Archive for May, 2009
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Indian American Girl Wins National Spelling Bee
Kavya Shivashankar became the 11th Indian-American to win the National Spelling Bee on Thursday night.
by Lauren Smith
“Spelling has been such a big part of my life,” says the Scripps Spelling Bee 2009 winner Kavya Shivashankar to the Associated Press.
The new champion dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon, but, at the same time, feels that nothing can […]
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
More New Vrindaban Videos From Manorama
Manorama das from New Vraja Dhama in Hungary visited New Vrindaban for the Festival of Inspiration and posted videos to his blog about his visit. We have already posted a link to the first one here, these are the links to 3 more.
New Vrindaban videó 2.
New Vrindaban videó 3.
New Vrindaban videó 4
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
Just The Veggies Please…
The key question, in our humble opinion, to ask any warm-blooded environmentalist (from Al Gore down to the Greenpeace haggler on 3rd Ave), whether or not they are a vegetarian. If not, you gotta give them the straight dope.After all, the facts are cl…
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Milk: One Cup A Day
Kirtanananda: They know that if people take up the chanting, gradually they will give up this technology.
Prabhupada: That is, of course.
Kirtanananda: You are actually putting the seeds of their destruction.
Prabhupada: Yes. No, what is destruction? It is, rather, construction. (laughter) He’ll live. He’ll live forever. This is destruction….So everyone is getting milk? How much?
Kirtanananda: As […]
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Roll The Credits!
Our good friend and all-around spiritual guide and inspiration HG Madhava Ghosh Dasa of New Vrindaban wants you to contribute to the cause of cow protection in a practical way: By off-setting your own purchases of milk from industrial farms by donating…
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Across The Universe
We just watched the movie “Across the Universe” which many saw in the theaters in 2007 but I am more of a DVD rental kind of guy (the price is better than theater tickets) so seeing movies out of step with mass culture is the norm.
The plot had no redeeming spiritual values and had a […]
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Festival of Inspiration 2009 from a Pilgrim’s Point of Veiw
Thursday, May 7, Alachua, Florida – I settled down on my narrow bunk, people around me stacked in three tiers like immigrants in a Chinese city and beginning to snore. It wasn’t a five-star hotel, but ISKCON Youth Ministry’s Krishna Culture Festival Tour bus was definitely the way to travel. Soon the hum of the […]
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Copperheads and Immature Black Snakes
“Like a great mountain, the Lord stands as the abode for all moving and nonmoving living entities. He is the friend of the snakes because Lord Ananta is His friend.”
Srimad Bhagavatam 3.8.30
Recently a snake was found and removed from the basement of the CD building (originally known as the nursery building) when some things were […]
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Darwin Is Dead!-Poor, Poor Ida
She’s being heralded as “the eighth wonder of the world” and the “common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes, and humans.” She’s Ida, and she’s got most of the scientific world up in a hoot that her remains further give credence to the theories of mac…
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
The Transfiguration
The Transfiguration by Edwin Muir So from the ground we felt that virtue branch Through all our veins till we were whole, our wrists As fresh and pure as water from a well, Our hands made new to handle holy things, The source of all our seeing rins…
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Golfers And A Pine Tree
A young man who was also an avid golfer found himself with a few hours to spare one afternoon. He figured if he hurried and played very fast, he could get in nine holes before he had to head home. Just as he was about to tee off an old gentleman shuffled onto the tee […]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Busy In The Garden
“The idea is how to think of Krsna. That’s all. That is the yoga. Even in taking prasadam, you are thinking of Krsna, “Oh, it is very nice. Krsna has tasted. It is very nice.” That is Krsna consciousness. That is yoga. Is there any yoga system in the world that you can become a […]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Why Isn’t The Brain Green
A fascinating piece from the New York Times on recent studies at Columbia University on how the human mind works in relation to the choices that need to be made to thwart the oncoming tide of climate change.Here’s an excerpt…Debates over why climate …
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
The Soul of Merton 5-24-09
Inspired by my readings of “Contemplative Prayer” and “Contemplation In A World Of Action” by Thomas MertonIn the final piece from Contemplative Prayer, Merton wraps up his fervent, sincere, and realized meditations on the power and reality of prayer b…
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Lakshmi & Janaka Mahajan Have Baby Boy
from Grandpa Balabhadra & Grandma Chaya
Thursday, May 21, Lakshmi had an emergency cesarean due to a condition called Preeclampsia.
It is hypertension caused by pregnancy and is life threatening to child and mother.
Janaka Mahajan wanted to let everyone know that she is fine and the baby boy named Balaji is a healthy and peaceful baby.
We […]