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Here are the latest updates "Planet ISKCON" - 41 new articles H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Thursday 25 March 2010--The Ultimate Nectar--and--Confused by Two Views Japa Group: Please Join The Japa Group ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Deity Darshan: Rama Navami, March 24, 2010 Sita-pati dasa, AU: Madhava arrives today! ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Laksmana Watch! Where is Hanumana? ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Celebrating Lord Ramacandra in a Big Way... All the Way to Sunday! 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Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Mexican Pastimes of His Divine Grace' from The Yellow Submarine Kripamoya dasa, UK: English Puja Flowers: It’s been a long, cold winter HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Dear Lord Krishna' from The Yellow Submarine HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'In Trinidad' from The Yellow Submarine Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: Stopping The Aging Process Rupa Madhurya das, TX, USA: Lecture - Prahladananda Swami - SB 8.22.3 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 Dandavats.com: Vyasa Puja Offering to Jayapataka Maharaja from (Godsister - Omkara devi dasi ACBSP) Dandavats.com: 2010 Vyasa Puja Message from Jayapataka Maharaj for his disciples Sankirtana das, USA: Membership? ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Special Rama Navami Celebrations Next Week! H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Special Announcement--Live Internet Broadcast of Seminars in Radhadesh Kaunteya das, Mayapura: Fighting and Depending on the Lord Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: A Theoretical Approach To Understanding The Origins Of The Sacred Cow In India Gouranga TV: Giriraj 2/3 – Nava Vraja Mandala Parikama 2009. More Recent Articles Search Planet ISKCON H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Thursday 25 March 2010--The Ultimate Nectar--and--Confused by Two Views There is no doubt about it. Not only is pure devotional service the ultimate nectar. It is also the only nectar. These word may seem exaggerated or fanatical. But for someone who has actually fully tasted the ultimate nectar of pure devotional service they are a scientific reality. If you want to verify the truth or untruth of what I am saying, there... • Email to a friend • Related • • Japa Group: Please Join The Japa Group Please share your realisations with other devotees from around the world...simply send me an introduction email and I will be happy to make you a member: rasa108@gmail.com ys Rasa Rasika dasa • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Deity Darshan: Rama Navami, March 24, 2010 • Email to a friend • Related • • Sita-pati dasa, AU: Madhava arrives today! Check out details over at kirtanaustralia.com • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Laksmana Watch! Where is Hanumana? For those who attended Rama Navami celebrations (marking the appearance anniversary of Lord Rama), we saw how in the middle of the celebrations, a battle broke out between Laksmana and Indrajit! In this battle, Laksmana was struck with an arrow and fell unconscious! We are all awaiting Hanumana to come save the day (word has it, that he will arrive on Sunday). But until then, we encourage you to keep an eye on Lord Laksmana to ensure that he is ok! Free video streaming by Ustream • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Celebrating Lord Ramacandra in a Big Way... All the Way to Sunday! The Toronto Hare Krishna Centre is excited to announce that festivities surrounding Lord Ramacandra's Appearance will be celebrated in grand fashion! Lord Rama is the incarnation of Lord Krishna as the perfect monarch. He enacted His lila, or pastime, of killing the evil king Ravana and establishing virtue, by personal example, throughout His kingdom. The epic story of His transcendental adventures is told in the scripture Ramayana in which one reads of His unfailing devotion to His wife Sita and Their affectionate dealings with Lord Rama's many family members, particularly His devoted Brother, Laksmana. Festivities will begin tonight at the Hare Krishna Temple at 6:00pm. The schedule is as follows (subject to change): 6:00pm to 6:30pm - Kirtan 6:30pm to 6:40pm - Welcome and Announcements 6:40pm to 7:30pm - Class by Rupanuga das 7:30pm to 7:45pm - Arati to Lord Ramacandra 7:45pm to 8:00pm - Nama Yajna 8:00pm to 8:30pm - Kirtan 8:30pm - Vegetarian Feast (Prasadam) Served in Monkey-Fashion! Celebrations will continue this upcoming Sunday, March 28th but we have decided that why let the days go by without celebrating Lord Ramacandra's appearance?!? So, as a new initiative, we will be hosting telephone conference-calls on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings! Each call