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Discovering a connection by Sutapa dasa

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on June 3, 2022 at 7:18pm

A few months ago I was in Leeds City Centre, North England. I stopped a serious looking man from Nigeria and was trying my best to break the ice. All my jokes were failing, all my questions brought an abrupt “no”, and he seemed to have practically no inclination toward spirituality.

Then I noticed something amazing: a Nrsingha kavaca around his neck!

I pointed at it and asked what it was – he didn’t have an answer. Then I showed him the kavaca around my neck. He immediately became enlivened.

“Yo

Discover by Bhaktimarga Swami

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on May 11, 2020 at 3:45pm

I was navigating my way through the fairly unknown pathways of the grounds at University of Toronto – the nooks and crannies, you might say. In my exploration with the sun strong enough to cast shadows I could see from the end of one narrow alleyway a shadowing figure of a human shape, bent over. “A homeless person,” I concluded, but as I reached the alley’s end I found a middle-aged, middle-class woman smelling the flowers.

“Hello!” said I or she. I wasn’t sure who began the conversation f

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