Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 11th, 2008
25th Anniversary Of RVC Temple DVDs Including Radhanath and Indradyumna Swamis Clips
Due to the kindness of Gaura Keshava das I have obtained 6 DVDs of raw footage of the opening of the current temple resided in by Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Candra. He was the priest at the opening ceremonies when RVC moved from Bahulaban to the then new temple. Sri Nathji and the […]
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Detroit Rock City (Part 2)
We continue the Motown tradition, Prabhupada-style, as the fired up devotees of Detroit bum-rush the annual Hash Bash in Ann Arbor with some souped-up harinama! HG Gopal Prabhu…ready …
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Prayers
Words and music by Devananda Pandit das
The god with four faces
And Shiva the greatest
Along with innumerable sages
Came to the dungeon
And offered their prayers
To Krishna the lord of all ages.
” You are true to your vow
And You sure do know how
To protect the gentle and pious.
You descend to this world
In Your […]
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Gosh Visits Chowpatti
No, not the Chowpatty temple in Mumbai, India that started as a satellite temple of New Vrindaban, but a vegetarian restaurant in Arlington Heights, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. My aunt took me and two of her grandsons there for lunch when I was visiting. This was like a vegetarian dies and went […]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Gopala’s Garden Lessons in Nature
by Bindu Sarovara Dasi
For two hours each week, the students and teachers of Gopal’s Garden Home
School Co-op will close their text books and exchange their pencils for gloves
and gardening tools as part of a 22 week “Lessons in Nature” curriculum with
Ruci Dasi, Tapa Punja Das and Bindu Sarovara Dasi.
The outdoor classes […]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Love of Krishna: Volunteer Week-Ends
New Vrindaban offers a magnificent opportunity for unlimited Bhakti and Radha Vrindaban Chandra are the ever present with Their unlimited mercy. NV is situated off the grid in a serene atmosphere, surrounded by forests and streams, lakes, and wild life.
Peacocks and swans greet guests with their own charm and beauty. […]
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The Indiana Gourd Show Report
I skated around the show Friday (3 day show) to catch up with everybody and then went to Chicago to visit my aunt so I wasn’t there Saturday morning when the crew from the local South Bend, Indiana TV station showed up to report on the show.
Vidya asked the reporter if she wanted to wear […]
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Prabhupada Letter: Aug. 6, 1969
Tridandi Goswami
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Founder-Acharya:
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
August 6, 1969
My Dear Devananda,
Please accept my blessings. Since I have come from New Vrindaban I have not received any letters from you. I know you are silent worker, but I always remember you. I am very much thankful […]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Detroit Rock City (Part 1)
Just another week in the Motor City…Gaur-Nitai continues Their causeless ecstatic descent into the various living rooms of the congregation, HH Indradyumna Swami arrives bearing blessings and new editions of his Traveling Preacher series, and then th…
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Gosh Gets Lucky at the Gourd Show
Skating around at the gourd show in a costume is a great way to meet people. Here I am trying to pick up a new gourdfriend. Good thing Vidya wasn’t watching.
Actually she is a dummy used by the lady in the booth next to us. Her head is made from a […]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
List of three properties in/around/at New Vrindaban Community for Sale by Owners
From: Lokadrsti d.d.Subject::House for sale with 27 acres of land
House and 27 acres of land for sale, asking price of: $225,000 ( appraised value
A total of 10 rooms with 3,200 Square Foot of Living Area
If interested please contact us at: Kamsahanta das or Lokadrsti devi dasi at:
304-843-5498…….Lokadrsti d.d. (Lorraine Haslam) lokadrsti@hotmail.com
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From: Pusti Subject: Mobile Home & Property For
Sale Two acres of mostly gently […]
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
“The Vagrant’s Romance” by Eva Gore-Booth
(A Reincarnation Phantasy)
This was the story never told
By one who cared not for the world’s gold.
One of the idle and wise,
A beggar with unfathomable eyes.
One who had nothing but dreams to give
To men who are eager to labour and live.
For the world in its wisdom deep and dim
Had taken all pleasure and treasure from him.
This […]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Theory and Reality Of Milk Drinking
Devotees buy milk from the store and offer it to Krishna, and then take the remnants, somehow feeling that they have transformed it into milk from cows like these:
Unfortunately, in the real world, it doesn’t work like that. When the cow no longer gives enough milk, off she goes. Go watch this video to see […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
spring cleaning.
It has been a long time…
Spring break, lots of yoga, NYC, college lectures, new friends, too much pizza, thai restaurants, undercover operations, deity seva, great association, late nights, early mornings, fights, broken relationships, and more!
I always feel that no matter what situations I am in I have to keep on keeping on. I know that […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Transcendental Coordination
(From the July,1981 issue of Brijabasi Spirit)
[THEN CURRENT GURU]*: Simply by being a devotee, everything is automatically taken care of by Krishna. Actually, if a devotee will simply dance morning and evening, there is no need for any other yoga. All of the asanas, all of the breathing exercises are automatically performed in this chanting […]