I remember hearing a devotee talking about chanting...this is when I was watching video footage before joining the movement in 1989.
"Of the many ways to glorify Lord Krsna, chanting His Holy name is the first...because it has the power to give the great wealth of pure love for Him - it is considered the best."
Nitai-Gaura - Jaya Srila PrabhupadaLord Shiva appears on the battlefield.
“When they reached their encampment, the Pandavas saw that Vyasadev had arrived. Arjuna got down from his chariot and went over to the sage. Bowing and touching his feet, he said, “O all-opulent one, I have seen something today which inspired me with great wonder. As I released arrows toward my foes, I saw before me a male being, shining like fire. He held a blazing trident and whichever way he turned, my enemies were burned and destroyed. Although he never hurled his trident, nor any other weapon, his energy alone seemed to annihilate my foes. Who is this personality, O great sage?”
Placing his hand on Arjuna’s head, who still knelt before him, Vyasadev replied, “O son of Kunti, you have seen Shankara, the great destroyer of the worlds. Out of his love and respect for Krishna, he walks before your chariot, scorching your enemies with his irresistible energy. Even the powerful universal protectors could not stand before him. Go forth and fight with confidence, O Dhananjaya. Defeat is not for one who has Janardana by his side.”"
Reggeli lecke Krisna-völgyből. Cc Mad.98-99. A Danda Banga lila mélyebb jelentése.
All glories to Caitanyananda prabhu who was a great soul who revealed to us the mercy that Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu give to His sincere preachers.
Ys. Prahladananada Swami
Caitanyananda had for several years previously been the leading distributor of Srila Prabhupada's books in Finland. In November 2006 he was informed that he had cancer. Efforts to subdue the disease proving futile, he came to Vrindavan to pass away. He was never afraid, nor did he ever complain about the pain and discomfort he experienced as his body declined. His only lamentation was that he could not perform much service in this life.
The devotees who had attended him, headed by Ananda Vardhana Prabhu and Dr. Avinish, and indeed all who came to visit him in the days before his departure, were inspired by his clear consciousness, sobriety, and firm faith in the mercy and protection of Srila Prabhupada, Lord Krsna, and the Vaisnavas. After his passing no-one felt sad. All were happy in the knowledge of his having passed away so auspiciously, assuring his going back to Godhead.
Krsna looks after His devotees. Surely those who dedicate their lives to distributing Srila Prabhupada's books will attain all auspiciousness.
A 10-i Bhaktividya Purna Maharaja lecke folytatását letölthetitek az “SRS Daily” szekcióból. A 11-i és 12-i ottani hanganyagok ennek a leckének a folytatásai, természetesen magyar fordítással.
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
By Sankirtana DasIn the Science Section of the New York Times of April 24 an article appeared entitled Treating The Awkward Years, describing a slew of physical and emotional issues which may beset kids during their adolescent years, ranging generally from ages 10 to 19.
Sixty years after Partition, all things British have all but disappeared from India, only to be replaced by a newer, sleeker version of domination…
Conclusion of Bhakti Vidya Purna Maharaja’s talk on Relationships, from Friday’s class in NVD:
Ő Szentsége Srila Bhaktividya Purna Maharaja ma reggeli, UVD-ban tartott leckéjének első része.
One must be utterly abandoned to God; nothing matters but fulfilling His will. Otherwise, all is folly and meaningless.
- Karl Jung
Now you can destroy Ravana with the click of a mouse as Ramayana becomes an online video game…
Just in case there’s anyone out there still drinking it — yes, even the decaf version — here’s a reminder about the “value” of Coke…
This web site is a vast storehouse of knowledge: devotional, spiritual, philosophical, or scientific—presented from the devotees' point of view. Not everything is as well organized or presented as one could wish, but you can find information on practically anything you might want to learn about.
Vedas and Vedic culture: what you won't learn in school
In school we can learn many things but unfortunately not the important, existential ones. These are elaborated on in Vedas, a sort of manuals how to use this world and how to live in it. Obviously, they should be available to everyone.
An ecstatic kirtan.
