Katrina
From Yogindra Vandana das Adhikari
Posted Sep 15, 2005
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All glories to
Srila Prabhupada! |
Hare Krsna! Please accept my sincere
respects and good wishes.
The tragic killer hurricane that
devastated the Mississippi and Louisiana
coastlines also left its mark on New
Talavan and the cow protection program.
Although the cowherd survived the
storm, the future is questionable. Downed
fences are the biggest problem. Because
so many trees were blown over, naturally
many fell on fences and houses.
Consequently, our fence system suffered
much damage.
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From Pandava Vijaya Dasa
Posted Sep 5, 2005
Daruka prabhu, with his devotee "SWAT
team," braved the flooded highways and
the outlaws with rifles to drive his semi
truck to New Orleans and pick up the New
Orleans devotees and the presiding
Deities—Sri Sri Radha Krishna, Sri Sri
Caitanya Nityananda, and Sri Sri
Jagannatha, Baladeva, Subhadra. Everyone
is safe, and the Deities are being
worshiped in Kalachandji Dham, Dallas.
Your servant behind the camera,
Pandava.
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An e-mail from Bir Krsna Goswami
Posted Sep 5, 2005
We got [the devotees] evacuated with
the Deities. Everyone is fine, and the
building is unscathed and unflooded.
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Katrina
From Dasanudas Vanacari
Posted Sep 5, 2005
Dear Devotees,
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,
everyone has experienced the awesome
reality of just how fragile our material
existence is. Twelve hours of wind, some
rain, a few tornadoes—and a major city is
crippled, a community shattered, and
opulent lifestyles destroyed for many,
perhaps millions of people. Srila
Prabhupada writes:
"In the grim clutches of maya, the
first-class prisoners of this material
world wrongly think themselves happy
because they are rich, powerful,
resourceful and so on...."
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From Bir Krishna das Goswami
(GBC-New Talavan/New Orleans)
Posted Sept 2, 2005
ISKCON New Talavan/New Orleans
Disaster Relief Website:
www.newtalavana.org
Dear Devotees,
Hare Krsna! Please accept our humble
obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada! All glories to Sri
Nrsimhadeva!
On Monday August 29 ISKCON New Talavan
and ISKCON New Orleans were hit by
Hurricane Katrina, a devastating Category
5 storm with sustained winds of 175 MPH.
The eye of the storm came ashore near
Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, and
passed within 10 miles of New Talavan.
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From Dasanudas Vanacari
Posted Sept 2, 2005
Dear Devotees,
Hare Krsna!
The latest pictures and video of the
farm are on our website at
http://www.newtalavana.org/albums/
hurricane/index.htm
http://www.newtalavana.org/hurricane2.wmv
(This link may take some time to
become active)
Thank you for all your concern and
help. We are overwhelmed and cannot
always answer your emails. But that
doesn't mean we don't care. We just have
a lot of pressing concerns right now to
manage our community. Tomorrow Ramakeli
Prabhu is going to Jackson to arrange for
supplies for the devotees. We are getting
some help from Food For Life also. So by
Krsna's grace everything is working out.
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From Bhadra Jagannath das
Posted Sept 1, 2005
To the residents of New Talavana Dham,
Per your request, I called FEMA today
at about 1:00 pm your time. I shared with
them your needs and also the important
services you are providing to the
community at large. They took all the
information and told me they will be
looking into it as well as passing it
along to the Red Cross.
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From Yogindra Vandana das Adhikari
Posted Sept 1, 2005
Dear Maharajas, GBCs, Temple
Presidents, Web & Magazine Editors, and
Other Devotees,
Hare Krsna! Please accept my humble
obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada!
The power of the Lord's external
energy is inconceivable. How one storm
can destroy the social structure of an
area ranging from 50 miles west of New
Orleans all the way to Mobile, Alabama is
stunning. In Mississippi, everything from
Jackson on south is devastated. There are
no commerce, transportation, or other
normal activities going on.
