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Friday, May 16th, 2008
The Most Censored Stories of 2008.
Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demons become envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in their own bodies and in the bodies of others, and blaspheme against the real religion. Bhavagad-Gita 16:18Eve…
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The Solar Garden of Eden
Two of New Vrindaban Dham’s dearest devotees, HG Vyasasan Prabhu and HG Loka-Drsti Prabhu, have started up a wonderful home decor and garden business based entirely around solar power. Their website is real snazzy and their environmentally enlightened…
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Local Defines What Is Local: A 2008 Festival of Inspiration Workshop
HG Tapahpunja Prabhu wants to let you know where we can pick up where Gandhi left off, using our rural communities as outreach powerhouses. You can find out at the upcoming 2008 Festival of Inspiration (May 9-10-11, live at New Vrindaban Dham in West…
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Aho! Mitakuye Oyasin
A few moon-lit nights back, by the mercy of HG Madhava Ghosh Prabhu and HG Soma Prabhu, I was able to participate in my first sacred sweat lodge ceremony. I’ll leave you with the impressions…a straight narrative isn’t going to cut it. It isn’t going…
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Happy Earth Day!
Let us remember on this day that Mother Earth is like us too. She is a devotee of Krsna, and she is most pleased when we offer her bounties to Krsna.Developing our farm communities further and further, practically and intelligently, must be a leading …
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Cause roses really smell like….
There’s a lot of good old-fashioned hullabaloo about on the now-ever-more mainstream topics of climate change and environmental responsibility.Movie screen and big big politicos will try to convince you that the tides are rising and the end is nigh, wh…
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
For Bhakta-Joe…
This one is for my dearest transcendental chum and fellow graduate of the Ann Arbor Asrama, HG Bhakta-Joe Swift aka Swift aka Joe-Dasa, this blog’s biggest fan, who by his own account checks this lowly website no less than three times daily. His absorp…
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Detroit Rock City (Part 2)
We continue the Motown tradition, Prabhupada-style, as the fired up devotees of Detroit bum-rush the annual Hash Bash in Ann Arbor with some souped-up harinama! HG Gopal Prabhu…ready …
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Detroit Rock City (Part 1)
Just another week in the Motor City…Gaur-Nitai continues Their causeless ecstatic descent into the various living rooms of the congregation, HH Indradyumna Swami arrives bearing blessings and new editions of his Traveling Preacher series, and then th…
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
The Meeting..
This has been a long time coming. It’s absolutely necessary…It’s more than just about your health, your wallet, your computer…(Deep breath) My Lower Self, I would like you to shake hands and finally, formally, meet Your Higher Self.Lower Self, you…
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
The Small Farm Training Center
The Small Farm Training Center is a land-based educational center and hands-on working organic farm, located in the beautiful rolling foothills of New Vrindaban Dham in West Virginia. What’s it all about?It’s about a quiet revolution that is stirring …
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
And the cow goes poo…
The Vintage Dairy Biogas Project is a progressive energy outlet, based on the methane gas provided from the dung of our mother cow, that has recently sprung up in Riverdale, California, providing clean, renewable energy to over 1200 homes a day.Click t…
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
“The Logic Show”
My dearest friend and confidante HG Sri-Kishore Prabhu (Satish More), currently working for his Masters degree in Film at Ohio University, was recently interviewed on Vocal Profiling Live, a local Ohio radio program. In the interview, Sri-Kishore reve…
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Eternal Identity As Divine Entities
On one of the most sacred of days in our Vaisnava calendar, I’d like to throw up a late-evening tribute to one personality who inspires me greatly and constantly every day, HH Bhakti-Tirtha Swami Maharaja, born fifty-eight years ago this day.From his b…
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Bhakta’s first khichari
For my new program with my dearest friend Shawn, live up on Roberts’ Ridge in Moundsville, WV, I decided to take a great plunge this past Wednesday night and make my first attempt at cooking khichari.
Being a cook is like being a good ol-fashioned, wizard-type magician. You combine certain material elements into a pot, and you use your skill, intelligence, heart, and chutzpah to create a result that spiritually alters the consciousness of those who taste the result.
I knew I was on the right track when the combination of vegetable oil, spices, and chilles frying up (or the chaunce as we call it in Hare Krsna World) emitted the same kind of lung-clearing fumes that I always relish in our temple kitchen.
The main battle came in boiling up the whole shebang. The pot was too big. The burner too small. The burner wasn’t even on for ten minutes before I noticed. But….boiling did happen.
The final result was exotically spiced with a nice intensity, but slightly undercooked. Still, it was tasty and edible and not grounds for food poisoning, and from the raging kirtans and spiritual discussions that followed the “poor man’s feast fit for a king”, it appears Krsna accepted this offering of love and devotion, and indeed, it became prasadam.
Best of all (or worst), our dear Russian cook Gaura Karuna decided to heat up the leftovers today for the devotees here in New Vrindaban as part of the lunch feast. I didn’t tell anyone I had cooked the funky mixture, but so far no complaints and no trips to the hospital. Til next time…beware! I will cook again!