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Montreal/Canada

5/31/2016

 
On my arrival in Montreal Airport I was curious to experiment by showing my old and damaged passport at the immigration. And surely enough, the lady at the passport control immediately noticed the defect and commented somewhat jokingly: "So you tried to fix up your passport a little, did you?" She was visibly relieved when I pulled out my new one and explained the situation. Upon my question whether it would have caused me a problem if I didn't have the new passport, she confirmed: "Yes, we would have had to take you aside and talk to you...."
I was glad that Krsna had made me go through the ordeal of getting a new passport in Moscow, so I could now enter Canada without facing any problems. Just see - Krsna arranges everything perfectly....

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Simhachalam/Germany

5/24/2016

 
On the 18th of May I flew from Simferopol to Moscow, with an onward flight to Munich/Germany to attend Nrsimha Caturdasi in Simhachalam. When going through the passport control in Moscow the immigration officers stopped me. My passport had been slightly damaged on the way into Russia, and now they did not allow me to leave the country with this damaged passport, claiming that it was invalid. They even accused me of having put in the front page myself with sticky tape. It did indeed look like this - to a person who does not know how German passports are made. The first and laminated page could look indeed like it was inserted with sticky tape, especially when it is a little damaged on the top end.
No matter how hard I tried to explain them the situation, that the passport was damaged by their collegues when entering the country - they were stubborn and insisted to keep me in the country, not allowing me to board my flight to Munich. Russian bureaucracy! I tried everything - emphatically telling that I had an extremely important conference (on Lord Nrsimhadeva's appearance) to attend, which I couldn't possibly miss. But they were unfazed by my dramatic performance and arranged for an airline officer to deliver the bad news to me - that I would have to miss my flight.

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Holy Name Retreat at Crimea/Russia

5/18/2016

 
I had not visited the devotees in Crimea for a long time - almost seven years. Simferopol is the capital of the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea, where we used to have the gigantic Ukrainian Bhakti Sangam Festival. When the war started in Ukraine some years ago, the Peninsula became part of Russia again, as it had been many years before. So then the Bhakti Sangam Festival had to be moved to the very West of Ukraine.

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Moscow

5/11/2016

 
This was my first visit to Moscow after almost twenty years. The senior ladies of the yatra had repeatedly requested me to come, and HH Niranjana Maharaja had also encouraged me to do so. Thus I felt obliged to accept the invitation...

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