Archive for November, 2009

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Ohio University Student Reports

Last spring students from Ohio University visited NV to conduct interviews with devotees.
Their papers can be viewed by going to the site below and clicking on the first selection: “Community Member’s Visions of the Future…”
http://www.pluralism.org/affiliates/emery/index.php

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Saturday, November 7th, 2009

The Vedantic Conception of Life

Vedantic Concept of Life By Phalguni Banerjee for Kangla Online on 10 Oct 2009 Image: Courtesy of Google Images The Vedantic paradigm is an ancient paradigm and has been well studied within the traditional schoo…

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Saturday, November 7th, 2009

The Lord Won’t Mind

A priest and a nun are on their way back home from a trip when their car breaks down. They are unable to get it fixed, so they decide to spend the night in a hotel. The only hotel in the town has only one room available.
Priest: Sister, I don’t think the […]

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Friday, November 6th, 2009

Proving A Point Isn’t The Point

“Sometimes a university student or professor tries to study these transcendental literary works and attempts to put forth a critical analysis from the mundane view, with an end to receiving degrees like a Ph.D. Such realization is certainly different from that of Ramananda Raya. If one actually wants to take a Ph.D. degree from Sri […]

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Moving to Facebook

Dear Friends,

Haribol!

We are moving to Facebook as Balabhadra finds it easier to make entries and has made many friends their. Please go to the following link to become a fan of our new page.

International Society for Cow Protection (ISCOWP) on Facebook

There is also a new link on the right column of this page that will enable you to become a fan.

Another page is the Facebook cause page of the International Society for Cow Protection. You can find that at: www.causes.com/cowprotection

Thank you so much and we hope to see you there.

Yours,
Chayadevi

ISCOWP Co-Managing Director

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Invitation to All Music Lovers

Jesse and Lilasuka’s ‘ garden party ‘ program, which features the talents of various local musicians, is coming to New Vrindaban.
Their next program will be at Damodar and Gopa’s house on Sunday Nov. 15th.
Don’t miss it! These folks are loaded with talent.
3:30 – 5:30 PM — Concert
5:30 – 6:30 PM — Pot […]

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009

The Pluralism Project at Ohio University

Last spring we had a visit from  Ohio University students working on a project. Tulasi was visiting so they interviewed him, as well as interviewing Manjari by telephone.

Several other groups of students also visited and interviewed various devotees. It was for the The Pluralism Project which you can see here.
The First New Vrindaban Family
Amy Busch, […]

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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Not Posting Much

I realize I am not posting much but I am busy in the garden and on some other projects and something had to give, the blogging in this instance.
When I was younger the limit on what I could accomplish was time. Now that I am prematurely suffering from old age due to my medical condition, […]

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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

A Lord’s Voice For Vegetarianism

From The Times Online Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Edito…

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Monday, November 2nd, 2009

The New Sputnik

From the New York Times The New Sputnik function getSharePasskey() { return ‘ex=1412136000&en=d2521798259ce3f3&ei=5124′;} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent(’http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/opinion/27friedman.html’); } function …

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Monday, November 2nd, 2009

The Nectar Chronicles: Part 11

Inspired by the “Nectar of Devotion” lecture series given by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada from October 20-November 13, 1972 at the Radha-Damodara Temple in Vrndavana, IndiaAll of these lectures are available for download at ISKCON Desire Tree.11-2…

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Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Varnasrama: The MIssion Impossible

By HH Bhakti Raghava Swami There used to be a television series in North America called MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. As kids we would watch it religiously and with rapt attention. The introduction in each series centered on describin…

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