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: Radhika, Russian girl in Mother Urmila's gurukula, NC: Sharanagati devi dasi, Vaishnava youth, Alachua, Florida: Patricia Beetle (mother of Krishna-kripa das), peace
activist, Albany, New York: Karen Beetle (sister of Krishna-kripa das), counselor
and mediator, Albany, New York: Rupali Chadha, College of Medicine University of Illinois: Rajasekhar Kodipaka, southern California: HenryKrish@aol.com: Matej: Sangeeta Mistry, Johannesburg, South Africa Yogesa Bhakta Bill Duke, Nashville, Tennessee: Bhakta John, Rainbow Festival: Anonymous Web Surfer:
Nice website, I didn't read it all, but the pictures were very nice.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
You did a great job on your Village of Peace Article and photos, Prabhu.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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