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.
Dayalu Baba would grow hundreds of lotuses in his ashram pond to offer to his deities. Because of the lotuses the pond was not very good for bathing in, as it was full of mud and overgrowth of aquatic weeds and water grasses.
Today Shambhu the street bull showed up at our temple with a torn ear. About twenty Bajrang Dal devotees were following him from the market to treat him, but he wouldn’t cooperate and wanted to come straight to our temple. Any time Shambhu gets hurt he wants to first come to our temple, where he…
Five days ago Lord Jagannatha performed another miracle to save the life of an animal here at our temple in Bhadrak, Odisha. I have no idea why, but at this temple Lord Jagannatha has kept performing miracles to save various animals, usually bulls or street dogs. I have written about several of them in the…
Vishwanatha Baba lived in the most remote area along the Salandi river. No vehicles could reach his small mud hut, and you had to walk for many hours through the forest to reach his ashram. He went to this remote area to be away from all the materialistic people who had started flooding into the…
Now that the news cycle is back to speaking about war in Iran and the rise of Persian identity, there is a little known fact that I meant to bring up in the past but forgot to. Most everyone is aware that the country name “Iran” is based on the Sanskrit concept of Aryan, the…
Question: Hare Krishna. What do these sadhus generally eat? I heard they eat a lot of wild roots. These must be very nutritious, because some of these sadhus live so long.
Regarding the story last week of the Thailand military destroying a statue of a Hindu deity on the border with Cambodia, at the time it was unclear which deity it was. Now clearer photographs have become available. The deity is an 8 armed form of Lord Vishnu. This form is originally found in the ancient…
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