Despite our good fortune to have our
temples in both New Orleans and New
Talavan emerge relatively unscathed, the
harsh reality is that there is no
functioning society around us. The
devotees in New Orleans are virtually
trapped.
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From Bir Krishna Goswami
Posted Aug 31, 2005
The devotees are fine in New Orleans.
I just spoke to them last night after the
hurricane was over, and the temple
building was untouched, as was the
residential building next to the temple.
Today there is some flooding, but the
devotees are continuing their service and
have plenty of prasad. The Deities are
accepting Their regular offerings and
aratis.
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From Dasanudas Vanacari, New Talavan
Community
Posted Aug 31, 2005
Dear Devotees,
Hare Krsna! Please accept our humble
obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada! All glories to Sri
Nrsimhadeva!
Yesterday New Talavan and New Orleans
were hit by Hurricane Katrina, a
devastating category-5 storm with
sustained winds of 175 mph. The eye of
the storm came ashore near Gulfport and
Biloxi, Mississippi, and passed within 10
miles of New Talavan.
By Krsna's grace and Lord
Nrsimhadeva's mercy, everyone here at New
Talavan is OK. There were no casualties
or injuries. However, we have had no
contact with the New Orleans temple since
the storm.
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From Lilananda Dasa
Posted June 12, 2005
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From Gopal Bhatta das
Posted Mar. 23, 2005
Dear Vaisnava,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All
glories to Srila Prabhupada.
If you're one of the three thousand
devotees who have visited the new SSPT
website, thank you. If not, please accept
our invitation to learn about the new
excitement going on in ISKCON North America.
A wide variety of devotees have now
updated the site with news from the recent
ISKCON continental planning meetings in
Dallas.
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Niles Ratha-yatra
Posted
October 31, 2004
Dear Maharajas, Friends, and Other
Devotees,
Please accept our respectful
obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada, founder/acarya of ISKCON!
All glories to Sri Sri Guru and
Gauranga!
Once again, we had an absolutely
ecstatic time as we put on the
Ratha-yatra float in the Apple Festival
of Niles, Michigan, on Saturday October
2, 2004.
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Snana Yatra
in Detroit
From Kathleen Fink
Posted September 29, 2004
Detroit Hare Krsna Temple (Devasadan Mandir) had its snana yatra (bathing)
festival for Lord Jagannatha on Sunday July 18. A hundred devotees participated
in the bathing of the Lord. Attached is a photo of Madhusudana prabhu lovingly
bathing Their Lordships. Ratha yatra festival was Sunday, July 25. Jai
Jagannatha!
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Ratha Yatra
in
Seattle
Posted September 21, 2004
Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada!
ISKCON Seattle celebrated its 10th annual Jagannatha Ratha Yatra and Festival
of India on August 27, 28, and 29 at Seattle's pier 58 (near the Seattle
Aquarium). The three-day festival of India was well received by devotees,
congregation members, and the general public. We served around 5,000 plates of
prasadam during these three days, and the main parade was graced by H.H. Hanumat
Presak Swami.
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Toronto Rathayatra
Posted July 21, 2004
Toronto's 32nd Rathayatra was a great success. The parade began at noon on
Saturday July 17 at the Toronto Reference Library and traveled down Yonge St. to
the lake, where the festivities continued at Centre Island for the remainder of
the weekend.
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California
Firestone
Receives Gita
Posted May 1, 2004
Andrew Firestone, heir of the Firestone tire-manufacturing family and
heart-throb star of the television reality show The Batchelor, received a
Bhagavad-gita from ITV’s Nrsimhananda dasa at the Pyramid House in
Topanga, California. E! Entertainment, a nightly show-business program
broadcast nationwide, was taping an interview with local resident Kansas
Carradine, daughter of veteran Hollywood actor, David Carradine.
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Internet Preaching
Attracts 10,000
by Amarendar Nagavarapu
Posted April 19, 2004
Sankarshan Das Adhikari has broken new ground in the field of spreading
Krishna consciousness. In January of 2003 he started an e-course called "The
Ultimate Self-Realization Course" for teaching the science of Krishna bhakti via
the Internet. He had previously put up a web page in an attempt to sell
Bhagavad-gita but had gotten no result. He then reasoned that if he could
first win people's trust by giving them something of value for free, he could
then interest them in studying Srila Prabhupada's books.
