Thank you Srila Prabhupada for all your transcendental literature. When I was first leaning about Krishna consciousness someone sold me a Krishna Book at the London Rathayatra (2001). I had previously tried to read your Bhagavad-Gita, but was too proud…
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Vyasa puja offering to Srila Prabhupada
Vyasa puja offering to Srila Prabhupada
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Thank you Srila Prabhupada for all your transcendental literature. When I was first leaning about Krishna consciousness someone sold me a Krishna Book at the London Rathayatra (2001). I had previously tried to read your Bhagavad-Gita, but was too proud…
Gurudeva visit snippets and cooking
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DS: The body is meant for aching, might as well ache for Krishna.
DS: Herbs from the Amazon that will help your sore back.
BKD: Where do you get all this stuff, Gurudeva?
DS: Secrets of the Swamis.
DS: Yes, the famous Manchester rut. It’s like a someth…
Gurudeva visit snippets and cooking
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DS: The body is meant for aching, might as well ache for Krishna.
DS: Herbs from the Amazon that will help your sore back.
BKD: Where do you get all this stuff, Gurudeva?
DS: Secrets of the Swamis.
DS: Yes, the famous Manchester rut. It’s like a someth…
Cardiff Rathayatra 2005
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16|1Yesterday was really, really fun. I attended the Rathayatra in Cardiff, Wales.
There was a huge procession with hundreds of people through the streets of downtown Cardiff ending up in a peaceful park surrounded by an old castle wall. The kirtan (c…
Cardiff Rathayatra 2005
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16|1Yesterday was really, really fun. I attended the Rathayatra in Cardiff, Wales.
There was a huge procession with hundreds of people through the streets of downtown Cardiff ending up in a peaceful park surrounded by an old castle wall. The kirtan (c…
Krishna’s personality
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After analyzing my personality I thought I would think a bit about Krishna’s personality. To better understand it, I’ll try to characterize it in terms of its similarity to several popular personalities from Star Wars and Star Trek. I’m no expert, so p…
Krishna’s personality
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After analyzing my personality I thought I would think a bit about Krishna’s personality. To better understand it, I’ll try to characterize it in terms of its similarity to several popular personalities from Star Wars and Star Trek. I’m no expert, so please correct me if and when I am wrong.
The Nectar of Devotion, Second Wave, Chapter 23 describes Krishna’s personality. It characterizes him as simultaneously having four opposing personalities. This is not contradictory. I would, in fact, expect nothing less from him. This is God: far from being an impersonal oneness, he has the most variegated and interesting personality in existence. Moreover, it??(TM)s all described, in detail, in the Vedic literature.
Dh?«rod?tta
A dh?«rod?tta is a person who is naturally very grave, gentle, forgiving, merciful, determined, humble, highly qualified, chivalrous and physically attractive. Krishna exhibited this mood when he lifted Govardhana Hill. The NOD also gives the example of Lord R?macandra as a dh?«rod?tta personality.
To me like this sounds like an introverted, task oriented/thinking personality. That would make Krishna similar to the personalities of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Boba Fett and Yoda from Star Wars.
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.” – Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: TNG)
Dh?«ra-lalita
A person is called dh?«ra-lalita if he is naturally very funny, always in full youthfulness, expert in joking and free from all anxieties. Krishna shows this personality when he teases and embarrasses R?dh?r?n?£?«. Cupid is also described as a dh?«ra-lalita.
To me this seems to be an extroverted, people oriented/feeling personality. This personality is similar to Anakin Skywalker, Jar-Jar Binks and Captain Kirk.
“We’re Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job.” ??” Captain Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)
Dh?«ra-pra?>?nta
A person who is very peaceful, forbearing, considerate and obliging is called dh?«ra-pra?>?nta. Krishna, when serving the P?n?£d?£ava brothers, is an example of this aspect of his personality. Some scholars also characterize King Yudhis?£t?£hira in this way.
This sounds very much like an introverted, people oriented/feeling personality. Film characters who share this trait with Krishna include Princess Padm?© Amidala, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker and C3PO.
“Why don’t we look at this from a mosquito’s point of view?” ??” Dr. Beverly Crusher (Star Trek: TNG)
Dh?«roddhata
A person who is very envious, proud, easily angered, restless and complacent is called dh?«roddhata by learned scholars. Such qualities were visible in the character of Lord Kr?£s?£n?£a, because when He was writing a letter to K?layavana, Kr?£s?£n?£a addressed him as a sinful frog. Sometimes Bh?«ma, the second brother of the P?n?£d?£avas, is also described as dh?«roddhata.
An extroverted, task oriented/thinking personality-type fits this description. Characters like R2-D2, Han Solo and Jabba the Hut also have this personality.
“No one gets the best of me in my kitchen!” ??” Neelix (Star Trek: Voyager)
Photos from IJCAI ’05
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I’ve uploaded the photos I took last week at the IJCAI conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Edinburgh International Conference Center is certainly an impressive building. It also is probably the most expensive conference venue in the UK.
Anyway…
Photos from IJCAI ’05
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I’ve uploaded the photos I took last week at the IJCAI conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Edinburgh International Conference Center is certainly an impressive building. It also is probably the most expensive conference venue in the UK.
