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  1. Japa Group: We Should Enunciate Clearly
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  3. Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: A portrait of Lord Rama
  4. David Haslam, UK: Did Prabhupada really say that (in Prabhupada’s own words)
  5. HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '384' from The Yellow Submarine
  6. ISKCON News.com: Lessons from Hanuman, Lord Rama’s Greatest Servant
  7. HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Little Drops of Nectar' from The Yellow Submarine
  8. HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Travel Fears' from The Yellow Submarine
  9. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
  10. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
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  16. Srila Prabhupada's Letters
  17. HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Wild Flowers' from The Yellow Submarine
  18. Doyal Gauranga dasa & Gadadhar Pandit dasa, NYC: Thai curry
  19. Doyal Gauranga dasa & Gadadhar Pandit dasa, NYC: Sleeping with the Enemy
  20. Bhakti Lata, Alachua, USA: House of God
  21. Mukunda Charan das, SA: Sita’s Ordeal
  22. Japa Group: The Lord Is Waiting For Us
  23. Kaunteya das, Mayapura: GBC: much more than just a "managerial authority"
  24. Akrura das, Gita Coaching: GITA COACHING UVOD
  25. Jahnavi, UK: Layers in Wonderland
  26. Akrura das, Gita Coaching: The Vedic Way – The Art of Spiritual Transformation
  27. Shalagram das, Dallas, TX, USA: Plant and Be Happy has moved!
  28. Ananda Subramanian, Iowa, USA: Svayam Bhagavan Sri Krishna - The Original Personality of Godhead
  29. Ananda Subramanian, Iowa, USA: Svayam Bhagavan Sri Krishna - LA SUPREMA PERSONALIDAD DE DIOS ORIGINAL
  30. H.H. Bhakti Caitanya Swami: Some photos of the Ogo-ogo’s
  31. Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: Remember When Organic Used To Mean Green?
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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, Kåñëa 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.

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ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - HG Aniruddha Prabhu - Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.34



SB 11.18.34: If required, one should endeavor to get sufficient foodstuffs, because it is always necessary and proper to maintain one's health. When the senses, mind and life air are fit, one can contemplate spiritual truth, and by understanding the truth one is liberated.

SB 11.18.34: Si procede, uno debe esforzarse por conseguir suficientes productos alimenticios, porque es siempre necesario y apropiado mantener la salud. Cuando los sentidos, la mente y el aire de la vida están ajustado, uno puede comtemplar la verdad espiritual, y entendiendo la verdad uno es liberado.

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Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.34 - Cultivate renunciation naturally by positive engagement in devotional service, don't try to imitate Raghunatha das Goswami.
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Bharatavarsa.net: Bhakti Vikasa Swami: A portrait of Lord Rama

Although the sight of Lord Ramacandra is naturally blissful, when He is with His beloved Janaki, with Laksmana, and with His best servant Hanuman, His beauty increases manyfold, and whoever sees Him becomes immersed in the most exceptional ecstasy. This picture of Lord Ramacandra together with Sita, Laksmana, and Hanuman depicts the Supreme Lord in His especially compassionate mood of reciprocating with His intimate servants. Sitadevi in particular is the perfectly compatible consort for Lord Ramacandra, and her beauty and other qualities excel even those of the goddess Laksmi in Vaikuntha. Standing on the left side of the Lord, she displays such pastimes as offering Him betel nut to chew. Brhad-Bhagavatamrta 2.4.259 ppt.

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David Haslam, UK: Did Prabhupada really say that (in Prabhupada’s own words)

even when Prabhupada was alive it appears people stated or said that he had said something when in fact he didn’t Room Conversation with Carol Cameron — May 9, 1975, Perth: Paramahaṁsa: People…, I’ve talked to professors who know the original Hebrew and the original tongues that the Bible was written in. They say that is [...]

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HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: '384' from The Yellow Submarine

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read more from SDGonline - daily updates from The Yellow Submarine: My Bhajana Kutir journal
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ISKCON News.com: Lessons from Hanuman, Lord Rama’s Greatest Servant

By Madhava Smullen on 23 Mar 2010


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HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Little Drops of Nectar' from The Yellow Submarine

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Prabhupada Smaranam

Srila Prabhupada, Brahmananda, Bhavandanda and SDG all laughing in a room.

Srila Prabhupada was a great humorist. Here in his room in Denver, Colorado, in 1975, he had his three sannyasi disciples all breaking up into full laughter. Memory is so faulty I do not remember what produced this magic moment. It is nice to see Srila Prabhupada so relaxed that he is leaning back with his leg, and arm relaxed and cracking jokes to the amusement of his disciples. It is summertime and we are all wearing sandalwood paste smeared on our temples. Although Prabhupada was making a brief stop at a remote place, his table is stocked with all the paraphernalia he needs for his daily work on Srimad-Bhagavatam and his correspondence. The devotees have provided him with fresh flowers and a table full of devotional pictures. Prabhupada could travel around the world and simulate a similar environment wherever he stayed. His needs were standard and simple, and the devotees everywhere were aware of what to provide and what to cook. Still, the airplane traveling was tiring on his body, and wherever he went he kept a daily schedule of lecturing and meeting devotees individually.

