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A GOOD NUMBER by Bhaktimarga Swami

 

13531769085?profile=RESIZE_584xThe sun was beckoning us to walk again along the Bloor Street trails of combined sidewalks, streets, and bike lanes headed for the green space known as Christie Pits.

 

With everything melting, such as ice and snow, it makes for slippery conditions.  That’s where Karuna Sindhu lost a little control and slid in the mud, soiling coat and pants.  He was a mess.  But it was only mud.  It is mud that a Vaishnava applies to the forehead and other upper parts of the body, forming the shape of Kris

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10918945488?profile=RESIZE_584xWhen I first came to Guyana over the rainforest by flight

A passenger pointed out the infamous Jonestown site

Mass murder history was not my actual purpose

There are far more features that make me less nervous

 

I had walked the land with a guy from New York

At the coastline nearby the home of diverse shark

Yet one day while wading near that northern beach

A catfish poked a poison fin, a sting worse than a leach

 

My right foot became inflamed like never before

The treatment, tribal
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Good in Sudbury by Bhaktimarga Swami

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Not much time to walk today. Driving north consumed a bit of time. Destination, the Caruso Banquet Hall in Sudbury. Our little troupe consisting of Mahadeva, Annapurna, Vallabha Hari, Gabriel, Alec and myself were keen to hit a trail at gorgeous French River. The sky’s spitting rain along with mud and melting snow made it all somewhat restrictive. However, our day, and in particular the night, was fruitful.

The hall was venue to a Festival of India, which was filled up in no time. Advanced tick

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7968334459?profile=RESIZE_400xOn June 21, 1973, in Mayapur, Srila Prabhupada spoke on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.10.6:

nadhayo vyadhayah klesa
daiva-bhutatma-hetavah
ajata-satrav abhavan
jantunam rajni karhicit

“Due to the king’s having no enemy, the living beings were not at any time disturbed by mental agonies, diseases, or excessive heat or cold.”

Srila Prabhupada explained, “In Maharaja Yudhisthira’s time, the government was responsible to keep people peaceful, without any anxiety. That is government—without any anxiety. And no

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