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• Email to a friend • Related •  •H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Wednesday 17 February 2010--Wake Up, Sleeping Soul!--and--Chanting Breaks through Silence into ..."Wake up sleeping soul!" This is the plea of Lord Caitanya. This human form of life which you have achieved with great difficulty over millions of lifetimes of evolution through the lower your species is currently slipping through your fingers soon to be lost unless you seriously utilize it starting right now to awaken your eternal enlightened blissful... • Email to a friend • Related • •Japa Group: Please Join the Japa Group
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 • Email to a friend • Related • •H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Monday, February 15th, 2010Gurus to Consider For the last few days I have been conducting drama practices in the Samadhi Auditorium of the Mayapur Complex. After handing over scripts to those doing voices for the miming actors, I get approached by some of them, "Maharaja, could I use 'such and such' a word instead of what's in the script?" Momentarily I may experience a mental halt. The mind may say, "How dare you challenge my chosen words." As author of the script I could feel slighted by such a question. How I resolve this momentary objection is to eat some humble pie and to accept that it is all a work in progress. My business is to serve and if I ask someone to become a character and they do their job of immersing themselves, they must be gaining some realizations from the part they are speaking for. Perhaps I'm too subjective and may not always see things from the objective standpoint. When those suggestions of minor change come I am usually pushed to the truth and that's what you want to extract from the story. I may be the director of the play but behind our direction are many gurus. Mind you, anyone who does approach me for a request of change does so in a most genuine respectful way. So the pride is swallowed with some ease.
 • Email to a friend • Related • •H.H. Bhaktimarg Swami: Sunday, February 14th, 2010A Bull Must Find Clumsily he walked over to what he thought was the source. It was the food he was after. He was staggering from his mother's front end to back end and back. Still in wonder! A group of monks and I took our usual rural walk. We had stopped by Laksmi Priya, the elephant, who was wielding her trunk about. And now it was this fellow, a one-day old bull calf. The mother was proud of her new-born. Of course, he was beautiful. A Bengali brahmacari tried to come to his aid, steering him towards the udder of his mother but still no hope. One nipple was full of milk content waiting for action. Surprisingly the young bull resisted the guidance. We were scheduled to move on hoping that by a matter of minutes he would have it figured out. That was eventful. Next on the mornings' agenda was a flag-raising ceremony. Hoisted above a deity of Garuda, the man-eagle, was a long tapered red cloth that flapped in the air and marked the Gaura Purnima Festival, the golden moon Avatar festival. This year claims the five hundredth anniversary of the monastic ordaining of Chaitanya, the father of mantra chanting. It is also the anniversary of the ordaining of our guru as a monk which occurred 58 years ago. And to add to the list the festival itself which attracts pilgrims from all over the world. Unique also was the ground-breaking of what will become the largest domed temple in south-east Asia. Ambarish, also known as Alfred Ford, who told me he'll turn 60 in 2 weeks, presided over the event. This great grandson of Henry Ford was indeed happy to have begun the project. As he put it, "We're not getting any younger. The project must get underway." As the day came to a closure, I thought again about the starving calf. I do hope he succeeds in finding the source.
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• Email to a friend • Related • •Sita-pati dasa, AU: Kirtan with Jai Uttal this weekend
Thank you for purchasing your online tickets to Jai Uttal Live in Byron Bay. Some of you may have already attended the events last week, others are about to join us this coming weekend at Durrumbul Hall. The feedback we have had has been incredible. Each event was truly inspiring and uplifting. This coming weekend we celebrate again together at Durrumbul Hall the finale of Jai's visit to the shire. Those of you who would like to come back for more , we welcome you again and invite you to attend another event We have added a Single Day Pass for entry to any day of the weekend workshop if you can not make all 3 Days. Workshop times:
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All information and Tickets available online http://www.oneentertainment.com.au or through Santos (Mullumbimby) or Fairy Floss (Byron Bay). Food will be available by 'Open Table' Please forward the word to people you love, as this will be a very special gathering Vraja and I will be playing with Jai for the weekend workshop and concert. • Email to a friend • Related • •Dandavats.com: Live from Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir! HH Bhakti Charu SwamiBy Bhakti Charu Swami I will briefly speak on Tamal Krishna Maharaj and then I will try to discuss the glorious lives of two acaryas in our sampradaya Srila Jagannath Das Maharaj and Srila Rasikananda Prabhu. • Email to a friend • Related • •HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 349I have seen Prabhupada break down and become unable to speak during a lecture. His voice raised very high and cracked during a lecture in Los Angeles when he was thanking the devotees for helping him serve his Guru Maharaja. In Atlanta, after visiting two Gaura-Nitai temples in Caraccas and Miami, he very much appreciated the Gaura-Nitai worship in Atlanta. He told the devotees that worship of Krishna was complete just by worshipping merciful Gaura-Nitai and then his voice cracked and he was unable to continue speaking. He also became silent in the middle of a lecture in Mayapura and everyone was quiet until Hamsadhuta Maharaja began chanting the Hare Krishna mantra and that broke up the mood and the lecture. In Los Angeles he was speaking how pure devotees serve Krishna without any reward. He said "Just like the gopis…" and then he fell silent for a long time absorbed in ecstasy. When a devotee asked Prabhupada if they had done the right thing in Mayapura to interrupt his long silence he innocently said, "I don't do that very often." • Email to a friend • Related • •Gauranga Kishore das,USA: Mortimer Adler - Superstitious Religion and True Religion
