(See also Gurudeva’s mother’s diary from 1971)   Bir Krishna Goswami is one of the spiritual leaders of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He has a special status of being among the first Western-born members of the authorized chain of disciplic succession descending from the Supreme Lord, Krishna. In modern times, the most essent ial task of Krishna conscious read more>>

How many times have I asked myself, “whose fault is it?” How many evenings and daylight hours have I sat going over my son’s whole life -from his easy birth, through his hectic childhood and now through his confused adulthood? Having just returned from a two day trip to Gainesville, Florida to visit my son, read more>>

Mayapur-February 22, 2009-Vaisnava Relationships As philosophical personalists, it important to translate that understanding into practical action and feelings. That is a challenge for various reasons as we are accustomed to elevated philosophy (which sometimes results in a disconnect with the other aspects of our being), rituals, and management priorities (all of us have management priorities read more>>

Mayapur, February 16, 2009 I attend the meetings and function as a GBC to please Prabhupada, otherwise I would feel no inclination to do this as the desire for controlling, managing, etc is quickly diminishing from my heart. My actual desires can be summed up very succinctly; to please Srila Prabhupada, to eternally serve the read more>>

—–February 6, 2009—-We are servants of Govardhana—- In the beginning of January, I was fortunate to be able to visit the major places in Vraja with an international group. Dina Bandhu Prabhu was kind enough to take us to these places, explain the significance, and relate the pastimes corresponding with each location. When we were read more>>

What Gurudeva did on Friday, January 4th At 2:30 am, Gurudeva woke up because the guard was yelling at the top of his voice “RADHE RADHE!!!!” in order to tell the main guard that he is awake. So for half of the night Gurudeva chanted his rounds. Finally at 5:30 am, Gurudeva had Mangala Arati read more>>

=== Govardhan – July 31, 2008 ==== Today was my next to the last day in Govardhan. As I was looking at my Silas today I felt the intense desire to get more and more Silas, because each one expresses a different mood of Govardhan. Of course I restrained myself. Actually I would like to read more>>

========Govardhan Retreat-July 30, 2008============== I was happy to take a break from my intense preaching schedule. Krishna had arranged that I was able to get a plane ticket to India without spending more money than the plane ticket to Europe would cost. In other words by flying to India with a stopover in Europe (for read more>>

Govardhan Parikrama-July 29, 2008 While I was giving the courses at the summer camps in Europe I was thinking of my upcoming retreat at Govardhan. Govardhan for me is my real home. I have never felt like this anywhere else. The most beautiful thing I have ever seen is Govardhan. To deal with the separation read more>>

Yesterday, June 28, 2008, Srila Gurudeva celebrated 30th Sannyasa Anniversary Here is the appreciation of one of his disciples, which he received on this most auspicious day: Dear Gurudev, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you and to Srila Prabhupada. Tommorrow is your Sannyasa Anniversary and I would like to take this opportunity read more>>

VRINDAVANA DIARY On the March 5th at 2:30 am all the devotees assembled in front of the Tirupati temple to continue our tour. With a mini-bus and four cars we drove from Tirupati to the Chennai airport to fly to New Delhi. Gurudeva did not come with us because his flight was directly from Tirupati read more>>

THE GREAT SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE OF FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF LORD CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU When we think about India there is one person which we cannot ignore. That person is the most merciful incarnation ever – Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. When Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu took the renounced order of life, He traveled through South India and in His read more>>

Diary written by Prana-natha prabhu Friday, 14th January, 2005 Gurudeva flew into Sydney from Fiji for a few hours stopover to relieve the devotees feelings of separation from the spiritual master before going on to New Zealand. The devotees were so ecstatic to see him they could hardly wait for him to come out of read more>>

  Srila Gurudeva had Sannyasa Anniversary on June 11, 2004. We were sorry that he had to travel on that day and we could not celebrate with him. This event gives a wonderfull opportunity to glorify our beloved Spiritual Master and here is one of the offerings that he received on that day:   My read more>>

(By Rangadevi dasi) Today we had a very wonderful celebration for Radhastami. Gurudeva gave class in the morning. He read from Caitanya Caritamrita, Nectar of Devotion and Lalita Madhava, a play by Srila Rupa Goswami. Gurudeva was very excited to do a dramatic reading of the Lalita Madhava, the 1st chapter which details the mysterious read more>>

My caring father Bir Krishna Goswami Maharaj visited Finland this September. I live on the countryside, in a place called Vihti. Usually when he is here I drive to Helsinki to see Gurudeva, but this time I was on sick leave after an operation in the hospital, and not allowed to leave my home. Well, read more>>

by Nandarani dd Srila Gurudeva in Finland Srila Gurudeva arrived in Finland on Wednesday January 29th. On Wednesday and Thursday nights he spent visiting his disciples and on Thursday morning he gave a Bhagavatam class at the temple. The verse (2.6.20) as well as the purport were quite straight ones so we were waiting with read more>>