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When a man steals the feminine energy

6/4/2025

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On the 29th of May, after having spent two blissful weeks in Mauritius, I flew on to Mombasa in Kenya. It was my first visit to this country - it always feels great to "conquer new territory" and plant a few seeds by placing some copies of my books into people's eager hands and into temple's libraries. Many devotees around the world feel inspired to use them in their service of preaching and training devotees. I was glad I had chosen the "cool season" for my visit - for my German body it was still rather warm and very humid, and I was glad to have an AC in my room...
In Mombasa, ISKCON has a main temple established around 12 years ago, and the former temple which is now mainly used for student preaching. Since the universities had their holidays, I did not do any programs at the old temple.

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We women are so powerful!

5/29/2025

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For several years I had been contemplating the idea of visiting the devotees in Mauritius - I had heard so many nice things about this little island with their dynamic communities of eager and sincere devotees. After all, Srila Prabhupada had stated on his visit that this island could be the first Krishna conscious country of the world...
Now, after Nrsimha Caturdasi I finally had the opportunity to embark on this journey to yet another unknown preaching territory. I spent two blissful and action-packed weeks there - the devotees had arranged one or two programs for every single day; and I rarely visited the same temple twice - that's how many temples and preaching centers this little island hosts! And I did not even manage to visit all the centers.
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Fasting - a most dignified way to depart

5/13/2025

 
After concluding my tour around the US, I arrived in Munich/Germany on the 6th of May - just in time to travel out to Simhachalam for Nrsimha Caturdasi...
Simhachalam is for me the BEST place to celebrate Nrsimha Caturdasi - a MUST in my yearly schedule. Even Mayapur can not compare to this! In this rural community situated in the Bavarian Forest, around 3 hours away from Munich, the devotees serve big Lord Nrsimhadeva in a devoted way, and His appearance day is celebrated in a grandiose style over 4 days. It is one of the main festivals - not only within Germany, but in Europe. Many devotees gather from the neighboring countries such as Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and even all the way from the UK. This year we had the good fortune to welcome many saintly personalities: HH Sacinandana Swami, HH Candramauli Swami, HH Bhakti Vaibhava Swami, HG Krishna Premarupa Prabhu, HG Parivida Prabhu, Vraja Bihari Prabhu and many young generation kirtaniyas.

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The envious way of delegating a task

5/5/2025

 
Over several years, the devotees had requested me again and again to visit their preaching center in Syracuse/New York, so I decided to conclude my tour around the US by accepting their invitation.

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Feeding the false ego

4/30/2025

 
After spending a blissful week in Charlotte, churning thought-provoking topics every evening in home programs attended by keen and inquisitive devotees, I moved on to New Vrindavan - one of our famous and historic projects within ISKCON.
Srila Prabhupada had visited here several times, encouraging the devotees to establish a rural community on the basis of "simple living high thinking". And in order to glorify our beloved Srila Prabhupada, they had built a beautiful Palace of Gold for him, which has now become a popular tourist attraction, bringing so many people in contact with Krishna consciousness.

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My journey through chemotherapy

4/16/2025

 
After my visit to Alachua I spent another 2 weeks in Florida, visiting the Vaishnava communities in Tampa, DeLand, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Everywhere I was well received and taken care of, and I spent a blissful time in the association of eager devotees. Every evening they had arranged a program in somebody's home, and devotees enjoyed the profound and transformational topics of discussion. It was also a good time to visit Florida - the weather was nice and sunny, while it was still cold in other parts of the US. Only when looking at the map did I realise how far South I was....

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Don't wait for invalidity!

4/2/2025

 
After spending some days in Cologne/Germany I flew to Florida/USA on the 24th of March to visit the devotees in Alachua - one of the most prominent projects within ISKCON, with many well-known disciples of Srila Prabhupada living on the property and in the surrounding townships. No lack of senior association....

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The solution to all marriage problems

3/17/2025

 
I had decided to spend this year's Gaur Purnima Festival in Sofia/Bulgaria and came already ten days earlier in order to visit other small devotee communities in Burgas and Varna. The devotees also drove me to a privately owned farm project three and half hours away from Sofia. Here, two twin brothers have a commercially set up farm with a huge area of greenhouses for growing all kinds of vegetables and flowers which they sell in the nearby cities; a farm project starting off with serious farming.

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Vanaprastha - we MUST get out of our cosy home

3/3/2025

 
My three months' stay in Mayapur was a busy, dynamic and blissful time, with lots of preaching engagements and programs - 6 weeks of courses, then various classes and interviews for youtube channels, and above all: the 4-day ILS, the ISKCON Leadership Sanga. I was invited to offer a presentation to the participating leaders on the Vanaprastha Ashram which was well attended and received; I also had a stall presenting the Institute for Spiritual Culture offering the 6 books I published. By Krishna's mercy my new book "The Vanaprastha Ashram - Meeting Death With Joy" came out three weeks before the ILS took place which was a great opportunity to launch it. On these four days, I was from early morning til evening on my stall, meeting devotees from all around the world, getting their contacts and distributing lots of books. Book distribution to the practising devotees is by far more satisfying to my heart than distributing books to non-devotees. Srila Prabhupada's famous letter he wrote in 1972 to Hamsaduta comes to mind:
"Now we have got so many students and so many temples but I am fearful that if we expand too much in this way that we shall become weakened and gradually the whole thing will become lost. Just like milk. We may thin it more and more with water for cheating the customer, but in the end it will cease to be any longer milk. Better to boil the milk now very vigorously and make it thick and sweet, that is the best process. So let us concentrate on training our devotees very thoroughly in the knowledge of Krishna Consciousness from our books, from tapes, by discussing always, and in so many ways instruct them in the right propositions."

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A blissful experience at Ekachakra Dham

1/1/2025

 
On our arrival in Mayapur on the 10th of December we immediately dived into the preparations for the Holy Name Retreat at Ekachakra - our annual event of bliss and immersion into chanting the holy name.
The following article was posted on ISKCON News...

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