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Here are the latest updates for "Planet ISKCON" - 30 new articles ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Jagannatha Ram Prabhu Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: in two lines the whole world is analyzed Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: America Behind In Renewables HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '395' from The Yellow Submarine HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Initiation in LA' from The Yellow Submarine HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Feeling Weak But True to You' from The Yellow Submarine HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Watching the Clock' from The Yellow Submarine Japa Group: Krsna - Our Best Friend Dandavats.com: Book Distribution Stories Dandavats.com: Please Support Preaching Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters Srila Prabhupada's Letters ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Recordings from Rama-Lila Conference Calls Dandavats.com: Bhaktivedanta College Radhadesh Third Term Courses for the Academic Year 2009/10 Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: Holier Than Thou Dandavats.com: Ambarisha prabhu’s open letter to all the devotees - TOVP Donations list ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Good Friday Breakfast - Friday 2nd April Mayapur Online: Within Ten Miles of Mayapur Manoj, Melbourne, AU: 195. Mayapur 2010 – Weeping for the Lord Sita-pati dasa, AU: Sydney 24 hour kirtan Gouranga TV: Madhava prabhu beautiful bhajan in Prabhupada desh- Italy!!!! March 2010!!! Sita-pati dasa, AU: 24 hour kirtan in Sydney More Recent Articles Search Planet ISKCON ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Jagannatha Ram Prabhu Daily Class - Jagannatha Ram Prabhu - Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.47-48 SB 11.18.47: Those who are followers of this varṇāśrama system accept religious principles according to authorized traditions of proper conduct. When such varṇāśrama duties are dedicated to Me in loving service, they award the supreme perfection of life. SB 11.18.48: My dear saintly Uddhava, I have now described to you, just as you inquired, the means by which My devotee, perfectly engaged in his prescribed duty, can come back to Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. SB 11.18.47: Los que son seguidores de este sistema del varṇāśrama aceptan principios religiosos según tradiciones autorizadas de la conducta apropiada. Cuando tales deberes del varṇāśrama se dedican a Mí en servicio cariñoso, conceden la perfección suprema de la vida. SB 11.18.48: Mi estimado santo Uddhava, ahora le he descrito a usted, apenas como usted investigó, los medios por los cuales mi devoto, conectado perfectamente a su deber prescrito, puede volver a Mí, la Suprema Personalidad de Dios. Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.47-48 - Krishna consciousness is the sum and substance of progressive human life. 11.6MB Posted by Jayendra at 4/4/10; 8:36:11 AM to the Daily Class dept Download: Daily Class - Jagannatha Ram Prabhu - Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.47-48 • Email to a friend • Related • • Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: in two lines the whole world is analyzed bahu-rupa ivabhati mayaya bahu-rupaya ramamano gunesv asya mamaham iti manyate The illusioned living entity appears in so many forms offered by the external energy of the Lord. While enjoying in the modes of material nature, the encaged living entity misconceives, thinking in terms of "I" and "mine." >>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 2.9.2 Srila Prabhupada comments: So it is a very important verse... Just study this analysis of the whole world, this verse. This is Bhagavata. By two lines the whole world is analyzed. Now you see the whole world is working under these two lines. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.9.2 -- Melbourne, April 4, 1972 • Email to a friend • Related • • --> Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: America Behind In Renewables From our friend Madhava Ghosh While we have great potential for renewables in this country, the government has taken the path of least resistance and just subsidized the oil and coal companies. We have plenty of potential though it will requie an upgrading and expansion of the energy grid. “The United States has incredible wind power resources. Although wind energy currently provides only slightly more than 1 percent of U.S. electricity, that number is rising rapidly. A recent government report projects that we could get 20 percent of our electricity from wind by 2030. Most of that growth will be from utility-scale wind projects, although there’s great support for developing small wind power too, including home-scale wind turbines and small community-based projects.” Read whole article here. FYI, for those who don’t read the article North Dakota is at the top of the list of windy places in the US, it just lacks a way to get that energy to the rest of you. There are some notable exceptions on the local level, like Austin, Texas. Wouldn’t it be nice if devotee projects would take up the challenge? Austin, Texas’ Ambitious Carbon Mitigation