will focus on a different personality from the Ramayana and also feature a practical take-home message that can help us in our Krishna consciousness. We are excited to announce that we have some very special guests who will be facilitating these calls! The details are as follows: Laksmana and Hanumana - Duty & Service in Krishna Consciousness Hosted by Mahatma das Thursday, March 25, 2010 7:00pm to 8:00pm EST Number: 416-900-1162 Access Code: 360-232-914 Mahatma Das, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, is the founder of Touchstone Training, a company that facilitates workshops, retreats and online courses on spiritual self development. He personally facilitates courses on forgiveness, meditation, prayer, vows, kirtan and bhakti. He is also well known for his music, having produced six soothing mantra meditation CD’s. * * * * * Sita Devi - The Strengths of Bonds in Relationships Hosted by Krsnanandini dasi Friday, March 26, 2010 7:00pm to 8:00pm ES Number: 416-900-1162 Access Code: 360-232-914 Krsnanandini devi dasi, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, is a member of the Grhastha Vision Team and is also a Co-Director of Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute (www.dzfi.org), a non-profit agency dedicated to strengthening families, couples and individuals with healthy relationship skills based on universal spiritual principles. Krsnanandini holds degrees in Education and Sociology and has co-authored several magazine and newspaper articles about healthy families, parenting, relationships and marriage. * * * * * Earth Hour Special - Meditating on Lord Rama Saturday, March 27, 2010 8:30pm to 9:30pm EST Number: 416-900-1162 Access Code: 360-232-914 Join us during the international Earth Hour from 8:30pm to 9:30pm as we meditate on Lord Ramacandra. We encourage you to gather with the family, turn off the lights, light some candles and call in to the conference call to hear about Lord Ramacandra! • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON News.com: Indian Judges Back Unmarried Lovers By AFP on 24 Mar 2010 India's Supreme Court cites the example of Radha and Krishna to justify the right of unmarried couples to live together. • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON News.com: Punjabi Artist Showcases the Sacred Cow By Giridhar Khasnis for Deccan Herald on 24 Mar 2010 Sidharth’s exhibition titled ‘The Decorated Cow’ brings out many facets of the charming and domestic animal. • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON News.com: Atheism is 'Personal Rebellion' Against God, Says Philosopher By Lillian Kwon for Christian Post on 22 Mar 2010 While atheists insist that their foundational reason for rejecting God is the problem of evil or the scientific irrelevance of the supernatural, James Spiegel of Taylor University says the argument is "only a ruse" or "a conceptual smoke screen to mask the real issue – personal rebellion". • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON News.com: Walking Three Times a Week Slashes Death Rate Risk by Half By David Gutierrez for Natural News on 23 Mar 2010 As little as 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three times per week can reduce the risk of early heart-disease-related death by 60 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Department of Cardiology in New Orleans and published in the American Journal of Medicine. • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON News.com: Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car By Todd Woody and Clifford Krauss for The New York Times on 14 Feb 2010 As automakers prepare to introduce the first mass-market electric cars late this year, it is increasingly evident that the cars will get their most serious tryout in a handful of places, like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and San Diego. • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON News.com: Michigan Governor's 'Meatout Day' Angers Farmers By Tim Martin for AP on 18 Mar 2010 Some Michigan agriculture organizations attacked Jennifer Granholm for her proclamation encouraging residents to not eat meat for a day. • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Gangesvara Prabhu ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Gangesvara Prabhu - Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.35 Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.35 - Applying commonsense in devotional service. Daily Class - Gangesvara Prabhu - Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.35 14.6MB Posted by Tirthapada Dasa at 25/3/10; 8:24:33 AM to the Daily Class dept ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Gangesvara Prabhu - Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.35 Get this Ringtone SB 10.87.41 Gangesvara Prabhu 2008 07 17 Maya is seeing... mp3 • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON News.com: In Buddhist Bhutan, Happiness Counts By Vishal