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Sri Sri Radha Govinda
in Denver
From Jayasacisuta dasa
Posted April 9, 2004For
the pleasure of the Vaisnavas, here are
a few photos of Sri Sri Radha Govinda in
Denver. More can be found on
www.krishnadenver.com.
Your servant,
Jayasacisuta dasa
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U.S.A.
ISKCON Comes to
Edison, New Jersey
From Madhupati Dasa
Posted April 2, 2004
Dear Devotees and Friends,
Please accept our humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We are pleased to inform you that by
the mercy of the Vaishnavas, the
inauguration of ISKCON of Central New
Jersey on Sunday, 28th March 2004, was
a big success.
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U.S.A.
Lord Nityananda Delivers
the Mrgari of Southern Idaho
By Sri Hari Dasa,
Boise, Idaho
Posted April 1, 2004
Recently, I had a wonderful
experience, the kind that book
distributors talk about all the time. It
had never happened to me, and I had
always wondered how these devotees
preach so that people feel inspired to
take so many books.
It was a nice, sunny, and beautiful
springlike day. People were busy in
their own fun plans. Some people were
with their groups getting ready to enter
restaurant for lunch, and others were
waiting outside for their mates to
arrive. Some were enjoying the sunny
lounges of bars and restaurants. The
whole area was filled with the smell of
roasted meat, garlic, etc.
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New
Year's Eve in Denver
From Jayasacisuta
Dasa
Posted
January 6, 2004
Every
year the city of Denver hosts a New Year’s
Eve Celebration. Over 100,000 people
turn out to see the fireworks and
participate in the festivities. To make
the event worthwhile, devotees from the
Denver ISKCON temple lead a Harinama
procession through the crowds. For much
of the evening there isn’t much in the
way of entertainment, so most of the
crowd welcomes our chanting party. This
year three or four people remained with
us the entire three hours. Here are some
pictures of this year’s Harinama.
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Utah
The
Projector Fest
From Caru Dasa
Posted
December 8, 2003
We subtitled the Gita Fest this year
The Projector Fest. The new BenQ
projector remained on from 6 pm until 9
pm in one capacity or another. From 6 pm
until 6:30, as people were arriving, we
showed Vrndavan, Land of Krishna
on the 9-foot by 12-foot screen. The
image filled up the whole screen in
sharp, vivid color.
Next, I introduced and explained the
concept of Gita Yajna, a sacrifice
wherein 108 offerings would be placed on
the fire for each of the 108 key verses
in the Bhagavad Gita. I asked Sri
Sharma, Yogi Shah, and Dinesh and
Kalpana Patel to be the yajnamanas. Our
process was for me to chant each of the
verses from memory and say
"Svaha" while the yajnamanas
put the samagri (a special blend of
herbs) onto the fire. Simultaneously,
each verse would appear in English on
the big screen. Rajeev would use the
remote control to move from one verse to
the next, and then he would say the
English.
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U.S.A.
Senior
Citizens Visit Utah Temple
By Caru Dasa
Posted
November 26, 2003
The West Jordan Senior Citizens
Center, having heard good reports from
other seniors' groups who have visited
our temple, came with 57 people on a bus
for tour and lunch. They arrived at
10:45 am. We had cooked all morning
long. I made fancy rice with peanuts,
raisins, and mixed vegetables, some
spicy spaghetti with olives and chunks
of TVP®
(texturized vegetable protein), and
matar paneer, the very popular Indian
dish with peas and curd. For the first
time I tried soaking the fried curd in
warm whey, turmeric, and salt, before
putting it with the peas. This soaking
gave it a juicy, soft consistency.
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U.S.A.
Vaisnava
Hatha-Yoga Centers
Posted
November 18, 2003
New Dvaraka Establishes Vaisnava
Hatha-Yoga Center, Detroit Temple
Follows Suit.
