Comments on “Visiting Krishna’s Village of Peace” Web Page

   I want to thank the many kind people who encouraged me by accepting my offering of this web page called “Visiting Krishna’s Village of Peace” and who wrote the following words. I hope Lord Caitanya blesses them with His perpetual remembrance.
   The web page is a glorification of the service of the all the devotees of Lord Caitanya whose ambition it is to see everyone taste the nectar of love of Godhead and who desired and worked tirelessly to make this Krishna’s Village of Peace festival happen, and thus I pass on these words of praise to them as I am an insignificant chronicler.

Your servant,
Krishna-kripa das

Danavir Goswami, Rupanuga Vedic College, Kansas City:
I just viewed your webpage on Woodstock. It was excellent. I think it would make a nice feature story in BTG as well.

Badrinarayan dasa, GBC, San Diego, California:
The Polish festival website you set up was great. I sent the address, with a little introduction, to all the people on my e-bulletin list. That is over 500 people. So your efforts are going to enliven a lot of devotees.

Dharmatma das, Alachua, Florida:
Great job! Your web-site of the Woodstock is fabulous! 

Dravida das, BBT editor, San Diego:
I went through your whole Polish Woodstock site. It was great, and I had the
realization at the end--I really hadn't tasted it because I wasn't there.
Maybe next year.

Mukhya devi dasi, Oregon:
Thank you so much for chronicling your tour of Poland this summer. I follow Indradyumna Swami's diaries religiously, and your photos and text brought everything to life. I'm forwarding them on to friends. 

Pournamasi devi dasi, artist, Alachua, FL:
I had looked at your webpage before..and really liked it..but, since you asked for suggestions I will give a couple. First, you changed tenses a couple of times..which isn't consistent..sometimes going into the passive voice (which Kunti kept telling me to purge myself of!)...and you don't have links on each page back to the home page...even Drutakarma and myself have that on our webpages...I think that helps a lot..I couldn't refer to other pages without that! It isn't hard to do...it is a great feature. [I have corrected this – kkd] I love your writing in general, though..like your classes. Is your last name Beetle like Patricia's(your mother)...I love the pics of the festival and the huge tent...and the dancers and the Harer Nama party in that city starting with a Z (Zursk [Zary] or whatever)...If I ever do another webpage I wish you could help me..you're great at it!

Sankarshan das Adhikari, 1Cruise.Com,Inc. & Travelrama, Austin, Texas:
Your web pages are wonderful.

Sarvopama das, book distributor, Alachua, FL:
Wow! Your web page about the Polish Woodstock is extensive and impressive. Thanks for including the link.

Acyuta Madhava das, Seattle, Washington, USA:
I really want to thank you for your wanderfull webside. It gave me huge view
of Polland Yatra. I am so sorry for my imperfect Enlish. I am devotee from
Turkey, Istanbul. But now I'm at Seattle, Washington living with Harivilasa
Prabhu.
Krishna Bless You Prabhu.
Vaisnava das dasanu das

Cintamani dasi, Warsaw, Poland:
Very nice work.

Ekabuddhi das, Chapel Hill, North Carolina:
Hari bol. Great photos of Poland. Amazing amount of people. Thank you.

Gangeya das, San Diego, California:
I heard of your Woodstock site from Badri prabhu and I took darsana. Really Nice! That one story about "beer-cigarette dasa" doing some ajata-sukriti made me appreciate how Krsna responds to our prayers to help the less fortunate.

Gaurangi dasi, Polish Festival Tour:
   Thank you for your letter and Woodstock stories. I really liked them, it
was from your heart and that what was nice about it. I think it is the
best, different people have different views on same thing, makes it more of
a variety and for me personally makes me appreciate what we have here. If
devotees come from different parts of the world and love it here.
   Thank you once again. 

Vara-nayaka das, Polish Festival Tour:
   Thank you encouraging us by this nice Internet site. It's really nice.
It was our pleasure to take care of you.

Yajna Purusa das, Kansas City:
your web page is wonderful,thank you very much for big inspiration...

Hari Bhakti, Vaishnava youth, Alachua, Florida:
Nice website, I didn't read it all, but the pictures were very nice.

Radhika, Russian girl in Mother Urmila's gurukula, NC:
Thank you for such a fabulous website about Polish festival. This festival is going on for already so many years, but it seems that you are the only one who has so many nice pictures and descriptions about it.
   I hope the Woodstock festival in Poland will never ever have an end! Once port authority captain Jusef from Poland (Mrzezyno) told Indradyumna Swami that "he wishes that these festivals will continue for the next hundred years!" May this be true! May they grow bigger and bigger every year! I'll pray that nothing bad will happen to Indradyumna Maharaja and other devotees who always support this festival in Poland!
 Thank you so much again!