Here and there I've come accrI had come across some cool quotes from Mortimer Adler, he was a popular philosopher for much of the 20th century and wrote on a broad range of topics, and a lot about religion and atheism, and the relationship between religion, philosophy, and science. Here is an interesting quote that I think is very accurate and explains alot about people like Richard Dawkins who denouce religion on the basis of scientific evidence. The obvious response is that they clearly don't really understand the basic idea religion. I suggest that the men and women who have given up religion because of the impact on their minds of modern science and philosophy were never truly religious in the first place, but only superstitious. The prevalence and predominance of science in our culture has cured a great many of the superstitious beliefs that constituted their false religiosity. The increase of secularism and irreligion in our society does not reflect a decrease in the number of persons who are truly religious, but a decrease in the number of those who are falsely religious; that is, merely superstitious. There is no question but that science is the cure for superstition, and, if given half the chance with education, it will reduce the amount that exists. The truths of religion must be compatible with the truths of science and the truths of philosophy. As scientific knowledge advances, and as philosophical analysis improves, religion is progressively purified of the superstitions that accidentally attach themselves to it as parasites. That being so, it is easier in fact to be more truly religious today than ever before, precisely because of the advances that have been made in science and philosophy. That is to say, it is easier for those who will make the effort to think clearly in and about religion, not for those whose addiction to religion is nothing more than a slavish adherence to inherited superstition. Throughout the whole of the past, only a small number of men were ever truly religious. The vast majority who gave their epochs and their societies the appearance of being religious were primarily and essentially superstitious. I'm not sure if I agree with everything above but I like the basic point he is making. If you think that science has somehow made religious belief obsolete it means they really don't understand what religion is. Science can disprove certain superstitions about the physical world but it doesn't have anything to say about metaphysics, by definition. If your interested you can check out more essays by Mortimer Adler here.  • Email to a friend • Related • •Kripamoya dasa, UK: Hindu open-air cremations to go ahead in Britain
Open air cremation of the English poet Shelley (Painting by Louis Edouard Fournier 1889) I am happy to learn that after many years of repeated refusals, permission has finally been given for open-air cremations here in Britain. It means that Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists and Vaishnavas will be able to conduct funerals as per their religious requirements: outdoors and under the sky. It also means that we stand a chance in this country to look at death, rather than hiding it away – or hiding away from it. And if we do that we might begin the discussion, once again, on what comes after life. Open air cremations, where the remains of the deceased are consumed by flames from a wooden pyre, are not actually as foreign to these islands as we might think. Stonehenge certainly holds urns of cremated human remains; the Vikings were partial to setting fire to an entire ship at some funerals; the poet Shelley left orders that he was to be cremated in the open on the shore of a lake; and in 1915 no less than 53 such open cremations took place in Sussex, England. They were all Indian soldiers who had returned wounded from the European war, and died in Brighton. So the new legislation is welcome, and will be a great relief for those of us who have had to be heavily compromised whenever we perform funerals. You can read more about it here.       • Email to a friend • Related • •Japa Group: You Have To Chant With Quality
Bhaktivinoda Thakura says if you chant and just go through the motions you're not really chanting the holy names. You have to chant with quality. So there is a difference, that I have to admit. And I know I'm not at the apex. But I chant as the ultimate habit of my life with complete obedience to the sixteen-round quota and with adherence to Prabhupada's blessing on me and my vow to him. Just go on chanting through the rest of your days and try the best you can. From Bhajan Kutir #347  • Email to a friend • Related • •Ananda Subramanian, Iowa, USA: Single Qualification to See Krishna Face to FaceHis (The Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna) existence can be realized by one who has the single qualification of submissiveness and who thereby becomes a surrendered soul. The development of submissiveness is the cause of proportionate spiritual realization, by which one can ultimately meet the Supreme Lord in person, as a man meets another man face to face.
