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BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR
ISKCON UK

SB.12.2.1
Sukadeva goswami said;Then ,O king, religion, truthfulness, cleanliness,tolerance,mercy,duration of life,phalysical strength and memory will all diminish day by day because of the powerful infiuence of the age of Kali.

In Kali yuga,wealth alone will be considered the siqn of the man’s good birth, proper behaviour and fine qualities. And law and justice will be applied only on the basis of one’s power

Men and women will live together merely because of superficial attraction, and success in business will depend on deceit. womenliness and manliness will be judged according to one’s expertise in sex, and a man will be known as a brahmana just by his wearing a thread

A person’s spiritual position will be ascertained merely according to external symbols, and on that same basis people will change from one spiritual order to the next. A persons propriety will be se manriously questioned if he does not earn a good living. And one who is very clever at juggling words will be considered a learned scholar

A person will be judged unholy if he does not have money, and hypocrisy will be accepted as virtue and Marriage will be arranged simply by verbal agreement, and a person will think he is fit to appear in public if he has merely taken a bath.

A sacred place will be taken to consist of no more than a reservoir of water located at a distance, and an beauty will be thought to depend on one’s hairstyle. filling the belly will become the goal of life, and one who is audacious will be accepted as truthful. He who can maintain a family will be regarded as an expert man, and the principles of religion will be observed only for the sake of reputation.

As the earth thus becomes crowded with a corrupt population, whoever among any of the social classes shows himself to be the strongest will gain political power.

Harassed by by famine and excessive taxes, people will resort to eating leaves, roots, flesh, wild honey, fruits, flowers and seeds, struck by drought,they will become completely ruined.

The citizens will suffer greatly from cold, wind, heat, rain and snow, They will be further tormented by quarrels,hunger, thirst, disease and severe anxiety and maximum duration of life for human beings will become fifty years in Kali yuga.

Pete Doherty supports Food for All last night,
5,000 people turned out at the Brixton Academy for a sold out concert.

The manager of Matchless Gifts took to the stage to introduce the band and talk a little about our prasad distribution project.

Your servant Parasuram Das

Here is the video taken at the Brixton Academy gig by Achintya

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We are a community of devotees living in Brighton & Hove, holding regular programmes and festivals for ‘Kirtan’ (congregational chanting) taking ‘Prasadam’ (spiritual food) and reading from Vedic Scriptures (Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam etc) Read more ›

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ECO-Vrindaban: Where Truly Happy Cows Roam Free

By Madhava Smullen

We live in a world where animals—who are just as alive and feeling as we are—are treated like non-sentient commodities. A staggering nine billion animals are slaughtered every year in US factory farms alone. While they wait for their early death, like prisoners in a concentration camp, they are confined so tightly in battery cages or windowless sheds that they can barely move. They are de-beaked, de-toed, and finally slaughtered, often while fully conscious.

This system is not only incredibly cruel—it’s disastrous for the environment, too. According to a 2006 United Nations report, factory farming generates eighteen percent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Millions of rainforest acres have been cleared for livestock grazing or animal feed crops. And all this for… well, not much at all. While you could feed twenty-two people with one hectare of potatoes, one hectare used to produce beef could feed only one.

Fortunately, there are people who are doing what they can to stop cruelty to animals, to give them their natural right to freedom, and to provide an alternative to factory farming. People at well-known organizations like PETA, the ASPCA, Farm Sanctuary, and Mercy For Animals.

And then there’s those you may not have heard of, yet—like ECOV (an acronym for Earth, Cows, Opportunity, and Vrindaban Villages), an organization that has been quietly operating since 1969 from the green, rolling hills of West Virginia. ECOV is a farm sanctuary nestled in a small community that aims for a pre-industrial agrarian lifestyle in harmony with nature, animals and the earth. It specifically cares for cows, who are one of the most abused species on the planet—nearly 4,000 are killed every hour in the US alone.

