Radhashtami
So I went to the Vrindavan Ashram down the street to give the Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi reading I thought they had agreed I should do. But lo and behold, when I got there, the mahanta told me they had already done their RRSN bit in the morning. Oh well, I talked a little Radha katha with him and the other devotees there, and then came back to the ashram. On Mondays there is usually sat-sanga here, from 8-9. I may have mentioned that there are many people here with a devotional samskara. Adhikari, an Orissan who used to speak on the Bhagavata before coming here, had a Rasik Pagal CD playing as people came into the hall--really good Radha bhajans by this Haridasi kirtaniya sadhu. Then his wife Geeta (a Nepali born and raised in Manipur) sang a Radha kirtan. This was followed by another student, Sandeep, who was chomping at the bit to give a talk. A couple of weeks ago I lent him my copy of Radha-Madhava Chintan , a book by Hanuman Prasad Poddar consisting of his Janmashtami and Radh...