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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Darsan
ISKCON MiamiTheir Lordships Gaura NitaiHG Siddha-vidya dasaSri Sri Radha VrajabihariTheir LordshipsJagannath, Baladeva, Subhadra!!
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Celebrating
Gaura Purnima Festival - New outfits for their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Candra, Gopal, Nrishimhadeva, Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subadra
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Austere
Today’s Bhagavatam class (9.9.33) given by Nityo Dita Prabhu, focused on the discussion of destiny and austerity. He told the story about a devotee who once gave a reasonable donation to the Temple and later found out that some devotees had taken the …
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Drawn by nature
My good friend Theresa-ji came to visit on the same day of the power outage. She is such a wonderful and inspiring person. At mid afternoon, we both grabbed our beads and headed off on a japa walk around the Temple grounds. The power outage lasted un…
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Unplugged
Last week the power went out in New Vrindaban and the greater Moundville and Wheeling area due to a strong wind storm. What an interesting experience, especially since it got to be 20 degrees outside by the time night settled in. It was a taste of au…
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Real
“Real religion, dharma, means service by the infinitejiva soul to the Supreme soul, Lord Krishna.Except for this, there is no othermeaning to life”
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Climbing the bhakti mountain
Since time immemorial we’ve been stuck here, suffering in an attempt to enjoy that which is temporary and unfulfilling. It’s like walking in endless circles in a seemingly beautiful field, with no path and lots of unpleasant surprises hiding behind…
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Dependent
We just got back from visiting the ‘Prabhupada Manor’ in Cleveland and the ‘Krishna House’ in Columbus, Ohio. H.G. Malati devi gave a lecture in each Temple. The theme: JAPAHere are a few things that stood out for me:1. Chanting is like a disease, i…
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Sweeter than honey
Lord of the UniverseThe Vedas inform us that in the spiritual world there is competition for pleasing God or Krishna. Of course, this kind of competitive spirit is in a good transcendental nature, unlike the most common type of competititve consciousn…
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Rewinding
It’s been almost a month now since I came back from Puerto Rico. The weather here in the Dhama has been a little extreme. Last week it snowed every day. We didn’t have so much accumulation but still it was pretty snowee and below freezing cold. The…
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Absorbed
Krishna in the forest
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
In the mode of goodness
On December 23rd I flew to Puerto Rico. Most of my my family lives there and I grew up there until I left to come study in the US in the summer of 2001. In December last year I met two woderful people, one of whom I actually had seen before from swimmi…
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Warming Up
After two weeks in the Appalachian Mountains, with temperatures nearing 5 degrees F, we headed out to a warmer climate: Miami. It was a three-day drive with H.G. Malati Prabhu. I get that she most love to travel. She’s been driving down to Miami d…
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Riding the ’super-highway’ back to Godhead
Last Saturday, we witnessed Meghan’s initiation by H.H. Hridayananda das Goswami. Her spiritual name is Maha Lakshmi devi dasi! A most auspicious event attended by several Senior Prabhupada disciples including: Malati devi dasi, Amoghalila dasa, G…
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Meditation
Bhakti Yoga is the yoga of devotion, the science of the soul thus explained in the Vedic Scriptures. Upon seeing the lotus feet of the Lord in the deity one should meditate on His lotus feet and proceed upwards until finally contemplating His beautifu…