Targets, Results Provide Models for Cities Austin, Texas, has one of the most ambitious carbon mitigation targets for a U.S. city—to be carbon neutral by the year 2020—a target made all the more complex by the fact that Austin owns its own power company. With significant renewable resources available, and a progressive population and local government, the city of Austin has become a model for building the diverse package of renewable procurement, efficiency measures, and public outreach that can achieve substantial results in carbon emissions reductions. In order to get a clear shematic of this progressive model, VerdeXchange News was pleased to speak with Jake Stewart, the program manager of the Austin Energy Climate Protection Program, the agency tasked with the implementation of the city’s green programs. VerdeX: What are Austin Texas’ renewable energy goals? Stewart: The primary goal for the municipality itself, meaning all of municipal operations, is to be carbon neutral by 2020. That will be sourced predominantly by in-house in renewables, but anything that needs to be offset will be offset. That includes fleets and municipal operations. You have the utility plan, which sets the goal to create 700 megawatts in efficiency savings by 2015. That’s like creating a power plant worth of efficiency savings. We also have goals of 30 percent renewables by 2020 and building 100 megawatts of solar. Extending to the community, there’s a whole separate plan that engages the community, building a consensus on how the community can reduce its carbon footprint in a way that has economic upside. We want to bring in green and clean tech companies in a Silicon Valley for renewable energy by making Austin very hospitable for those companies. That’s been true with solar companies. We have a solar rebate program, which has been really successful in other cities because it provides companies a way to bridge cost differential. Read full article here. To see how things can work on a national level you have to go to Europe. Germany: The World’s First Major Renewable Energy Economy Germany’s Reichstag in Berlin is set to become the first parliamentary building in the world to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy. Soon the entire country will follow suit. Germany is accelerating its efforts to become the world’s first industrial power to use 100 percent renewable energy — and given current momentum, it could reach that green goal by 2050. “The technical capacity is available for the country to switch over to green energy, so it is a question of political will and the right regulatory framework. The costs are acceptable and they need to be seen against the huge costs that will result if Germany fails to take action to cut its carbon emissions.” – David Wortmann, Director of Renewable Energy and Resources, Germany Trade and Invest Read full article here. There are lots more stories of innovation in Europe, here is one from Finland. In a cave under the Eastern Orthodox Uspenski cathedral in Helsinki we find the result of a joint project between Academica and Helsingin Energia; the world’s most eco efficient computer hall. Computer halls usually require a lot of energy in order to keep the computers from overheating, but this computer hall is cooled down by district cooling. And that is not all, the heat generated from the computers is then distributed back as district heating! Helsingin Energia reckons that in district cooling the primary energy consumption of the computer hall now commissioned is only 20% of that of a standard computer hall, and the additional benefit of the waste heat recovery is a bonus. They are in other words saving money and generating energy all at once. Read full article here. • Email to a friend • Related • • HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '395' from The Yellow Submarine www.sdgonline.org. 4:30 A.M I gave three public lectures yesterday and went to bed tired. I woke up at 1:30 and began my chanting, but after an hour I had to go back to sleep. I’ve now chanted eight rounds and have to start my writing. My rounds were quiet and rapid, but I could not sustain them for long. I will have to chant them later. Chanting a little at a time, I am confident I’ll reach my quota. I always make it by Krishna’s grace and from the strength of my vows. But today I will have to do it in sections as my strength got weakened in the early hours. Please help me Lord to be strong again and utter Your names like a determined sadhaka. • Email to a friend • Related • • HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Initiation in LA' from The Yellow Submarine www.sdgonline.org. Prabhupada Smaranam Prabhupada is smiling charmingly, happy to be giving out beads at an initiation ceremony in the Los Angeles temple. The sannyasis, leaders and manager Karandhara stand closely beside Prabhupada on his vyasasana. They always want to be close to him wherever he goes and position themselves besides him. Tripurari Maharaja is holding the beads of those to be initiated, and Prabhupada is about to give a set of beads to a new initiate. It’s the most thrilling moment in the life of the initiate to get the beads from Prabhupada’s hands and to hear for the first time his spiritual name. The link is