Although he had worldwide managerial burdens which he carried with him wherever he went, he was able to be transcendental to them and relax intimately with a few of his senior men.

I don’t see a microphone present so I don’t know if this laughing moment is preserved on the database. Perhaps the other devotees present recall what he was saying. I just know it was a joy to see him in this mood and to be spontaneous with the person who was your lord and master. Prabhupada completely controlled the mood and could be grave, formal or witty and relaxed as he chose. It was not up to the disciple when to be in a certain attitude, but it depended on Prabhupada’s desires and passing moods. But here is visual evidence that he was not always the person with the sometimes down-turned mouth, appearing almost sternly at the world. And here is evidence that he did not expect his disciples to always sit before him with visages of fear, awe and reverence.

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HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Travel Fears' from The Yellow Submarine

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I am sad and a little
afraid to travel out of
my Yellow Submarine.
It is so quiet and settled
here, and I can write poems
of Krishna with a certain assurance.

But there will be adventures and
new angles of vision. Krishna
will be the same. He will be
with me, and He will be in the
world. I will see the workings
of His nature in different ways.

You’re no more safer in your
submarine, really. You could die here just
as easily. But it doesn’t seem
so. The car traffic, the airport
security and the air travel
present new perils. I may
be thinking more of myself and
my safety and well being.

I want to think of Krishna.
I don’t want to simply look
out blandly and nervously
at the world. I want to
be with Him peacefully.

You’re going to meet devotees,
to preach, and to keep up
your daily journal. In
your journal you seek
for Krishna in a daily poem.

Are You with me, Lord?
Am I with You?
Can I settle myself and
be more than a transient?
I want to focus my
soul on the Supreme,
and the travel is a
distraction.

But I can try to make
it otherwise. Pray to
Lord Krishna to protect you
and give you inspiration
to write of Him. Don’t
forget Him just because
you’re on the highway
or at the airport. Keep an
inner prayer going. Make
it even more an occasion
for prayer than if you were
sitting alone.

You need Him to overcome your
uneasiness. You need to call
to Him. You wish you didn’t
have to travel yet it’s a duty.
Take it as a duty and devotional
service, to meet with devotees
and encourage them.

Show yourself strong enough
to be away from your home for fifteen
days in foreign countries where
people are strangers, and you
sleep in unfamiliar beds.

Be the same. Be yourself.
Spread good will and speak
about Krishna and Prabhupada
to audiences who want
to hear. Do not fear.

At any rate, it’s all
up to Krishna, whatever happens,
and you have to accept that
as true.

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Srila Prabhupada's Letters

1966 March 23:

"Tritiya. One letter of Mayor's office replied. Informed that I shall wait to see Mayor Lindsay till he is free to talk with me. One letter sent to the Director Library of Congress, Washington D.C. asking for the Library card no. of my Srimad Bhagwatam. In Doctor Mishra's apartment there were ten to eleven members and I cooked for them all. Today's meeting only two gentlemen attended therefore I did not record the speeches. No expenditure."

Prabhupada Journal :: 1966

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1968 March 23: "BTG must be improved to the fullest extent, because it is the backbone of our society. I want to see you make BTG a successful magazine like Life Magazine or Illustrated Weekly of India. You can use your discretion how to do it. You are at liberty to do it with full power of attorney."

Prabhupada Letters :: 1968

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1969 March 23: "My only request is that you kindly publish one issue every month of this French BTG. That will make you very much happy and will make me always very much happy. And Krishna will bestow all blessings to you in this endeavor. Now this work is specially entrusted to you so please execute it."

Prabhupada Letters :: 1969

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1971 March 23: "There is some harassment but the preaching never stops. That should be followed. We are delivering the genuine goods on behalf of Krishna. No one can check us because no material circumstance can permanently hamper devotional service."

Prabhupada Letters :: 1971

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1972 March 23: "Today we have laid the cornerstone for our Bombay Center in Juhu and a few days back laid the cornerstone for our Vrindaban Temple. So the program now in India is immense task and I am very much encouraged that you feel yourself enthusiastic to help me for pushing on this Movement here."

Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

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1973 March 23: "Simply read one sloka daily and I have given you enough slokas for over 50 years. We are offering to make Brahmanas from anywhere in the world, to become trained up in the highest spiritual knowledge and to become preachers. So now go and recruit some solid devotees for pushing on this movement."

Prabhupada Letters :: 1973

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1974 March 23: "I will be glad to hear of your progress in the political sankirtana. We are simply presenting the truth - outside of Krsna Consciousness there is no hope for the betterment of modern affairs rather they are all going to hell without check."

Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

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1974 March 23: "Second initiation should be given only when you are certain the devotee is really following. So now instruct further on the seriousness of the regulative principles of Krishna Consciousness. All the devotees there are in your charge so by your example they will best be encouraged to enthusiastic advancement."

Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

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HH. Satsvarupa das Goswami: 'Wild Flowers' from The Yellow Submarine

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Free write

The spring season has begun. Daffodils and pansies are blooming near the house in Lewes, Delaware. But this morning, Tuesday, we drove to Samika Rsi’s house in New Jersey, and it was intense rain, dangerous driving in heavy traffic. Now the rain has stopped, the sky is clear again and the flowers can bloom. The Bhagavad-gita says, “Of seasons I am flower bearing spring.” The flowers are said elsewhere to be the smile of the Lord. Krishna likes to wear flower garlands presented to Him by the gopis. Devotees adorn the arca-vigraha in the temple with aromatic flower garlands. Wild flowers grow all over Krishna’s Vrndavana, some of them species that grow only in Goloka. The rose is among the most beautiful flowers, and Krishna likes to wear them, but flowers like kadambas and karnikara are unique to Goloka Vrndavana. Krishna likes to twirl a “toy” lotus, and He bewilders the gopis when they see Him do so. He is twirling their hearts as He twirls the flower. The gopis make a mattress of flower petals for Radha and Krishna to lie on.

In Guyana there are natural water lilies that are shaped just like the lotuses that Krishna wears in His garlands, and they have whorls like the ones He stands on. But the lotuses of Guyana are quick to fade and die once picked, unlike the ever-fresh lotuses in Krishna’s Vraja. All the flowers remain always fresh and sweet smelling in Vraja, and that is the feature that distinguishes it from the flowers even in the highest planets of the material world.

Once the cowherd boys played a joke on Krishna. They told Him to close His eyes, and they would put a sweet in His mouth. Krishna closed His eyes and opened His mouth, and a boy put a flower into Krishna’s mouth.

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Doyal Gauranga dasa & Gadadhar Pandit dasa, NYC: Thai curry

Here's a tasty and unusual combination of potatoes and tofu simmered in a

spicy lemon-peanut-coconut sauce. Serve alongside Thai Rice for a light

meal.
o PREPARATION & COOKING TIME: 45 minutes
o YIELD: Enough for 4 persons
o 2 whole cloves
o 1 tablespoon (20 ml) coriander seeds
o 1 teaspoon (5 ml) cumin seeds
o 5 dried chilies
o 3 black peppercorns
o one 2 1/2 cm (1-inch) cinnamon stick, broken into pieces
o 3 tablespoons (60 ml) vegetable oil
o 1/2 teaspoon (2 ml) yellow asafoetida powder
o 2 small fresh hot green chilies, seeded and sliced into thin strips
o 1 teaspoon (5 ml) lemongrass powder
o 1/2 teaspoon (2 ml) galangal (laos) powder
o 2 cups (500 ml) coconut milk
o 1 teaspoon (5 ml) salt
o 1 tablespoon (20 ml) instant tamarind concentrate
o 2 tablespoons (40 ml) warm water
o 400 g (14 ounces) firm tofu cut into 1.25 cm (1/2-inch) cubes
o 4 tablespoons (80 ml) roasted peanuts
o 1/2 teaspoon (2 ml) cardamom seeds
o 4 medium potatoes parboiled, peeled, and cut into 1 1/4 cm (1/2-inch)
cubes
o 2 tablespoons (40 ml) brown sugar
o 3 tablespoons (60 ml) light soy sauce
o 3 tablespoons (60 ml) fresh lemon juice

1. Dry-roast the cloves, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, chilies, eppercorns,
and cinnamon in a small pan over moderate heat until the spices become aromatic (2 - 3 minutes). Remove the pan from the heat and transfer the spices to a coffee mill. Grind the spices to a powder; transfer to a small bowl.

2. Heat the vegetable oil in a 6-litre/quart saucepan over moderate heat. When the oil becomes hot, add the asafoetida, green chilies, lemongrass powder, galangal (laos) powder, and dry-roasted spices. Stir momentarily, add the coconut milk and salt, and stir until warm. Remove from the heat.

3. Combine the tamarind concentrate with the warm water. Whisk until smooth. Add the cubed tofu to the coconut milk mixture along with the peanuts, cardamom seeds, parboiled potatoes, brown sugar, light soy sauce, tamarind water, and lemon juice. Return to a very low heat and, occasionally, simmer uncovered for 25 to 30 minutes or until the sauce thickens and the potatoes are tender. Serve hot.

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Doyal Gauranga dasa & Gadadhar Pandit dasa, NYC: Sleeping with the Enemy

There are terms in Eastern psychology that can refer to or be translated as “internal formations,” “fetters,” or “knots.” When we have a sensory input, depending on how we receive it, a knot may be tied in us. If we do not untie our knots when they form, they will grow tighter and stronger. Our conscious, reasoning mind knows that negative feelings such as anger, fear, and regret are not wholly acceptable to ourselves or society, so it finds ways to repress them, to push them into remote areas of our consciousness in order to forget them. Because we want to avoid suffering, we create defense mechanisms that deny the existence of theses negative feelings and give us the impression we have peace within ourselves. But our internal formations are always looking for ways to manifest as destructive images, feelings, thoughts, words, or behavior.

Here's an amusing video about anger



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Bhakti Lata, Alachua, USA: House of God

I so happened to purchase a moped for the coldest recorded winter of America (It snowed - in Florida). I tend to visit the temple almost every day, but for the past several months my visits have tapered off. The cold air from riding a moped has seeped into my bones.

