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Srila Prabhupada: Both the living entity and Lord Krishna are full of consciousness. The living entity's consciousness is within himself, and Krishna's consciousness pervades everywhere. That's the distinction.
๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ธ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ต๐ป๐ฎ, ๐๐ฃ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ณ๐๐น ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐. ๐All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! ๐All Glories to Sri Mayapur Dham! ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง๐ค ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ข๐ฉ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ค๐ฌ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ. ๐ ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ […]
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TOVP Chairman, His Grace Ambarisa Prabhu, is pleased to announce to the worldwide ISKCON community the future opening of a beautiful, inspiring and permanent Prabhupada Museum in the TOVP, to preserve and display various artifacts related to ISKCON Founder/Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The museum will be called The Srila Prabhupada International Heritage Museum.
We are appealing to devotees throughout the world who possess items such as Prabhupada’s original Bhagavatam sets, personal furniture, clothing, beads, shoes, pens, watches, etc. to donate their collection or item of Prabhupada memorabilia for the higher cause of preserving and displaying them to the general public for hundreds of years to come in the TOVP. Sridham Mayapur is the World Headquarters of ISKCON, and we anticipate 10 million+ visitors a year once the temple opens. It is highly befitting that a museum of this kind be present to preserve and display Srila Prabhupada mementos for generations of visitors into the future to view.
There is a great risk in keeping these possessions private. Over time they may get damaged, lost, destroyed or even forgotten. And no one gets the opportunity to see the auspicious prasadam of Prabhupada’s personal artifacts which, according to shastra, are as worshipable as he is. What better place to keep these sacred items of our empowered Founder/Acarya and Senapati of Mahaprabhu than at Srila Prabhupadaโs โPlace of Worshipโ, Lord Gaurangaโs own birthplace, Sridham Mayapur.
This project also raises another opportunity for devotees to become sponsors and finance the construction, display cases and other paraphernalia that will be needed for such an important museum. $250,000 is being raised for this specific purpose.
If you would like to add to our growing collection of Prabhupada memorabilia or help finance the project, please contact Braja Vilasa directly at +91 96359 90391 or brajavilasarns@gmail.com.
Hare Krishna!
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Cleveland, Ohio
Great at the Lake
Kaustubha and I were ambling along at Lake Erieโs edge in Lakewood Park when one of the many, shall I say, โworshipersโ of the water and sun noticed my garb. โOh! Monk! Yeah! I agree!โ As he gives me a fist pump. Perhaps to say โworshiperโ was a trait bit over the top, but in reality, people from this neighborhood and the greater Cleveland area come to the spot where massive and smooth concrete blocks have been placed as if stairways for giants; some kind of grandstand for viewing the sun setting. They show up as an audience watching the slow descent of the western sun disappearing beyond the aqua colored liquid of Erie.
My first bumping friend, an Afro American, seemed to approve of Kaustubha and I being in his presence with his partner and two kids. Cell phone cameras were raised by onlookers of the sun for video or photo shots of one of the most hailed objects of the universe. When the intense sun actually vanished from sight the spectators gave an applause. Eureka!
Kaustubha mentioned that the lake is much cleaner than in the past. Thatโs good news. And another good piece of news for the day was the great find for me. My kind host in Columbus had packed some of that local paw-paw fruit for Kaustubha, his wife Tulsi and their son Kapila. It truly is about the best fruit one can ever consume with the mixed flavour of a mango, banana and papaya as well as a texture almost like A custard. And get this โ it grows naturally in the wild. Itโs definitely a fruit to be offered to the Creator. Krishna is pleased.
May the source be with you!
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Cleveland, Ohio
Great at the Lake
Kaustubha and I were ambling along at Lake Erieโs edge in Lakewood Park when one of the many, shall I say, โworshipersโ of the water and sun noticed my garb. โOh! Monk! Yeah! I agree!โ As he gives me a fist pump. Perhaps to say โworshiperโ was a trait bit over the top, but in reality, people from this neighborhood and the greater Cleveland area come to the spot where massive and smooth concrete blocks have been placed as if stairways for giants; some kind of grandstand for viewing the sun setting. They show up as an audience watching the slow descent of the western sun disappearing beyond the aqua colored liquid of Erie.
My first bumping friend, an Afro American, seemed to approve of Kaustubha and I being in his presence with his partner and two kids. Cell phone cameras were raised by onlookers of the sun for video or photo shots of one of the most hailed objects of the universe. When the intense sun actually vanished from sight the spectators gave an applause. Eureka!
Kaustubha mentioned that the lake is much cleaner than in the past. Thatโs good news. And another good piece of news for the day was the great find for me. My kind host in Columbus had packed some of that local paw-paw fruit for Kaustubha, his wife Tulsi and their son Kapila. It truly is about the best fruit one can ever consume with the mixed flavour of a mango, banana and papaya as well as a texture almost like A custard. And get this โ it grows naturally in the wild. Itโs definitely a fruit to be offered to the Creator. Krishna is pleased.
May the source be with you!
5 km
Dublin, Ohio
Embrace Encouragement
This morning a handful of Columbus congregants and I took to trekking along the Ohio River on Riverside. What was to be more of a chanting walk ended up being more of a chattingwalk. The conversation hovered around the direct versus indirect sending of the message of the Gita to the world. The trail along the river, with fresh air and blue skies, made for that clear head experience and so I offered my opinion; that we need both.
