Imagine you are Swami. Write a diary entry about day's events and the lesson that you learnt from this experience.
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I left St. Petersburg this morning on my way to Vladikavkaz in southern Russia, traveling with His Holiness Bhakti Brnga Govinda Maharaja, Sri Prahlada dasa and three Russian disciples – Kartikeya dasa, my bodyguard; Uttamasloka dasa, my translator; and Madhavi devi dasi, our cook. Kartikeya dasa is a personal bodyguard of Russian President Boris Yeltsin and was given one month’s leave to travel with us.
Along with fifteen hundred other devotees, we observed a four- day festival in St. Petersburg including Lord Nrsimha’s Appearance Day (when I initiated 104 new disciples) and my Vyasa-puja. The celebrations were incredible. The local gurukula staged three amazing theatrical performances, The Appearance of Lord Nrsimhadeva, The Pastimes of Lord Caitanya, and Brhad-bhagavatamrta. I especially wanted Govinda Maharaja to see Brhad-bhagavatamrta. The Russian gurukula children are talented young actors, and combined with their natural devotion the play brought tears to everyone’s eyes. The four days went by smoothly, the only hitch being that we didn’t take into consideration that it took three hours to serve prasadam to 15 hundred devotees each time.