The Best I Could Do
The Best I Could Do
February 20, 1995, Puerto Rico
I want to study this evolution of my art, my writing. I want to see what changed from the book In Search of the Grand Metaphor to the next book, The Last Days of the Year.
The Best I Could Do
February 20, 1995, Puerto Rico
I want to study this evolution of my art, my writing. I want to see what changed from the book In Search of the Grand Metaphor to the next book, The Last Days of the Year.
Summer Marathon 1995
In one day from now, I’ll have in my hand a novel by Italo Svevo, probably his Confessions of Zeno. Let me tell you about Svevo as an Introduction to our Summer Marathon.
Stories in April and Gite Stories
I want to go to a place where a story is flowing, and I stay there with it and report in my inimitable way. When I come back from that place I feel better, able to cope with the political thoughts of the day and threats to my being. (As I write this, a jet fighter streaks and burrows mole-like through the air).
Srila Prabhupada Smaranam
This volume, Srila Prabhupada Smaranam, is a substantial literary offering by Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami meant to further increase the kunda of Prabhupada remembrance and glorification. The reader will find this book a delightful composition of anecdotal history, intimate recollections, conversational prayers, and commentary on photographs of His Divine Grace Abhay Caranaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the beloved Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Srila Prabhupada Samadhi Diary
I want this to be a diary for writing letters to Pra-bhupada, talking to him, praying to him, sometimes speaking to him in the first person and sometimes in the third person. Some of my thoughts may be sentimental, but I want to speak to him anyway because good words, good attempts, will lead to good actions.
sri Caitanya Daya
Since translating Visnu-rdta Vijaya, I have heard that there are many other unpublished manuscripts throughout Bharata-varsa. They are mostly biographies, diaries, and family histories of devotees who had a connection with events described in the Vedic scriptures. I hope to continue translating authentic manuscripts that have relevance to our present-day experience.
Splashes and Sacred Text - Collected Drawings and Paintings
I like to draw people walking. Or, it’s not that I like to draw them; they just seem to come. We read of artists going through phases. Picasso had a pink phase, a blue phase, and a cubist phase. An artist might draw the same image for years until he got through with it—maybe a door until he opened it—some image from life that has meaning.
September Catchall
Books Among Friends was started to provide a forum for me to speak to my disciples or just to share with them writing that is perhaps too personal or even experimental to be published for a wider audience. For example, Litany For The Gone addressed a private topic— private to me and private to my disciples. This book, September Catchall, is in a different category of privacy. It is a quiet book, telling of my personal, day-to-day life at a relaxed pace…
Returning from Pilgrimage
“Just as Krsna does not take a step away from Vrndavana, Krsna’s devotees also do not like to leave Vrndavana. However, when he is tending to Krsna’s business, he may leave Vrndavana.” —Srila Prabhupada
Readings in Vedic Literature - The Tradition Speaks for Itself
It is only just, in a karmic sense, that an academic scholar be asked to write the foreword for a book that rejects the views of most academic scholars on the historical development of the Vedas.