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Kurma dasa, AU: Blog Re-run: Tofu and er...er...Dementia
I guess if we changed our diet every time a new scientific report came out, we'd go mad, or at least become a little demented. Here's some news from the BBC. It's not 'new news', but hey, this is a Blog Re-run. Tofu 'may raise risk of dementia' "Tofu is a widely eaten soy product. Eating high levels of some soy products - including tofu - may raise the risk of memory loss, research suggests. The study focused on 719 elderly Indonesians living in urban and rural regions of Java. The researchers found high tofu consumption - at least once a day - was associated with worse memory, particularly among the over-68s. The Loughborough University-led study features in the journal Dementias and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders." • Email to a friend • Related •  •H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Wed 24 Feb 10--If You Stick to the Path, Everything Will Work Out Perfectly / Difference ...Although a fully dedicated transcendentalist may sometimes face apparent setbacks, everything works out perfectly in the end. So if we are truly interested in attaining the supreme perfection, we need to patiently stick to our prescribed duties, remaining unflinchingly on the path given to us by guru and Krishna no matter what happens. In this way,... • Email to a friend • Related • •ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Flashback Photo: Vintage DarshanWith Gaura Purnima around the corner, this edition of ISKCON Toronto Flashback Photos is themed to get you into the festive mood! Gaura Purnima celebrates the appearance of Lord Caitanya, who is none other than Lord Krishna Himself. As such, this presents the perfect opportunity to share this vintage picture of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai and share their wonderful story. Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda came to reside in New Remuna Dham in 1973, click here for the story of Their arrival.
 • Email to a friend • Related • •ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Sunday Feast Photos - February 21, 2010Here's a look at this week's Sunday Feast through the eyes of a camera lens! Photos courtesy Dan Osadtsuk.  Dhira Grahi ready for another 8:00 arati -4.jpg) Lost in the sounds of the instruments and chanting!  A youthful mrdanga player drowned deep in the ocean of kirtan!  The beautiful sounds of the kirtan emit from the harmonium.  Devotees praying infront of Srila Prabhupada before they exit the temple.  • Email to a friend • Related • •ISKCON News.com: Debate Over GM Eggplant Consumes India
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• Email to a friend • Related • •ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Initiation Lecture - Devamrita Swami• Email to a friend • Related • •HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 3563:58 A.MI slept like a log all night and didn't wake until Baladeva came to get me at 3:15. I reprimanded him for coming up so late. He admitted he was dysfunctional. I tried to control myself from not getting anxious at starting my rounds so late. I calmed down and started chanting regularly although I know it will be a late day. I chanted smoothly in my mind and drank my tea intermittingly. The chanting is the most soothing thing in the world. It calms your brain and senses, but it does much more than that. It gives you aspiration to reach to Krishna, the supreme almighty. My chanting this morning was just average, but at least it was wide awake and at a rapid pace. I pray to all my fellow chanters in the world to please give me their blessings and let me chant along with them in this worldwide harinama-yajna. We are chanting on behalf of world peace, chanting under Prabhupada's orders and with full faith in his words and the sastra'sharinama to shower His benediction upon me, a lowly sinner. words that the chanting is the only means for God realization in this age. And without God realization all is chaos and corruption. We don't chant with ordinary logic but with faith in the words of Lord Caitanya and the proof of His own chanting when He was present, how He converted all the non-believers into Vaisnavas. We can do it too if we start with ourselves. It's not such a big thing to start a little late today, but it is a handicap, and I have to make it up. At least my head is clear and I'm not panicking. I pray to You chant with faith.
