As often happens, someone in a comment has once again brought up the story of Bharata Maharaja, apparently implying one should not show kindness to animals: “Better to be absorbed in the Holy Names and in constant connection/communication with your eternal best friend Krishna in the heart. Have you ever heard of Bharata Maharaja and…
Today Vaishnava the cat showed up in my room unexpectedly. Four years ago we had treated him for a terrible wound on his neck. The treatment took more than 7 months to complete, and for that duration he had to stay locked up in my small 10 foot x 12 foot room nonstop. I also…
As most will know, Hindu originally referred to a region, and was derived from the name of the river Sindhu. In ancient Iranian languages, the sanskrit ‘s’ was often converted to ‘h’, so the Sindhu region became known as Hindu. This Iranian form of the word was then transmitted to Hebrew, where it became Hodu,…
Regarding Srila Prabhupada’s regulation against gambling, its very easy to understand why “direct” gambling is bad. For one, the majority is rigged against the bettor, the house always wins eventually. It is basically just thievery. Second, people often get into debt due to addiction to gambling, enter into terrible arrangements involving loan sharking, where criminal…
At our temple in Bhadrak, Lord Jagannatha has always been very kind towards the animals that come under his shelter. Again and again we have seen many miracles He has performed for various animals, sometimes bulls, sometimes dogs, and sometimes cats. There are many animals under His care and protection here, 8 bulls, 15 cats,…
For the last 10 years this street dog was the leader of the pack around our temple. He controlled the area from our temple out into the street and down to the main cross road. Under him there were always 5 or 6 other dogs that obeyed his orders and protected their territory in the…
Some pictures of Lord Jagannatha in his elephant dress (Gaja Vesha) taken on the occassion of Snana Purnima.
Dayalu Baba’s other most loved “modern” possession was a small binocular I gave him. He would carry it everywhere in the forest and look at things across the mountains. He would look in amazement like a little kid when he used them.
Last night one of our temple bulls named Baladeva passed away after having been sick for the last month. Among all of the bulls in our goshala he was the only one who was born here, and had lived here for 10 years since his birth. He had been born the day after Balarama Purnima…
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