being made between guru and disciple. Prabhupada always makes the initiates repeat the four prohibitive principles out loud and agree to chant sixteen rounds on beads per day. This is the basic contract and vow. Prabhupada accepted the person’s previous karma, and he is now liberated as long as he does not commit new sinful activity. The vow was made publicly, and it was a kind of celebration. When the assembled devotees heard the new devotee’s name for the first time they cheered and beat drums. You are not just initiated singly but into the community of the devotees, followers of Srila Prabhupada. It was a solemn occasion but simultaneously a joyful one. You now had a new name, and you are Prabhupada’s disciple forever! • Email to a friend • Related • • HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Feeling Weak But True to You' from The Yellow Submarine www.sdgonline.org. My Lord, I make prayers to You out of my little store of piety. You know I love You and each morning chant Your names as best I can. You are unseen to me here in Guyana because there is no arca-vigraha, but in my mind I preserve the image of You and Radha and the feeling that You are my protector and guide. I sing to You in my old voice, not so sweet anymore. I would not be chosen to be a lead kirtaneer of the group, but when no one else is available I do the leading because I know the songs. My days are dwindling and my energy, but I ask You to accept me. Take me back to You in a fresh new body with youthful intentions for preaching and worship. I am tied to You like a dog to a leash. I am firmly attached and have no desire to run away. I want to stay close to You and eat only remnants from Your hands. You are my worshipable Lord. I hear and tell Your pastimes, how You kill demons and delight the Vrajavasis by swallowing the forest fires. To the gopis You give Your special attention because they are the most beloved to You and have stolen Your heart. I want to always write something down praising You even as my pen looses it’s fervor and my brain seems to grow smaller. Please let me have a late rising of glorification to You in better poems that are like peacocks and parrots and rainbows— let me praise You in philosophical terms. Today I am weak and cannot say much, but I want You to know I care for You truly, as a lover for a beloved. My words may not be pretty or profound, but my heart is in the right place and my body is stretched out before You in full dandavats. • Email to a friend • Related • • HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Watching the Clock' from The Yellow Submarine www.sdgonline.org. Free write I watched the time go by. Sweating the hours in the afternoon. Baladeva is doing marathon efforts in attempting to send the complete journal to the webmaster. The internet is too slow in the Caribbean. Today he uploaded and downloaded the journal three times on the computer before it actually went through. He is working now at a home where an older woman named Rati lets him use her somewhat higher speed internet. In return he listens to her preach Hindu dharma to him. She is also a teenage vigilante. She goes out and if she finds Hindu girls out on the streets too late she brings them to their home. Tomorrow Baladeva will have to do two days of uploading at her house. He reminds me that I used to wait a year and a half before my writing was turned into print. That doesn’t give me solace. I want to reach my readers every day. I’m afraid they’ll loose interest now that the printing has been so sparse in the Carib. The people who came to the program last night liked it best when I talked about the 1960s. So tonight I will read from With Srila Prabhupada in the Early Days which covers all the first months’ memories. Paramatma is the sole representative from the Caribbean and Latin America who attends the GBC leadership training courses held in Washington, DC. They are preparing men and women to be GBCs and leaders of ISKCON in the future. They are covering various teaching subjects. Paramatma also has his own group of about thirty students whom he is training in Guyana. I’m going to meet with them tomorrow night. He also has a garden which supplies all his needs, a wife and three children. He asked me if there was any direction which I had for him in his life. I think he is doing fine. Bhagavata Purana dasi who is about sixty years old and has been here for all of my trips to Guyana told Baladeva she likes it best when I write about my “pastimes” in Guyana, like the time I got stuck in the mud, rumors and meetings with alligators, my anxieties over social and political unrest etcetera. But I don’t feel so many pastimes any more, mostly watching the clock. • Email to a friend • Related • • Japa Group: Krsna - Our Best Friend Hare Krsna my dear devotees, I hope your week has been blessed and you have been able to chant nicely with too much love and devotion. Today I was listening to a lecture from my Gurudev H.H. Giriraj Swami and he made an analogy about the mother that had five kids and one of them is sick. So she cooks for the four kids one kind of food and for the sick one another so he may feel better and be cured - the same way that we are sick from this material disease...thinking that we are all the enjoyers