Prabhupada Smaranam
Prabhupada loved to walk at Juhu Beach in the early morning when he was staying in Bombay. In the first photo the man in the forefront is Dr. Patel. Prabhupada is smiling to him, but they usually argued. Dr. Patel was a mayavadi, but he was attracted to Prabhupada and considered him his "brother". Sometimes the arguments would be stormy, and Prabhupada's disciples did not welcome the walks with Dr. Patel whom they found disrespectful to Prabhupada. Dr. Patel favored all the mayavadi gurus and swamis of India and Prabhupada once remarked that they were "chors" or thieves (just as Krishna is makanchor or the butter thief). Prabhupada said his job was like the policeman and he had to arrest the thieves. Dr. Patel and his friends became so angry at this remark that they said they would not join Prabhupada anymore for his walk. To the relief of Prabhupada's disciples, Dr. Patel actually stopped joining Prabhupada for a while. To avoid his rejoining us and making offensive remarks, Prabhupada had one of his disciples read out loud from the Krishna book on the walk. After some weeks Dr. Patel joined Prabhupada again and the arguments resumed. I am shown in these photos as they were taken in 1974 when I was Prabhupada's servant. I was of course much younger (thirty-four years old) and maybe thirty pounds less than I am now. In Bombay I had begun to feel restless as Prabhupada's servant and wanted to have a preaching party of my own. But despite Dr. Patel, the one thing I loved about Bombay were the morning walks on the beach. We would start before the sun was up and would end with the sun blazing. Prabhupada talked no management but pure philosophy for an hour. It was a relief, and I put my troubles aside and just basked in his philosophical discourse. But I must admit Dr. Patel was a pest. Krishna and PrabhupadaKrishna is the emperor of He is my protector I am a Krishna follower by Krishna and Prabhupada This is the power of the My spiritual master told me one Sanatana was pleased with the Sanatana was mortified and said, That is the beauty of the relationship My spiritual master has told Free write
One picture shows a girl sitting at the edge of a footbridge looking back, away from the camera. She has long dirty blond hair. In the distance walking away from her is a man. She appears to be looking at him, over the distance. It is a stark picture, like something from a scary movie. There are no warm, loving elements. Is she frightened? Did the man do something to her? The other photo, in bright cozy colors shows a cowherd boy from the holy dhama. He is holding a bead bag in his right hand and a cow-herding stick in his left hand. He wears red, Vaisnava tilaka, beautiful garments, and the scenery (river, peacock, tree) is restful. The one picture is unnerving and the other is reassuring, reminding us of Krishna and His friends. There are two worlds, the material world which is filled with threat and the spiritual world which is filled with sac-cid-ananda residents. The material world is not completely false because it comes from Krishna, who is real. But the material world is temporary—and miserable. One world is sac-cid-ananda-vigraha and the other is asat, acit and nirananda.
The girl and the man on the bridge are actually pure spirit souls, but they are covered with material bodies under the modes of material nature. This places them in precarious positions. They are influenced by passion and ignorance and driven to perform acts that result in their unhappiness. We can just imagine that hurtful or insane acts have been derived from the scenario of the man and woman on the footbridge. But the picture of the cowherd boy is completely unhidden. He is blissful and innocent and chanting the holy names in charming surroundings. His face is calm and composed and mildly smiling. His eyes are wide and beautiful. He is a blessed being, and the scene is blessed. All spirit souls have the opportunity to escape scary scenarios like the one on the bridge and live in the spiritual world where life is eternal, blissful, and full of knowledge. The secret is in the chanting of the holy names. • Email to a friend • Related • •Doyal Gauranga dasa & Gadadhar Pandit dasa, NYC: BWOGWe made it into BWOG! Check it out below...  • Email to a friend • Related • •Doyal Gauranga dasa & Gadadhar Pandit dasa, NYC: Ant modeLast Monday we began a new series of discussion for our Reflections called "Driving Lessons on the Road to Relationships." We looked at a short clip from the movie Waking Life, which you can check out below, and explored the need to interact with the different people in our life appropriately. We also discussed the need to be genuine with our own selves in order to facilitate meaning in our relationships with others.  • Email to a friend • Related • •Doyal Gauranga dasa & Gadadhar Pandit dasa, NYC: The restless mind"One must deliver himself with the help of his mind, and not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well. For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy." - Bhagavad Gita  • Email to a friend • Related • •Doyal Gauranga dasa & Gadadhar Pandit dasa, NYC: Effortless Eggless Spring RollsEffortless Eggless Spring Rolls 3. To prepare the rolls: Unwrap the pastry and peel off two sheets, lining them up perfectly against each other. Place two tablespoons of  • Email to a friend • Related • •Friends of the BBT: "Encourage the Heck Out of People" The Greater Toronto Area Sankirtana Team• Email to a friend • Related • •Friends of the BBT: New BBT Releases: Prabhupada, Darwin, and the Vedas• Email to a friend • Related • •Friends of the BBT: Gaurachandra Dasa: Finding Vaikuntha in Toronto...Door-to-Door• Email to a friend • Related • •Dandavats.com: Live from Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir! HH Danavir Swami
Whatever we see in Bhagavatam is to be taken authoritative - the topmost of all authorities, scriptures. There are many Puranas and there are many Upanisads, different branches of Vedic literature but out of all of them amala puranam, Srimad Bhagavatam is to be considered the top authority • Email to a friend • Related • •Live from Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir! HH Danavir Swami730 Views / EMail This Post / Print This Post / Home » Live from Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir! HH Danavir Swami
