Email from Padmapani

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Tribhuvanath das and Padmapani das in Bombay, 1978
Dear Sriman Patita Pavan Prabhu,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Thank you VERY MUCH for your kind reply. So nice to hear from you. Kindly accept my apologies for the delay, but I just discovered your message. (I normally use another [...]

The Grateful Dead: Garcia and the Ganges

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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 [...]

Yashomatinandana sounds off…

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The Mother Theresa Conundrum Continues -
In the interest of flogging to death the issues of the possibility of sainthood for Mother Theresa, Pavan’s Press is pleased to present more of Yashomatinandan’s Krishna conscious insight. So let’s put our hands together for the real scoop on saintliness, beatitude and final destination of the [...]

Real vs showbottle saints

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Mother Theresy Conundrum (Part Three) – by Patita Pavana das
In the final analysis, there is no room at all for novel interpretations in the simplicity of Mahaprabhu’s Ultimate Command:
harer nama hare nama hare nama eva kevalam
kalau nasty’eva nasty’eva nasty’eva gatir anythah
In spite of the fact that Shrila Prabhupada left us sixty volumes [...]

Mother Theresa, “fill in the blank”

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Part Two: The Mother Theresa Conundrum – by Patita Pavana das
A Religion Without Philosophical Substance Cannot Hold a Religious Congregation
Mother Theresa, to be sure, could have done a better job of telling the world about the place she called home for decades. But that wouldn’t have served the Church’s interest in [...]

Mother Theresa’s Calcutta

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The Mother Theresa Conundrum (Part One) – by Patita Pavana das
Saint Means “Sant”
All this recent banter about the late Mother Theresa has got me asking a few questions. Like, why did the respected Catholic nun only find poverty, ignorance and disease in Calcutta and not elsewhere? These miserable conditions are concomitant factors [...]

The Mother Teresa Controversy Rages On

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Our Godbrother Narasimhanandadas posted his concerns surrounding Yashomatinandanda’s letter regarding Mother Teresa, which we printed in the last edition of Pavan’s Press.
We print Narasimhanananda’s response hereunder, followed by Yashomatinandan’s reply.

The Long, Long Search for the Goddess of Kundina

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Tirtha-yatra series
This installment documents my search for the birthplace of the Dwarkarani, foremost amongst Lord Krishna’s 16,108 Queens at Dwarka, Shrimati Rukmini of Vidarbha. We now know that Her janma-bhumi is located near present-day Nagpur, Maharashtra. Through the grand efforts of our dear Godbrother Lokanath Swami Prabhuji and the mahatmas of Nagpur [...]