of this world and this life is designed to enjoy and have fun we suffer. We don't take the appropriate medicine for the disease we have - it's like a person that suffers from jaundice, this person takes sugar but the taste is bitter and after awhile it becomes sweeter and sweeter as the medicine is taking effect on the patient. So sometimes we know the medicine for our suffering but we avoid taking it....sometimes we want the Lord but not as the center of our lives but just in the background, as if we were in the stage and the Lord is only supporting us. This is the lesson I got from his lecture and I understood that it's true. I think a lot about myself, how I am going to mantain the house and my kids, the gym, food and the Lord is always there acting in the background - as if He was there just to participate in a life that actually belongs to me, not to Him. He is not the most important actor in this film, He just participates because I am a devotee and I need the Lord in my life. Then I do understand that I need the right medicine for this disease - chanting, hearing, devotional service to devotees and be more grateful to the Lord instead of keep asking for more material things and complaining about what I don't have. Krsna is our best friend, He knows what we need and He already mantains us like all the world is maintained by Him anyway - nothing happens without His desire and action. So what we really need to develop is faith, strong faith that we are protected - that we are in the Lord's hands, believing or not we are...He is the only one who is able to change the course of things in our lives and also gives us intelligence to see the things as they are. First we need to develop a relationship with this Lord, a deeper one - not just a ritualistic method of worshiping Him but a sincere desire to serve Him and to be with Him while chanting and also to understand His desires to our live - what He wants us to do and what service we could do to Him in order to please Him more. So that's a very difficult task for us. Maybe we could make it easier if we develop the mood of service, a humble state of mind and prayer to ask the Lord to participate more in our lives and invite him to our best part of the house when we chant - not just the backyard...not far but closer - closer to our heart as possible so we will share with the Lord our best, and give Him our best service and maybe one day we could see the Lord as our best friend. I would like to wish a very good weekend to you and ask your blessings so I can develop more my relationship with the Lord and become a better chanter myself. your servant, Aruna devi • Email to a friend • Related • • Dandavats.com: Book Distribution Stories By Omkara Devi Dasi Recently I started part time book distribution, several days a week. Please find some stories based on my distribution program. These have enlivened me ever so much. I hope to share with you…. • Email to a friend • Related • • Dandavats.com: Please Support Preaching Dayavira das: I have recently started a 30 minute music video preaching program. The shown is on community access channels in North Carolina. It is a program of bhajans and kirtans. • Email to a friend • Related • • 1969 April 3: "Although it resembles the material way, our separation is completely different. Separation is simply another feature of meeting. In the spiritual world, separation is eternal, and meeting is also eternal." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 • Email to a friend • Related • • Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1969 April 3: "Don't do anything whimsically. The direction comes through the Spiritual Master, and any one who abides by the order of the Spiritual Master, he is perfectly surrendered soul. So stay there." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1969 April 3: "You should take the indication given by Krishna: the press is already there, the press worker is coming, and the scholar has joined. Don't you see the indication by Krishna?." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1972 April 3: "N.B. Regarding changes made in GBC zonal management. I do not favor these changes. Tell them to stop everything. Why they have done this without consulting?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1972 April 3: "There is no other literatures like ours in the world, and this information, 'Here is God, just see Him,' this clear understanding of God is not available anywhere else but from our books." Prabhupada Letters :: 1972 • Email to a friend • Related • • Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1973 April 3: "Today is Tuesday so I hope that the court case will be heard. If the judge takes seriously that the land must be given to one of us, that will be a great success." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1973 April 3: "Regarding the house at Puri – the place of Srila Prabhupada. I understand that Sripad B.D. Madhav Maharaj is also eager to purchase, so I do not wish to make a competitive price." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1974 April 3: "If we cannot utilize the land then why purchase it at such expenditure? Self help doesn't mean Rs 10,000 spent monthly." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1974 April 3: "Why are the cows suffering from no good shelter? I sent $5,000 and then $4,000 previous to that, for construction for the cows. Why have you not built them something solid?" Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 • Email to a friend • Related • • Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1974 April 3: "If somebody can recite like storm, it is to be understood he has perfected himself. No. Don't be in hurry. Just explain one word. That is the defect of the modern approach. These reciters do not explain even the first line of Bhagavatam, 'janmady asya yatah.' It requires many years to understand that one line and they jump over, 'rasa-lila.' That has spoiled the whole atmosphere." Prabhupada Lectures • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Recordings from Rama-Lila Conference Calls We recently wrapped up five days of celebrations for Rama Navami, which marks the appearance of Lord Ramacandra. As a new effort, Toronto's Hare Krishna temple hosted audio conference calls with special guests Krsnanandini devi dasi from Cleveland, OH and Mahatma das from Alachua, FL. Of the three calls, we were able to record two of them and present the recordings below! Sita Devi - Strengthening the Bonds of Relationships Facilitated by Krsnanandini devi dasi Recorded on Friday, March 26, 2010 Earth Hour Special - Purging Our "Inner-Ravana" Facilitated by Mahatma das Recorded on Saturday, March 27, 2010 • Email to a friend • Related • • Dandavats.com: Bhaktivedanta College Radhadesh Third Term Courses for the Academic Year 2009/10 Bhaktivedanta College: Bhaktivedanta College Radhadesh Third Term Courses for the Academic Year 2009/10 • Email to a friend • Related • • Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: Holier Than Thou Filed under: Jokes • Email to a friend • Related • • Dandavats.com: Ambarisha prabhu’s open letter to all the devotees - TOVP Donations list By Ambarisa das "Now you all together make this Vedic Planetarium very nice, so that people will come and see. From the description in the Srimad- Bhagavatam you prepare this Vedic Planetarium. My idea is to attract people of the whole world to Mayapur" Srila Prabhupada 1976 • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Good Friday Breakfast - Friday 2nd April The Prasadam Hall was bubbling with anticipation of our annual Good-Friday breakfast. Acintya Rupa Mataji, as usual, went all out to please the devotees and started the preparations days before. The traditional hot cross buns disappeared in no time and so did all the other delectable preparations. Since pictures say more than a 1000 words, here's a slideshow. • Email to a friend • Related • • Mayapur Online: Within Ten Miles of Mayapur Today in the rural area between Navadwip and the town of Krishnanagar, sixty percent of the children drop out of school before the age of twelve, and more than half of the women are illiterate. Some seventy thousand villagers in the region drink arsenic-contaminated water, twenty-three thousand of them showing skin infections and lesions. read more • Email to a friend • Related • • As I was returning from the morning mangal aroti and on my way to a place near the ISKCON goshala, I could hear someone behind me whispering but sounded more like weeping. I turned around to see what the issue was : Missing Him? My eyes first went to the little basket she was carrying near her shoulder and I saw that it had lots of flowers. She was a flower seller? As she came closer, I could see someone else in that basket ! The lady was wiping back a few tears. She stopped where I was standing. We looked at each other. Didn’t know what to say? What can I ask? She started speaking first. It was in Bengali and she had lots of sadness in the voice. Few more tears were removed. I knew she was talking something about the Lord. Her sadness was centred around that basket. But I had no idea what she was talking about. I felt that she longed to see Him. So much to learn. So much to experience. • Email to a friend • Related • • Sita-pati dasa, AU: Sydney 24 hour kirtan Check out the live broadcast here: www.worldsankirtan.net:8000/kirtanradio.m3u. Current Time in Sydney: Time Slots Singer Saturday 5-5.30 pm Tina 5.30-6 pm Kartik 6-7 pm Sri Prahlada Das 7-7.30 pm Kishore Mohan 7.30 - 10pm Madhava Das 10-12 am Sri Prahlada Das Sunday 12-1 am Bacchu 1-2 am Kartik 2-2.30 am Vrajnath Krsna Das 2.30-3 am Umesh, Jalaj 3-4 am Jitendriya, Harsh, Adi Adri 4-4.30 am Mohit, teja, Nitin 4.30- 5.15 Vara Nayaka Pr. 5.15 - 7.15 am Japa 7.15- 7.30 am Dities Greeting 7.20 - 7.45 am Guru Puja (Tirtha) 7.45 - 8.15 Sri Prabhupada Class on Holy name 8.15- 10.00 am Madhava Das 10-10.30 am Karunamaya 10.30-11 pm Hari Chaitanya 11-11.30 am Sunder Nanda Prabhu 11.30 - 12 pm Krishna Pada 12-12.30 pm Sita Pati 12.30-1 pm Vraja Dhama 1.00- 1.30pm Prema Yogi 1.30-2 pm Raga Manjari 2-2.30 pm Rajan Sharma 2.30-3 pm Dhruv Sharma 3-3.30 pm Kishori Mohan 3.30-4 pm Vijay Gauranga 4-4.30 pm Pavitram 4.30- 5 pm Bacchu 5-5.30 Kartik 5.30-6pm Tina 6-7 pm Sri Prahlada Das 7-7.30 pm Gaura Arati ( Tirtha) 7.30- till late Madhava Das • Email to a friend • Related • • Gouranga TV: Madhava prabhu beautiful bhajan in Prabhupada desh- Italy!!!! 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