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Playing Life’s Game by Mathuresa Dasa

Nov 1, 1988 | Mathuresa Dasa, Uncategorized, Volume-23 Number-11

We can't avoid it. But what about life's non-athletic, non-recreational business? I was only half correct when I began to suspect, around age twelve, that life didn't make any sense, and that although I dearly wanted to be distinguished and... read more

Donkey Loads by Mathuresa Dasa

Oct 1, 1988 | Mathuresa Dasa, The Vedic Observer, Volume-23 Number-10

Port Royal Pennsylvania The Miami Herald reports that a donkey in Bulawayo, a village in southwestern Zimbabwe, accidentally uncovered a cache of Soviet-made surface-to-air missiles. Villagers trying to rescue the creature from a dam found that a wooden box... read more

Shell Collectors on Miami Beach by Mathuresa Dasa

Oct 1, 1988 | Mathuresa Dasa, Poetry, Volume-23 Number-10

In the morning on the shoreline Before the sun heats up the sand Come the shell collectors walking One by one or hand in hand. Before the wee-bikinied bathers Sprawl the beach and splash the shallows Collectors wade the water edges As wave and... read more

Election Scandal by Mathuresa Dasa

Sep 1, 1988 | Mathuresa Dasa, The Vedic Observer, Volume-23 Number-09

This year both U.S. presidential candidates offer the same chicken-in-every-pot promises that have always been the mainstay of democracy. If elected, each says, economic health will reign. Even if I did eat chicken, the promises wouldn't move me, since economies... read more

Harpa’s Iceland Mission by Mathuresa Dasa

Aug 1, 1988 | Mathuresa Dasa, Varnasrama—Simple Living, High Thinking, Volume-23 Number-08

Harpa's no ordinary cow, and her break for freedom should make us pause to consider the plight of her species. A letter has arrived at Back to Godhead's Philadelphia office from Alarka dasi, a devotee at ISKCON's temple near Jarna, Sweden.... read more

Repeal Drug Prohibition? by Mathuresa Dasa

Jul 1, 1988 | Mathuresa Dasa, The Vedic Observer, Volume-23 Number-07

Losely organized gangs of youths in heir teens and twenties are running multi-million-dollar businesses in North American cities. They're selling heroin, marijuana, PCP, hallucinogens, and, especially, crack cocaine. Gang leaders, some of whom deal directly with... read more