 • Email to a friend • Related • •Ananda Subramanian, Iowa, USA: The Goal of LifeA surrendered soul feels the presence of his beloved everywhere, and all his senses are engaged in the loving service of the Lord. His eyes are engaged in seeing the beautiful couple Śrī Rādhā and Krishna sitting on a decorated throne beneath a desire tree in the transcendental land of Vrindavana. His nose is engaged in smelling the spiritual aroma of the lotus feet of the Lord. Similarly, his ears are engaged in hearing messages from Vaikuntha, and his hands embrace the lotus feet of the Lord and His associates. Thus the Lord is manifested to a pure devotee from within and without. This is one of the mysteries of the devotional relationship in which a devotee and the Lord are bound by a tie of spontaneous love. To achieve this love should be the goal of life for every living being.  • Email to a friend • Related • •Friends of the BBT: Meet the New Editor• Email to a friend • Related • •Friends of the BBT: Vanipedia—A Name You Won't Soon Forget• Email to a friend • Related • •Friends of the BBT: Amplifiers, Adrenaline and an Arsenal of Bhagavad-gitas: The Warped Tour Book Distribution Team• Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1966 February 16: "America is very much expensive. I have to spend about Rs 1000 per month and my Visa period will be finished by the end of March. It is my experience that your Holiness is very prompt in replying letters but I am very much anxious because I have not received your favorable reply."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1968 February 16: "We cannot do anything directly. We offer first to the bona fide Spiritual Master. The Spiritual Master accepts the offering on behalf of the disciple, and offers the same to Krishna. After Krishna's eating, the Spiritual Master eats, and then the devotees takes as Mahaprasada. This is the system."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1970 February 16: "My Dear George, I know both you and John are very good souls. You are both pledged to do something for the peace of the world. To some extent you have already realized the necessity and importance of the Hare Krsna movement in the world. If John does also, it will be a great event."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1971 February 16: "They do not come in the parampara as such their line of thought is null and void. Our movement is revolutionary to such so called religious principles, gurus and swamis. So stick to our principles and preach Lord Caitanya's message."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1971 February 16: "This door-to-door Sankirtana is the mission of Lord Caitanya. Even there is language barrier, this door-to-door Sankirtana will fulfill your mission and you can introduce our literatures to the higher circles as you have done by presenting Krsna Book to the Prime Minister."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 February 16: "Every day I am receiving not less than ten to fifteen important letters. If the local GBC representative cannot answer from their experience, then I have given answer in my books - and still if they cannot answer, they may ask me."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1972 February 16: "Always stick tight to the point of our philosophy. We should not compromise in any way just to accommodate the public idea, but we can so tastefully present the real thing that we will change the public to accommodate us."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1973 February 16: "Within these standards lies the spiritual strength of our movement. If there is any deviation from the high standard of purity which has been established then it is the responsibility of my senior disciples and the local GBC representativse to rectify immediately."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Mayapur Online: Temple of Vedic Planetarium – Inauguration
'We are going to have a very big project at Mayapur.We have to acquire 350 acres fo land from the government and construct a spiritual town at ht eexpense of Rs.200 crores. The plans and contemplations are going on in different phases, now when Caitanya Mahaprabhu is pleased, it will be taken up'. ( Prabhupada-New Delhi 26/8/1976) Historic event of inauguration of ToVP took place on 14th February. In the presence of GBC's and senior disciples of Srila Prabhupada, • Email to a friend • Related • •Bharatavarsa.net: Book distribution seminar: A Set for SomeoneArvind Prabhu, a devotee in the Brahamchari Trainee group of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty was one of the leading book distributors in the recently concluded book marathon. He recalls an interesting experience about distributing a Srimad Bhagvatam set: I met a Gujarati man travelling with his 18 year old son. I offered them a book and the son took one English Bhagavad-gita. I offered the elderly man Srimad Bhagvatam. "No, thanks," he said. I took his number and decided to follow-up. For three days, he kept on saying no. Then I said, "I will come to your house and show you the set." I went to his house. The wife and son were out. I gave a lecture for half and hour, after which he seemed convinced. Just when I thought that he was going to take the set, he dropped a bombshell. "I will ask my wife." "Oh, no!" I thought. "It took me half an hour to convince this man by showing him the whole set. What will the wife say, when she doesn't know anything about