Ananda Vrindavan Devi While Krishna was on His way to Dwaraka He passed through the land of scanty water (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.10.34). I began to imagine what else might be scanty in that land with less water. And how today, in this time of Kali Yuga, the age of quarrel and hypocrisy, scantiness is everywhere.  But first this delicious word - scanty. It means ‘limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent.’ Miriam Webster Only when water is scanty do we realize how much we...

Ananda Vrindavaneswari The air is warming, the snow is melting and the birds are singing a little louder. This poem is inspired by this time and how Krishna’s name also warms and melts our hearts: It’s a wonderful thing the sound of the holy name like the song of the birds it moves across the sky of my heart and sweeps my soul to places it longs to be  It is the parrot song bringing messages of love, to me of all people how this birdsong of the holy name  touches my small heart and makes it...

Ananda Vrindavan Devi Dasi Mother Theresa once said that the only real hunger we all have is a hunger for love. To give and receive love is what will truly satisfy us. In this attention-craving world that we currently live in, the underlying motive behind all activity is a search for love and belonging.  The good news is that the essence of our self, our soul, is made for love; the soul's dharma is loving service to God. The not-good news is that we regularly forget this, and sometimes forget...