goswami met his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in 1972.)
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Lecture on How to Become Intelligent by Bhakti Caitanya Swami
(Bhakti Caitanya Swami initially served in the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust and also distributed Srila Prabhupada’s books from 1973 until 1980.)
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