But tonight, I decided I needed the temple. I needed Radhe Shyam.

When I stepped into the templeroom, Prabhupad's voice washed over me. I felt my anxieties dissolve into the cool marble floor. It's that feeling I get when I gaze up at the stars - that beautiful humility. It's like I suddenly have a perspective on how tiny and insignificant I am. This is a place where nothing revolves around me and everything revolves around God.

I pray to be a servant in the house of God. Then I can bathe in the humility of gazing at the stars of Radha Shyamasundar.


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Mukunda Charan das, SA: Sita’s Ordeal

There was much jubilation after Rama defeated Ravana. Matali took his leave of Rama, and returned to Indra. Rama’s anger subsided. Lanka was now absorbed with Vibhishana’s coronation.

Rama asked Lakshmana to preside over Vibishana’s coronation ceremony. Lakshmana ordered the vanaras to bring sea-water and the ceremony was performed. Vibhishana was offered many gifts which he, in turn, offered to Rama.

When the ceremony was complete, Rama asked Hanuman to go to Sita. He said, ‘Inform Her of what has passed. Tell her to get ready. I want to see Her’. Hanuman went to the ashoka grove and saw Sita, in a forlorn condition, at the foot of the simshapa tree. Hanuman told Her what had happened. Hanuman asked her to prepare Herself to meet Lord Rama. No wealth in all three worlds could equal the good news.

Looking at her Rakshasa guardians, Hanuman offered to destroy them. Sita thought for a moment. Now that Ravana was dead, the Rakshasas had lost interest in Sita. Sita replied, ‘No. These Rakshasas were simply carrying out Ravana’s order. If I have suffered in any way, it was because of My own misdeeds. The virtuous never retaliate when others offend them. They do not return evil for evil. Compassion should always be shown towards sinners’.

Hanuman bowed to Her, without argument. ‘Shall I give a message to Rama’. Sita replied, ‘Yes. I only want to see Him’. Hearing of Sita’s state, Rama asked Vibhishana to supply her with clothing and ornaments and bathed in fine oils. Vibhishana personally went to Sita, offering these services. But Sita replied, ‘I want to go to My husband now. There is no need to bathe and dress’. How could she wait any longer?

Vibhishana expressed that it was Rama’s desire that she prepare Herself. Sita agreed and was duly prepared to meet Lord Rama. Crowds of monkeys and rakshasas filled the streets as Sita was borne on a palanquin to meet Lord Rama.

Hearing that She was on a palanquin, Lord Rama said to Vibhishana, ‘The princess should be asked to dismount and proceed on foot. The people desire to see Her and that is not condemned by scripture. A house, a veil or a costume are never the protection of a chaste woman. Her character alone is her shield’. Everyone was surprised at Rama’s stern countenance. Sita felt abashed on seeing Lord Rama’s stern countenance. She stood, trembling, before Him. Rama deeply wanted to show His love for Sita, but He feared public censure. After all, Sita had been in the house of another man for over a year. Her chastity was questionable.

Looking at the tearful Sita, Rama spoke to Her. I have avenged the insult given by Your abduction; and You, too, are avenged by Ravana’s death. Rama steadied Himself as He spoke His next words: ‘How can I take You back? You have spent too long in the house of another. Your good character has been compromised. Ravana clased You and looked on You with lust. Please go wherever You desire. Take shelter of one of my brothers or Vibhishana. You are so beautiful. How could Ravana have left You alone?’

Sita was shocked. She wept loudly and shook like anything. She countered Rama ‘You are speaking to Me as if I am some vulagar woman. You are judging all women by the standards of a degraded few. Though Ravana stole Me away, I did not deviate from You even for a moment. Having lived with Me so long, how could You not trust me? I am finished’. Sita saw no other option but to burn on a pyre. After circling Rama with respect, Sita offered prayers invoking the protection of Agni. After all, She was blameless. Walking deep into the fire, Sita appeared like a goddess fallen from heaven into hell. Everyone was stunned. The women cried. Sita disappeared into the fire.

Rama was blinded with tears. The devas questioned His actions. Then Agni emerged from the fire, holding Sita in his arms. She looked magnificent. Agni’s voice boomed: ‘She is sinless. She has never been unfaithful to you. Not even a glance. Although She was held captive by Ravana, Sita was always thinking of You within Her heart – even though Ravana tried to tempt Her and threaten Her in so many ways. Please accept Her back with an open heart’.

Rama was overjoyed. This purificatory ordeal was necessary for Sita to prove Her chastity to the world. Otherwise, the world would have condemned Rama as being lusty. She is guarded by Her own moral power. Ravana could not have violated Sita any more than the sea cross its bounds. Rama expressed that Sita was inseperable from Him as sunlight from the sun and to renounce Her was as futile as a virtuous man renouncing righteousness.

Sita bloomed with happiness. She took Her place next to Rama on the throne. Siva approached Rama, ‘Now you have vanquishe Ravana, the scourge of the universe, return to Your home, Ayodhya’. Rama was reunited with His father, Dasaratha. Dasaratha now understood His identity as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They exchanged more word with each other. Dasaratha assured Sita that Rama had not repudiated Her. He wanted to prove the Absolute nature of Her purity and establish Her as the most virtuous amongst women.

