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Raivata writes me:

Hmm I reckon you are right and copying a good synthetic design like that. It's a simple and proven design.

On the ahimsa note I reckon it's ok to use animal skin when it comes from pests like goats or possums (pests in NZ anyway). Allowing them to live is simply causing violence to the other life forms they harm. Perhaps you could train up some of the local boys as Kshatriyas and send them out there to bring home a few skins. Good for the environment, good for the sankirtana yajna and a practical step for introducing varnashram.

Amul from New Jersey, USA writes:

i just saw your video where you put silicon on the mrdanga head. I have a question about that. Does it dry smooth? i am asking because if you want to do the "woop woop" slide on the big side of the mrdanga, if its really rough then it wont be possible. please let me know, i am going to do this because this is such a problem, that black stuff just doesn't stay on sometimes!

Dandavats Amul,

That depends on how you do it, and what you use to do it.

Vrajadhama das leading. New Farm is a hip suburb near the Valley, on the Brisbane river.

This week there were eight of us. It doesn't have to be any more than one person, as Srila Prabhupada demonstrated - but at the same time, the more the merrier!

On New Year's Eve we did harinam kirtan in the streets in ecstasy for 4 1/2 hours. Now you can experience the ecstasy in just 20 minutes with this highlights video.

See a drunk guy ready to beat down on Sita-pati getting pulled off by the cops: "Got a problem mate?"