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Sir, I was wondering if you had a recipe for for making channa masala without using onions? I have been thinking about avoiding onions in cooking for sometime now, but when I cook some North Indian dishes it makes me wonder if its possible to get the same kind of texture and flavor.
My reply:
Well you may not get exactly the same texture without onions, though I use fresh fennel bulb. It's in season right now in Australia, and is an Italian vegetable, the bulbous root of the Florence fennel, pictured below.
It has a marvellous onion texture when cooked. I fry thin slices in butter slowly in a covered saucepan and it reduces wonderfully to what really resembles cooked onions. With the asafetida it has a delightful flavour. Though it is not in the recipe below, I suggest one decent fennel bulb cooked separately and folded through to add wonderful texture and flavour to the chickpeas.
And, of course, Asfetida is my garlic/onion flavour substitute. Here is my recipe. Give it a try.
Chickpea Curry (Chole)
This dish features chickpeas, with their faintly nut-like flavour and smooth texture. Chickpeas are rich in protein-nitrogen compounds. Cooked in this spicy sauce they're great served with Puffed Fried Breads (Pooris), with capatis, or with hot Boiled Rice.
DAL SOAKING TIME: overnight PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes COOKING TIME: 1 hour YIELD: enough for 4 to 6 servings
1 1/4 cups dried chickpeas 6 cups water 1 bayleaf the seeds from 4 cardamom pods 6 whole cloves 5 black peppercorns one 5 cm (2-inch) cinnamon stick, broken into bits 1 tablespoon cumin seeds 4 tablespoons ghee or oil 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, finely minced 1 teaspoon hot green chili, minced 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1/2 teaspoon yellow asafoetida powder 3/4 teaspoon turmeric 2 teaspoons sweet paprika 1 tablespoon ground coriander 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 2 teaspoons salt 3 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander or parsley
Wash and drain the chickpeas; then soak well-covered in water overnight. Drain.
Place the chickpeas, water, and bay leaf in a heavy 3-litre/quart saucepan and bring to the boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to moderate and simmer the chickpeas for 1 hour or until they are butter-soft but not broken. Remove from the heat.
Drain, reserving the liquid. Remove the bay leaf.
Place 1/3 cup cooked and drained chickpeas in a blender or food processor with a little cooking liquid. Process to a smooth puree. Remove the chickpea puree and place it in a bowl. Set aside.
In a coffee grinder or blender or with a mortar and pestle, combine and crush to a powder the cardamom seeds, whole cloves, black peppercorns, cinnamon stick, and cumin seeds .
Heat the ghee or oil in a heavy 2-litre/quart saucepan over moderately high heat. When hot, stir in the fresh ginger and green chili and saute for 1 minute. Remove the pan from the heat and add the cayenne, asafoetida, turmeric, paprika, and ground coriander. Add the ground spice powder, chickpeas, lemon juice, salt, the pureed chickpeas, and enough reserved chickpea cooking-water to make a gravy. Simmer for 6 to 8 minutes; then remove, garnish with minced fresh coriander, and serve hot.
Sometimes there are times when I feel I have nothing to do. I'm sick of the computer, which sucks up so much of my time, I don't have a good book to read, there's no one at home, I don't have any work to do, and I just can't think of anything to satisfy my restlessness.One aspect of shifting production jobs out of the US into China has been a huge trade deficit. This means China has an immense stockpile of US dollars. They now have the power to destroy the US economically at their whim, by releasing for sale large amounts of US dollars on the currency market.
Essentially, in a capitalistic world, they have become our owners. So how do they treat their minions? For one thing, they are atheists who don’t believe in separation of church and state.
China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate
“Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people.
” “The so-called reincarnated living Buddha without government approval is illegal and invalid,” according to the order, which comes into effect on September 1.
“The 14-part regulation issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs is aimed at limiting the influence of Tibet’s exiled god-king, the Dalai Lama, and at preventing the re-incarnation of the 72-year-old monk without approval from Beijing.
“It is the latest in a series of measures by the Communist authorities to tighten their grip over Tibet. Reincarnate lamas, known as tulkus, often lead religious communities and oversee the training of monks, giving them enormous influence over religious life in the Himalayan region. Anyone outside China is banned from taking part in the process of seeking and recognising a living Buddha, effectively excluding the Dalai Lama, who traditionally can play an important role in giving recognition to candidate reincarnates.