__________ TRANSLATION: Sri Maitreya said: Thus Devahuti, the mother of Lord Kapila and wife of Kardama Muni, became freed from all ignorance concerning devotional service and transcendental knowledge. She offered her obeisances unto the Lord, the author of the basic principles of the Sankhya system of philosophy, which is the background of liberation, and she satisfied Him with the following verses of prayer. PURPORT: The system of philosophy enunciated by Lord Kapila before His mother is the background for situation on the spiritual platform. The specific significance of this system of philosophy is stated herein as siddhi-bhumim — it is the background of salvation. People who are suffering in this devahutir uvaca athapy ajo ‘ntah-salile sayanam bhutendriyarthatma-mayam vapus te guna-pravaham sad-asesa-bijam dadhyau svayam yaj-jatharabja-jatah TRANSLATION: Devahuti said: Brahma is said to be unborn because he takes birth from the lotus flower, which grows from Your abdomen while You lie in the ocean at the bottom of the universe. But even Brahma simply meditated upon You, whose body is the source of unlimited universes. PURPORT: Brahma is also named Aja, “he who is unborn.” Whenever we think of someone’s birth, there must be a material father and mother, for thus one is born. But Brahma, being the first living creature within this universe, was born directly from the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is known as Garbhodakasayi Visnu, the Visnu form lying down in the ocean at the bottom of the universe. Devahuti wanted to impress upon the Lord that when Brahma wants to see Him, he has to meditate upon Him. “You are the seed of all creation,” she said. “Although Brahma was directly born from You, he still has to perform many years of meditation, and even then he cannot see You directly, face to face. Your body is lying within the vast water at the bottom of the universe, and thus You are known as Garbhodakasayi Visnu.” The nature of the Lord’s gigantic body is also explained in this verse. That body is transcendental untouched by matter. Since the material manifestation has come from His body, His body therefore existed before the material creation. The conclusion is that the transcendental body of Visnu is not made of material elements. The body of Visnu is the source of all other living entities, as well as the material nature, which is also supposed to be the energy of that Supreme Personality of Godhead. Devahuti said, “You are the background of the material manifestation and all created energy; therefore Your delivering me from the clutches of maya by explaining the system of Sankhya philosophy is not so astonishing. But Your being born from my abdomen is certainly wonderful because although You are the source of all creation, You have so kindly taken birth as my child. That is most wonderful. Your body is the source of all the universe, and still You put Your body within the abdomen of a common woman like me. To me, that is most astonishing.” [End of Srila Prabhupada’s purport.] HH Danavir Swami: So that is evidently paraphrasing by Srila Prabhupada and the acaryas of what Devahuti is saying to her beloved son. He is an incarnation of the Lord so it is not improper for Him to be address as Garbhodakasayi Visnu. It might be considered out of rasa but after all she is the mother and she is astounded adbhuta. That is astonishing. It is astonishing that although You are the same Lord who is the source of the universe, who is the source of all the living entities, the source of Brahama, Brahma who took birth from Your abdomen, from the lotus coming from Your Abdomen. Now You have put Yourself in the womb of a common woman like me. This is astonishing. She is making that connection. Whatever we see in Bhagavatam is to be taken authoritative - the topmost of all authorities, scriptures. There are many Puranas and there are many Upanisads, different branches of Vedic literature but out of all of them amala puranam, Srimad Bhagavatam is to be considered the top authority and even if there might appear to be some contradictions between different scriptures the Bhagavatam’s version is to be taken as the most authoritative. So it says that she knows everything about the Lord already but it appears that by hearing the Sankhya philosophy as given by Lord Kapiladev, that is knowledge, which is imbued with bhakti, with devotional service. There maybe jnana. One may study, vedesu durlabham adurlabham atma-bhaktau. [Bs 5.33] One may study the Vedas for many lifetimes but unless there is bhakti then they will not get liberation. They will not get out of this material world. At least they will not attain the perfect stage of going back to home, back to Godhead. Sankhya then as presented by Lord Kapila includes the proper understanding of bhakti yoga. In Bhagavad-gita There is another sankhya philosophy presented by an imposter, another Kapila - the atheist Kapila which only deals with the twenty-four material elements and doesn’t deal with the soul and the Supreme Soul. Therefore it is very much liked by the modern scientists. They appreciate that because their philosophy is pretty much the same. They have their elements chart - hundred elements out of so many and they break down material energy into those. And they say that there is nothing beyond this. It is a principle of materialistic science that they cannot accept anything supernatural, nothing that cannot be perceived by the senses. Of course that eliminates the soul and the Supreme soul because they are not perceivable by the material elements or by the material senses. atah sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah [Cc. Madhya 17.136] Therefore they cannot understand the Absolute Truth through the material senses or by mixing the material elements. They are always mixing trying to see if they can come up with something wonderful. They split the atom and they come up with explosions but they can’t actually come up with anything that will make life or make their lives last forever. They try to solve the problem of death by material means, by different types of medicines but still it doesn’t work. The real process to get free from death is given by Lord Kapiladev because when one practices Why do we need to study the material elements? How is that going to help us? Because we bhumir apo ‘nalo vayuh kham mano buddhir eva ca ahankara itiyam me bhinna prakrtir astadha [Bg 7.4] These eight material elements comprise the Lord’s separated, external material energy. And then, apareyam itas tv anyam prakrtim viddhi me param jiva-bhutam maha-baho yayedam dharyate jagat [Bg 7.5] Besides these eight material elements there is another element, which is superior. Apara is the inferior material energy and then paraprakrti is the superior energy that is the living entity. The living entities can never be created and they can never be destroyed. This superior energy is eternal. The material energy also cannot be created and destroyed at least not by the living entities efforts. But its manifest vyakta and avyakta unmanifest according to the will of the Supreme Lord. When He desires then the material energy, maha-tattva is generated and when He desires he brings it back in but it is constantly being changed but the living entity, acala is never changed. It is eternal. Therefore they will not be able to create life from mater because it is a different type of energy. You can’t mix material energy and make it become spiritual energy. Similarly