Month: July 2021

I have been arrested by the police twice –
both times for practicing civil disobedience.
First, in February 1966, along with other
members of the War Resisters League, I sat
down in the street at the intersection of
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York
City. Second, In the spring of 1970, I was
singing – performing Sankirtan – along with
other Krishna devotees on the sidewalk
near the corner of M Street and Wisconsin
Avenue in Washington DC. In the first
instance our group was jailed (briefly). In
the second instance I went by myself
(also briefly). In the four years between
the two arrests I had decided, as Srila
Prabhupad has written, that Sankirtan is
“civil disobedience for the right cause.”

Prayers to Krishna from Skandha Ten of the Shrimad Bhagavata Purana

10.3.13 Prayer of Vasudeva

Now I completely understand Your nature.
You are the Supreme Person, beyond matter.
You are absolute understanding-and-bliss
in its true form, the all-seeing intelligence.

10.10.29 Prayer of Nalakuvera and Manigriva

Krishna, Krishna, O Great Yogi,
You are the original Supreme Person,
both manifest and unmanifest.
Brahmins know You as the form of this universe.

10.14.23 Prayer of Brahma

You are the One, the Primeval Person,
the self-illuminating truth, endless and beginningless,
eternal, indestructible, full of bliss, spotless,
perfect, incomparable, the Nectar beyond all knowing.

10.16.39 Prayer of the Nagapatnis

We bow to the Possessor of all riches,
to the Person who is the Great Soul,
to the shelter and origin of the world,
to the transcendental Supreme Soul.

10.27.19 Prayer of Mother Surabhi

Krishna, Krishna, O Great Yogi,
O very Soul and Origin of the cosmos,
You exist as Master of the worlds
and as our Master, O infallible one.

10.34.16 Prayer of Sudarshana

O God, Great Yogi,
Great Person, Lord of the pure,
Ruler of the rulers of all worlds,
I surrender, take command of me.

10.41.16 Prayer of Akrura

O God of gods, Master of the universe,
who purify those who hear about you and praise You,
O best of the Yadus, subject of the best verses,
Shelter of the people, I bow to You.

10.56.6 Prayer of the Dvarakavasis

Narayana, we bow to You,
holder of the conch,disc, and club,
lotus-eyed Damodara, Govinda,
son of the Yadus!