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“China already insists that only the Government can approve the appointments of Tibet’s two most important monks, the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama. The Dalai Lama’s announcement in May 1995 that a search inside Tibet — and with the co- operation of a prominent abbot — had identified the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, who died in 1989, enraged Beijing. That prompted the Communist authorities to restart the search and to send a senior Politburo member to Lhasa to oversee the final choice. This resulted in top Communist officials presiding over a ceremony at the main Jokhang temple in Lhasa in which names of three boys inscribed on ivory sticks were placed inside a golden urn and a lot was then drawn to find the true reincarnation.
“The boy chosen by the Dalai Lama has disappeared. The abbot who worked with the Dalai Lama was jailed and has since vanished. Several sets of rules on seeking out “soul boys” were promulgated in 1995, but were effectively in abeyance and hundreds of living Buddhas are now believed to live inside and outside China.
“All Tibetans believe in reincarnation, but only the holiest or most outstanding individuals are believed to be recognisable — a tulku, or apparent body. One Tibetan monk told The Times: “In the past there was no such regulation. The management of living Buddhas is becoming more strict.”
“The search for a reincarnation is a mystical process involving clues left by the deceased and visions among leading monks on where to look. The current Dalai Lama, the fourteenth of the line, was identified in 1937 when monks came to his village.
“China has long insisted that it must have the final say over the appointment of the most senior lamas. Tibet experts said that the new regulations may also be aimed at limiting the influence of new lamas.”
My latest reading: “Greetings from Vṛndāvana” by Dhanurdhara Swami. This 206-page book, smartly designed, consists of entries from a journal Dhanurdhara Swami kept in 2000 through 2003 and shared with friends and followers.
THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN NEW VRINDABAN
1. There is a core of surrendered devotees attending the morning programs
2. The community is getting together in an effort to plan upcoming festivals
3. Next weekend New Vrindaban dhama will host North American SSPT meetings
4. On thursday the pujaris all got together and ways to improve our standards of deity worship. Actually the minister of deity worship had nothing to say about how we can improve last time he was here because things have gotten so much better since his previous visit.
5. Cows are being milked and loved daily at the barn at 7am and all the milk is going straight into our kitchen for the Lord.
6. Tapahpunja and his various teams of helpers/devotees are constantly harvesting fresh food that is being offered to the Lord. He is also giving to local charities and promoting vegetarianism.
7. The New Vrindaban Management Team (NVMT) is daily coming together to address the needs of the temple and community at large.
8. A multimedia project is being developed in the office for guests to have an more enriched experience when they come. Part of that is developing tours, slide presentations of the history, Movies about our attractive features, etc.
9. The monthly newsletter just went out with the cooperation of the Congregational development team, NVMT and temple secretary.
10. Five Janmastami festivals are on the way.
11. Devotees are working on protecting the cows and serving the vaisnavas at the end of their bodily life.
12. 24 Hour Kirtana takes place next Saturday staring 9am with special guest Madhava Prabhu!
13. The Bhakta Program is running full steam
Bhakta Chris is a hard worker and wonderful person to be around!
Greeting their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Vrndabancandra
Yuga Avatara Chants for Prabhupada’s pleasure
Janaka Mahajana Dasa Gives Clas
“Proper exchange is the brahmana gives knowedge and the people in general give in charity” - Vedic Culture
“3 Steps of land! You couldn’t even grow a garden there.” - About Lord Vamandeva
“A demon in Vedic civilization is also quite civilized.” - About Sukracarya spiritual master for the demons
By Srila Jiva Goswami dasa
To me, I was the cutting and slashing very greatest of the greatest when it came to driving. I just loved it. Towing another Sankirtan Van back from the Buffalo area late one evening, I’d been obliged to carry a few Devotees with me. Maru Deva, our Blacksmith, exemplary, and square jawed, sat quietly next to me on the bench seat of Dodge Rama dasa as we hurtled along on the night time highway. We were passing a line of cars and trucks in the slow lane.
Typically, I enjoyed sealing the right lane vehicles off as we came up and passed.
