Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Powerleveling
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
What I Didn’t Do In New York
I didn’t visit 26 Second Avenue.
I didn’t visit the devotee donut bakery (I am lamenting that one a little bit).
I didn’t go to Central Park to see if any skaters were there.
I didn’t street skate.
I didn’t visit Radha Govinda at the Brooklyn Temple.
I didn’t have a slice of pizza at Strombolis.
I didn’t visit the abandoned […]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Chasing Sense Gratification Life after Life
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Open Meeting Next Tuesday, March 11 Concerning Bahulaban
With the approval of the New Vrndavana Board of Trustees, a group of devotee investors, headed by Adi Guru das, NV resident, have formed a non profit religious corporation whose purpose is the restoration of the Bahulaban property. The Bahulaban farm was purchased in 1972 and was the home of Radha Vrndavana Candra until 1984. […]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Gosh’s Big Adventure Day 3 — Lakshmi Cow Sanctuary
We left Manahttan, New York City, around 5 in the afternoon and headed out I-80 across New Jersey. Being on the other end of the time zone from New Vrindaban, the sun set noticeably earlier and by the time we crossed the Delaware river into Pennsylvania and drove the 5 miles to Lakshmi […]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
To Lose Faith in God Is To Lose Faith in Humanity
To Lose Faith in God Is To Lose Faith in HumanityBy Jonathan Sacks for The Times of London on 29 Feb 2008 Consider two moments in the history of Western civilisation. The first, from the late 15th century, concerns one of the moving spirits of the Ital…
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
An Amazing day
Vaisesika Prabhu’s beautiful Gaura Nitai Deities.Prabhupada, Gaura Nitai and Vaisesika Prabhu’s Transcendental collection of Salagram and Govardhan Shila’sVaisesika Prabhu himselfYesterday was an amazing day. I went over to Vaisesika Prabhu’s house to …
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Gosh’s Big Adventure Day 2 — Kirtanananda Swami
Ranaka and I arrived at the Sanctuary on 1st Avenue in Manhattan near Houston Street around mid morning Saturday. We stood in the street deciding which buzzer to push but someone came to the door and let us in on his way out.
We walked up to the second floor and knocked on Kirtanananda Swami’s […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Gosh’s Big Adventure — Day 1
In a society where flying off to India is routinue and bouncing around the country is nothing, my trip is probably insignificant, but as everything in the material world is relative, for me it was a big deal.
I hadn’t been anywhere except medical related trips or to see my granddaughters in a decade or […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Mike Davis: Planet of Slums
Here is a little article which I wrote on two months ago while I was still in India. Some of the economic and political information that I’ve come across recently has only further deepened my convictions in this regard. This is indeed a “heart breakin…
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
On The Cusp Of The Local Radio Revolution
New Vrindaban is on the front lines of a nationwide push for more access to low-power FM radio stations (LPFM), which has now been taken to the floor of the U.S House and Senate.
Check out this article which details the Local Radio Community Act, which will offer low-power, local airwave access to a whole range […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
after midnight i think like this.
I’m outside right now relishing the warm weather and looking at the stars. They feel like old friends. I remember in Arizona sitting on the roof of our house, or driving to the desert, or camping on a mountain. The stars would blanket the sky and the more you stared into the sky which seemed […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
after midnight i think like this.
I’m outside right now relishing the warm weather and looking at the stars. They feel like old friends. I remember in Arizona sitting on the roof of our house, or driving to the desert, or camping on a mountain. The stars would blanket the sky and the more you stared into the sky which seemed to curve above you more and more stars would appear almost making it impossible to make out the major constellations. I sat on Mt Graham once at Geronimo Hot springs. It was a place where Geronimo would take his men to recover after a long scouting trip or a battle of some kind. It was probably exactly the same time of the year as now but 8 years ago or so. I sat with my hand in a hot steam of water meditating and praying for inner guidance. I peered out into the mysterious universe. I heard, “you have been wandering from planet to planet for so many lifetimes, fighting for this cause and that cause. Why don’t you dedicate this one life to Me?” The Great Mystery had spoken. I really contemplated the Lords message and agreed to his direction. There is more to the story but you may think I am crazier than you already do if I explain further.
I stayed in Athens this weekend rather than returning to New Vrindaban. Our Yoga studio opens Monday and I start teaching at the studio on Tuesday. We had our final wrap up meeting today working out all the business details, paying the bills, and scheduling. During the meeting I had the chance to actually look at my schedule of events for this month. It’s packed! Tuesday through Friday we are busy morning to night. The weekends are open for travel, New Vrindaban, continuing education and catching up. I feel very fortunate to be serving all day everyday. I always wanted to live a life where my work is what brings joy and inner fulfillment. I can honestly say that right now I see how that has been arranged. There is much work to be done, especially on myself. A number of weeks back I spoke with Acharyadeva about life and he told me to perform the Bhakti Check, a series of personal questions….
The Bhakti check:
Do I really want to do this service as an offering for Srila Prabhupada?
Do I feel Krishna’s presence in my life?
Am I reasonably attached to Krsna? Are my materialistic desires increasing?
Adjust. Make small adjustments to find balance.
I think i answered no no no yes. ouch. now i think i am answering, yes yes no yes. All of them I am working on. What I am appreciating most is that I have been gifted with a steady service to be able to notice and work on these points. On Tuesday we celebrate our 5th year anniversary of New Vrindaban College outreach. Just after we started my Gurumaharaja stopped me in the hallway behind the pujari room in New V and embraced me saying, “this is such a wonderful service. It is the best service you can do for the mission of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.” Hearing this I just put it in my head that i should try to stick with this and try my best. We have made unlimited mistakes and still do but steadiness is allowing us to make natural progress. The analogy is like the water dripping on a rock. Outreach and everything which is involved with it is like water which is dripping on my wicked heart.
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
“. . .a few only can live lavishly by exploitation.”
Human prosperity flourishes by natural gifts and not by gigantic industrial enterprises. The gigantic industrial enterprises are products of a godless civilization, and they cause the destruction of the noble aims of human life. The more we go on incre…
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
In Vrindaban
by Chakra Pani dasa, from the Sept. 1981 Issue of the Brijabasi Spirit
On July 12th, another phase of Vrindaban history opened. Big Lord Jagannath, feeling grievously homesick, decided to stay in Vrindaban after the culmination of the usual cold He usually gets at this time of the year. Not having room to sit next to […]