the soul can never be destroyed, ajo nityah sasvato ‘yam purano na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg 2.20] In just a few verses of Bhagavad-gita Lord Krishna solves the whole scientific dilemma: what is the source of life, what is the origin. Here Devahuti is describing the origin. The scientists are trying to understand the origin but how can they understand the origin when they don’t even know when and if there was an origin. They are assuming that there must have been something that was the source. Some of them assume that there was a source, an origin and some of them assume that the manifestation is eternal or has always existed. How can they know? They have only been living for fifty years. Or you can say that as long as It is a very difficult task but still they don’t mind ’sticking their necks’ out and making bold statements that the universe began so many billions of years ago. Where is the evidence for that? Is there any proof? No. It is very easy to make such statements and there is no evidence required. They simply make their statement on the basis of their so called learning and no one challenges them but Srila Prabhupada challenged them. Prabhupada challenged them on practically all of their bold statements: that life comes from matter or that the origin comes from a big bang or it comes from the void. He challenged them on all these points. Therefore he is the greatest of the scientists because he would say, “I am not a scientists but because I am hearing from the greatest scientist - from Lord We should not be very easily swayed by their philosophies. Just like for example they say that our universe or the sky that we see comprises hundreds and millions of light years I distance. Now if we ask them how did you measure that? What kind of measurement system did you have? If you go into it turns out it is very suspicious type of measuring system that they have got. It is very speculative based on some degrees of light turning colors. No evidence and it is changing always. This year it is a hundred million light years, next year a hundred and twenty light years. They have to keep up with Star Wars. So have to keep increasing it, have to keep making it more amazing. Otherwise how will they keep getting taxes for all their explorative space journeys? Therefore we don’t hold any value in their statements about the For example I went to the Hayden Planetarium. It is the largest planetarium in the world in New York and they had a big explosion sound, like shaking. We were all sitting there and supposedly the universe came out and they said that everything came with the big bang and it popped out of the void. Now what does void mean? Void means there is nothing there to pop out. By definition it means there is nothing there. So it is a contradiction. Everything came out of the void. So it means that the void must have had something in it that something came out of it. These metaphysical propositions that they are making supercedes science. It doesn’t make any sense according to science but still they state this because how else can you explain it? And because in principle they are atheists so rather than give the credit that everything came from God, which is also inconceivable they prefer to say inconceivably everything came from void. Both are using the same logic. We also say everything inconceivably comes from Him. He is a small medium size person. How could the whole universe or millions of universes fit inside Him. It is inconceivable. They say it is inconceivable. That everything could come out of a void or a singularity very small point. So no evidence no proof of any of these things. They may challenge us. That is why Prabhupada wanted to construct this Temple of Vedic Planetarium to challenge all the scientific theories. Let them come, “Bring your theories, your hundred million light year theories!” I have given some presentation on Vedic Cosmology at different universities around We have our evidence because we are receiving knowledge from persons who still live. Brahma is not dead. Krishna is not dead. Do you think that Krishna is dead or Brahma is dead? They are still living. We are receiving knowledge from the persons who were there when the universe began and according to Bhagavatam even Visnu or Krishna existed before the material elements or the universe began. So this is the best evidence. We are hearing from the creator Himself and from the first created being who was secondary creator. They are giving us information. They may say we don’t believe that there is such a person that has been created. We haven’t seen Him. But how much can you see. You have only been living for the last fifty years. And by your admission the universe began billions of years ago. So how could you have seen Him? And besides your eyes are so faulty. How can you see so many things? So we have our evidence. The Vedic Planetarium is meant to be presented exactly according to the Vedas. When we were visiting South India and speaking with different experts, pundits in this field of Vedic cosmology. Their first questions were, “What is your plan? How do you plan to present this planetarium?” They were excited but they asked that. We answered, “We plan to present it exactly according to the Vedic version.” They said, “Okay. Then we will help you. Otherwise we don’t want any part of it. If you are going to make a compromise with western science.” So that is a confirmation of what Srila Prabhupada wanted. And Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur in his translation of I took that as a great important statement for me because having looked at the Surya Siddhanta I came to the conclusion that it was impossible to understand. But it wasn’t impossible but for some people it would be but fortunately we enlisted a group of devotee scientists who are very expert in mathematics and they got involved and were able to understand these verses very nicely. And they have proven that the Jyotish sastras and the Puranas are not incompatible nor are they contradictory - which has been taught for a long time mistakenly - but actually they are completely compatible and we see that the Bhagavatam has the seeds of al Vedic cosmology and astronomy in code forms Then the Jyotish sastras expands on all kinds of details and calculations and mathematics and things like that. It is not something that we have to be afraid of or intimidated by the material scientists. They are bluffing from the very ‘get go’ as they say and they have no evidence what so ever and we have so much evidence. We can use our scriptures, which are historically speaking at least five thousand years old. Actually much older than that, hundreds and millions of years old! Surya Siddhanta is spoken by Surya himself millions of years ago. So we have this information that when using these scriptures you can make all the same calculations as modern science. How is that