Author Archives: Gaura Sakti das & Adi Radhika dd, New Vraja Dham, Hungary

It’s always a great pleasure to welcome guests. However, it is much rarer and therefore, a lot more special when guests come from my wife’s homeland, Turkey. We were quite delighted when this year on the occasion of Nrisimha Caturdasi a few friends could visit us and stayed for almost a week.

Sivarama Maharaja advised me to read the likewise entitled article in the The New York Times. It speaks of the tendency that nowadays in a couple of hundred minor farming projects people return to ox-power. In several various kinds of works, which beforehand they conducted by tractors, now they work with oxen. However, not only […]

Many come up with the question how is the new ecclesiastical law, which is in preparation, going to make freedom of religion more difficult especially in relation to preaching activities. A fundamental element of this is the freedom of book distribution. If you would like to experience some travel in time and try what it […]

We meet quite often with our neighbour, aunt Mary, when gardening. She tells us stories of her family and the good old times. Hladini wanted to visit her one morning, so they took her some tarhana (Turkish soup powder) as a gift. Naturally, auntie Mary reciprocated their kindness and gave us home-made tomato sauce and […]

Hladini volunteered for the mission in Istanbul and wanted to accompany me on my last trip. She is Turkish and speaks the language fluently; therefore, she would be perfect from all points of view. When I tried to leave her behind referring to her young age of 2 and a half, she came forward with […]

On my last visit to Turkey I had the chance to visit Izmir as well. Izmir is Turkey’s third biggest town, a commercial and tourist centre, which has about 3.5 million residents. Nrsimha Krishna prabhu arranged everything about the trip, which takes 2 hours by ferry plus a 4-hour drive from Istanbul. The journey did […]

It’s high time that you see the girls after “The evening milk” post. Padma turned 9 months old a few days before Easter. She is completely healthy, very active and happy. On this photo Hladini is teaching from her notes the rest of the family to ride a motorbike.

One of the most enchanting features of Krishna-valley is its marvellous evening atmosphere. The sunset in summer transforms the sky by magic into a wonderful lively painting, which changes every second due to the movement of the Sun and the clouds. In my opinion to a lot of us this view is one of our […]