Rama asked Indra to revive the slain and wounded monkeys. They were brought back to life. Rama ordered the monkeys to camp for the night as He and Sita stayed in Vibhishana’s palace.

(Summarized from Krishna Dharma prabhu’s ‘Ramayana’)


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Japa Group: The Lord Is Waiting For Us


The Lord is waiting for us to make an effort and to express our devotion by trying hard to chant His Holy names with quality. The Lord wants us to try hard to connect with Him through the spiritual master by chanting, and by this act of devotion, we can make great progress by Krsna's reciprocation.
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Kaunteya das, Mayapura: GBC: much more than just a "managerial authority"

I have heard that some devotees consider the GBC as a merely managerial
authority for ISKCON.

The pretext for this position is the first point of Srila Prabhupada's

Declaration of Will (June 1977):

"1. The Governing Body Commission (GBC) will be the ultimate managing
authority of the entire International Society for Krishna Consciousness."

But considering the GBC authority as just managerial doesn't constitute a comprehensive, mature or defensible understanding.

Independently from one's personal estimate of how well the GBC has performed
or is performing its other functions, there are other, deeper dimensions to their mandate; there are other important roles that the Founder-Acarya expects them to play. But let Srila Prabhupada speak for himself, delineating his vision for the GBC in the following excerpts (one letter and two conversations).

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Letter to Madhudvisa, 4 August 1975:

"Regarding Sydney, that the President has left, if one does not follow the regulative principles, then he will leave. That is a fact. Has somebody else been elected? This is the function of the GBC, to see that one may not be taken away by maya. The GBC should all be the instructor gurus. I am in the
initiator guru, and you should be the instructor guru by teaching what I am
teaching and doing what I am doing. This is not a title, but you must
actually come to this platform. This I want."

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Room Conversation with Reporter, 4 June 1976, Los Angeles:

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Reporter: Is there anyone who is designated to succeed you as the primary
teacher of the movement?

Prabhupada: I am training some, I mean to say, advanced students so that
they may be very easily take up the charge. I have made them GBC. They are
under my direct training, and I think they will be able to conduct this
movement.

Reporter: Do you expect to name one person as your successor or have you
already?

Prabhupada: That I am not contemplating now. But there is no need of one
person. As other things are managed, but by committee, so this can also be
managed, and the committee may elect one person as chief. As, just like in
the democracy there are senators and there is president, so it may be I may
nominate or they can nominate.

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Less than a week later another journalist brings up the same question
(Magazine Interview, 10 June 1976, Los Angeles):

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Interviewer: What happens when that inevitable time comes when a successor
is needed?

Ramesvara: He is asking about the future, who will guide the movement in the
future.

Prabhupada: They will guide. I am training them.

Interviewer: Will there be one spiritual leader, though?

Prabhupada: No, I am training GBC, eighteen all over the world.

Ramesvara: His personal secretaries.

Interviewer: I see.

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I believe the above evidence sufficiently demonstrates that Srila Prabhupada
considered the GBC much more than a mere managerial entity, but as the
primary spiritual guide "to conduct this movement."

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Jahnavi, UK: Layers in Wonderland

I went to see Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland last night. It was a surreal experience. Of course, even if it had been a classic interpretation of the story, it still would’ve been fantastical. Alice in Wonderland is, after all, one long, wild dream. But this was no gentle, Edwardian, jam tarts interpretation of Alice, but rather, a more macabre, menacing vision of Wonderland. Burton’s trademark stamp was clearly manifest – the craggy trees and mist, garish costumes and production design and familiar collision of old lace and punk rock.

To add another layer of surrealism, the movie was in 3D, which judging by the posters in the cinema, is the new hot gimmick. 80% of the upcoming films advertised as we sat through the opening used the same technology, and one even advertised a new Sky 3D HD service for home television. My sister and I peered at each other through our geeky glasses, both thinking the same thing – one day we’ll be telling our kids about the days all movies were flat.

I wonder how far we are from the vision of the future where virtual experience really threatens to replace real life. I know it’s a cliched thing to consider, but hey, shocking realities sometimes take a while to sink in. I’ve been reading from the Srimad Bhagavatam lately, which sometimes compare this life to a dream from which we wake up at the time of death, either to return to reality, or move to a new body, like Alice, falling down the hole into a world where things often seem so unfair, and chaos is the status quo. Once there, she forgets both her name, and the world that she came from.

I had a little laugh to myself on the way home. When I was young we used to make fun of my Dad, who would invariably find something spiritual to comment on in any piece of entertainment. Squinting as we stepped out of the dark cinema, we’d roll our eyes as he wasted no time pointing out parts of the film that had any connection with reincarnation, karma, India – if you could find it in a Disney cartoon, he would. Last night as the caterpillar spoke to Alice, suspended upside down inside a rapidly forming cocoon, I knew what he was thinking.

‘Are you dying?’ said Alice.

‘No, just transforming,’ said the caterpillar, calmly closing his eyes.

My dad spoke at the same time as I thought on the drive home.

‘I liked that part where the caterpillar-’

‘-I know, me too,’ I interrupted.