possible? If this knowledge is not correct but yet it has been existing for thousand and millions of years and it explains the phenomenon that we see such as eclipses and Question: Hare HH Danavir Swami: Which flat earth theory? Question: I heard there is a Vedic version or that, something like that. I am not sure. HH Danavir Swami: Well first you have to find out what your theory is then I will know what you are asking. Question: I heard that somewhere in sastra it is said that the earth is flat in some way. HH Danavir Swami: Bhumandala is flat. So that is a flat earth theory. We accept that. Nut as far as our earth globe - according to Mahabharat and Srimad-Bhagavatam and other sastras it is a globe. It is round. Our little earth is just a little spec on the Bhumandala, which is the greater earth. This Mataji over here? Question: Maharaj it says in the Bhagavatam that the moon is much further away from the sun. So the planet in the sky that we see as the moon what is this? The scientists see a planet and they tell us that this is the moon and they went to the moon. So where did they go and what is this that they see with their instruments that they say this is the moon? HH Danavir Swami: I think we agree on what the moon is with the scientists. We don’t have any problem with that. There may be some disagreement about the distances and therefore Prabhupada generally concluded that because the distances where faulty, because they had a faulty idea about the distance therefore how could they have gone there in such a short period of time? It was a very long distance. So based on that he generally discounted their theory that they went there. That was quite an amazing thing to do in the 50’s, 60’s. He even predicted ahead of time that they couldn’t go there. Now there are so many other persons that have even made different videos saying that the moon landing was a hoax. You can see them If you go to the Bathonian (?) Institute in Washington DC they have moon rocks. These are rocks from the moon. It says, “Don’t they look similar to those in Arizona?” (Laughter.) They told Prabhupada so Prabhupada said, “Yes they look similar because they are from Arizona.” Question: While we are setting out to build this Temple of Vedic Planetarium I understand that the purpose of it is to create some sort of sensation by presenting an alternative to the current scientific model of the universe but just like Prabhupada translated Bhagavad-gita As It Is on the basis of his realization of it, it would be difficult like you said to present a Vedic version as it is if we don’t have a clear understanding and realization of it. So isn’t there some element of risk to build a planetarium that we ourselves don’t fully understand and in fact amongst ourselves I understand there is more than one model that has been presented by various scientist devotees in terms of conceptualization? In other words the result of it if we don’t fully understand what we are doing would be to make big fools of ourselves in the eyes of they majority. So could you please address this? HH Danavir Swami: Therefore it behooves us to understand, to get a correct understanding so that there are no more doubts. Therefore we have to dive into it with full enthusiasm and make sure we do understand it. That is not impossible. Prabhupada wouldn’t have given us an impossible task. He gave us this task to do it. We have been meditating on it and working on it for thirty-three years. Perhaps the time has come now for us, by the grace of the spiritual master. mukham karoti vacalam pangum langhayate girim yat krpa tam aham vande sri-gurum dina-taranam By the mercy of the guru even a lame man can climb mountains, dumb man can speak eloquent words or poetry. So even something as difficult as this understanding - the 5th canto of the Srimad-Bhagavatam can be done by the mercy of the spiritual master. That is our basis, isn’t it, faith in Guru. Question: You started your answer by saying we have to fully understand but then it seems that you are saying we don’t need to fully understand, we just repeat and. HH Danavir Swami: No. In other words we have to go in with faith that my Guru Maharaj has given me this instruction. Just like the illiterate brahmana in South India. His Guru Maharaj told him to read the Bhagavad-gita everyday. Now he is illiterate so that is a difficult task but still he didn’t reject the order and he was trying to read everyday the Bhagavad-gita and all the learned brahmanas were laughing at him. You know the story. But he was crying tears of ecstasy and Lord Caitanya embraced him. He said, “You are the real knower of Bhagavad-gita. So we have to take the order of the spiritual master as our very life and soul. He wanted it. We have to try for it sincerely and by his mercy, by the mercy of Krishna, yasya deve para bhaktir yatha deve tatha gurau tasyaite kathita hy arthah prakasante mahatmanah [SU 6.23] All the imports of the Vedic knowledge will be revealed to one who has implicit faith in both Guru and Krishna. Thank you very much for your question. Thank you very much. Srimad-Bhagavatam ki, jai. [Applause.] 730 Views / EMail This Post / Print This Post / Home » Live from Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir! HH Danavir Swami You must login before replying. Home » Live from Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir! HH Danavir Swami Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: Remember When Organic Used To Be Green? Back in the day the organic pioneers had several motivations for promoting organic — better for the future of the soil because of closed systems of returning organic wastes to the soil, less pesticides in the environment so better balance in the ecology, and last but not least healthier better tasting food. Organic was green. Now organic isn’t green and most consumers motivation is more self centered — I want healthier food for me. While many genuine organic growers still exist, corporations and agribusiness has gotten involved and the new standards for what is organic has dispensed with the closed system concept. Buying organic today could mean stuff from Chile, California wherever. Organic is no longer synonymous with locally grown. So more aware consumers have now started to focus on ideally locally grown organic produce, but if the choice is locally grown or imported organic, they choose local. Which has lots of benefits, not least is economics of the local community as the money stays and recycles locally. Here are some thoughts on benefits of locally grown: The 100-Mile Index provides a statistical snapshot of our world's globalized food system. The numbers are fascinating, troubling, funny and sometimes, just plain strange. Have a read and send them to a friend. 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REFERENCES:Rich Pirog et al., "Food, Fuel and Freeways," Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2001), p. 1.