Arora for The Washington Post on 20 Mar 2010 The "gross national happiness"(GNH) index is not just a warm-and-fuzzy inheritance from Buddhism; it is integral to the nation's cultural and political security. • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON News.com: Indian Military to Weaponize World's Hottest Chili By Wasbir Hussain for AP on 23 Mar 2010 After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized "bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects. • Email to a friend • Related • • Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: Dvarakadhisa sends Srila Prabhupada to India (Srila Prabhupada relates how he planned to stay in America, but Krsna had another plan: that Srila Prabhupada establish a superb temple in Vrndavana. That temple was opened on Ramanavami 1975.) Prabhupada: That means Krsna desired. Otherwise I had no plan to come back here. Tamala Krsna: Your business was in the West. Still it is, you said. Still, whatever we're doing here... Prabhupada: Therefore I took this permanent residency. Tamala Krsna: Not intention but... Do you regret having come back to India? Prabhupada: No, it is well. My plan was like that, but Krsna's plan was different. When I was coming back, I was speaking to Dvarakadhisa [the Deity in ISKCON LA], "I do not know. I came here to live. Why You are driving me away?" While leaving Los Angeles I was not happy. Tamala Krsna: Oh, I remember. Prabhupada: But He had this plan. Tamala Krsna: Pretty nice plan. Prabhupada: Krsna wanted that "You left Vrndavana. I'll give you better place in Vrndavana. (chuckles) You were retired in Vrndavana. I obliged you to leave. Now you come back. I'll give you better place." So He has given a temple hundred times better than Los Angeles. Is it not? Tamala Krsna: There's nothing comparable in the three worlds. Prabhupada: Hm. So it is always by His desire. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation -- June 17, 1977, Vrndavana • Email to a friend • Related • • Sita-pati dasa, AU: Excerpts from Drucker's "Managing the Non-Profit Organization" Part 1 (As well as focusing on addressing a real need in the community)... We need to be results-driven. We need to ask, Do we get adequate results for our efforts? Is this their best allocation? Yes, need is always a reason, but by itself it is not enough. There also have to be results. There also has to be something to point at and say, We have not worked in vain. So we are always looking at projects and programmes with the question, Do they produce the right results? The leader's job is to make sure the right results are being achieved, the right things are being done. One has the responsibility to allocate resources, particularly of course in organizations that depend heavily on volunteers, and heavily on donors. Leadership is accountable for results. And leadership always asks, Are we faithful stewards of the talents entrusted us? The talents, the gifts of people - the talents, the gift of money. Leadership is *doing*. It isn't just thinking great thoughts; it isn't just charisma; it isn't play-acting. It is doing. And the first imperative of doing is to revise the mission, to refocus it, and to build and to organize, and then abandon. It is asking ourselves whether, knowing what we now know, we would go into this again. Would we stress it? Would we pour more resources in, or would we taper off? That is the first action command for any mission. It is also one way of keeping an organization lean and hungry and capable of doing new things. An old medical proverb says that the body can only take in the new if it eliminates the waste products. This is therefore the first action requirement: the constant resharpening, the constant refocusing, never really being satisfied. And the time to do this is when you are successful. If you wait until things have already started to go down, then it's very difficult. It is not impossible to turn around a declining institution, but an ounce of prevention is very much better than a ton of cure in the turnaround situation. - Managing the Non-Profit Organization, Peter Drucker, p.34-35 Anyone else up for a ton of work? - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone • Email to a friend • Related • • Japa Group: We Should Enunciate Clearly When we chant, we should enunciate clearly. If we are speaking to some important man, we take it as an important occasion; we don’t mumble to him. “What are you saying?” So similarly, Krsna knows what you are saying, what you are thinking. As we are offering the name, the sound vibration, He knows His name, and He has many people glorifying Him already. But He will be pleased if you also glorify Him. So it should be done like that. From Japa Reform Notebook by SDG • Email to a friend • Related • • HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '385' from The Yellow Submarine www.sdgonline.org. Chanting out of place, but tell yourself