On the 16th of September an enormous crowd of ten thousand devotees gathered in the little holiday resort called Evpatoriya, on the Crimea Peninsula situated on the Black Sea in Ukraine.
The annual Bhakti Sangam Festival is surely the most amazing event on this planet, with so many Maharajas and preachers sharing their realizations in seminars, and the evenings are spent in most sublime kirtans.

Each seminar block has six presentations running parallel in various venues. Since there is such a huge crowd of devotees many topics can be offered by a variety of speakers to suit everyone's needs and attractions.

My visit to the Kharkov community was gradually coming to an end....

Before leaving I always spend a lot of time meeting with devotees privately, and we also had a meeting with our girls living in the brahmacarini ashram.

The ashram has become more stabel now, especially since our beloved Nalini Mataji is there to help taking care of the girls. We almost have the atmosphere of an extended family, with two elderly ladies as mother and grand-mother educating and caring for the young girls, some being a little more experienced than others.

Training the ladies is of greatest importance, especially since the success of a marriage is mainly dependant on the wife's behavior and service mood. Better to go through the beating of the false ego in the brahmacarini ashram and become humble there, rather than battling out the ego clashes in marriage and straining the relationship, which too often ends in divorce.