Reflections · May 19, 2026
Fresh and Easy
A produce store in Southern California sparks a reflection on the ever-fresh, easy nature of bhakti yoga.
My Journey
My Guru
Vaisesika Dasa is a disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada Swami. His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was born in 1896 in Calcutta, India. He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a prominent bhakti-yoga scholar and the founder of sixty-four branches of Gaudiya Mathas (Vedic institutes), requested His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada to broadcast Vedic knowledge through the English language. In the years that followed, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada wrote a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita and in 1944, without assistance, started an English fortnightly magazine.
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Overnight Success
A reflection from a Bangkok airport on Messi's 17 years of training — and the patience required in devotional service.
Bhakti Yoga · May 18, 2026
Appreciation
Vaisesika Dasa explores the profound nature of appreciation, particularly in the context of bhakti-yoga, where recognizing the devotional service of others deepens one's own connection to the divine. He highlights how appreciation is an inherent quality of the soul, culminating in pure love for Krishna and His devotees.
My Journey
My Story
Discover what inspired Vaisesika Dasa's spiritual journey as he recounts the pivotal moments that shaped his passion for sharing Bhakti Yoga with the world.
Vaisesika recalls being intrigued by the mysteries of life as a young boy, but feeling frustrated in his attempts to make sense out of it all. As he searched for answers, nothing satisfied his thirst for wisdom – until his life took an unexpected turn as a teenager.
Disillusioned with the depth of knowledge offered by popular culture, Vaisesika renounced worldly pursuits and became a monk at the age of fifteen.
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Our Family Business
In his book “Our Family Business: The Great Art of Distributing Srila Prabhupada’s Books” veteran distributor Vaisesika Das shares the history, key principles and techniques of book distribution, drawing from a lifetime of experience.
Strategies For Success
The ISKCON spiritual community of three hundred families he developed in Silicon Valley, California is based on the study and distribution of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada’s books, and consistently ranks high amongst the list of small temples in these efforts.
“It was great to consolidate all the things that I had learned throughout the years from mentors, and to dig deep and think about my own realizations, and how this service had actually molded my life,” he says.
Our Family Business is divided into four sections. The first, Chronicles, gives a basic history of book distribution in the Gaudiya Sampradaya, in His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada’s life, and in ISKCON up to his passing in 1977, describing how it got off the ground in the U.S. and spread all over the world.
The Four Questions
There are questions that are useful for an afternoon, and there are questions that are useful for a life. The Four Questions belongs to the second kind. It returns, patiently, to a small set of inquiries that the Vedic tradition has handed down for centuries — questions about who I am, where I came from, what I am supposed to be doing here, and where I am going next.
The book’s wager is simple: most of our suffering is downstream of never having actually sat with these questions. We answer them implicitly, by the way we spend our days, but we rarely answer them on purpose. When we finally do, the answers begin to gently rearrange the furniture of the mind.
Why four, and why these four
These are not riddles. They are diagnostic. Each one shines a light on a layer of identity that is easy to forget — the body, the mind, the soul, and the relationship between the soul and its source. Together they form a small examination that any thoughtful person can carry around in a pocket, returning to whenever life feels noisier than it should.
How to use this companion
These notes are an invitation, not a summary. The book itself is unhurried and conversational; it deserves to be read slowly, perhaps a chapter at a time, with a notebook nearby. If anything here makes you curious, follow the link to the book and let it do the deeper work.
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Every life touched by bhakti tells its own quiet story. Here we gather those stories — from kindred spirits who walked into a small group, asked a question, attended a retreat, or simply began to chant — and found something steady underneath the noise of daily life.
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Vaisesika Dasa is a treasure — if you ever have the opportunity to hear him, take it!
If your goal is towards 'simple living, high thinking', then, Vaisesika Dasa's talk covered it! Really simple real life examples and how we can implement them to eventually lead a calm and peaceful life. DE-CLUTTER!
The speaker and the topic was both timeless and timely. The audience was very tuned in to the topic. We need more of these!