to go ahead and hear the holy names. There is nothing foreign about Trinidad, it’s just another land on Your planet. And I don’t really belong anywhere here. I have lived in many places and always chanted japa, so I can do it here. I just have to concentrate my mind. The words are universal and the call can be made from anyplace where there is an earnest heart and work to try. As for You, Nama Prabhu, You have always existed in all places, even in hell and heaven, so You are ready to rescue me when I call to You. Please help me sunk my presence into Your syllables. • Email to a friend • Related • • HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Mexican Pastimes of His Divine Grace' from The Yellow Submarine www.sdgonline.org. Prabhupada Smaranam These are picture of Prabhupada in Mexico in 1975. He visited twice, once in 1972 when Citsukhananda was in charge and once (shown here) in 1975 when Hridayananda Maharaja was in charge. During his 1972 visit, an extraordinary thing happened. On a Sunday afternoon there were more than five hundred people gathered in the temple room. After the lecture Prabhupada went back to his room alone and there was a big kirtana with people chanting “Jaya Prabhupada! Jaya Prabhupada!” Prabhupada was in his room and asked “What is this? Kirtana? They are making so much noise.” Citsukhananda said that they are chanting your name, Prabhupada, and he went outside to see what was going on. All the people were waiting to come into Prabhupada’s room it was as if they wanted to charge up to his room to be able to see him, and they kept chanting his name. Prabhupada said “Well let them come.” And so Citsukhananda arranged that the people could come in. Prabhupada had two doors in his room and they were coming in through one door on the left side and leaving through the door on the right. One by one, in a line, they’d just filtered through like a great parade coming and offering different words to Srila Prabhupada. Most of the people were saying in Spanish, “Your Divine Grace, Your Holiness, please bless me. Please give me your benediction.” Everyone was praying for his benediction. And as the people would come in they would bow down. Everyone was submissive, and there were many people with tears in their eyes to see the great saint, Srila Prabhupada. Prabhupada had his hand in his bead bag and with his finger outside his bead bag he would point to them and say “Hare Krishna,” and they were all very happy. Prabhupada had a very busy preaching program in Mexico in 1972. He lectured at three different locations in one day. He’d head back to his room in the temple at about 8:00 P.M., and from eight in the morning until eight at night he had not taken a bite of food only a little water. The devotees had offered him fruit and things, but he didn’t want anything. When he returned to his room his eyes were shining and his smile was broad and he said “This is the way to be happy. Work all day for Krishna.” All he wanted was a cup of hot milk with puris and a cup of sugar. He pressed the puris into the sugar, and he drank the milk with great joy and happiness. He said, “This is our life, to serve Krishna. Work all day for Krishna, and take a little prasadam at night.” Prabhupada held initiations at the temple on consecutive days during both years that he visited. He said Mexico was similar to India with pious people and a tropical climate. Even when he walked early in the morning in the park, many people followed him back to the temple. They recognized him as a saint and wanted his benediction. Hridayananda Goswami had organized a Spanish BBT in Mexico, and had made book distribution it’s priority. Early in 1974 when the first Spanish BBT was ready to print translations of Srimad-Bhagavatam’s first volume, Bhagavad-gita and Krishna: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Prabhupada wrote “By printing these books of our Krishna conscious philosophy in so many different languages, we can actually inject our movement into the masses of persons all over the world especially there in the western countries, and we can literally turn whole nations into Krishna conscious nations. When one hundred thousand copies of the Spanish Back to Godhead were printed, Prabhupada wrote, “Now give them to everyone.” Spanish book distribution became the second largest in the world, next to American. • Email to a friend • Related • • Well, its been a long cold period here in England, but finally the sun seems to be staying and the warmer weather is bringing out the spring flowers. Some of us we’re beginning to wonder whether it would ever happen. I have been using whatever flowers the locality provides for my daily puja, and it has been quite sparse. Snowdrops came out a few weeks ago, and then there’s been winter pansies, and some glorious light-yellow primroses. But I also managed to find a mahonia bush in a deserted house which was very helpful. For a few days the ‘lamb’s tails’ of the hazel tree were very helpful. Some kind but anonymous soul, perhaps after reading my last piece about the sparsity of winter flowers, arranged for a big bunch of multi-coloured carnations to be mailed to me from the warmer UK Channel Islands. They grow a lot of flowers over there as the place is always warmer than the mainland, being off the coast of France. So whoever you are, may Lord Krishna bless you for your thoughtfulness and generosity. About ten days ago, the crocuses came out with their purple bulb-shapes. They are colourful but very delicate, so if I pick them I have to return home soon afterwards. The camelia bush in my garden has just started to blossom with one bright red flower, and the brilliantly yellow daffodils seem to be popping up everywhere, along with their small lookalikes, the narcissus variation known as the tete-a-tete. For those of you with a passing interest in us florally-challenged English, here are a few pictures: Primrose Hazel Catkins Mahonia • Email to a friend • Related • • HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Dear Lord Krishna' from The Yellow Submarine www.sdgonline.org. Dear Lord Krishna, my spiritual beloved. I know You love me in my heart, and I wish I felt Your presence more. You call out to me all the time asking me to concentrate on You, but I remain distracted with bodily and schedule concerns. I should know You are with me in any country of the world, even in a little room that’s too cold with air conditioning, and the men are still sleeping. Nothing matters but my devotion to You. I will try to keep up my good cheer while I am in the Caribbean and be social and tell people about You and Prabhupada. Please let me perform as a regular sannyasi not a television actor “Monk” or even Thelonious Monk. I am a saffron– clad ISKCON representative with people who expect me to talk about You in parampara and well composed. Please preserve me from being annoyed by inconveniences and boredom and being out of my usual place. Show me I’m with You in the place that is permeated with You. Let my human heart stay in touch with You and Your assurance. I do not have such hard duties to perform here, just the length of time in a foreign place. I want to get back to America and Lewes and New York. I want to progress with the plans of my life. But everything is up to You. I want to feel like that. Just do my devotional duties, now as a socializing preacher and kind friend. I’m not a solitary. Let me chant my rounds nicely even though I’m out of station. Let me hear the tune “Spiritual” and write along to it, imbibing the holy vibrations and using them to bring me into Your presence. You are my Spiritual. My mystic friend, the one who decides what happens. Please let me just accept the fate you deal me and not regret or resent anything that appears to be an obstacle. I want to take the inconveniences as just forms of serving You and remaining optimistic and in good cheer as befits a devotee– preacher of the Lord. And let me write to You each day and reach You with a sort of poem. • Email to a friend • Related • • HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'In Trinidad' from The Yellow Submarine www.sdgonline.org. Free write It’s March 24th 6:10 A.M., and I’m in a room in Trinidad Baladeva Dasa’s house in Trinidad. The long plane trip was uneventful. We watched two movies to pass the time. One movie (I can’t describe it in detail) was a comedy about a bad luck society woman who has two grown-up sons, and it tells about their adventures as they drive around the USA. Bad things are always happening to her, but she remains optimistic that everything is going to turn out alright in the end, which is does. Baladeva Vidyabhusana Dasa remarked that the story was like me, he and Narayana Kavaca, and I thought that was a humorous remark. So now we’re here, and I’m off my schedule. I was tired and woke anyway at 3 A.M. I chanted two rounds and then went back to sleep. I’ve still only chanted two rounds. The plan is that today we just stay at this house and don’t meet the devotees but go the a beach house tomorrow and stay with them for some days. It will be a struggle to keep up a semblance of the schedule I had when I was living alone in the Yellow Submarine. I’ll count it a success if we can produce some kind of a journal and post it everyday. It may not be as ordered and composed as usual. I’m all dressed up in my full sannyasa clothes wearing tilaka and shaved head and long sikha. Last night the woman pushing my wheelchair in the airport was incompetent and caused me long delays and then the elevator didn’t work. I told her I was a Hare Krishna minister. She said with great surprise “Are you a monk?” “Yes” I said, “A monk.” She then said “Are you like ‘Monk’ the detective on the TV show? Are you an actor?” What ignorance! “No” I said, “I’m not that kind of monk. I am not an actor.” We gave her a tip for her