Atma Yoga represents a new way to
promote the Krsna consciousness movement.
Seeing the need to take advantage of the
ever-expanding hatha yoga movement for
spreading Krsna consciousness, Atmananda
Dasa of New Dvaraka has developed a
highly appealing Vaisnava hatha yoga
system. Atma Yoga is externally similar
to many of the commercial yoga systems
but is fueled by Bhakti shakti.
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U.S.A.
Adventures
in the Classroom
By Caru Dasa
Posted
November 10, 2003
The three classes at Mountain View
High School today (Thursday October 30)
are not at all for adult education, as I
had thought. The last time I did classes
with Rod Jackman out of the UVSC (Utah
Valley State College) media center, it
was for adults and being video fed out
to other high schools for evening
classes.
This is much bigger. The three
classes I teach today are regular
daytime classes with 30 to 40 students
from Mountain View High in each class.
Simultaneously, each class is video fed
out to another six high schools. That
makes approximately 250 students per
class and three classes means more than
750 students see the classes.
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U.S.A.
Mahabharata
in Los Angeles
From Bhakta
Wallace
Posted
November 9, 2003
The Vedic Theatre formed in 2001 has
finally acquired an intimate 50-seat
theater just three blocks from the
ISKCON temple in Los Angeles for the
months of January and February. This
gives us an opportunity to do 12 to 16
performances of a unique adaptation
entitled Mahabharata: The Final
Battle.
More important, it is a great
springboard for preaching, and to our
knowledge it is the first time that a
so-called temple play, written by two
devotees in 1987, is being done outside
the temple area for the public at large.
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Journal
of a Prabhupada
Man, Entry #5
By Sankarshan Das
Adhikari
Posted
November 4, 2003
October 9, 2003, Hare Krishna Land,
Juhu, Mumbai, India–
I’m on the road again, traveling
and preaching in India on my way to
Vrindavan to immerse myself in Krishna
Katha during the most sacred month of
Kartik. Far away from my base (our
ISKCON center in Austin, Texas), I’m
armed with my laptop computer to keep in
touch with the students from my
e-course, the Ultimate Self-Realization
Course. By Krishna’s grace, since
January over 3,400 people have enrolled
from all over the world. (My signup page
is http://www.backtohome.com)
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Sri
Radhastami in New York
Posted
September 29, 2003
Sri Radhastami:
The Appearance Day of Srimati Radharani.
The sweetest festival by far, this
year's Radhastami Celebration at Sri Sri
Radha Govinda Mandir, was a day to
remember. Starting with the auspicious
mangal arati ceremony, Sri Sri Radha
Govinda's Temple was alive with
excitement as the devotees gathered to
greet Srimati Radharani on Her
transcendental birthday. The Deities
wore one of Their new night dresses,
custom made in Vrindavan, India.
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Janmastami
in Detroit
Sri Sri Radha
Kunjabihari Ki Jaya!
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Sri
Krishna Janmastami
in New York
A Transcendental
Celebration
Posted
August 23, 2003
Dear Devotees and Friends,
Close to 1000 devotees made the
pilgrimage to Sri Sri Radha Govinda
Mandir to celebrate the transcendental
appearance day of Lord Sri Krishna. It
was a fun-filled, exciting festival that
began at 4:30 am with a special
mangala-arati darshan and kirtan.
At 7:30 am, Sri Sri Radha Govinda were
offered a brand new set of clothes, which
was sponsored by congregation devotee
Rajesh Gulab and his family. The outfit
was fall-themed and featured clusters of
red-sequin leaves with gold trim.
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Ecstasy
on the
Lower East Side
by Vyenkata Bhatta
Dasa
Posted
August 18, 2003
"To choose to attend to the
Lower East Side," wrote Allen
Ginsberg about Srila Prabhupada,
"what kindness and humility and
intelligence!" Anyone present at
the Angel Orensanz Art Center on the
Friday before Ratha Yatra can attest to
the fact that Srila Prabhupada's vision
is still alive and thriving on the Lower
East Side almost forty years later.
