Every Day, Just Write vol 3
The word tapo-bhumi refers to India and it means the land of austerity. I experienced a particular kind of suffering during my visit to India in 1997 that is recorded here. I hope it was purifying…
Every Day, Just Write vol 5
Still we live meanly, like ants; . . . Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest…
Every Day, Just Write vol 6
April 11, 1998. Dear Guru Maharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. All glories to you and to Srila Prabhupada…
Every Day, Just Write vol 7
May 19, 1997 4:50 a.m. Hey, I just read that the demigods were afraid of the darkness that was pervading the universe, so they approached Lord Brahma, who explained the situation to them…
Every Day, Just Write vol 8
June 10, 1997, 12:10 a.m.
Dreamt of the lower nature. When I awoke I thought of making a sacrifice for the Bhagavatam. Give up lower for higher…
Every Day, Just Write vol 9
July 1, 1997 12:07 a.m. They would chop off a thief’s hands. This is the first purport I read this morning. Now the tip of my thumb hurts. I look at my thumbs and they seem like strangers to me. Don’t deny it…
Every Day, Just Write vol 10
July 22, 1997 12:07 a.m. The ideal way to start a day is to get up at midnight and to start reading where I left off yesterday in the Srimad-Bhagavatam while feeling the spontaneous urge to write…
Every Day, Just Write vol 11
August 12, 1997 Midnight “Profane play with the holy,” said Bishop Mynster of Kierkegaard’s Training in Christianity. Now my obsession is with what I shall write. I resolved this once by inventing…
Every Day, Just Write vol 12
September 1, 1997 September Songs 1 Invitation “September Morn” is a painting of a woman bathing in a stream. There was once a cheap porcelain knick-knack…
Every Day, Just Write vol 13
September 22, 12:34 a.m., Medalago (Villagio Hare Krishna). The next three weeks are meant for lecturing and being a public figure in ISKCON temples. I’ll also be writing. Someone asked me last night in the…