services, but I thought she deserved a kick for her incompetence and all the delays she caused us. • Email to a friend • Related • • Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA: Stopping The Aging Process Adult man asks the sorcerer: — Do you have anything that stops the aging process? — Sure. What kind of disease would you like? Filed under: Jokes • Email to a friend • Related • • Rupa Madhurya das, TX, USA: Lecture - Prahladananda Swami - SB 8.22.3 Lecture - Prahladananda Swami - SB 8.22.3 Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 8, Chapter 22, Text 3 by Prahladananda Swami. Dallas, TX 2009-12-02 bibhemi nāhaḿ nirayāt pada-cyuto na pāśa-bandhād vyasanād duratyayāt naivārtha-kṛcchrād bhavato vinigrahād asādhu-vādād bhṛśam udvije yathā TRANSLATION I do not fear being deprived of all my possessions, living in hellish life, being arrested for poverty by the ropes of Varuṇa or being punished by You as much as I fear defamation. PURPORT Although Bali Mahārāja fully surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he could not tolerate being defamed for cheating a brāhmaṇa-brahmacārī, Being quite alert in regard to his reputation, he thought deeply about how to prevent being defamed. The Lord, therefore, gave him the good counsel to prevent defamation by offering his head. A Vaiṣṇava does not fear any punishment. Nārāyaṇa-parāḥ sarve na kutaścana bibhyati (Bhāg. 6.17.28) TRADUCCIÓN Verme privado de todas mis posesiones, tener que vivir en el infierno, que me apresen con las cuerdas de VaruŠa por mi pobreza o que Tú me castigues, son cosas que no me dan miedo. Lo que de verdad temo es perder mi buen nombre. PURPORT Bali Mahārāja, aunque estaba completamente entregado a la Suprema Personalidad de Dios, no podía soportar que le recordasen por haber engañado a un brāhmaṇa-brahmacārī. Muy preocupado de preservar su buen nombre, no dejaba de pensar en cómo evitar aquella fama deshonrosa. El Señor, entonces, le aconsejó que ofreciera su cabeza, pues de ese modo protegería su buena reputación. El Vaiṣṇava no teme ningún castigo. Nārāyaṇa-parāḥ sarve na kutaścana bibhyati (Bhāg. 6.17.28). 2009-12-02 - HH Prahladananda Swami - SB 8.22.3 Download: 2009-12-02 - Prahladananda Swami - SB 8.22.3.mp3 • Email to a friend • Related • • Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1973 march 24: "We are negotiating the purchase of the Bombay property and will require a loan from our New York building fund so kindly make the necessary arrangements, and await our final instructions through telegram. You will be refunded the loan with interest by the Mayapur Fund. The Bombay project will in turn pay the Mayapur construction expenses." Prabhupada Letters :: 1973 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1966 March 24: "Chaturthi. The temple house seems to be occupied. Do not know whether sold or rented out. I am mortified. Let Lord Sri Krishna's wish be fulfilled. But it is a great shock to me if it is now gone to others. Captain Pandiya with Mrs. Pandiya came to see me. They are happy and I was so pleased to see them. They will come tomorrow again. Three ladies and three gentlemen besides the captain and his wife attended the meeting today. Mr. Robert brought some fruits & grains for me." Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1969 March 24: "As head of the temple you should be so nicely dealing with your associates. You have lost now a good soul, if he does not like to live with you, he may come at once and live with me. Surely he will come back, so when he does you can send him to me wherever I may be." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1969 March 24: "I am very encouraged that the inhabitants are happy living in Krishna Conscious surroundings. We can accept raw fruits, grains or similar raw things from guests. So far cooking and preparing, that should be strictly limited to the initiated devotees." Prabhupada Letters :: 1969 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1970 March 24: "It is very satisfying that you have introduced public Sankirtana Party. By such activities my Guru Maharaja is certainly very pleased upon us. So whatever progress we are making by the grace of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, we must stick to them and make further progress." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1970 March 24: "The key to your success is firm conviction combined with sincerity of purpose, then push our Krishna Consciousness movement with unflinching determination. Do not feel inferior. When Krishna will give you chance, you will do more than others are doing." Prabhupada Letters :: 1970 • Email to a friend • Related • • Srila Prabhupada's Letters 1971 March 24: "It will be a great achievement for our movement if in each and every automobile factory you can open a center. Certainly we shall make circumstances favorable so that there will be no strike or dissension. So try to introduce this program." Prabhupada Letters :: 1971 • Email to a friend • Related • • 1974 March 24: "You may chant on their beads and hold a fire yajna. As GBC you must see that all the devotees are first of all chanting at least 16 rounds on beads. Be sure they are aware of the ten offenses to chanting, and that they remain enthusiastic about improving their devotional service in that way." Prabhupada Letters :: 1974 • Email to a friend • Related • • Omkara devi dasi: In the past few months, by your presence, I have observed several things, that I would like to mention briefly. Your classes oftentimes reflect the genuine caring and love for Srila Prabhupada. This is very exemplary and of high standard, of not only being Srila Prabhupada’s disciple, but as an acting Guru of Iskcon. • Email to a friend • Related • • Jayapataka Swami: Hare Krishna! Obeisances to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada! The Vyasa puja celebration is normally held in Mayapur but this time I am holding it here, in Los Angles, because I am taking a treatment to regain my motion- independent movement. So I like to wish all the devotees around the world my blessings on this Vyasa puja day. • Email to a friend • Related • • Sankirtana das, USA: Membership? I enjoyed reading Kaunteya’s clear and thoughtful comments on the topic of ISKCON membership. http://kaunteyadas.posterous.com/iskcon-membership-what-i-wrote-to-gbc-discuss Just want to interject a few additional thoughts. Once upon a time, you had to move into the temple, give whatever you had to the temple, get initiated and serve the temple 24 hours a day to be considered a member. Obviously those standards have fallen away and the movement is continuing without that mindset and is actually florishing in many places. But I’d like to understand why now is there a need to define membership? What is the purpose? In regards to the analogy of citizenship, Prabhupada always said that the trees, cows and other animals were also citizens and should be afforded the same rights of protection as any citizen. A citizen in good standing certainly abides by the rules of the land. As a citizen, one also has certain rights and privileges. What privileges will a members of ISKCON have? To vote? To receive an ISKCON pension? Healthcare? The children of citizens also have the same rights as their parents when they grow up. Citizenship is probably not a good analogy for membership because in most cases citizenship does not require a active decision by the citizen. Here in New Vrindaban, as I’m sure at other temples, we have long time supporters who strongly identify with the efforts of the community. They might consider themselves members. Will the move to define membership alienate our supporters and well wishers? What category do they fit in? What privileges will ‘members’ that they don’t have? Our supporters already naturally honor initiated devotees and temple residents. By doing so, they make advancement. Why artificially accentuate this distinction with member and non member status? Will we end up like to Mormons where only members in good standing can enter the Church? • Email to a friend • Related • • ISKCON Toronto, Canada: Special Rama Navami Celebrations Next Week! On Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Toronto's Hare Krishna Centre will mark the Appearance Day of Lord Rama (also known as Rama Navami). Lord Rama is the incarnation of Lord Krishna as the perfect monarch. He enacts His lila, or pastime, of killing the evil king Ravana and establishing virtue, by personal example, throughout His kingdom. The epic story of His transcendental adventures is told in the scripture Ramayana in which one reads of His unfailing devotion to His wife Sita and Their affectionate dealings with Lord Rama's many family members, particularly His devoted Brother, Laksmana. Celebrations for this festival will take place in a big way! There will be two festivals on Wednesday, March 24th from 6:00-9:00 pm as well as on Sunday, March 28, 2010 from 6:00-9:00 pm. A warm invitation goes out to everyone to attend both celebrations for a very special reason. Festivities will continue between Wednesday and Sunday. More details will be coming soon, but the theme of programs will be linked together. The new initiatives, taking place from Thursday to Saturday, will be interactive features to help celebrate Lord Rama. Stay tuned for more details! • Email to a friend • Related • • ================================================================== --Special Announcement-- Live Video Broadcast of Uttama Bhakti Course An In Depth Study of Pure Devotional Service Taught in Radhadesh, Belgium by Sankarshan Das Adhikari Class Schedule: Thursday 25 March 10:30 am to 12:00 noon 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Friday 26 March 10:30... • Email to a friend • Related • • Kaunteya das, Mayapura: Fighting and Depending on the Lord Today I was reading "The Pastimes