The Angel Orensanz Art Center is in a
neo-gothic former synagogue, a
five-minute walk from 26 Second Avenue.
The center was the venue where devotees
from the Second Avenue community hosted
the International Sankirtan Festival.
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Journal
of a Prabhupada Man,
Entry #4
By Sankarshan Das
Adhikari
Posted
August 2, 2003
July 27, 2003—Austin, Texas USA
What jumped out of the cassette
player and astounded me was Srila
Prabhupada's statement "Take the
management." He's speaking here of
the entire material society, that it is
being mismanaged by rogues and thieves
and therefore plunged into a suffering
condition. Srila Prabhupada is
instructing us to take the management,
to become the guiding authorities for
the entire world population.
What a broad vision Srila Prabhupada
has for this Krishna consciousness
movement! What a broad vision we must
also have as his followers! We are meant
to manage the entire human society by
the enlightened guidance so
systemically, carefully, and lovingly
presented in Srila Prabhupada's books.
Many of our devotees and members have
lost their faith in ISKCON as being an
institution that can lead the world out
of chaos.
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Journal
of a Prabhupada Man, Entry #3
By Sankarshan Das
Adhikari
Posted
July 21, 2003
Friday, July 05, 2003, Austin, Texas–
Another day to try to do something to
push forward the Krishna Consciousness
Movement. What can we do? We are so
disqualified. All we can do is place
ourselves as instruments in the hands of
Guru and Gauranga so if They like They
may act through us to do something
wonderful. In spite of our ineptness we
have been given the sacred mission—
revolutionize the planet, flood it with
a tidal wave of Krishna consciousness.
So we must arise and fight the battle to
awaken the sleeping souls from the
slumber of maya. We must faithfully
serve Srila Prabhupada’s order to
preach Krishna consciousness and then
depend on the Krishna for the results.
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New
York Ratha Yatra Ki Jai!
Posted
July 3, 2003
Dear Devotees & Friends,
Many thanks to the thousands and
thousands of devotees who visited the
city of New York to take part in the
2003 Ratha Yatra & Sankirtan
Festival.
For nine glorious days, Sri Sri Radha
Govinda's Temple was alive and resounded
with the holy name as devotees from
around the world took part in wonderful
kirtans, book distribution, festivals,
and sumptuous prasadam.
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Second
Annual Mental
Health Conference
By Ekabuddhi
dasi
Posted
July 3, 2003
ISKCON Washington, DC, Potomac Temple
had the pleasure of hosting the second
annual Mental Health Conference –
Counseling, Therapy, and Social Care:
Their Application in a Krishna Conscious
Society.
Saturday's topics included the
following:
"Coping with Grief"
presented by Bhakti Tirtha Swami,
"Active Problem Solving"
presented by husband and wife team,
Chandramukhi dasi and Aghari dasa (both
hold an MA in Counseling Psychology),
"Psychological Testing and
Ethics of Guru-Disciple
Relationship" by Vishnugada (PsyD.
Clinical Psychology), and
"The Modes of Nature:
Implications for Mental Health
Care" by Jaya Sacisuta dasa.
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Journal
of a Prabhupada Man, Entry #2
By Sankarshan Das
Adhikari
Posted
July 1, 2003
The sweet nectar of preaching Krishna
consciousness is the causeless mercy of
Srila Prabhupada upon us. This material
world is a place of misery, but for one
who is absorbed in preaching Krishna
consciousness, it becomes transformed
into a playground, a place of
transcendental delight.
Out of his causeless mercy Srila
Prabhupada has blessed all of us with
unlimited preaching opportunities so we
can be fully happy, absolutely enlivened
even while getting old and dying within
this rotten material world. I’ve taken
my share of his mercy by opening an
ISKCON preaching center along with my
wife in Austin, Texas. Srila Prabhupada
directly ordered me in my initiation
letter in 1971, "Make our Austin
center a grand success." Our steady
preaching here for many years has
yielded a wonderful group of sincere
souls seeking escape from the cycle of
birth and death.
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