By Swami B. A. Ashram For those of us who love Agnideva prabhu and his kirtana, it has been far too long since his last CD. Of course, tracks from his most recent CDs, as well as from his older cassette albums and temple kirtanas from Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, etc., and, more recently, from kirtana festivals around the world, have circulated so widely and for so long that generations of devotees seem to have tunes we identify with him as part of our DNA. We hear the evidence of this in the cheering as Agnideva segues to another “classic Agni tune,” one of those tunes most second-generation devotees grew up with as their parents played them in the kitchen, in the car, and at bedtime, in a kirtana mela. And wherever Agnideva has gone the last few years, devotees have asked about his next CD. And Agni has responded by smilingly assuring them, “We’re working on it.” Continue reading "CD Review: Agnideva dasa’s Prayer to the Lotus Feet of Lord Krishna
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By Anand Caitanya das
By Romapada Swami
While in Minsk, Belarus, I was going around distributing books with Vaninatha Vasu Prabhu. I asked him how he joined. He was a doctor in Minsk, a cardiologist. One day, walking down the sidewalk, he saw a devotee at a book table. He stopped and asked about the books. The book distributor said, "They're about you, what you are, and what you aren't. You're not the body, you're the soul within." He had never heard such a thing before, said with such conviction. Impressed by the young man's response, he asked him, "How old are you?" "I'm eternal. If you want to know how old my body is, it's 22." The doctor was again impressed, so he bought a Gita and took it home. He read it and was even more impressed. Eventually he visited the temple, which impressed him still more. Shortly afterward he gave up the medical profession and joined the temple. He's been distributing books for the past 27 years.
By Nartaka Gopala dasi
By Bhagavan Dasa
By Bhakti Niskama Shanta, Ph.D.
