Archive for August, 2008
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Journey To The Burn 08/19/08
From our new Krishna Camp/Burning Man blog Seeking Spiritual AdventureReporting live from Salem, OhioWe (a holy triumvirate featuring Soma, Rasikananda, and myself Chris) have finished the first and least enjoyable part of the yatra: packing a huge Dod…
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
The Journey To The Burn 08/19/08
Reporting live from Salem, OhioWe (a holy triumvirate featuring Soma, Rasikananda, and myself Chris) have finished the first and least enjoyable part of the yatra: packing a huge Dodge Sprinter van with a even bigger Rath cart attached to the back of i…
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Reality
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Prabhupada Letter April 18, 1970 H
3764 Watseka Avenue
Los Angeles, Cal. 90034
April 18, 1970
My Dear Hayagriva,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, and the contents are very much encouraging. So what you are now doing on the Bhagavad Gita manuscript is alright, do it nicely. I have got the second part of […]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Simple Living, High Thinking Issue #11
For the week of August 11th-17th, 2008
Cloud-gazing and green-bean razing, it’s all in a week’s work. Join us as we take a look into what went on this week in the Small Farm Training Center here at New Vrindaban.
It’s actually all about realizing Krsna in our hearts. We realized that…
Our farm communities can be such […]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Reusing Via Flea Markets
One mantra of the environmental movement is “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” Surely voluntary nonconsumption is the highest principle, but reuse works great. As we were householders in New Vrindaban while it was still an avocation and before it became a vocation, reusing wasn’t an option, it was a requirement.
We learned that flea markets, yard sales, and […]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Bahulaban Cleanup
During the week of 23-24 August 2008, we are having a wonderful oppurtunity to lend some Krishna conscious service - Operation Cleanup of Bahulavan premises. I request by falling at your lotus feet to kindly volunteer for this event. Following is the tentative schedule that is proposed as of now.
on 23 AUG […]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Simple Living, High Thinking #11
For the week of August 11th-17th, 2008Cloud-gazing and green-bean razing, it’s all in a week’s work. Join us as we take a look into what went on this week in the Small Farm Training Center here at New Vrindaban.What we got done-Click here to read the w…
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Plastic Bags Suck
“Of course, in India, it was not considered to have a big tin car or plastic plates. Material opulence means jewels, gold, silk, butter, that is material opulence. Not plastic pots or plastic bucket, plastic cloth. It has no value.”
Bhagavad-gita 2.16 — London, August 22, 1973
My friend Ed had the idea that devotees could sell […]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Time to Burn: Krishna Camp Returns To The Desert
By Bhakta-Chris Fici
A new tradition has been born from the desert floor like a phoenix, and the fire of devotion continues to burn as Krishna Camp once again descends on Burning Man 2008, the annual festival of all things alternative, creative, and progressive, which ensues this year, as always, from the Black Rock […]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Daydream Nation
Whoohoo! 100th post! I’d like to thank the paws paws, Madhava Ghosh, and all the weeds I’ve uprooted! Here’s to a 100 more!This is from a new blog being done in conjunction with the wild and ecstatic journeys of Krishna Camp called Seeking Spiritual…
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Daydream Nation
” Falling out of sleep, I hit the floor Put on some rock tee and I’m out with the door From Bowery to Broome to Greene, I’m a walking lizard Last night’s dream was a talking baby lizard All comin’ from hu-man imagination …
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Guerrilla Gardening
Gardening can be part of anyone’s life. Even in an apartment a potted herb plant on a window sill or a potted tomato on a terrace. There are even units you can buy that have lights and shelves and need no window for growing herbs or wheat grass or other small plants so something fresh […]
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Inside the Farm Circle #3
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Braving a few rain showers, we offered all glories to the assembled devotees and guests as we once again gathered in the Teaching Garden for this week’s Farm Circle.
Tulasi Manjari gave a short but very informative presentation on the role of women in agriculture, from traditional times to the present day. In […]
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Inside the Farm Circle #3
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Braving a few rain showers, we offered all glories to the assembled devotees and guests as we once again gathered in the Teaching Garden for this week’s Farm Circle.Tulasi Manjari gave a short but very informative presentatio…