Boat rowing was going on up and down the current of the Ohio as we discussed how things could go smooth in our bhaktioperations. One of the topics was the position of guru in our lives as well as how prominent should be the situation of ISKCONโs founder.
It really was a lively chat.
In the afternoon Naveen and his twenty-year-old son, Narada, took us to Alum Creek Dam. Itโs a popular place for trekkers. Here you can catch the great air that blows off the water. Two serious fishermen on a boat were waiting for a catch on the line at the reservoirs edge. For us it was hellos, namastes and Hare Krishna greetings to pedestrian passersby. I really appreciated father and sonโs company on the two mile stretch and back.
Evening was like a weekend party. Rakesh and Sveta just moved-in to a suburban home. Call it a โhousewarming.โ I was greeted with wholesome avocado chunks and spiced rice. But then the real essence of the day set in with my regular Zoom class on this Tuesday night, from Canada, and a merge with seventy people dwelling on the Gitaโsmessage of encouragement from verse 3.25 and 26. Encouragement, inclusiveness and non-judgment are all important words to behold.
May the source be with you!
10 km
Columbus, Ohio
Food, Students and Paw-Paw
I spent the bulk of the day in the residence of Chandra and Kalpana with their son Gertik (itโs his birthday), 14, and daughter Dashika, 11. They live in a place called Dublin, a bedroom community to Columbus.
Ohio state university at 60,000 students has one of the largest student populations in the US. Chandra was kind to take me to several park trails. The area is just perfectly manicured with grass. The entire neighborhood, in fact, with ponds, fountains and trees, leaves one in awe of this type of paradise. But where are the weeds?
Monday night at the campus is the time for students to come for a demo on cooking, conducted by Alankara and Sri Radha. This evening the feature was without any cuisine routine. The actual weekly meal dominated the 7:00-8:30 pm timeslot. However, before any students could apply their lips to the vegan delicacies of today, I was asked to deliver a โTales From the Trailsโ talk. I was trying to help the listeners, numbering 60+, to imagine themselves as monastic people going on a long introspective walk. Included in the talk was some of the foraging that I had done in the course of walking. One student raised his hand, Joshua, and let me know that one of the prized fruits in the district, that was part of native foraging, is the paw-paw. I was raised in a section of the Carolinian forest, in southern Ontario, and apparently it grows on my home turf in the wild. Probably the local Whitetail deer thrive on it. I was so happy to learn more about the outdoors and canโt wait to try one of those fruits.
May the Source be with you!
7 km
Moundsville, West Virginia
Finale
It was a drizzle of a morning but that was no roadblock for some enthusiasts to circum-ambulate the lake at New Vrindavan. There has been no conversation during the strolls around the lake, named Rada Kunda. When our mantra sessions were completed at todayโs half-point, I had several devotees from various locations say that it was the first time they ever walked with a swami and just chanted those mantras. It is my hope at least some of them would return to their respective places and form japa walking groups; with or without a monk.
The last session for the weekend was a presentation by Partha on the topic of โIntegrating Compassion,โ done on Zoom, but fortunately the interest on the topic was maintained and followed by a breakout session in the location of our meetings โ the Yoga Shala. The final kirtancalled for moving and stacking chairs to allow for free space to chant and dance.
This dancing over the last three days compensated for the reduced amount of walking Iโve done. The lake is small. Overall, the experience of men bonding on a human and spiritual platform was very potent. It was interesting to see emotions projected such as when tissues came out to absorb tears over the topic of fatherhood.
One observation was that Brhat and myself were the only saffron-clad chaps at the retreat when the MANtra retreat called for all practitioners of bhakti yoga of different backgrounds. Maybe next year?
May the Source be with you!
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Moundsville, West Virginia
Relishable Topics
Other topics on the agenda at MANtra 2022 were โThe Art of Meaningful Association,โ โChasing the Wild Monkeys: Lust, Addiction and the Power of Healing Association,โ โFlourishing as a Fatherโ and โCompassion as a Man.โ Also on the list was our drama โDemon,โ as part of the entertainment section including beautiful chanting by Gaura Vani in the evening.
Singing also resounded outside with millions of crickets at the relatively quiet hours of our morning when a group of us went zoom zoom around the lake, a small man-made body of water. This is the home of swans, ducks and, at times soaring above, turkey vultures, when food below appears to be available.
One feathered friend, a resident in New Vrindavan, is a peacock. Accustomed to the outdoors is a family of these handsome creatures. During a presentation one of these fellows, with spread plumes, came inside while the door was open. He was an uninvited but welcome guest. He didnโt stay long. He just wouldnโt understand the topic at the time โ pornography and drug/alcohol addiction.
You sometimes wonder why humans have all the complexities and non-humans, such as the creatures mentioned, have it so simple. The role of a human could be a curse or it could be a blessing. When humans take to the principle of dharma it sets them in a truly organic position. This word dharma should be researched and explored. In the context of menโs roles, it means to be great providers and protectors. To be effective in this, men must be strong in the areas of responsibility.
May the Source be with you!
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When instructing Yudhisthira, Narada said that in any endeavour, one must start with the end in mind. In our case, it is always the same, to please our Founder Acharya Srila Prabhupada. I am sure all parties in any ISKCON conflict share this aim and are convinced that their desired outcome would be most pleasing […]
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