Organizational efforts in Berlin

I recently spent a week in Berlin to support the management of a VIP hospitality team, and tend personally to key international guests at a major speech and performance there.


The last photo in the slides is with former President of Albania, Dr. Alfred Moisiu with his daughter Mirela

Christian - Muslim Dialogue in Washington DC

I recently spent an evening in Arlington, VA as the guest of Trac5 board members where I helped moderate a private conversation among American Christian leaders and leaders of the major Muslim and interreligious organizations in America (such as ISNA, IIIT, ICRD, and others).

The conversation was designed for those present to examine how best to respond to dramatic events in North Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, and elsewhere, in ways that create the greatest likelihood of peaceful and positive directions and outcomes.



The encounter was warm of heart, but penetrating in content.

Video of Detroit Talk

A video of my discourse is at the bottom of this post.

It is a good quality video, but the center section of the address is disrupted by drilling in a part of the temple.

If you can endure the distraction for the minutes the drilling persists, it is possible to follow the talk throughout.



On Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011, I spoke by invitation at the Detroit-based Radha Krishna Ashta Shakthi Mandir on two popular Leelas of Lord Krishna, The Taming Of Kaliya, and Brahma's Delusion.


On the following day I could enjoy a morning of sight-seeing in Detroit with my beloved brother Acharya Shrivatsa Goswawmi ji, his wonderful wife Sandhya, and our delightful local hosts Pam and Sarita. Our pictures are at the GM Center on the Detroit River across from Windsor Canada

Strauss-Kahn: Private lives, public responsibility

Strauss-Kahn: Private lives, public responsibility

Discourse on the Leelas of Lord Krishna

On Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011, I spoke by invitation at the Detroit-based Radha Krishna Ashta Shakthi Mandir on two popular Leelas of Lord Krishna, The Taming Of Kaliya, and Brahma's Delusion.


On the following day I could enjoy a morning of sight-seeing in Detroit with my beloved brother Acharya Shrivatsa Goswawmi ji, his wonderful wife Sandhya, and our delightful local hosts Pam and Sarita. Our pictures are at the GM Center on the Detroit River across from Windsor Canada

Nazis and German Catholics and Lutherans

Nazis and German Catholics and Lutherans

An article about Christian martyrs in Nazi Germany, and Catholic-Lutheran relations

Is it possible to live with a clear conscience

Quora is a forum for questions and answers

Here is a response I gave to a member who asked:

Is it possible to live with a clear conscience in a modern industrial society?

Yes it is possible, but extremely difficult.

Attaining this status is done one decision at a time, thousands of times a day, every day, all day. Eventually it will need to be pursued even in sleep.

The continuous and uninterrupted stream of "choice" should not be seen nor felt as a burden, but rather as incessant opportunity.

The key is to know yourself as "author," and most importantly the author of "you." Who you are is what you have created in your relationship with the voice of your conscience.

Your conscience is a friend and a reliable guide. It is patient, forgiving, and faithful. It will never leave you nor abandon you.

Most people give the right of authorship to the random flux of circumstances. This is an error. Circumstances are merely the environment in which authorship unfolds.

Finally, (so as to avoid a major treatise) there is no such thing as a small or insignificant rejection or violation of conscience. Every yes to conscience counts, just as every rejection or violation of the voice of conscience counts.

A clear conscience is the sweetest of all things,and worth the battle. Don't compromise, don't cheat, don't shade, don't mislead. Be courageous. No threat should be seen as sufficiently terrifying, no opportunity should be seen as sufficiently enticing, that you would chose to violate or reject the voice of your conscience, even in the tiniest way.

If you can go this way, you will be as free as God.