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A New York City Festival Diary by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Sep 1, 1979 | From the Editor, Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Volume-14 Number-09

Friday night, and I've come to see the chariots. Three colorful Jagannatha chariots standing in a dark parking lot. I encourage the workers who will stay up all night. They are dirty and tired in their work clothes assembling the colorful chariots for Krsna to... read more

The Bowery Lectures by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Sep 1, 1979 | Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada's Biography, Volume-14 Number-09

An Excerpt from the Biography of a Pure Devotee The Swami (as Srila Prabhupada was known to the hip crowd who visited his Bowery loft) continued with his Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening lectures on Bhagavad-gita. He would begin punctually at eight... read more

Enlightenment on Skid Row by Srila Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Aug 1, 1979 | Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada's Biography, Volume-14 Number-08

Now that Srila Prabhupada had left Seventy-second Street and had moved downtown, it wasn't long before new people were coming to see him. 'After a few minutes … the sound of the cymbals and the incense . . . we weren't in the Bowery any longer. We... read more

Meat-eating: the West’s Sacred Cow by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Jul 1, 1979 | From the Editor, Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Volume-14 Number-07

Americans tend to scorn India's recent national ban on cow slaughter. We have difficulty appreciating the Hindus' view that the cows are holy, and most Americans have little knowledge of how a rural economy like India's is dependent on the life of the cow... read more

On the Bowery by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Jul 1, 1979 | Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Srila Prabhupada's Biography, Volume-14 Number-07

After he arrived in America, in September of 1965, Srila Prabhupada stayed at a family's apartment in Butler, Pennsylvania, nest at an impersonalist yogi's asrama in uptown Manhattan, and then in a tint room on Seventy-second Street. By March of 1966, a few... read more

Anthropomorphism Revisited: God as Obstetrician by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

Jun 1, 1979 | From the Editor, Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami, Volume-14 Number-06

Astronomer Carl Sagan's theory of why man believes in God ("The Amniotic Universe," Atlantic Monthly, April 1979) is a rather old-fashioned speculation, but with a few new twists. Sagan says our ideas of God and the afterlife are no more than... read more