Böcker av Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

This edition of Satsvarūpa dāsa Goswami's 1996 timed book, Geaglum Free Write Diary, is published as part of a legacy project to restore Satsvarūpa Mahārāja's writings to 'in print' status and make them globally available for current and future readers.

I've suspended my A Poor Man Reads the Bhāgavatam for now, so that I can write a collection of Writing Sessions. Several times a day, the writing practice method. You could be serious and capture sad or lonely feelings. Some diary reportage, repartee, fly by night. Some thinking, "This may be used later." But some freedom from that.

Śrīla Prabhupāda, I am old and invalid now. I cannot attend festivals or meetings of devotees. No one expects me to go to these things. My only services are writing (for you), hearing two-and-a-quarter hours from your books, correspondence, receiving visitors, taking darśana of my Deities, chanting japa, etc.

I want this book, Be Prepared, to have two meanings, two themes. One is "be prepared for death." To make this theme solid, I will print quotes from Prabhupāda's purports where he writes about death, both the wrong approach to death by the nondevotees, and the good approach by those taking shelter of the Lord. The other theme of the book is "be prepared" - for approaching Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. To make this theme strong, I will quote excerpts from Srila Rūpa Gosvāmī's Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi. This is a beautiful book with quotes about Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa's love. I especially like the ones where Rādhārāṇī breaks Her mana (jealous anger) and goes back to Kṛṣṇa with love. Sometimes She breaks Her mana with the assistance of Lalitā, and sometimes She breaks it when She hears the sound of Kṛṣṇa's flute. In many of the excerpts She quotes Her undying, absolute love for Kṛṣṇa, and in some places, He expresses His absolute love for Her. There will be other things in the book that are not on the two themes of death and Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, but they are the main themes.