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Finally, nearly four years later, Stolar got the green light to leave in March. He and his Soviet-born wife Gita decided to return to his hometown on July 4. Once in the Windy City, Stolar donned an I LOVE CHICAGO button, took in a baseball game at Wrigley Field and mused, "I wouldn't be surprised if I decided to move back here...
Garbed for another grueling day in the urban jungle, I loped into the dining room. Our children were already at the table, finishing their homework over breakfast. Krishna, the elder, was engrossed in the Bhagavad-Gita; Kikimora, his younger sister, was muttering an incantation in Old Slavonic. (They both attended the International School. Such a melting pot!) "What's today's morning repast?" I asked cheerfully, reaching for the sports pages of the New York Times. "Ambrosia," they answered in unison. How suitably mythological, I thought -- the food of Greece's ancient deities. In Manhattan one can buy damn near...
thought stems from the Bhagavad Gita and other
Prabhupada's "As It Is" translation of the Bhagavad Gita is central to the American Vaishnava movement. It was reading this book that led Dan Coggins, currently a member of the Boston temple, to convert. A Sanskrit translation of the Ghita he looked at didn't inspire him, but, three years ago, when he read Prabhupada's version, he was transfixed. "It was the most potent form of religion I could find...
...When I felt His presence, I thought, this is the essence of life, I want more." Coggins began devouring every religious material he could find, leading himself away from Christianity and eventually to the Bhagavad Gita and to the Krishna temple...