Archive for April, 2008
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
sutra yudha accha goshale
The Acharya has arrived and each moment is filled with laughter and enlightenment. He has been here for two weeks now. This is why it has been so long since I have written.
He treats us so wonderfully, so respectfully despite our being so junior to him and our inability to serve properly. A true father […]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
51 Corporations In Top 100 Economic Entities
To follow up yesterday’s rant on corporations, check out these statistics from 2000. Anyone care to bet that today it would be even worse?
Here’s one that isn’t on the outdated list:
Now, From China, the World’s Biggest Company
“PetroChina’s parent, CNPC, is the largest player in Sudan’s oil and natural gas industry. The activists say the oil […]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Local Folks at Festival of Inspiration!
Dear Devotees:
Come on down and support your local troops! Festival of Inspiration boasts a grand total of seven locals making presentations during the event this year! This illustrious line up includes H H Varsana Swami, Kripa Maya and Soma, Tappapunja, Balabhadra Prabhu’s, Sankirtan and Madhava Gosh. […]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Yes, Hillary, I’m Bitter and Clinging To My Relgion
Normally I would never discuss politics because it is like a bottomless pit and endlessly fruitless. Plus, I think the government is essentially a running dog of the multinational corporations in any case and the only election that matters is the board of directors of Halliburton et al. (See the DVD “Corporation” for insight on […]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Cow Memories
by mrupa
Amburish, the pre-eminent New Vrindavana cowherd boy, wrote this song as part of our Govardhan Puja celebration one year.
Each year the devotees would spend a few days cleaning and whitewashing the barn at Bahulavana.
Amburish had trained the cow herd to come into the barn for milking and feeding when he played the […]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
For Bhakta-Joe…
This one is for my dearest transcendental chum and fellow graduate of the Ann Arbor Asrama, HG Bhakta-Joe Swift aka Swift aka Joe-Dasa, this blog’s biggest fan, who by his own account checks this lowly website no less than three times daily. His absorp…
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Gopal Garden Kids Play Dirty
by Tapapunjah das
The students from New Vrindaban’s home schooling co-op braved the windy, rainy weather conditions last Friday to descend on the Teaching Garden for their second of twenty two outdoor classes called, “Lessons in Nature.”
“They’re very enthusiastic and really learning some valuable life skills,”said Bindu Sarovara Dasi, who is helping to organize the […]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
“Maybe One Morning” by Eugenio Montale
Maybe one morning, walking in dry, glassy air,
I’ll turn, and see the miracle occur:
nothing at my back, the void
behind me, with a drunkard’s terror.
then, as if on a screen, trees houses hills
will suddenly collect for the usual illusion.
But it will be too late; and I’ll walk on silent
among the men who don’t look back, with […]
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Prabhupada Letter Aug 6, 1969 (Hayagriva)
Tridandi Goswami
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Founder-Acharya:
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
August 6, 1969
My Dear Hayagriva,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated July 28th, 1969, and I have noted the contents carefully. I am so pleased to learn of your hard work for writing Krishna Consciousness essays. […]
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
What Will The Future Hold?
Calf in the temple barn.
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Krishna Smiles
“The parable of the Good Samaritan is a revelation of God in a word that has great importance through all the Scriptures from beginning to the end. It is a revelation of what the prophet Hosea says, speaking for the invisible God, “I will have mercy and not sacrifices.” What is this mercy which we […]
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Oh No! Oh Yes!
Balabhadra found Nanda down on top of the hill this morning. Who knows how long he was down since last evening when I checked the cows and saw him walking about. He was on his side with his face looking downhill, not in a good position. While the sky was thundering and dark clouds let out torrents of rain, we tried to flip him with the truck and ropes. We wrapped ropes around his front legs and back legs, tied those ropes together, and then tied that to the hook on the back of the truck. Then Chaitanya drove the truck very slowly. But it did not work. Nanda kicked Balabhadra in the legs and Balabhadra fell twice trying to help Nanda flip. At this point Nanda got into a worse position. Then Balabhadra got the idea of pulling his back legs so he would lay sideways to the hill with his feet downhill and his head higher that the rest of him. We tied the ropes to his back legs and pulled with the truck. Nanda ended up in the position we wanted. Balabhadra was thinking that in this position Nanda would have more leverage to get himself up.
We could do no more with what we had on hand. Balabhadra then went to the temple barn to get the hip huggers and the tractor. The idea was to get Nanda standing up and then we maybe could walk him to the geriatric barn. We also had the fear that this was going to be a nightmare in trying to move him at all if he couldn’t move his back legs. We tried massaging his back legs and they were so stiff we could not get him to bend his knees.
I went home to take a hot shower and Balabhadra and Chaitanya went to get the tractor. When they came back they also brought some additional hands. Bhakta Mathew came and Krsna das, Soma, and another boy were coming in case we needed the help. Moses also showed up. As Balabhadra drove the tractor up the hill and we all followed, there was dread in our hearts as to what we would find. Balabhadra led the way and as he arrived at the crest of the hill, Nanda was gone! He feared that Nanda rolled down the hill, but Nanda was not at the bottom of the hill either.
We came to realize that Nanda walked away from the hill.
Then we realized that he could again be in a difficult position somewhere. We started looking for him and found him in the overgrown area between the cow burial grounds and the lower pasture. He was eating grass standing up. Of course, we were very happy but then we knew that we should get him in the geriatric barn where the ground is flat and thickly bedded. We walked him to the barn easily and there he is right now.
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Microsoft Guy
Mujibar was trying to get a job in India .
The Personnel Manager said, ‘Mujibar, you have passed all the tests, except one.
Unless you pass it you cannot qualify for this job.’
Mujibar said, ‘I am ready.’
The manager said, ‘Make a sentence using the words Yellow , Pink and Green.’
Mujibar thought for a few […]
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
New Vrndavana Accordion Ensemble Reunites for North American Tour
New Vrndavana Accordion Ensemble Reunites for North American Tour
NEW VRNDAVANA, WV — The New Vrndavana Accordion Ensemble announced their first tour in decades Monday at a rehearsal in the Palace Lodge as a throng of fans crowded near the legendary Palace of Gold.
The group, which led the Sunday feast program with a live performance […]
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Filming The Ramayana
by mrupa
This month we will celebrate the wonderful appearance of Lord Sri Ramachandra on Sunday the 13th.
I’m not sure which year it was, but for a few months we were all constantly immersed in the pastimes of Lord Rama during the Fall even more so than in the Spring. It wasn’t exactly because of […]