Maru Deva coughed politely, almost as if we were at tea. “Ah, Jiva,” he said. “I’ve enjoyed riding up here with you, and I can see now where you are at as a Driver.” He hesitated. I felt him regarding me. “Do you mind if I offer a little ah, constructive criticism?”
“Go ahead,” I said. Despite my antics, I was not in a good mood. I actually considered the carrying of Devotee Passengers to be invasive. I knew that was wrong, but that was how my heart worked then. I wanted Spiritual only on my own concocted terms and in my own wacky perception of ways. “What?” I was terse.
“Ah, that truck you passed, he was signaling like he wanted to get out in the fast lane.”
I waited.
“If you’d let him out, he’d have loved you the rest of the way,” Maru Deva declared.
“I don’t care if he loves me,” I snarled. I liked the space craft look of our green fluorescent dash board gauges in the night.
Maru Deva coughed gently again. “Er, but, as you held him in, he had to slow up and down shift and everything.”
This wasn’t a movie, where the driver looks at his or her passenger as if the road ahead is out the side window. I took a quick glance at Maru Deva though. His chiseled profile was fixed in an earnest expression.
“So I held him in. I don’t care,” I said. “And I don’t care how he feels about me either.” This was as fundamental to who I was as it was wrong.
Maru Deva let it go. “Oh,” was all he said. Without an argument to joust with, I was left to consider the possibility that my position was that of an idiot.
But, despite the occasional question, I still fancied myself as one of the best drivers ever. The break down and reforming went on at a subtle but powerful, implacable pace and it was directed by Krsna through His Agents, the Brijabasis at Old New Vrindabana.
The young boy known as Kaliya, and later Maitreya, who drove the huge Mack Dump Truck, accosted me in the Temple just after the Morning Program. “Jiva, I saw you driving downtown the other day,” he said.
“Did you like that? I really know what I’m doing,” I announced blindly.
Maitreya hesitated. “No, not really,” he said.
Recently i've been absorbed in some geomatics study, working with visualisation of remote sensing (satellite) data. Visible light as we see it is just a narrow band within the broader electromagnetic spectrum, which ranges from gamma and x-rays up to infra-red, audio and radio waves. All these phenomena are the same electromagnetic radiation, just oscillating at a different frequency. Our eyes can detect the visible portion of the spectrum and our ears the audible portion, but what about the huge areas besides these that do not yield to our perceptual instruments? This is where remote sensing comes in. Instruments sensitive to the Earth's albedo (reflectivity) at particular frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum are attached to satellites, allowing us to see the whole planet beyond the limits of visible light and into the entire spectral perceptual conduit.
Working with this technology has re-enforced to me the imperfection and limitation of our sensory perception. Not only are our senses imperfect at interpreting the phenomena to which they are attuned, but in fact most phenomena are beyond their purview. What else is there beyond what the instruments we can conjure up are able to detect?
By SEAN CHASESeeking refuge from a sweltering 33 degrees celsius heat wave, Bhaktimarga Swami, a devote Hare Krishna monk making his third pilgrimage across Canada, rested his weary feet under a patch of shade.
ISKCON New Govardhana warmly welcomes you to attend our 2007 Krsna Janmastami, at the farm. This year's celebration falls on 4th September, beginning at 4:00pm
The Programme as follows:
4:00pm Bhajans
5:00pm Yajna (Special Fire Yagya )
6:00pm Children's Drama
6:30pm Sandhya Arati
7:15pm Class ( Krishna's Lilas )
8:00pm Drama ( Krishna's Pastime )
9:00pm Abhisheka
10:30pm Gift Opening
11:00pm Movie Presentation
11:00pm Krishna Bhajans
12:00pm Midnight Arati
12:30pm Midnight Maha Janmastami Feast
Everyone is Welcome.
By Indradyumna Swami"All the other events along the coast pale in comparison to yours," said the woman reporter. "Your event is so big, so well-organized, and so entertaining that besides including it in our report we're planning a documentary on your festivals."
Memoirs of a British civil servant never published until now show how much the partition of India was decided by just two men, the BBC’s Alastair Lawson reports.
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