Archive for July, 2009
Friday, July 24th, 2009
He Has Good Handwriting
by Bhaktin Rita
Today, another bus load of school children from Wheeling’s inner city toured New Vrindaban. There were eleven children, age 8-11.
The first stop was Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold. The children loved everything! They saw the hills and forests of West Virginia from the balcony. They visited the rose garden and […]
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
“Beyond the Red River” by Thomas McGrath
The birds have flown their summer skies to the south,
And the flower-money is drying in the banks of bent grass
Which the bumble bee has abandoned. We wait for a winter lion,
Body of ice-crystals and sombrero of dead leaves.
A month ago, from the salt engines of the sea,
A machinery of early storms rolled toward the holiday […]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
I Can’t Get That Song Out Of My Head
by Bhaktin Rita
On Tuesday, a group of fifteen 12-15-year old kids from the inner city of Wheeling visited New Vrindaban. They arrived promptly at 10:30, and went straight to the temple room. In the temple, they chanted the maha-mantra only a few times – just enough so that the kids heard the Holy […]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Join Kuli Mela Association Facebook Page
With about one week to go to KulimeLA 2009, I’m requesting each of you to help us with a final push to get all our fellow Kulis info about the upcoming KulimeLA.
Our goal is to get 1,000 Gurukulis/Kulis & our friends, families & loved ones as Kuli Mela Association Facebook members by […]
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
North Dakota Historical Photos
The following pictures are pictures of pictures I took at an exhibition.
The original pioneers in North Dakota built houses out of sod. It is frozen for a long time in the winter and mostly dry in the summer so they would work. Still took a hardy sort to do it.
Family lore is when my great […]
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Grass Is For Cows
While it is well known that Tapah Punja does a garden for the temple, that is not the only vegetable garden in New Vrindaban. We are going to do a series of articles about some of the vegetable gardeners in New Vrindaban. Here is the first, by Navina-Shyam das, who visited NV this summer and […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Prabhupada Letter Jan.4, 1972
Tridandi Goswami A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
4th January, 1972
ISKCOK, 89 Warder Road, “Akash Ganga” Building, Bombay-36
My dear Hayagriva,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated December 16th , 1971 along with an enclosed copy of a letter dated December 8th. addressed to Madras. Actually, I have come from Delhi to […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Ideal Lifestyle
“Our farm projects are an extremely important part of our movement. We must become self-sufficient by growing our own grains and producing our own milk, then there will be no question of poverty.
“So develop these farm communities as far as possible. They should be developed as an ideal society depending on natural products not industry. […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Feedback From Students Visit
Back in May, New Vrindaban hosted another visit from the Global Leadership Project at Ohio University. Student groups from OU have been visiting for several years, staying overnight, and interviewing devotees, each time focusing on a different topic of study.
Several of the students even came back for the 24 hour kirtana in June. […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
Struggle and Purification
” ‘The real identity of the living being is that he is the eternal servant of Krsna.’ So if one engages himself in his original, spiritual business, acting as the servant of Krsna, then all processes of purification and reformation are fulfilled.”
CAT 10: The Process of Purification
“Life is, or should be, nothing but a struggle […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
A Suffering Mother
From Yahoo’s Assignment Earth, a startling video on the immense problem of pollution in the Yamuna River.Click here to watch the video.
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
What is it?
Regular readers the last few days may be able to identify this using information gleaned from a recent post. Clearly it is a stone, and, if one has a bit of geological background, the holes aren’t made naturally.
So a man has made the holes, what for?
I was having a conversation with Tapah Punjah and inviting […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
The Nectar Chronicles: Part 3
Inspired by the “Nectar of Devotion” lecture series given by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada from October 20-November 13, 1972 at the Radha-Damodara Temple in Vrndavana, IndiaAll of these lectures are available for download at ISKCON Desire Tree.Lect…
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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
A Texan In North Dakota
A Texan was driving through North Dakota and stopped to talk to a farmer.
“How big is your farm?,” he asked.
“500 acres” was the answer.
“My garden is that big.” the Texan said, “When I get in my car and start driving in the morning it takes me all day to get to the end of my […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
Party Chez Nous Wednesday July 22nd
We are having a gathering at our house on Wednesday, July 22nd.
Parking available in the hay field behind the firewood pile, try to keep off the roads when parking.
This will also be the place where the weekly community meeting (formerly known as “Istaghosti”) will be held with a brief meeting at 6 PM then on […]