Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Caring For The Cows Before The Festival of Inspiration
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Caitanya Bhagavat is coordinating some cleaning of the cows and the small barn by the temple, in preparation for the Festival of Inspiration.
He will be available at the hours listed below. If you come within the first ten minutes of the posted hours, he will be at the barn and will […]
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Uniqueness
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
My First Radish
Not literally the first radish I ever grew but the first thing I have grown from seed for many years since before the liver transplant and before the end stage liver disease, maybe 4 or 5 years. Ergo very satisfying.
While I have been focusing on berries and nut trees, there is also the impatient, need […]
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
The Weather-Makers, Meat-Consumption, and Climate Change
The devotees at Krsna Village (New Vraja Dham) in Hungary are glorified again for their positive, transcendent example, in a report on the clear link between the habit of meat consumption and the negative effects of climate change.Read all about it here.
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
The Body As An Instrument To Glorify Krishna
” O tongue, praise the glories of Lord Kesava. O mind, worship the enemy of Mura. O hands, serve the Lord of Sri. O ears, hear the topics of Lord Acyuta. O eyes, gaze upon Sri Krsna. O feet, go to the temple of Lord Hari. O nose, smell the tulasi buds on Lord Mukunda’s […]
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Monday, April 27th, 2009
Mulching Berries and Nut Trees.
We had announced an asparagus planting party at the temple for Sunday morning but Krishna had another idea. The soil was still a bit too wet and working the clay soils of New Vrindaban when wet ruins their structure and takes years to recover.
It was borderline, and considering that we had another couple of days […]
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
The New India
From Ganesadasa:
Vrindavana. Land of Krishna and His pastimes, gopis and cows. The holy Mecca for all Hindus. The beautiful Yamuna river meanders through its fields, past Kesi ghata and the other places of pilgrimage. Land of serenity, bhajan and meditation. Place of peace. Right? Think again.
Three nights ago my western friend who has spent […]
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
The Soul of Merton 4-26-09
Inspired by my readings of “Contemplative Prayer” and “Contemplation In A World Of Action” by Thomas MertonIn Contemplation In A World of Action, Merton once again examines the sticky issue of openness verses cloister, of engagement versus withdrawal f…
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Goodbye Bland Affluence, Hello Transition Towns
The gradually lucid signs of the end of the industrial age has got peoples off all stripes thinking about what is going to come next. What can we do, if anything, to insure a future where morality, spirituality, and a real, locally-based culture beyon…
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
Goodbye Bland Affluence, Hello Transition Towns
The gradually lucid signs of the end of the industrial age has got peoples off all stripes thinking about what is going to come next. What can we do, if anything, to insure a future where morality, spirituality, and a real, locally-based culture beyon…
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Amish Romance Novels: No Bonnet Rippers
From Time magazine:
Put aside that titillating vampire lit. Author Beverly Lewis has come up with a new magic formula for producing best-selling romance novels: humility, plainness and no sex. Lewis’ G-rated books, set among the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have sold more than 12 million copies, as bodice rippers make room for […]
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Bee Keeping with Devananda Pandit
Devanda Pandit just got his two hives started up by the big garden. The one with the blue dot is the queen.
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
A Picture Of Rye
I have been cameraless for a while. When we went to the Richmond craft show, I tried taking some pictures but it didn’t work. That is why when we got to Bhakta Rasa’s on the way home, I couldn’t take a picture of him.
FYI, here is one he took with his cell phone that he […]
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
One Molecule Away From Plastic
From our friends at the MISCOWP Vedic VillagePass The Butter Please…This is interestingMargarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killedthe turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted apayback so…
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
From Our Friends At The Vedic Village…
Hare Krsna, Last Saturday we had about 15 enthusiastic volunteers at Vedic Village. We cleared the field of rocks and weeds, built a greenhouse and outhouse. This week we will be planting crops on the field for the first time. It is our spring crop tha…