As one of the oldest cow protection organizations in North America, ECOV has provided loving care for over 800 cows and bulls over its more than 40 year history. These animals are free to live out their full natural lives in peace and contentment, never seeing the horror of factory farms.

Some were rescues. Starting in the mid-1970s, as they grew their herd, the ECOV staff would visit auctions to bid against commercial dairies; and with the help of donations from animal well-wishers, they were able to rescue cattle from commercial farms, which they still do to this day.

“I remember going to pick out five pregnant Holstein heifers from a commercial dairy near Columbus, Ohio, in 2007,” says ECOV general manager Doug Fintel. “As I walked amongst a hundred cows, I was shocked to see the emotional state they were in. Whenever the breeder walked into the pen, they would run away and cluster into groups, just trying to get away from him. They were out of their minds with fear. I felt like I was in a scene from the movie Schindler’s List, and we were saving them from the gas chamber.”

Doug was delighted to be saving not only the heifers, but their unborn calves too—of which the males would have faced an especially grim future. As veal calves, they would have been confined in pitch dark pens so small that they would be unable to even turn around, resulting in their muscles remaining soft and undeveloped… just so that consumers could enjoy their tender meat. “Whenever rescued cows first arrived on our ECOV farm, they’d be pitiful and uptight, with a wild look in their eyes,” Doug says. “But gradually, they would calm down, and eventually when humans walked near them, they’d be completely relaxed, not even noticing we were there.”

Of course, while rescuing cows is very fulfilling and important work, it’s not a common activity for ECOV. Since cows live to be up to twenty-three years old, and ECOV commits to taking care of cows for life, they take in new additions to the herd very cautiously. Besides, the organization’s main focus is compassionate care for their cows and providing cruelty-free milk, which is integral to the simple village life its community is based upon.

Of course, ECOV cows are milked either by hand or with vacuum bucket milkers, the most subtle type of milking machine on the market today. And the calves are looked after with love and care.

“In factory farms, they completely separate the calves from their mothers at birth and bottle-feed them milk replacer instead of their mother’s milk,” explains Doug. “But at ECOV, the calves drink milk directly from their mother for their first six months, and stay in a comfortable pen within seeing range of her. Then they are gradually weaned and put on a hay and grain diet over a several week period.”

ECOV staff have always been dedicated to giving the best care possible to all of their cows no matter what the conditions, even if it means sacrificing their own comfort. While establishing their community in the early days, staff lived without heating or running water, chopped wood and built fences all day, and still found time to take care of all their cows’ needs.

Meanwhile in the 1990s and 2000s, when funds and manpower became scarce, the core group continued to stick to their mission. Having managed the herd for 34 years and counting, Doug Fintel has given his life to the program, as has ECOV Vice President Mark Meberg (37 years), and Doug’s assistant Ray (29 years). Today, Doug and Ray are the main full-time workers and they are helped by dozens of volunteers each year. Support is still low and things aren’t easy, but the program continues.

During the winter the current herd of of 65 cows—mainly Holsteins, Brown Swiss, and Jerseys—stay in a cozy, clean pole barn built for 240 cows. One thousand round bales of hay, weighing about 600 pounds apiece, are put up for them to eat and it’s good stuff, grown on a 160-acre meadow that’s spread with crushed limestone every three to four years. This neutralizes acidity in the soil and reduces weeds to produce healthier, more nutritious plants for the cows.

The animals are also given twelve tons of grain, salt licks, and plenty of fresh water. Even during the severe West Virginia winters, when the water fountains occasionally freeze, ECOV staff set up tarps and bring out a torpedo heater to thaw them out and make sure the cows get their water.

As well as this five-star treatment in their barn, the cows are also free to go out whenever they desire. “The big difference between us and commercial dairies is that their cows are trapped on a cement floor 365 days a year, and never get to see the light of day,” says Doug. “They never get any fresh air or sunshine, never get to put their hooves in the dirt. But our cows are free to come and go as they please.”