Filed under: Cows and Environment       • Email to a friend • Related • •Dandavats.com: Mayapur Institute Graduation ceremony 2010By Gaurav Sharma February 15th 2010, saw the graduation ceremony for the newest Bhaktisastri graduates at the Mayapur Institute (MI) Sri Dham Mayapur Campus. The ceremony was graced by many senior ISKCON leaders and educators. • Email to a friend • Related • •Dandavats.com: Faith and ScienceBy Niscala Dasi It is not that science is without faith - actually, faith is a vital component of science. For example, to account for the results of experiments, some scientist developed the atomic model of a positively charged nucleus surrounded by negatively charged electrons. • Email to a friend • Related • •Dandavats.com: Free DownloadSadhusanga.com is offering a free audiobook download of Caitanya-caritamrta Adi-lila, Chapter 4 to help devotees to hear more about the Lord before His appearance day. • Email to a friend • Related • •Dandavats.com: Community websiteAprakrita dasa: Finally, here is a community website exclusively for us, devotees and friends of Krishna! I'd like to invite you to discover this new website that has been created recently and is online from 21.02.2010. • Email to a friend • Related • •Dandavats.com: Do you need help filing taxes?Danakeli Dasa: Do you need help filing taxes or do you own a small business and need help with your accounting? A devotee with his own private accounting practice is interested in helping you. • Email to a friend • Related • •Dandavats.com: Ox power hand book and movie on training oxenParasuram das: Everything you need to know about oxen, from basic commands to shoeing them. Lets be honest, it's a resource book. If you're not into oxen it will bore the pants off you. • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1971 February 23: "We are negotiating for a plot of land on the University campus. If we can establish a seat of learning there, students may take their doctorate degree in Krishna Consciousness and go out and preach all over the world. It is my hope that more and more college campuses will follow."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1966 February 23:  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1967 February 23: "I hope you have received the goods from India via Jaladuta. You keep one Mrdanga and six pairs of cymbals and the balance may be sent here at once. We are arranging kirtana programme at different places. The Mrdanga and cymbals will increase the dignity of kirtana."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1969 February 23: "We must preach the message of Krishna Consciousness exactly as we have heard it from our Spiritual Master. The spirit of the disciplic succession may not be changed, I hope you will understand this rightly. The same philosophy and the same spirit must be there exactly."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1970 February 23: "I am very glad that the final manuscript of KRSNA Book now reads very well. Thank you very much. I am enclosing a preface which I have written for Krsna Book. Please edit nicely and send one copy of the edited version back to me."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1970 February 23: "The new boys should be taken care of very nicely. Preach Sankirtana and teach them by practical example. We are in the kingdom of Maya and her influence is very strong. Unless we are very, very careful in our dealings, there is every chance of falling down."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1971 February 23: "In 1875 Bhaktivinoda Thakura predicted that someone would come very soon who would individually preach this cult of Caitanya Mahaprabhu all over the world. So if his benediction is there and my Guru Maharaja's blessings is there, we can go ahead without any impediment - but all of us must be very sincere and very serious."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Srila Prabhupada's Letters1971 February 23: "As far as cooperating with my Godbrothers is concerned, that is not very urgent business. My Godbrothers have thus far regularly not cooperated with me and by the grace of my Spiritual Master, things are still going ahead."  • Email to a friend • Related • •Japa Group: Inattention Is A Serious Problem
Inattention is a serious problem in chanting. As the nondevotee does not understand the value of human life or the urgency to be Krsna conscious, so a devotee sometimes does not fully understand the urgency and necessity of calling on the holy name. Then despite his theoretical acceptance of the principle of chanting Hare Krsna, he stubbornly deliberates on other things while uttering the holy name.  • Email to a friend • Related • •Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: A Growing Obsession: Rare Seeds
