If I have any regrets about leaving the Hare Krishna movement it might be that I never got to give a morning Bhagavatam class. You need to be an initiated devotee to do that and I got out before that If I have any regrets about leaving the Hare Krishna movement it might be that I never got to give a morning Bhagavatam class. You need to be an initiated devotee to do that and I got out before that could happen.
I enjoy public speaking and I'm not too bad at it. Unfortunately I picked a career that gives me few opportunities to do it. So this blog will be my bully pulpit (or bully vyasasana if you like). I will give classes on verses from the Bhagavata Purana (Srimad Bhagavatam). The text I will use is one I am transcribing for Project Gutenberg:
A STUDY OF THE BHÂGAVATA PURÂNA
OR ESOTERIC HINDUISM
BY PURNENDU NARAYANA SINHA, M. A., B. L.
This is the only public domain English translation that exists.
Classes will be posted when I feel like it and you won't need to wake up at 3Am to hear them. ...more