of the Supreme Lord, Ramacandra," Chapter 10 of the Ninth Canto Srimad-Bhagavatam. Coming across Text 20 I began wondering what Srila Prabhupada meant - or rather whom he was referring to - by saying "Depending on the mercy of the Supreme Lord, one must fight one's enemies even though one may not be equipped with modern weapons." The context is the fight between the army of the Vanaras (equipped only with stones, mountain peaks and trees), and the Raksasa army of Ravana, "equipped with weapons of modern warfare." Of course the monkeys could kill the Raksasas "who had lost all good fortune because Ravana had been condemned by the anger of mother Sita." Srila Prabhupada explains that "There are two kinds of strength-daiva and purusakara. Daiva refers to the strength achieved from the Transcendence, and purusakara refers to the strength organized by one's own intelligence and power. Transcendental power is always superior to the power of the materialist. Depending on the mercy of the Supreme Lord, one must fight one's enemies even though one may not be equipped with modern weapons." What this last sentence means for a devotee? We generally don't fight with weapons, modern or otherwise. Is it a reference to the need of keeping fighting inner and outer obstacles despite their apparent superiority? One might discover that a planet (much stronger than a modern weapon) influences one's mind in a non-spiritual way; should one remember that Daiva strength "achieved from the Transcendence" can overcome any astral or psychological influence? Or should we, collectively, remember that our attempts to spread Krishna consciousness with limited assets and funds should go on determinedly, confident of the protection of the Lord and His full capacity of bestowing success? Would an analysis of the particular days in which Srila Prabhupada wrote this sentence reveal that he might have had something particular in mind, some particular challenge faced by ISKCON? Should we conclude that the devotee in every circumstance should never forget that the power of God is stronger than any other power? Permalink | Leave a comment » • Email to a friend • Related • • Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: A Theoretical Approach To Understanding The Origins Of The Sacred Cow In India From our friend Ali Krishna... By Alysia Radder (Ali Krishna dd), University of Florida Amidst rush-hour traffic, in a city boosting over 19 million people, a large cow and her companion cross the street with reckless abandon. Brakes squealing, horns honking, heads and clenched fists asserting themselves out of car windows in protest- thousands of cars are forced to maneuver and heed the right of way to that divine couple who have now decided to take their morning nap in the middle of Mumbai’s busiest highway intersection. Thus, the phenomenon of the “sacred cow” within India is directly observed. An impassioned controversy has been stirring for over 50 years in the great struggle to uncover the origin of the cow’s rise to sacred status in India. The debate has been led by the arguments of Marvin Harris, a renowned cultural materialist, who reduces the Hindu ban on cow slaughter as a factor of ecological pressures. He argues that religious sanctity has been mistakenly given to a phenomenon that can best be explained by socio-political factors. However, Harris’s theory has met with great criticism. Frederick Simoons, a cultural geographer and contemporary of Harris, suggests that beef was not simply tabooed on environmental grounds but on religious factors as well. In this paper, I will prove that Harris’s functionalist approach is incomplete having not sufficiently addressed religious claims. While Simoons suggests a broader “positive” and “negative-functioned” theory, I will present how Geertz’s method of thick description reveals many discrepancies in Simoons observations. Thus, in compliance with Geertz’s interpretive model, I will conclude that in order to further determine the origins of the sacred cow in India, we must understand basic philosophical points of Hinduism concerning the nature of the soul, the laws of karma, and reincarnation. To read more of this essay, access the .pdf file here. • Email to a friend • Related • • Gouranga TV: Giriraj 2/3 – Nava Vraja Mandala Parikama 2009. Giriraj 1/3 - Nava Vraja Mandala Parikrama 2009 Giriraj 2/3 - Nava Vraja Mandala Parikrama 2009 Giriraj 3/3 - Nava Vraja Mandala Parikrama 2009 • Email to a friend • Related • • --> More Recent Articles H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Wednesday 24 March 2010--Conquering Depression--and--Gurus' Names in Our Disciplic Succession ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Aniruddha Prabhu Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: A portrait of Lord Rama David Haslam, UK: Did Prabhupada really say that (in Prabhupada’s own words) HH. 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