glories of Srimad Bhagvatam?" I knew the answer. Yet while he was making the phone call, I prayed intensely to the Lord. He returned, and even before he opened his mouth, I knew the verdict of the wife,"No." But I was not going to give up so easily. Again, I preached to him for half and hour and then I asked. "How long have you been married?" "20 years." "Did you, in these 20 years, ever do anything which your wife had asked you not to do?" "Yes, off course." "How many times?' "Many times." "Please do it one more time. This is your decision. I am sure you will be able to convince her." He took the set. thanks your servant murari gupta das • Email to a friend • Related • •Book Distribution News: A Set for SomeoneArvind Prabhu, a devotee in the Brahamchari Trainee group of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir, Chowpatty was one of the leading book distributors in the recently concluded book marathon. He recalls an interesting experience about distributing a Srimad Bhagvatam set: I met a Gujarati man travelling with his 18 year old son. I offered them a book and the son took one English Bhagavad-gita. I offered the elderly man Srimad Bhagvatam. "No, thanks," he said. I took his number and decided to follow-up. For three days, he kept on saying no. Then I said, "I will come to your house and show you the set." I went to his house. The wife and son were out. I gave a lecture for half and hour, after which he seemed convinced. Just when I thought that he was going to take the set, he dropped a bombshell. "I will ask my wife." "Oh, no!" I thought. "It took me half an hour to convince this man by showing him the whole set. What will the wife say, when she doesn't know anything about glories of Srimad Bhagvatam?" I knew the answer. Yet while he was making the phone call, I prayed intensely to the Lord. He returned, and even before he opened his mouth, I knew the verdict of the wife,"No." But I was not going to give up so easily. Again, I preached to him for half and hour and then I asked. "How long have you been married?" "20 years." "Did you, in these 20 years, ever do anything which your wife had asked you not to do?" "Yes, off course." "How many times?' "Many times." "Please do it one more time. This is your decision. I am sure you will be able to convince her." He took the set. thanks your servant murari gupta das • Email to a friend • Related • •Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: The Climate Killers
Meet the 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warmingClick here to read the full article at Rolling Stone. • Email to a friend • Related • •Dandavats.com: GBC Meeting Report #4By Sraddhadevi dasi At present, ISKCON not only has an international Governing Body Commission (GBC) which is responsible for the overall management of ISKCON, but in some regions there are additional lower level governing bodies such as Regional Governing Bodies (RGBs), National Councils, and Continental Committees. What was at question is how these bodies, which hold regular meetings and pass resolutions, interact with and report to the overall managerial authority, the GBC. • Email to a friend • Related • •Gouranga TV: Nava Vraja Mandala Parikama 2009. – Lecke Vishvama Ghatról 2/2Nava Vraja Mandala Parikama 2009. – Lecke Vishvama Ghatról 2/2 • Email to a friend • Related • •Manoj, Melbourne, AU: 191. Meat-free diets not good? 2 days ago, I saw the below article in all leading newspapers in India : Meat-free diets not good for planet: Scientists Giving up meat may not be as green as it seems, claims a new research that could put a dent in the green credentials of vegetarians and environmental activists. The Cranfield University study found that switching from beef and lamb to meat substitutes such as tofu and Quorn in Britain would increase the amount of land cultivated, raising the risk of forests being destroyed. Production methods for meat substitutes can be energy intensive and the final products tend to be highly processed, found the research, commissioned by the environmental group WWF, the Daily Mail reported. According to the researchers, “A switch from beef and milk to highly refined livestock product analogues such as tofu could actually increase the quantity of arable land needed to supply the UK.” Donal Murphy-Bokern, one of the report's authors and a former co-ordinator at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “For some people, tofu and other meat substitutes symbolise environmental friendliness but they are not necessarily the badge of merit that people claim.” But Liz O'Neill, of the Vegetarian Society, said: “If you're aiming to reduce your environmental impact by going vegetarian then it's obviously not a great idea to rely on highly-processed products.” And what did I feel after reading this article? I felt like saying to them, “Prove it ! Give us a chance to run the earth on vegetarian diet completely and let’s see if there are any environmental damages. You have all the data in the world to show that Non-Veg diet has caused environmental issues. Now, instead of speculating that veg diet may not be a friendly solution, why don’t you do an experiment and come to a conclusion? Stop the animal killing fully and plant more trees, plants and crops. Conduct the experient for 25 years. Let’s scientifically analyze the results.” They won’t…would they?       • Email to a friend • Related • •More Recent Articles
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