Steps to a Simple Temple is online here at namahatta.org.

Tonight we’ll go on harinam at 4pm and then we’ve cancelled tonight’s Loft program to go to His Holiness Indradyumna Swami’s program at Sakhi Raya’s house.

We have been discussing eliminating Friday night at the Loft from our offerings in order to concentrate our energy on the other programs, but haven’t reached consensus on that point. Normally we would never modify our program whimsically - if you want people to come regularly (which you do, because that’s the only way they’ll get real benefit) you have to model that commitment. However, since it’s a couple of days before Christmas we’re projecting that attendence will be low enough to make it a fair exchange. We’ve contacted our regulars and have invited them to come with us. Anyone who comes unannounced or for the first time is out of luck. I don’t like that, but we’ve made a once-off trade-off.

This is the first time we have done something like this since this Loft opened in October of 2004. If it happens another time within the next 12 months that will be more than enough.