Kurma Dasa

People who have heard or read about ISKON (International Society for Krsna Consciousness) are likely to have heard about Kurma Dasa. A staunch and ardent follower of the movement, he is actually more famous for his culinary skills rather to his spiritual ones. Dubbed as the Vegetarian Guru of Australia, Kurma Dasa is an authority on Veggie cooking that follows ISKON guidelines of food eating that is "Sathwik food", to be more specific, food that does not include meat, fish, egg, onion and garlic. Transcendental devotees of ISKON don't even consume coffee and Tea.

There is a lot of reading available on his website about him. The point of this blog is about three interesting points about him.

Kurma's Blog
He updates his blog on a daily basis which is his virtual diary. This is one of my favourite blogs, cause I find his style of writing very interesting and readable and secondly the material he posts is diverse and useful. Somebody who is an avid food lover like me, would definetely like it.You probably would also enjoy reading it.

http://www.iskcon.net.au/kurma/

Culinary Skills
Though Kurma is by birth a Britisher and by citizenship an australian, he is one chef who would teach you new, interesting and mouth watering things about indian recipies. Take for example Gulab Jamoons, he calls them "Succelent Rose scented milk fudge balls in sugar syrup" and the way he describes them will surely make you feel like devouring some. Wheather it is the simple poori that we have been eating quite long or " Urad dal doughnuts" aka Vadas, he has the ability to make you feel that you have been starving for ages and need to catch up with food immediately. He has an unimitable style of telling you about recipies, food info and a whole lot of other culinary stuff. He conducts food classes in Australia and widely travels around the world to do the same and the details are updated on a daily basis in his blog and his website.

http://www.kurma.net/

Spiritual
Though a non Indian by birth, Kurma dasa has took to Indian culture, dharma and life under the tutorship of his spiritual guru and founder of ISKON, His holiness Srila Prabhupada. Kurma dasa has profound knowledge about ancient vedas, Sri Bhagavatam, Bhagavatgeetha and a whole lot of scriptures and has written articles about the same in his website. His best work on this is a 700 page book that he has written about His holiness Srila Prabhupada's stay at Newzealand and Australia during seventies, "The great Transcendental Adventure".

Thats all for today, I hope you enjoyed reading this.