Anyway…
Darth Vader = my personality type
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Guardian Inspector (ISTJ: Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging)
Overview:
Extremely thorough, responsible, and dependable.
Serious and quiet, interested in security and peaceful living.
Well-developed powers of concentration.
Usually interested i…
Darth Vader = my personality type
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Guardian Inspector (ISTJ: Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Judging)
Overview:
Extremely thorough, responsible, and dependable.
Serious and quiet, interested in security and peaceful living.
Well-developed powers of concentration.
Usually interested i…
Finished the Bhagavatam
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Today: I finished reading the Srimad Bhagavatam for the second time. I can’t wait to get into the Caitanya Caritamrita again. They are both so very amazing to read.
Finished the Bhagavatam
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Today: I finished reading the Srimad Bhagavatam for the second time. I can’t wait to get into the Caitanya Caritamrita again. They are both so very amazing to read.
Modern technology
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“We are not against the advancement of modern technology although it’s suicidal.”
– A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (the way only he could say it)
Modern technology
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“We are not against the advancement of modern technology although it’s suicidal.”
– A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (the way only he could say it)
Cheating education system
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The UK government has decided to change the way university fees work. They claim this change is to help the poorest students to be able to afford an education. It’s fairly complicated with different amounts of loans, bursaries, grants and fees. However…
Cheating education system
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The UK government has decided to change the way university fees work. They claim this change is to help the poorest students to be able to afford an education. It’s fairly complicated with different amounts of loans, bursaries, grants and fees. However, cutting through all the fluff, it turns out that, on-average, students starting university this September will end up paying about double the amount of money for their education (tuition fees have tripled, but do not need to be paid until after gradation).
Average student debt (from Natwest Student Money Matters Survey):
2002: ?£2,489
2003: ?£8,125
Estimated average student debt at graduation (from annual Barclays Student Survey):
2004: ?£12,069
2006: ?£17,561
2010: ?£33,708
According to the NatWest survey the average monthly expense of a student breaks down as follows (figures for 2004):
Rent: | ?£289.60 |
Food shopping: | ?£78.73 |
Alcohol: | ?£74.14 |
Going out: | ?£62.40 |
Cigarettes: | ?£70.00 |
Clothes: | ?£53.56 |
Eating out: | ?£53.47 |
Utilities: | ?£58.76 |
Transport: | ?£54.56 |
Phone: | ?£44.29 |
Books: | ?£38.13 |
Monthly total: | ?£877.64 |
The UK government isn’t stupid. They have as a target: “to have 50% of young people enter higher education by 2010”. Why do they want nearly everyone in the country to have the equivalent of NZ$ 100k debt? Is this some conspiracy to control the people?
Guru’s answer: “It’s the new version of the old serfdom.
University students now equal the peasantry.”
IJCAI day 7
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The conference is over. Over 300 papers were presented. Over 1000 people attended.
The last day started with an interesting keynote from a researcher from Sarcos Corp. Sarcos make robots. For example (in chronological order from the late ’80s until to…
IJCAI day 7
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The conference is over. Over 300 papers were presented. Over 1000 people attended.
The last day started with an interesting keynote from a researcher from Sarcos Corp. Sarcos make robots. For example (in chronological order from the late ’80s until to…
IJCAI day 6
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Lots of stuff I didn’t understand today at the IJCAI conference. I’ll not talk too much about that. However, there were also some very interesting biology related results. Read on:
The day started off with a keynote by a neuroscientist talking about t…
IJCAI day 6
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Lots of stuff I didn’t understand today at the IJCAI conference. I’ll not talk too much about that. However, there were also some very interesting biology related results. Read on:
The day started off with a keynote by a neuroscientist talking about t…
IJCAI day 5
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Today was all about my field: description logics and ontologies.
Realization: most AI research is very simple, but the researchers disguise the triviality of their solutions by including loads of complicated looking math equations into their presentati…
IJCAI day 5
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Today was all about my field: description logics and ontologies.
Realization: most AI research is very simple, but the researchers disguise the triviality of their solutions by including loads of complicated looking math equations into their presentati…
IJCAI day 4
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Tutorials are over. No more play time. The actual conference started today.
It kicked off with a keynote from Alison Gopnik. Author of “Scientist in the Crib”, a book about how young children learn and experiment very effectively. Grown ups can’t gener…
IJCAI day 4
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Tutorials are over. No more play time. The actual conference started today.
It kicked off with a keynote from Alison Gopnik. Author of “Scientist in the Crib”, a book about how young children learn and experiment very effectively. Grown ups can’t gener…
IJCAI day 3
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I was really sick this morning. I felt horrible. My body seemed to reject everything I ate the previous day. No wonder really considering what it was. I’ve come to the conclusion that people in the UK can’t cook vegetables (except potatoes) without tur…
IJCAI day 3
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I was really sick this morning. I felt horrible. My body seemed to reject everything I ate the previous day. No wonder really considering what it was. I’ve come to the conclusion that people in the UK can’t cook vegetables (except potatoes) without tur…