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Akrura das, Gita Coaching: The Vedic Way – The Art of Spiritual Transformation

The Vedic Way is a school of life for the complete progression and elevation of the whole human being. It takes all of you into account as you begin your spiritual development – the physical, mental, emotional, and interpersonal parts of yourself that support the uplifting of spirit.

The Vedic Way is supra-denominational – relevant for everyone no matter what his or her religious or spiritual orientation – and teaches five steps to a spiritual lifestyle based on universal principles:

1. Satva - Living in Balance
Balance the factors that influence your physical, emotional, and mental well-being, and create the foundation for a healthy spiritual life.

2. Dharma - Living Your Purpose
Find out what you are meant to be and do, and experience the universal force of dharma.

3. Atma - Living in the Self
Become aware of yourself as an eternal spiritual soul, and confront both your mortality and eternity.

4. Paramatma - Living with a Higher Connection
Connect with the Supersoul, and become fearless as you contact your intuition and guide.

5. Bhakti - Living in Love
Embark on the path of devotion in a mood of service, and feel the pleasure of spiritual relationship with God and all His creatures.


The dynamic lifestyle of the Vedic Way rejuvenates and then spiritualizes body, mind, and soul. Our curriculum draws on the most effective techniques from the Vedic laboratory: knowledge from the yoga tradition, information about health and well-being from Ayurveda, insights from spiritual psychology, instruction in the art of working with mantras and the vast wisdom of the bhakti tradition.


http://vedicway.org

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Shalagram das, Dallas, TX, USA: Plant and Be Happy has moved!

Our new home is:

http://gardenblog.selfsufficientcommunities.net/

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Ananda Subramanian, Iowa, USA: Svayam Bhagavan Sri Krishna - The Original Personality of Godhead



In the Vedic literature (Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad 1.1) the following statement appears:

sac-cid-ānanda-rūpāya
kṛṣṇāyākliṣṭa-kāriṇe
namo vedānta-vedyāya
gurave buddhi-sākṣiṇe

"I offer my respectful obeisances unto Kṛṣṇa, who has a transcendental form of bliss, eternity and knowledge. I offer my respect to Him, because understanding Him means understanding the Vedas and He is therefore the supreme spiritual master." Then it is said, kṛṣṇo vai paramaṁ daivatam: "Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead." (Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad 1.3) Eko vaśī sarva-gaḥ kṛṣṇa īḍyaḥ: "That one Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and He is worshipable." Eko 'pi san bahudhā yo 'vabhāti: "Kṛṣṇa is one, but He is manifested in unlimited forms and expanded incarnations." (Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad 1.21)

The Brahma-saṁhitā (5.1) says,

īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
anādir ādir govindaḥ
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Kṛṣṇa, who has a body of eternity, knowledge and bliss. He has no beginning, for He is the beginning of everything. He is the cause of all causes."

Elsewhere it is said, yatrāvatīrṇaṁ kṛṣṇākhyaṁ paraṁ brahma narākṛti: "The Supreme Absolute Truth is a person, His name is Kṛṣṇa, and He sometimes descends on this earth." Similarly, in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam we find a description of all kinds of incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and in this list the name of Kṛṣṇa also appears. But then it is said that this Kṛṣṇa is not an incarnation of God but is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself (ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam).

Similarly, in Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat: "There is nothing superior to My form as the Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa." He also says elsewhere in Bhagavad-gītā, aham ādir hi devānām: "I am the origin of all the demigods." And after understanding Bhagavad-gītā from Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna also confirms this in the following words: paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitram-paramaṁ bhavān, "I now fully understand that You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, and that You are the refuge of everything." Therefore the universal form which Kṛṣṇa showed to Arjuna is not the original form of God. The original is the Kṛṣṇa form.

Hare Krishna


Ananda Subramanian, Iowa, USA: Svayam Bhagavan Sri Krishna - LA SUPREMA PERSONALIDAD DE DIOS ORIGINAL


En la literatura védica (Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad 1.1) se declara lo siguiente:


sac-cid-ānanda-rūpāya
kṛṣṇāyākliṣṭa-kāriṇe
namo vedānta-vedyāya
gurave buddhi-sākṣiṇe

Ofrezco mis respetuosos obediencias a Kṛṣṇa, que tiene una forma trascendental de dicha, de eternidad y de conocimiento. Ofrezco mi respecto a él, porque comprendiéndole a Él, se comprenden los medios para comprender Los Vedas y Él es por lo tanto el Supremo Maestro Espiritual." Entonces se dice, kṛṣṇo vai paramaṁ daivatam: "Kṛṣṇa es la Suprema Personalidad de Dios." (Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad 1.3) Eko vaśī sarva-gaḥ kṛṣṇa īḍyaḥ: Que Kṛṣṇa es la Suprema Personalidad de Dios, y Él es Adorable." Eko 'pi san bahudhā yo 'vabhāti: "Kṛṣṇa es uno, pero lo manifiestan en ilimitadas formas y se expande en encarnaciones. (Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad 1.21)

El Brahma-saṁhitā (5.1) dice,


īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
anādir ādir govindaḥ
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam

La Suprema Personalidad de Dios es Kṛṣṇa, que tiene un cuerpo de eternidad, conocimiento y dicha. Él no tiene ningún principio, porque él es el principio de todo. Él es la causa de todas las causas."

