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A teakwood ketch and a devotee’s determination help bring Lord Krsna’s message to the Hawaiian Islands. “I like all religions,” Henry said as he drove along, “except the Hare Krsnas.” Narahari was quiet. The two of them had recently met and were now on their way to Henry’s home on a small island off the […]

I awoke to the sound of waves lapping near my head. Through the two skylight windows above my bunk, I could see wispy clouds that seemed to bob rhythmically in the blue. After a five-year absence, again I was in Hawaii and aboard the Jaladuta II, the Hare Krishna movement’s fifty-three-foot teakwood ketch. In 1980, […]

Several times a week at the Hare Krsna center in Honolulu, I set aside my staff and formal monk’s dress, don a full-coverage white suit, light up my smoker, and begin one of my favorite spiritual meditations—taking care of Lord Krsna’s honeybees. Who would ever have suspected that beekeeping could be a totally transcendental form […]