In the summer time, ECOV’s cows get to spend all their time on about 245 acres of lush, green pasturing grounds, where they can eat their fill. Meanwhile, the staff are repairing fences, and spending long hours harvesting the hay for next winter.

When they need it, the cows are given veterinarian and medical care. And when a cow passes away, usually between 20 and 23 years old, they are given special hospice care.

“One of our volunteers, Robert Vincioline, spends a lot of time with them,” says Doug. “He plays peaceful spiritual music for them, places garlands of blessed flowers around their necks, and of course makes sure they have a clean, dry place to lay, and plenty of food and drink. We check in on them regularly, and often more people from the community will come to visit them and offer their respects. The cows here are like part of the family. Rather than being exploited and treated like production machines, they’re taken care of with love and respect.”

After years of holding off on breeding to focus on stability and care for the current herd, ECOV now plans to begin breeding again, with two or three new Brown Swiss cows expected every year. Establishing an ox-drover program is another future goal towards a simpler lifestyle more in tune with the land.

Along with its expansion, the ECOV team will improve its facilities for the animals. Staff are currently planning a new ox-barn with a feed aisle and lie-down area, an isolation pen with a lift for sick oxen, an equipment room, and a gravity-flow grain storage. The environmentally-friendly structure will be built with timber from ECOV’s own woods, and will feature rainwater harvesting and solar panels. A more spacious and guest-friendly new milking barn—in which visitors will be able to view and pet the cows—is also planned.

To maintain a cow protection program of such high standards, ECOV must raise around $100,000 every year. For many years, the organization has struggled just to get by. Now, staff plan to establish a cow protection endowment fund, which would yield a more permanent income base that could be used to pay for ECOV’s annual operating costs—thus providing a stable source of income less dependent on the macro economy. Even with the endowment, however, ECOV staff still expect to rely on charitable donations from its supporters and well-wishers. Yet despite any difficulties, they are happy to continue on, no matter what, for such a worthy cause.

“Our modern consumer society is great at providing material goods, but it’s unsustainable and poor at providing inner peace,” ECOV Vice President Mark Meberg offers in conclusion. “So our mission is to show people an alternate lifestyle that can reduce consumption, and is not dependent on cruelty to animals. Such a lifestyle of simplicity, in association with the calmness of the cow, can bring greater satisfaction than all the trinkets from China.”

We would like to thank all the visiting preachers who grace our temple for their contribution. It cannot be overestimated. All of you are source of constant inspiration for Moscow devotees. So we sincerely beg you to continue blessing us by your association. Please come to our temple as often as possible, please stay here, preach here, inspire us by your sublime devotional qualities and profound realizations. Read more ›

Harinama-sankirtana (the congregational chanting of the holy names of the Lord) may be most familiar from seeing the devotees out in the streets, dancing and chanting the maha-mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare accompanied by mridangas (two headed drums) and karatalas (hand cymbals). Krishnas holy names are endowed with all of His potencies and this sound vibration can reawaken a person to his spiritual identity and existence. Read more ›

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Bada Hari prabhu – Day 4 of Polish Woodstock 2013

Dear Devotees & Friends,

This week devotees in ISKCON all around the world are celebrating World
Holy Name Week.

The purpose of this week is to increase our faith and practices of chanting
the Holy Name of the Lord, understanding it as the prime way of solving all
the problems of the world, individually and collectively, and achieving
full enlightenment in this materialistic age.

Harer Nama Harer Nama Harer Namaiva Kevalam

Kalau Nasty Eva Nasti Eva Nasti Eva Gatir Anyatha.

“In this age of Kali, there is no otherway, there is no otherway, there is
no otherway for spiritual progress other than the chanting of the holy
name, the chanting of the holy name, the chanting of the holy name of the
Lord.”

The week starts on September 17th, Srila Haridasa Thakura¹s Dissapearance
day, and finishes on the 26th of September, the day of Srila Prabhupada¹s
arrival in Boston.

