Flashbacks 4

After three months in Johannesburg, I received a phone call that would change my life. I was invited to San Jose, California, where Bhakti Sudhir Goswami had organized an ashram.

Bhakti Sudhir Goswami

He planned to started a publishing house dedicated to the teachings of Shridhar Maharja, to be called Guardian of Devotion Press. Ours was an intense collaboration. Over the years we went from one IBM selectric typewriter and a transcribing machine to owning our own Heidelberg KORD offset press with all the latest technology of the 1970s. We produced a number of titles on transcendental life according to the school of Gaudiya Vaishnavism. We even printed a full-color national magazine, called the Harmonist, which was well-received by authors and intellectuals such as Tom Robbins. In this time, we published "The Search for Sri Krsna, Reality the Beautiful, Sri Guru and his Grace, The Loving Search for the Lost Servant, The Golden Volcano of Divine Love, and Subjective Evolution of Consciousness.

Our books have since been translated into Spanish, French, Russian, German, Chinese, Turkish and many other languages and reprinted many times over from California to London to Australia.

We were gratified to think that both Prabhupada and Shridhar Maharaja would be pleased.