Monthly Archives: September 2008
Communism
My beginning association with Krishna devotees offered me an extended sequence of astonishments. It amazed me, for example, to discover that a group of enthusiasts encountered on sidewalks jumping and singing wildly to a pounding drum would be absorbed in … Continue reading
Munchies for the Mind III
RECENT ADDITION TO THE DICTIONARY FOR KALI YUGA truthiness (noun) Truth coming from the gut, not books; preferring to believe what you wish to believe, rather than what is known to be true. Steven Colbert: “Truthiness is ‘What I say … Continue reading
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Power Part 3 (continued from last week)
In the last two postings we have been considering a letter Shrila Prabhupada wrote in 1972 concerning the nature of power. A devotee had written Prabhupada with misgivings about competition in activities of preaching. To this apparently simple and down-to-earth … Continue reading