Here in Perth there are two important events that we invite you to kindly
come and participate in;

On Friday the 20th of September, there will be a Maha Harinama, where we
will be sharing the Holy Names with all the people of Perth. It will be
starting sharp at 5.45pm, leaving around the corner from Govinda’s
restaurant, ( at the end of James Street ) We will go chanting in
procession into the city for around an hour or so. Please bring as many
friends and family members as you can to participate in this.

Then on Sunday the 22nd of September we are holding a 12 hour kirtana at
the temple, 159 Canning Road, Kalamunda. Different devotees will be leading
kirtana all day from 8am in the morning until 8pm at night. It is a great
opportunity to charge up our spiritual batteries and to deepen our taste
for chanting the Lord’s Holy Names. The kirtana will build up to the arati
at 7pm. Unlike the regular Sunday feasts, prasadam will be served before
the arati between 3pm and 5pm.

It will be really wonderful if you are able to come and join us in the
chanting of the Lord’s Holy Names on these two important days.

Your servants at ISKCON Perth

I believe that the details of the Vaishnava diet are not solely determined by the vegetarian principle of ahimsa (non-violence). The principles of ahimsa intersect with another set of principles, those of śaucam (cleanliness) to produce the various specific morays of the Vaishnava diet. The Vaishnava eats what s/he offers to Viṣṇu – and what s/he selects to offer to Viṣṇu is chosen from a menu that meets principles of non-violence as well as cleanliness. Thus, various Vaishnava groups don’t eat some foods, even though those foods are not intrinsically violent (eggs, onion, garlic, carrots, potatoes, mushrooms). Without considering the principle of cleanliness – only considering non-violence, this baffles the onlooker. Foods that do not grow in the light (onions, garlic, carrots, etc.) are “unclean.” Eggs are unclean because they are menstrual byproducts.

We find that the non-violent principles are far more important than the cleanliness principles, however. Because many pure Vaishnava’s will offer and eat foods that do not grow in the light. In ISKCON, for example, carrots are frequently eaten. There is room for leeway in the cleanliness principle, but not nearly as much room for it in the non-violence principle.

Radhastami evening was a continuous flow of nectar—carrying Radharani in procession to the fire sacrifice, puspanjali, abhishek, arati, and class, all accompanied by rousing kirtan—the devotees were in ecstasy.

“Srimati Radharani is so transcendentally attractive that She attracts even Krishna, the attractor of Cupid. Therefore Her name is Madana Mohana Mohini—the attractor of the attractor of Cupid. And Srila Prabhupada explains that devotional service is under  the control of Srimati Radharani and thus it attracts even Krishna Himself and Krishna comes under the control of His devotees’ love. Krishna is independent, He doesn’t come under anyone’s control, even Srimati Radharani’s, but He comes under the control of Her love and the love of His other devotees.”

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Radhastami Evening Talk

"Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī therefore recommends, tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt: "One must strictly follow the regulative principles of vaidhī bhakti." In addition to these four prohibitions (yama), there are positive regulative principles (niyama), such as the daily chanting of sixteen rounds on japa-mālā beads. These regulative activities must be faithfully performed with enthusiasm. This is called tat-tat-karma-pravartana, or varied engagement in devotional service."

Nectar Of Instruction - Verse 3 purport

“I will never give up; I will keep fighting till I succeed.” Those with such spirit who succeed against insurmountable odds often become heroes.

Fierce tenacity is laudable and even essential for achieving anything glorious.

To raise our drive to achieve to a higher level, indeed, to the highest level, Gita wisdom urges us to complement spirit with spirituality. That is, it calls upon us to channelize our fighting spirit into the ultimate cause – the cause of relishing and sharing everlasting spiritual bliss.

We are souls meant for eternal happiness. However, today’s materialistic culture seduces and reduces our definition of success to material success. So, even if we overcome herculean odds and succeed, we gain at best temporary happiness, for everything material is temporary.

