Author Archives: Madhava Ghosh dasa, New Vrndavan, USA

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spinning maya
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From Institute for Contemplative Practice Throughout history, humankind has strung, counted and worn beads not only as a form of religious devotion, but as an act of meditation to focus the mind, help solve problems, and dispel fear. The use of prayer beads is not a practice recently invented or introduced, but is archetypal in nature, and common […]

From the LA Times HUSTONTOWN, Pa. — Jim Crawford was rushing to load crates of freshly picked organic tomatoes onto trucks heading for an urban farmers market when he noticed the federal agent. A tense conversation followed as the visitor to his farm — an inspector from the Food and Drug Administration — warned him […]

I am on the Board of Directors for ECOV  and was recently requested to give a brief bio. According to our website”ECOV is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to cow protection, local production of food, sustainable housing, alternative energy production and energy conservation. Cow protection includes not sending cows to the slaughter house and letting them […]

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Bird at suet feeder. Cardinal arriving at sunflower feeder.   At times there are as many as 40 birds feeding there including a lot of juncos on holiday from Canada.  The snow fence keeps deer and crows from devouring the sunflowers. We got an inch of snow overnight which I didn’t get around to sweeping off […]

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The sun strives to free
dried bamboo leaves trapped in deer
snow hoof printsFiled under: Poetry

Deer highway leading past garden shed to my house They don’t sleep here every night but it is in an L formed by my house and my detached garage that is sheltered from the wind. At least four of them there at a time. Here is where they are stomping down the snow to get […]

by Zeke Barlow, Virginia Tech A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable. The findings from Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College […]

We heard how Raghupati Raghva Rajaram was one of Mahatma Gandhi’s favorite bhajans. Here is one he used  in his daily prayers. Vaishnava janato is a popular Bhajan, written in the 15th century by the poet Narsinh Mehta. It is in Gujarati and the bhajan was included in Mahatma Gandhi’s daily prayer. The bhajan speaks about […]

Source Flatulent cows contributed to a fire at a German farm Monday, police said. The gas had built up inside a shed, causing an explosion. BERLIN — Methane gas from 90 flatulent cows exploded in a German farm shed on Monday, damaging the roof and injuring one of the animals, police said. High levels of the […]

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See more photos here Once every three years, there is an international competition in horticultural sculpture, called “mosaiculture,” in a major city in the world. This year it is in Montreal .   This is not topiary but rather creating sculptures out of living plants. The greatest horticulturalists in the world, from 20 different countries, submitted […]

I was leaving the main drag of Elm Grove and headed to an on ramp to get on 1-70 on my way to dialysis. It’s a 4 lane street and I was in the left lane to turn onto the on ramp. I was about a car length behind a pickup truck in the right […]

Should have added some ginger!Filed under: Jokes

Renewable Energy World Editors Last week India finally held its national solar auction, the first in two years, seen as the least risky of several national and state-level solar auctions held over the past few years. Demand was as heated as expected: 58 bids were received pledging to develop more than 2.1 GW of solar […]

When I was getting the YouTube address for Pete Seegar chanting Raghu[ati Raghava Rajarama I saw a lot of more traditional versions so I thought for my readers who weren’t familiar with it to post one of them. Then I got obsessed with it and was playing it over and over again which was a […]

Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram is a popular bhajan (Hindu devotional song) that was a favorite of Mahatma Gandhi. It is also a favorite amongst devotees in New Vrindaban. Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram Patita Pavan Sitaram Sitaram, Sitaram, Bhaj Pyare Mana Sitaram Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram Patita Pavan Sitaram Ishwar Allah Tero Nam, Sabako Sanmati De […]

(this is funnier in an email with large text size and you have to scroll down to see the picture) Please remember, now that it’s winter, animals seek out the heat of vehicles to stay warm. Before starting your car, please check around the wheels and engine for these cold animals. You may not even […]

Here is a cow made out of wrenches from a guy who makes sculptures out of wrenches.
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One, who is not, we see: but one, whom we see not, is: Surely this is not that: but that is assuredly this. What, and wherefore, and whence? for under is over and under: If thunder could be without lightning, lightning could be without thunder. Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the […]

“The life of contemplation in action and purity of heart is, then, a life of great simplicity and inner liberty. One is not seeking anything special or demanding any particular satisfaction. One is content with what is.” Thomas Merton. The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation. William H. Shannon, editor (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2003): […]

This is me with my three oldest children around 1982. This was taken in the upstairs of the old barn at Bahulaban that we lived in until moving into the RVC temple in 1983.Filed under: News, Ramblings or Whatever

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When Vidya was a brahmacarini they used to make butter during kirtan.Filed under: Cows and Environment

“Without protection of cows, brahminical culture cannot be maintained; and without brahminical culture, the aim of life cannot be fulfilled.”Srimad Bhagavatam 8.24.5 The discussion of whether devotees should use industrial milk currently has 3 schools of thought. 1. Use it and ok if it is offered . Advantages: Fulfills Srila Prabhupada’s (ACBSP) instruction use milk […]

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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost So it is said to enjoy lasting happiness we need to give up hankering and lamenting. “As long as we are in material existence, we lament for the losses in our […]

Death calls my dog by the wrong name. A little man when I was small, Death grew Beside me, always taller, but always Confused as I have almost never been. Confusion, like the heart, gets left behind Early by a boy, abandoned the very moment Futurity with her bare arms comes a-waltzing Down the fire […]

Being on dialysis I have the same benediction that Grandfather Bhisma had — I can leave my body any time I want. Stop the dialysis and 8 days later I am gone. Because of that I was allowed to register for hospice care. It is not active and activation would be the next step but […]

The all-digital facility is on pace to surpass 100,000 visitors in its first year. Eric Gay / Associated Press A computer screen displays books available at BiblioTech, a first of its kind digital public library Wednesday in San Antonio. BibiloTech is the nation’s only bookless public library. SAN ANTONIO — Texas has seen the future […]

Recently there was a picture of Samba on the Brijabasi Spirit Throwback Thursday.  Naturally it reminded me of him. What he will be best remembered for is that he was a trucker who hauled in much of the materials that manifest as what most devotees would now recognize as New Vrindaban. He took initiation from […]

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by Renewable Energy World Editors New Hampshire, USA — Coal contributes 60 percent to India’s power mix today; solar is less than 1 percent. But what was a factor-of-seven difference between the cost of coal and solar two years ago shrank this summer to just a 1.8x gap. Can solar catch up within the next […]

Thirty some years ago my wife made me a set of japa beads out of some tulasis who had appeared and left their bodies in New Vrindaban. At the time we had ideal circumstances for growing tulasis in the Northern Temperate zone with the winters and all. We had a greenhouse that was attached to […]

This was recently shared with me via email. Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life. As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service […]