Sharanagati devi dasi, Vaishnava youth, Alachua, Florida:
Thanks so much for sending your wonderful website to me! My mother and I are really considering going this year. I'm going to show her your website when I get home today and I'm sure she will insist on going to Poland this year. It looks wonderful! Thanks so much!

Patricia Beetle (mother of Krishna-kripa das), peace activist, Albany, New York:
I looked at the revised website and it's really beautiful, some lovely colorful pictures.
It also was interesting to read the chronicle of your days. No wonder you were exhausted.
Hope your stay in Ireland was restful. You must be pleased at the glowing reviews of your website. . .
So glad you were able to make the trip. You spread a lot of joy as a result.

Karen Beetle (sister of Krishna-kripa das), counselor and mediator, Albany, New York:
I really enjoyed your web site. I thought the text was really well written and conveyed a feel for what your time had been like, and the pictures were sweet. It is easy to forget just how different the rest of the world looks. And that sense of openness and curiousity that one can be greeted with - in so many parts of the world. There is so much generosity of spirit out there. Sometimes it feels so lacking here in the U.S. Maybe it is just harder to find.

Rupali Chadha, College of Medicine University of Illinois:
Hare Krishna.
   I am an Indian devotee brought up in California. I grew up going to the San Diego temple and when I went to college I went to the Berkeley temple. I am just writing to say that I have never seen anything as fabulous as your festival in Poland...and I only read about it online! Our family friend, Badrinaryana Prabhu brought it to my attention and after visiting the website, I have renewed faith in Prabhupada's mission. Thank you for your inspiration!
Hari Bol!

Rajasekhar Kodipaka, southern California:
I have gone over the woodstock festival web content that you have published. It is super ! It was an interesting reading. I didnt realize that the ISKCON movement is this popular...especially in the Western world. I am glad to hear about the large turnout at the Poland festival.

HenryKrish@aol.com:
You did a great job on your Village of Peace Article and photos, Prabhu. 

Matej:
Except my humble obeisance's all glories to Srila Prabhupad !
I just want to thank you for your excellent report and web page from Poland
festival...
thank you
May the Krishna be with you :)

Sangeeta Mistry, Johannesburg, South Africa
Your website on the Polish Festival was really amazing. Like you mentioned in the articles we hear a lot about the festival but we'll never know what it's really like until we experience it. Your pictures and comments reveal deeper aspect of the festival that we do not ordinarily hear or see about.

Yogesa
Very ecstatic. Nicely written. Wonderful photos. I read it all in one sitting even though it was midnight when I started. I stayed up to 2 a.m. reading it. I sent it to hundreds of friends.

Bhakta Bill Duke, Nashville, Tennessee:
thank you very much for putting together the web site.
i had been following Indradyumna Maharaja's diary in the previous months and
it has been incredibly enlivening.
and your web page certainly added to this.

Bhakta John, Rainbow Festival:
I have just finished looking at your web site. I have to tell you, I was moved to tears after only a few paragraphs and tears flowed from my eyes as I happily read about your visit in Poland, and seeing pictures of you and some others that I know from my time with the devotees.

Anonymous Web Surfer:
This is a letter of recommendation and appreciation for the beautiful and very moving website Krishna-kripa Prabhu has created about the Polish Village of Peace summer festival.
   I first accidentally discovered HH Indradyumna Swami's website tales of the travelling preacher on new year's day and I was totally transfixed. I stayed up way past my usual bedtime reading the whole thing until midnight: alternately gasping and laughing while learning about the preaching programs in Russia and Poland. I also had to stop reading and cry after reading the incredible account of how IDS' birth mother left this material world.
   I next just as randomly stumbled upon Krishna-kripa Prabhu's website the following day, on the appearance day of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, and could then see for myself many of the amazing things I had just read about. I was even more stunned and fascinated to see everything I had just read about the day before in living color.
   If Bhaktisiddhanta said that the Gutenberg printing press was a "brhat mrdanga", then just imagine what he would have to say about the information superhighway and how pleased he would be about the posting of nice websites such as the one designed by KKP on the internet.
   I think that HG Krishna-kripa Prabhu has created the perfect complement to the anecdotal story-telling stylistic convention used by HH Indradyumna Swami. They are complementary because IDS's narrative moves at a fast can't-put-it-down, gotta-keep-reading-it clip befitting the travelogue genre, yet the pictorial presentation created by KKP invites the eye to linger and find repose within each page of the digital diary. The text which accompanies KKP's visual documentary is exactly the right length, much as if one was being taken on a leisurely exhibition in an art museum and the docent was pausing to explain the background of each painting to further increase one's enjoyment and knowledge. . . .
   The thoughtful sincerity and sensitivity of KKP's self-disclosure in his sharing melds well with the theme of attracting and inviting each individual jiva-atma to associate once again with the Supreme Lord in eternal serving mode. His thoughtful yet articulate introverted innocence provides a nice balance and counterpoint to the extremely carnival-like mood of the festival itself.

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