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By Krishna Pokharel, The Wall Street Journal VARANASI, India—More than a million devout Hindus bathed in the Ganges River Friday, braving the risk of terrorist attack, stampede and petty crime for the chance to wash away the sins of a lifetime and open the gateway to heaven after death. But perhaps the greatest threat to the devotees who flocked to Haridwar, India, on one of the most auspicious days of the triennial Kumbh Mela festival, was the water itself. The river is intensely polluted with sewage and industrial waste. Water-treatment facilities have been unable to keep up with India’s rapid growth, often held back by a shortage of funds and other resources. A dip in the Ganges River in India is believed by devotees to wash away all sins. But increasingly it has become heavily polluted with sewage and industrial waste. Now, a $4 billion government program aims to clean the river. Now, the spiritually cleansing waters of the Ganges are about to get some cleaning of their own. The Indian government has embarked on a $4 billion campaign to ensure that by 2020 no untreated municipal sewage or industrial runoff enters the 1,560-mile river. Only 31% of municipal sewage in India undergoes treatment, according to the Central Pollution Control Board, a government agency in New Delhi, while the rest gets discharged into the country’s rivers, ponds, land and seas, contaminating underground and surface waters. More than 500,000 of the 10.3 million deaths in India in 2004 resulted from waterborne diseases, according to the most recent comprehensive mortality data from the World Health Organization. The filth in the Ganges holds special resonance for this majority-Hindu nation. The Ganges basin supports more than 400 million of India’s 1.1 billion people, the majority of whom are Hindus, who revere the river as “mother” and “goddess.” The cleanup initiative, which is supported by the World Bank, includes the expansion of traditional treatment facilities and, for the first time in India, the introduction of innovative river-cleaning methods. Veer Bhadra Mishra, a 70-year-old priest and hydraulics engineer in Varanasi, the holy city downstream from Haridwar, has been a prominent advocate of treatment methods used abroad but not yet in India. His plan: to introduce a system to divert sewage and effluents, before they enter the river, to a series of specially designed ponds, for treatment and ultimately to be used use in irrigation or directed back into the river. His efforts were mired in court and by opposition from local bureaucrats. The bureaucrats had a “difference of opinion” with Mr. Mishra about the best way to clean the river, says Ramesh Singh, general manager of Ganga Pollution Control Unit, the local government body charged with running government treatment facilities in Varanasi. Mr. Singh says the technologies already in use were time-tested and reliable, but suffered from a lack of trained manpower and proper infrastructure, and a shortage of funds for equipment maintenance. Last summer, after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh identified cleaning up the river as a national priority, the government in New Delhi increased funding to operate and maintain conventional treatment facilities, and also approved Mr. Mishra’s plan—giving $184,000 to his organization, the Sankat Mochan Foundation, for the design of a new sewage treatment plant. The foundation is working with GO2 Water Inc., a Berkeley, Calif., wastewater-technology company. In the plan, 10.5 million gallons of sewage a day—13% of the daily output from Varanasi’s 1.5 million people—will be intercepted daily at the riverbank, and diverted. In a nearby village, water will pass through a series of ponds, where sunlight, gravity, bacteria and microalgae will clean the water. A larger pond system is planned, to process 33% more of the city’s sewage. The treatment system “will be the best solution for dealing with huge amount of domestic sewage being discharged into Gangaji and other rivers in India,” Mr. Mishra said, using the honorific “ji” with the river’s local name, Ganga. In Haridwar, the National Botanical Research Institute is developing a wetland with local species of reeds to absorb the polluting elements from the wastewater, according to U.N. Rai, a scientist heading the project. Other wetlands will be developed in other areas “to ease the current pollution load in the river,” Mr. Rai says. The load is heavy. On a recent winter morning in Varanasi, lab technician Gopal Pandey descended the stone stairs of Tulsi Ghat, one of the holy city’s 84 bathing platforms, to fetch some Ganges water for testing at the Sankat Mochan Foundation, an organization run by Mr. Mishra. In the laboratory, Mr. Pandey found that each 100 milliliters of the river’s waters were laden with 29,000 fecal coliform bacteria, which potentially cause disease. India says a maximum of 500 per 100 milliliters is safe for bathing in the river. Another sample from downstream, after the Ganges meets a tributary carrying a black mass of thick industrial effluents, showed 10 million bacteria—mostly E-coli—in the same amount of river water. Mr. Pandey’s verdict: “The pollution is at very, very dangerous level.”       • Email to a friend • Related • •Manorama dasa: Tavaszi óra átállítás – 2010. március 28-án
A 2010 évi tavaszi (nyári) óraátállítás március 28-án lesz. Ekkor hajnali 2-kor 3-ra állítjuk az órát. Szeretettel köszöntöm azokat az olvasókat, akik így találtak az oldalamra. Érdemes még itt időzni, mert sok érdekességről írtam már. • Email to a friend • Related • •David Haslam, UK: Teaching Teens About Abstinence May Delay Sexual Activity, Reduce Risk BehaviorsThis is an interesting piece of research by , John B. Jemmott, III, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania, looking at sexual health and training, especially around the issue of teaching abstinence rather then safe sexual health; or a combination of the two. The research outcomes were stated as follows: At the study’s outset, 23.4 percent of [...] • Email to a friend • Related • •Mayapur Online: HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami's Vyasapuja