En otra parte se dice,  yatrāvatīrṇaṁ kṛṣṇākhyaṁ paraṁ brahma narākṛti: " La Verdad Absoluta Suprema es una Persona, su nombre es Kṛṣṇa, y él desciende a veces a esta Tierra." De igual modo, en el Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam encontramos una descripción de todas las clases de encarnaciones de Suprema Personalidad de Dios, y en esta lista el nombre de Kṛṣṇa también aparece. Pero por otra parte se dice que este Kṛṣṇa no es una encarnación de Dios sino que es la Suprema Personalidad original de Dios misma (ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam.

De igual modo, en El Bhagavad-gītā el Señor dice, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat: " No hay nada superior a mi forma como la Personalidad de Dios, Kṛṣṇa." Él también dice en otra parte del Bhagavad-gītā, aham ādir hi devānām: " Soy el Origen de todo los Semidioses." Y después de entender el Bhagavad-gītā de Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna también confirma esto con las palabras siguientes: paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitram-paramaṁ bhavān, " Ahora entiendo completamente que usted es la Suprema Personalidad de Dios, la Verdad Absoluta, y que usted es el refugio de todo." Por lo tanto la forma universal que Kṛṣṇa mostró a Arjuna no es la forma original de Dios. La original es la forma de Kṛṣṇa.

Hare Krishna


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Yoga of Ecology, Bhakta Chris, USA: Remember When Organic Used To Mean Green?


From our friend Madhava Ghosh

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

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. Help grow this movement.

  • Minimum distance that North American produce typically travels from farm to plate, in miles: 1,500
  • Number of Planet Earths’ worth of resources that would be needed if every person worldwide lived like the average North American: 8
  • Planets saved if all of those people ate locally: 1
  • Ratio of minutes spent preparing food by English consumers who buy ready-made foods versus traditional home-cooking: 1:1
  • Estimated number of plant species worldwide with edible parts: 30,000
  • Number of species that currently provide 90 percent of the world’s food: 20
  • Share of each U.S. consumer food dollar that returned to the farmer in 1910, in cents: 40
  • Share that returned to the farmer in 1997, in cents: 7
  • Ratio of prisoners to farmers in the U.S. population: 5:2
  • Percentage of fresh vegetables eaten in Hanoi, Vietnam, that are grown in the city: 80
  • Percentage of all tomatoes in U.S. that are harvested while green : 80
  • Major river dams constructed to irrigate California, now the world’s number five agricultural producer: 1,200
  • Number of years that Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon of Vancouver, Canada, ate only foods produced from within 100 miles of their home: 1
  • Amount of potatoes, in pounds, that they bought for the winter: 100
  • Days that that 100 pounds of potatoes would have fed a person in Ireland, on average, before the potato famine of 1845: 18
  • Combined weight in pounds that Alisa and James lost on their 100-Mile Diet: 12

REFERENCES:

Rich Pirog et al., “Food, Fuel and Freeways,” Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University, 2001), p. 1.
Standard data estimate input into ecological footprint calculator, www.myfootprint.org
As above, with change only to food estimate
Brian Halweil, Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket (New York: W.W. Norton, 2004), p. 164
Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), p. 287.
Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), p. 287.

Halweil, p. 45.
Halweil, p. 45.
US Census 2000,
factfinder.census.gov
Halweil, p. 94.
Halweil, p. 161.
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (New York: Penguin, 1987), p. 3.
California Department of Food and Agriculture, California Agriculture: Highlights 2005.

Larry Zuckerman, The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World (Boston: Faber & Faber, 1998), p. 30.

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Bhakta Chris, New York, USA: Chewing The Chewed? Texts Without Context



A interesting and somewhat disconcerting article about the effects of contemporary expressions of media on our already fractured and conditioned consciousness, and how we are participating in what may end up being a collective cultural "movement" bearing very dull and mundane fruit.

It's something we as monks trying to reach out to young people certainly notice in our humble efforts to communicate something deeper. Our friends out there in the subway platforms and universities have a real devotion to one's subjective experience, or a real aversion to commitment to a discipline and concrete path.

Something like the "regulative principles of freedom" don't make much sense to them. They say: "Why should I limit myself? There's so much to dabble in, so much to learn." True enough, true enough. But my experience tells me that the clarity they, and we, all seek comes from seeing a larger picture, a clearer picture, and from making a educated and willing choice to commit our lives to the tangible word of God, of Krsna.

Sure, this isn't anything new. But this article jolts me into an understanding that our work to reveal Krsna to the hearts of our friends gets trickier and trickier. What do you think?

Click here to read the full article from the New York Times

"Given the constant bombardment of trivia and data that we’re subjected to in today’s mediascape, it’s little wonder that noisy, Manichean arguments tend to get more attention than subtle, policy-heavy ones; that funny, snarky or willfully provocative assertions often gain more traction than earnest, measured ones; and that loud, entertaining or controversial personalities tend to get the most ink and airtime. This is why Sarah Palin’s every move and pronouncement is followed by television news, talk-show hosts and pundits of every political persuasion. This is why Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh on the right and Michael Moore on the left are repeatedly quoted by followers and opponents. This is why a gathering of 600 people for last month’s national Tea Party convention in Nashville received a disproportionate amount of coverage from both the mainstream news media and the blogosphere.

