Bøger af Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

This edition of Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswami's 1996 timed book, Geaglum Free Write Diary, is published as part of a legacy project to restore Satsvarūpa Mahārāja's writings to 'in print' status and make them globally available for current and future readers.

I've suspended my A Poor Man Reads the Bhāgavatam for now, so that I can write a collection of Writing Sessions. Several times a day, the writing practice method. You could be serious and capture sad or lonely feelings. Some diary reportage, repartee, fly by night. Some thinking, "This may be used later." But some freedom from that.

Śrīla Prabhupāda, I am old and invalid now. I cannot attend festivals or meetings of devotees. No one expects me to go to these things. My only services are writing (for you), hearing two-and-a-quarter hours from your books, correspondence, receiving visitors, taking darśana of my Deities, chanting japa, etc.

I want this book, Be Prepared, to have two meanings, two themes. One is "be prepared for death." To make this theme solid, I will print quotes from Prabhupāda's purports where he writes about death, both the wrong approach to death by the nondevotees, and the good approach by those taking shelter of the Lord. The other theme of the book is "be prepared" - for approaching Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. To make this theme strong, I will quote excerpts from Srila Rūpa Gosvāmī's Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi. This is a beautiful book with quotes about Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa's love. I especially like the ones where Rādhārāṇī breaks Her mana (jealous anger) and goes back to Kṛṣṇa with love. Sometimes She breaks Her mana with the assistance of Lalitā, and sometimes She breaks it when She hears the sound of Kṛṣṇa's flute. In many of the excerpts She quotes Her undying, absolute love for Kṛṣṇa, and in some places, He expresses His absolute love for Her. There will be other things in the book that are not on the two themes of death and Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, but they are the main themes.

Writing Sessions at Castlegregory, Ireland, 1993Start slowly, start fastly, offer your obeisances to your spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. You just drew his picture with your pencils. He appears carved out of wood, the picture of the murti of the picture of the murti, how many times removed from the actual Swami who came to us? Yet by doing it, you draw close to him. You have to smile at your drawing rendering. It doesn't look like him, it looks like a drawing, like a carved wood rendition of a seafarer, a fisherman kind of thing you could buy in a tourist shop, but in this case it is your Swami and he smiles back to you from the murti form as if amused at your devotion to draw him as yet another way to serve and come close, yet another way to be childishly proud of your own so-called prowess.

A collection of poems and prose-poems dedicated to transformation and healing.

Almost thirty years since the publication of his first book on japa, Japa Reform Notebook, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami has produced yet another volume solely dedicated to the subject of the improving chanting of the holy names and is drawing from his experiences on the retreats in his bhajana-kutir in Delaware, when chanting extra number of rounds and rising early.In his Foreword to the new book, Krishna Ksetra prabhu of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies recalls the impact of the Japa Reform Notebook: "The book was seen as quite radical or even inappropriate. How could a senior devotee, revered as a renunciant and as an adept spiritual teacher, so openly communicate his own personal challenges in the practice of chanting Hare Krishna? Yet others were enlivened to see that a frank discussion of the challenges to pure chanting was being aired... As in the previous book, Goswami locates himself as both a student and a teacher, as one who continues to learn from his own guru and who aims to help others benefit from what he learns. In this book he asks readers to spend time with him as he questions the extent and depth of his own successes and the meaning of occasional apparent setbacks in practice as he takes one through a sustained personal meditation on the eight verses of the Siksastakam, Sri Caitanya's verses that encapsulate his teachings."

An alternative fiction -- a plotless novel with lots of characters, and it's not mainly autobiographical. Nothing "put-offish" in it. Some said it was a rarely candid memoir, but is not.

An exciting mix of a novel with free-writing and poetry.