Date: February 22nd, 2010 Speaker: HH Bhakti Charu Swami Bhakti Tirtha Swami's Vyasapuja was celebrated in Mayapur with remembrances and glorifications of Maharaja. • Email to a friend • Related • •H.H. Mukunda Goswami: There's "Hope"In a purport in the Ninth Canto (51st Verse, 10th Chapter): "If people take to this sankirtana movement of chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Rama, they will certainly be freed from the contamination of Kali-yuga, and the people of this age will be happy, as people were in Satya-yuga, the golden age." • Email to a friend • Related • •Book Distribution News: Country CompassionDear devotees It was a Saturday. Four of us set out in the sankirtan van to Campbelltown on the south-western outskirts of Sydney. It's kind of like a country town with tama guna farmer type people. This day it was rather quiet when we arrived. Usually only two devotees go there but this day we had four. So I felt bad because there was not many people around and it was my idea for four of us to go there so I decided to leave the street to my god brothers and I went to a quiet car park around the back of a small shopping centre. I felt disheartened like we weren't going to do many books and it was my fault. But I dug deep for some prayer to Srila Prabhupada and just tried anyway. I approached everyone going in and out of the mall, moving swiftly with careful positioning to catch people as they left and returned to there cars. I didn't notice at the time but books were actually moving quite well. A lady from behind said with great hope in her voice "Ah, haribol prabhu?" She said, "Oh, you are a devotee! How wonderful!" She told me how she went to New Govardhana gurukula (Australia). I also went there but she was a little older then I. Her name is Sita. She has fond memories of Krsna consciousness but now on her own with a non-devotee husband and three kids she was really struggling in the material world. She explained how due to association of her husband she has unfortunately been eating meat. With great eagerness she asked, "Prabhu. Please can I take a book?" She only had enough for one so she chose Krsna book for herself and her children to read. She was so happy to see a devotee. She begged, "Please do you have any tulasi leaves or maha prasadam?" Once having tasted Krsna one can never forget the transcendental nectar. Krsna never forgets ether and He is always reaching out to the lost souls in the form of book distributers. After a couple of hours our friends at security came out to see if I needed refreshments. I mean chastisements for doing the car park. He mustered up an authoritative voice and said, "You can't do this here. Do you have any Identification?" I said, "No I don't carry sorry." He said, "What if the police ask you?" I said, "They never do. They like us and they let us be." I used some intelligence to make friends with him then said, "Good bye. Have a nice day." As I left the area with an innocent smile on my face and I went to another place to distribute. Shortly after I met with the other devotees and we went to Macarthur Square shopping centre about five minutes drive away. This mall is generally quite busy and fruitful. I was excited because it was my first time there so with full enthusiasm I packed as many books as I could in to my bag with five more in my hands and ran into the mall. It was amazing! Krsna really empowered me. Quickly my books disappeared. Running back and forth between the car and the mall everyone was taking! The highlight of the shopping centre was when I stopped three young adults, two boys and one girl. I handed them each a Gita and with the biggest smile I simply said, "I am a monk. We are trying to spread peace. These books are full of wisdom. Please take a book and give a donation.” All three took and gave a donation. Wow! It was ecstatic! I invited them to our classes. We finished at 5pm when the mall was closing and floated back home on a cloud of bliss. The beginning of the day my mind was filled with so many doubts. All day feeling impotent, still I just prayed and Krsna empowered me to distribute over 50 hard covers and collect over $600 laxmi. The others also did very well But Krsna has His way of humbling us, the next day I did 7 books and $90 laxmi. When I asked my Guru Maharaja why does that happen, big one day and tiny the next? He just smiled and said, "Krsna is showing you who is the controller." Srila Prabhupada ki jai!!!!!!!!! Your servant, Dhruvananda Dasa (Formally Uddhava Dasa gurukuli. Recently, by the mercy of the Vaisnavas, I received initiation from HH Devamrita Maharaja. Haribol!!!) • Email to a friend • Related • •Mayapur Online: Live from Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
Date: February 19th,2010 Listen here HH Candramauli Swami's class. TRANSLATION: There are varieties of material existence for the living entity according to the work he performs in ignorance • Email to a friend • Related • •More Recent Articles
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Concerning the distance between the earth and the moon - a question very often asked - I would like to recommend the book: ‘Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy’ by Richard L.Thompson , the late Sadaputa. He wonderfully explains the distance between earth and moon as seen from a higher, transcendental dimension, not from the earth. So Srila Prab hupada is right in his view and the scientists are right from their earthly view.
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