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Dear Readers,

Just a filler really to keep you updated.  Arrived back in the country from India on the 27th November 2007.  Pretty much launched into the December book marathon from there, basing myself in ISKCON Lenasia.  The Temple President, Caitanya prabhu and the GM, Bhakta Adrian, were really helpful and it was a reasonably eventful marathon.  I have a lot of plans for preaching in SA, so my head is swimming with thoughts.  Still, the marathon was focussed and I did okay (by my standards).

At The Lotus Feet Of The Giver Of Liberation, South Africa 2008

Yes, I am back in Zuid Afrika, Suid Africa, South Africa, Seth Afreeka.  Well, however, you want to say it, whatever is the PC thing to say…Mooks is back.  Luv ya, baby.

Krishna-Balarama Temple, Raman Reti, Vrindavan

The mood here at Krishna-Balarama Temple is ecstatic. It felt like Kartik even before Kartik actually began. Krishna-Balarama draws a very nice crowd - from various parts of India and abroad. It has a really open feel about it - sarva-dharman-parityajya. I like it.

Sri Sri Radha-Gopinath Mandir, Mumbai

It was on a warm October morning ten years ago that I first visited Sri Sri Radha-Gopinath Temple in Chowpatty. ISKCON Chowpatty is now famous throughout the world for its warm Vaisnava hospitality and rich spiritual culture.

ISKCON Soho Street, London

Srimad Bhagavatam Class 9.9.47, H.H Jayadvaita Maharaja

His Holiness Jayadvaita Maharaja gave a terse, yet eloquent, discourse on Srimad Bhagavatam 9.9.47 this morning. The purport to the verse examined the phantasmagoric nature of this material world. The Sanskrit words from the verse are gandharva-pura or ‘houses in the sky.’

Book Distribution in Dublin

riverrun past eve’s and adam’s bringing us, from bend of bay to swerve of shore, through a commodius vicus of recirculation, past Howth Castle and environs… (James Joyce, Finnegans Wake)