I arrived in Munich/Germany on the 21st of May.
It was cold and raining - unusually cold for this time of the year. It felt like the spring hadn't even come yet.....

Two matajis from the Munich temple met me at the airport and drove me to the temple. The devotees are renting a private house in one of the suburbs of Munich. The facilities are very nice and comfortable, nevertheless only very few devotees are living here.
Not easy to preach in these countries where the standard of life is so high....! One easily gets the impression here that life in this material world is not so bad after all.....!
Danakeli Mataji is serving as the temple president - an energetic and resolute lady in her fifties. She confessed that it is not easy for her to make ends meet....

On my arrival in Stockholm/Sweden on the 6th of May I could strongly notice that I had flown around a thousand kilometers North.
Here the spring had not arrived yet - it was only a few degrees above zero, and there was not a single green leaf in the trees. It felt like six weeks' difference in comparison to my mother's village in the South of Germany, where the forests and gardens were already green and in full blossom.
Yet, the days were much longer here in the Nordic Scandinavia, and it became dark only around 10 pm.

Every country on this planet has it's specific conditions of life, with various kinds of enjoyment and austerity. Sometimes the conditions are so different, and even the bodies people have been awarded are so different, that we almost feel like we have arrived on another planet and meet a different species of life....
According to our desires, activities and tastes we take birth here or there, and we can try our good luck to be happy in forgetfulness of Krsna....