Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Full Circle: Tulasi Working At The Palace Gardens
Here is a picture of Tulasi working in the flower gardens at Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold. He is digging holes so Gopa can plant the cannas that she started in the greenhouse from roots saved in the fall from last season.
He just came home from college to spend the summer and Gopa snatched him […]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Graduation Party
by Lilasuka dd
Audrey (Jesse’s 19 year old daughter) just graduated from PA Cyber High School….yay!!! The last kid in the family is finished with school and is ready to face the world!
The graduation party is in Washington, PA at a cafe.
We will be singing and there will be a couple of other bands singing […]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Gosh Gets Stuck
I have been thinning/harvesting trees between the State road and the lake near the temple. When they were planted 20+ years ago, they were over planted for immediate effect, and should have been thinned starting about 10 years ago.
Besides taking out the dead and dying trees, I have been opening up some sight lines and […]
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Satan Called a Worldwide Convention.
In his opening address to his evil angels, Satan said, “We can’t keep the Christians from going to church. We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can’t even keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over […]
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Simon Missing, Presumed Dead
“We love. The loving propensity is there. Even we have no family… Sometimes we keep pets, cats and dogs, to love. So we are, by nature we used to love somebody else.”
The Nectar of Devotion — Vrndavana, October 24, 1972
Simon is my wife’s cat. He is has not been heard from for several days. The […]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
“Dandelions” by Craig Raine
‘and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence’
– George Eliot, Middlemarch
Dead dandelions, bald as drumsticks,
swaying by the roadside
like Hare Krishna pilgrims
bowing to the Juggernaut.
They have given up everything.
Gold gone and their silver gone,
humbled with dust, hollow,
their milky bodies tan
to the colour of annas.
The wind changes their identity:
slender Giacomettis, […]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Prabupada Letter Nov.19, 1969
Tridandi Goswami
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Founder-Acharya:
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
November 19, 1969
My Dear Hayagriva,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your New Vrindaban newsletter copy dated November 11, 1969. I am so happy to learn that everything is going very nicely in New Vrindaban.
Regarding BTG, please let […]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Memorial Day 2008
“Heroism, power, determination, resourcefulness, courage in battle, generosity and leadership are the natural qualities of work for the ksatriyas.”
Bg 18.43
It’s Memorial Day in the United States, when we are meant to remember those who gave their lives for their country. Back home where I grew up, this meant a parade that ended at the cemetery […]
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
New Vraja Dhama Cow Protection Conference
There was a Cow Conference recently in Hungary at the New Vraja Dhama farm. This is a topic I have a keen interest in. Unfortunately for me, the info coming out of it is all podcasts which with dialup it isn’t practical for me.
Is anyone willing to listen them on my behalf and give me […]
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Standards of Measurement
Bhakta Rory and Kalevaram das were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up.
A woman walked by and asked what they were doing.
“We’re supposed to find the height of the flagpole,” said Bhakta Rory, “but we don’t have a ladder.”
The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts, […]
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Oprah Test Drives a Vegan Diet
“Who’s Oprah ?” say people who have
a.) lived in a cave for the last twenty years
b.) been oblivious to the mass media due to ecstatic symptoms
c.) have never had an informal talk with an average American woman.
To those I say, she is the Queen of day time television and one of the richest women […]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Meditation Associated With Increased Grey Matter In The Brain
One suggestion I follow to battle the possibility of Alzheimer’s Disease is to work on using my non dominant hand for routine chores. The science behind it is that in order to accomplish doing this, the brain has to build more connectivity between the spheres. More connectivity in the brain has been shown […]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
The Trees Got Out!
by Haricarana das
Once upon a time, back in the mid-70’s, a few of us brahmacaris were hanging out in the ashram above the Bahulaban temple. Devaki came in and noticed that Romaharshan was sleeping over in the corner.
He got a twinkle in his eye and started yelling, “Get up! Get […]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell’s 1984
Orwell missed on the year, but “1984″ still stands as a chilling prediction of what can (is?) happen(ing).
Source
#10 - TRAMPLED UPON
“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and […]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
More Glimpses of New Vrindaban’s FOI
From ISKCON News:
Maha Nama-Yajna Highlights Festival of Inspiration 2008
From YouTube (see similar ones also):
New Vrindaban Kirtan 05/12/08 Festival of Inspiration
A Yadhunath video:
Festival of Inspiration 2008 Japa Man
From Bhaktimarg Swami:
The Walking Monk, May 12, 2008
Mentioned a couple of times in this post from the Book distribution Seminar:
Anandambuddhivardhanam