If we want achievement to bring lasting fulfillment, we need to expand our definition of success to include the spiritual level. This doesn’t require us to renounce everything material; it simply requires that we subordinate and integrate the material with the spiritual. The Bhagavad-gita (18.46) urges us to reinvent our work as a form of worship of Krishna, the ultimate spiritual reality who is the source and sustainer of everything material.

Philosophical education and devotional meditation help us focus our head and heart on Krishna. This focus makes our mind calm and clear, thereby helping us bring out the best within us and do justice to our God-given abilities. Even if we don’t succeed, our strong Krishna-connection brings us solace and satisfaction. But because Krishna’s omnipotent grace empowers us, we triumph far more than what would have been possible by our most determined solitary struggles. And because we are engaged in actualizing Krishna’s omni-benevolent will, our achievements bring about the highest good for ourselves as well as everyone else. That is life’s complete and supreme success.

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18.46 - By worship of the Lord, who is the source of all beings and who is all-pervading, a man can attain perfection through performing his own work.

 

The creation takes place to accommodate the inclinations of the various living entities, and so the Lord does not become involved with it.

Bhagavad Gita As It Is 9.8 purport

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This material world is a world of duality—at one moment we are subjected to the heat and at the next moment to the cold; or, at one moment we are happy and the next moment distressed. At one moment honored, at the next dishonored. In the material world of duality, it is impossible to understand one thing without understanding its opposite. It is not possible to understand what honor is unless I understand dishonor. Similarly, I cannot understand what misery is if I have never tasted happiness. Nor can I understand what happiness is unless I have tasted misery.

One has to transcend such dualities, but as long as this body is here these dualities will be here also. Insofar as one strives to get out of bodily conceptions—not out of the body but out of bodily conceptions—one has to learn to tolerate such dualities. In the second chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna informs Arjuna that the duality of distress and happiness is due to the body alone. It’s like a skin disease, or skin itch. Just because there is itching, one should not be mad to scratch it. We should not go mad or give up our duty just because mosquitoes bite us. There are so many dualities that one has to tolerate, but if the mind is fixed in Krishna consciousness, all these dualities will seem insignificant.

How can one tolerate such dualities?

“A person is said to be established in self-realization and is called a yogi (or mystic) when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired knowledge and realization. Such a person is situated in transcendence and is self-controlled. He sees everything—whether it be pebbles, stones or gold—as the same.” (Bhagavad-gita 6.8)

Jnana means theoretical knowledge, and vijnana refers to practical knowledge. For instance, a science student has to study theoretical scientific conceptions as well as applied science. Theoretical knowledge alone will not help. One has to be able to also apply this knowledge. Similarly, in yoga one should have not only theoretical knowledge but practical knowledge. Simply understanding “I am not this body” and at the same time acting in a contrary way will not help. There are so many societies where the members seriously discuss Vedanta philosophy while smoking and drinking and enjoying a sensual life. It will not help if one only has theoretical knowledge. This knowledge must be demonstrated. One who truly understands “I am not this body” will actually reduce his bodily necessities to a minimum. When one increases the demands of the body while thinking “I am not this body,” then of what use is that knowledge? A person can be satisfied only when there is theoretical and practical knowledge side by aide.

When a person is situated on the practical level of spiritual realization, it should be understood he is actually situated in yoga. It is not that one should continue to attend yoga classes and yet remain the same throughout his life; there must be practical realization. And what is the sign of that practical realization? The mind will be calm and quiet and no longer agitated by the attraction of the material world. Thus self-controlled, one is not attracted by the material glitter, and he sees everything—pebbles, stones, or gold—as the same. In the materialistic civilization, so much paraphernalia is produced just to satisfy the senses. These things are produced under the banner of material advancement. He who is situated in yoga sees such paraphernalia as simply rubbish in the street. Moreover,

“A person is said to be still further advanced when he regards all—the honest well-wisher, friends and enemies, the envious, the pious, the sinner, and those who are indifferent and impartial—with an equal mind.” (Bhagavad-gita 6.9)