Digital insiders like Mr. Lanier and Paulina Borsook, the author of the book “Cyberselfish,” have noted the easily distracted, adolescent quality of much of cyberculture. Ms. Borsook describes tech-heads as having “an angry adolescent view of all authority as the Pig Parent,” writing that even older digerati want to think of themselves as “having an Inner Bike Messenger.”

For his part Mr. Lanier says that because the Internet is a kind of “pseudoworld” without the qualities of a physical world, it encourages the Peter Pan fantasy of being an entitled child forever, without the responsibilities of adulthood. While this has the virtues of playfulness and optimism, he argues, it can also devolve into a “Lord of the Flies”-like nastiness, with lots of “bullying, voracious irritability and selfishness” — qualities enhanced, he says, by the anonymity, peer pressure and mob rule that thrive online."

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Dandavats.com: Ratha Yatra News

By Sankirtana dasa

ISKCON Solapur held its annual Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra on Tuesday, 16th March 2010 coinciding with the celebration of the first day of the Hindu New Year. Solapur is located in the state of Maharashtra, India, about 10 hours South-East from Mumbai by train

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Dandavats.com: Ramnavmi Rathayatras at ISKCON Ahmedabad

By Basu Ghosh Das

On Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20, ISKCON Ahmedabad organized Rathayatras in different parts of Ahmedabad on both days. Sri Lavleshbhai, trustee of the Ranchodji temple, along with other temple trustees inaugurated the Rath procession by sweeping the road in-front of the Rath

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Dandavats.com: Hare Krishna Convention 2010 In Bangladesh

By Devaki Devi Dasi

Around eight hundred enthusiastic devotees gathered from all over Bangladesh for the second annual Hare Krishna convention held in the beautiful and peaceful rural setting of the holy Dhama of Rupa Sanatan Smrithi Tirtha in the district of Jessore

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Dandavats.com: Chile official communications on earthquake

By Ananda Shyam das

After hearing the new report by the engineer calculator was found that there was no danger of using the ground floor near the temple on a regular basis without massive programs, provided that certain areas were closed which caused a direct threat

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Dandavats.com: ISKCON Panama Ratha Yatra 2010

Malla-Praharana Das Adhikari GPS: This Year The Festival Will Be Marking It'S Sixth Annual Parade And We Would Like To Invite Everyone Along With Their Friends And Families To Join Us In This Most Auspicious Occassion Where We Will Receive Unlimited Blessings From The Lord And Get Our Desires Fulfilled.

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Dandavats.com: ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry’s Annual Planning Meeting

Sriguru sevanandi dd: It took place on 13-14 March 2010, in Sridham Mayapur, in the historic Lotus Building conference room – the same place where Srila Prabhupada held the first GBC meetings.

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Dandavats.com: Our official IPM website has been finally launched!

Bhakti-lata dasi: On this site you will see inmate art, inmate letters, our monthly newsletter, chaplains' appreciation and more!

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Dandavats.com: Padmalochan healh update photos 22 March

Vrindavan Lila Dasi: As I had informed you before, my husband, Padmalochan Das, is very seriously sick, now he has entered very dangerous period in his astrological chart...

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Dandavats.com: What’s it like studying at Bhaktivedanta College Radhadesh?

Dinadayal dasa: Four first-year students share their experience: the difference between studying in Havaii and Belgium; what the college is like for a Mayapur gurukuli; how someone finds the College after doing eleven years of temple service in South Africa

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Dandavats.com: Grahila Prabhu’s departure

Samkalpa Devi Dasi: Dear Devotees, Another son of Srila Prabhupada, H. G. Grahila Prabhu, has received unbelievable mercy by the Lord and has left this world on the last Ekadasi, March 11, at 7.47 a. m.

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H.H. Bhakti Caitanya Swami: Ogo-ogo

Dear devotees, Please accept my best wishes. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I am now on a plane, flying from Bali back to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Then later tonight I’ll fly to Johannesburg, and then in the morning from there to Cape Town. I last wrote to you from Auckland, where I was visiting my 91 [...]

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Mayapur Online: Please pray for Padmalochan das, ACBSP

As some of you may heard, my husband, Padmalochan Das, is very seriously sick, now he has entered very dangerous period in his astrological chart…His health condition is also decreased visibly… we just had couple of very bad days, today things started to look up again. Audarya Dhama Prabhu (doctor)continues the cancer treatment with tree-bark, despite some very serious impediments in the process (lately)…

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Niranjana Swami speaks about learning devotion from Giriraj

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David Haslam, UK: Reflecting the Spiritual Masters Mercy

The word guru-prasada indicates that the spiritual master is very merciful in bestowing the boon of devotional service upon the disciple. That is the best possible gift the spiritual master has to offer. Those with a background of pious life are eligible to receive life’s supreme benefit, and to bestow this benefit, the Supreme Personality [...]

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