Archive for January, 2008

Bhakta Bob

January 22, 2008

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Pavan’s Press is proud to present our first Guest Editorial From Bhakta Bob.
Editor’s note: Ever notice how all these short-lived and sentimental devotee newsletters usually feature this highly-idealistic just-shaved-up semi-brahmachary writing for them named Bhakta Bob? I mean like, where are all the acharyas? Have they run out of ink?
Maybe Bhakta Bob [...]

Thus spake the old curmudgeon

January 22, 2008

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Rants, raves and rambles about the god of sorrow…
That dangblasted Old Curmudgeon who is me has just embarked on his third “Saturn Cycle,” the official entrance into old age. According to most people who follow “The Astrology of the Hindus,” a Saturnian time of planetary involvement, especially Sade Sati Number Three, is [...]

The Grateful Dead: Garcia and the Ganges

January 20, 2008

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More on Motorcycle Yoga…
Garcia and the Ganges
One of the most interesting reactions to the book Motorcycle Yoga came from long-time Grateful Dead member Bobby Weir. Bobby called me from a journey into Mexico to discuss his appreciation of my words. Bobby told me about the death of Jerry Garcia, whom he called [...]

Chanakya Niti-shastra

January 20, 2008

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Shri Chanakya Niti-Shastra
Chapter one, verses 5, 6, & 7
1.5: A false friend, an insolent servant, and living with a poisonous serpent in the house are nothing but death.
Commentary: He who lays his trust in a wicked circle of companions is as foolish as that man from Kerala who died after a [...]

Light of the Stars

January 20, 2008

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The Divine Stellar Configurations in the Horoscope of:
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
by Srimati Abhaya Mudra devi dasi
From the Editor: Prabhupada came into my life through an article in Fact Magazine just after His Divine Grace came to New York, in ’66. However, [...]

His Divine Grace in Krishna Culture

January 19, 2008

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The latest catalogue from Krishna Culture arrived recently, sent from their offices in Texas. Also known as Art & Culture, this impressive catalogue is run by a disciple of an ISKCON ex-“zonal acharya” of well-known past and of dubious future. The Krishna Culture catalogue contains an interesting mix of devotional literature, spiritual [...]

Letter to the Prabhus

January 16, 2008

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Message to: All ISKCON devotees
From: The Editor, Pavan’s Press
Re: His Divine Grace
Dear Prabhus,
Welcome to the issue and thanks for joining me along this wonderful path of glorifying His Divine Grace Shrila Prabhupada, our divine savior. Through the mercy of the Holy Names of the Lord Shri Krishna, the Hare Krishna mahamantra, we [...]

Pavan’s Press Issue V

January 15, 2008

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ALL GLORY TO SHRI GURU AND GAURANGA
PAVAN’S PRESS, Issue V
Pavan’s Press 5th Ed.,
“Letters of liberation” from the International Institute of Indology (Vishwa Vaidic Vidyasangha), an organization solely devoted to the lotus feet of:
His Divine Grace A, C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
The Krishna Conscious Internet: Why Read [...]