There are different kinds of friends. There is suhrit, who is by nature a well-wisher and always desires one’s welfare. Mitra refers to an ordinary friend, and udasina is one who is neutral. In this material world someone may be my well-wisher, friend, or neither a friend nor an enemy, but neutral. Someone else may serve as a mediator between me and my enemies. One may also see someone as pious and another as sinful according to his own calculations. But when he is situated in transcendence, all of these—friends, enemies, or whatever—cease to exist. When one becomes actually learned, he does not see any enemy or any friend because in actuality “no one is my enemy, no one is my friend, no one is my father, no one is my mother, etc.” We are all simply living entities playing on a stage in the dress of father, mother, children, friend, enemy, sinner and saint, etc. It is like a great drama with so many characters playing their parts. However, on the stage a person may be an enemy or whatever, but off the stage all the actors are friends. Similarly, with these bodies we are playing on the stage of material nature, and we attach so many designations to one another. I may be thinking, “This is my son,” but in actuality I cannot beget any son. It is not possible. At the utmost I can only beget a body. It is not within any man’s power to beget a living entity. Merely by sexual intercourse a living entity cannot be begotten. The living entity must be placed in the emulsification of secretions. This is the verdict of Srimad Bhagavatam. Thus all the multifarious relationships between bodies are just so much stage play. One who is actually realized and has actually attained yoga no longer sees these bodily distinctions.

O good soul, does not a thing, applied therapeutically, cure a disease which was caused by that very same thing? (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.5.33)

Commentary by Srila Prabhupada

[dropcap1]A[/dropcap1]n expert physician treats his patient with a therapeutic diet. For example, milk preparations sometimes cause disorder of the bowels, but the very same milk converted into yogurt and mixed with some other remedial ingredients cures such disorders. Similarly, the threefold miseries of material existence cannot be mitigated simply by material activities. Such activities have to be spiritualized, just as by fire iron is made red-hot, and thereby the action of fire begins. Similarly, the material conception of a thing is at once changed as soon as it is put into the service of God. That is the secret of spiritual success. We should not try to lord it over the material nature, nor should we reject material things. The best use of a bad bargain is to use everything in relation with the supreme spiritual being. Everything is an emanation from the Supreme Spirit, and by His inconceivable power He can convert spirit into matter and matter into spirit. Therefore a material thing (so-called) is at once turned into a spiritual force by the great will of the Lord. The necessary condition for such a change is to employ so-called matter in the service of the spirit. That is the way to treat our material diseases and elevate ourselves to the spiritual plane where there is no misery, no lamentation and no fear. When everything is thus employed in the service of the Lord, we can experience that there is nothing except the Supreme Brahman. The Vedic mantra that “everything is Brahman” is thus realized by us.

The great Rishi Narada is the author of Narada Pancaratra. This Narada Pancaratra trains the karmis, or the fruitive workers, to achieve liberation from the bondage of fruitive work. The conditioned souls are mostly attracted by fruitive work because they want to enjoy life by the sweat of their own brows. The whole universe is full of fruitive workers in all species of life. The fruitive works include all kinds of economic development plans. But the law of nature provides that every action has its resultant reaction, and the performer of the work is bound up by such reactions, good or bad. The reaction of good work is comparative material prosperity, whereas the reaction of bad work is comparative material distress. But material conditions, either in so-called happiness or in so-called distress, are all meant ultimately for distress only. Foolish materialists have no information of how to obtain eternal happiness in the unconditional state. Sri Narada informs the foolish fruitive workers how to realize the reality of happiness. He gives direction to the diseased people of the world how one’s present engagement can lead one to the path of spiritual emancipation. The physician directs the patient to take treated milk in the form of yogurt for his sufferings from indigestion due to his taking another milk preparation. So the cause of the disease and the remedy of the disease may be the same, but it must be treated by an expert physician like the spiritual teacher Narada. The Bhagavad-gita also gives the same solution of serving God by the fruits of one’s labor. That will lead one to the path of naiskarmya, or freedom.

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