Author Archives: H.H. Giriraj Swami

Giriraj Swami and Indradymna Swami awarded first and second initiation to devotees prior to the Panihati festival at the Laguna Beach temple on Friday. During the ceremony, Giriraj Swami initiated Srila Tamal Krishna Goswami’s brother and sister-in-law, Bhakta Carl and Bhaktin Stella Herzig, as well as Saroj Wadehra. Now  Saroj will be known as Tulasi Manjari dasi, Stella as Shraddhanjali dasi, […]

—————————————————————————————————————— Bhaktin Mira, in Pringle Bay, South Africa, was initiated by Giriraj Swami by Skype — and given the sweet spiritual name Madhurika dasi. “Today’s ceremony is especially significant because you [Bhaktin Mira] have waited so long and prepared yourself for so many years before coming to the stage of accepting initiation. And because you have […]

“Indradyumna Swami spoke on the bhakti movement of Lord Chaitanya at Bhakti Yoga Shala in Los Angeles. After the talk, as the kirtana built and the ecstasy rose and almost everyone in the room was dancing, I thought, “Maharaja is not an ordinary person; I should take full advantage of every moment I have with him—and other such great […]

Diary of a Traveling Monk, Volume 13, Chapter 12 Anatoli Fedorovich Pinyayev (Ananta-santi dasa) was the first Soviet Hare Krsna devotee. Because of his active preaching throughout the USSR and because of the spiritual influence he had on many people, he was subjected to severe persecution for five and a half years at the hands […]

Bhakti Charu Swami spoke at New Dwaraka Dhama. “So many young Americans came forward to help Srila Prabhupada. Obviously they were somehow previously related to him from their past lives. It was not just a chance happening. One devotee, in  a humble mood, told Srila Prabhupada, ‘Before meeting you I was so fallen, so engrossed in all kinds […]