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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Simple Living, High Thinking #1
For the week of May 25th-June 1st, 2008Indra finally let us have a little peace this week, as the rains let up and we were able to go full tilt into cultivation and tender caring of our Teaching Garden (the educational agricultural arm of our Small Far…
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The Meat-Guzzler
HG Gauranga Kishore Prabhu, preacher extraordinare, is taking Krsna, progressive outreach style, to the hearts and minds of the students of Stanford University, and you can check out the website for Conscious SF (http://conscioussf.com/) for all the la…
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Electromagnetic!
We take it for granted that we take it for granted that cell phones and Wi-Fi are an inextricable part of our 21st Century daily lives. Who remembers a world without them? Heck, I don’t even remember a world where gas was under $2.In the rush for mad …
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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…