last updated  9th November 2008

Kazakhstani online petition

Kazakhstani online petition

By Radha Mohan Dasa

Please visit http://www.krishnatemple.com NOW and click the link to the new petition, or go straight to the petition webpage:

http://harekrishna.epetitions.net

Please sign it soon as you can, and please tell as many people as you can about it.

Background: Workers and police arrived on 15th June at the village near Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the embattled Hare Krishna commune is based to demolish twelve more Hare Krishna-owned homes. “The houses were literally crushed into dust. By ten o’clock it was all over,” said ISKCON spokesperson Maksim Varfolomeyev.

The temple, which the devotees have been ordered to destroy, has not been touched but the devotees fear it could be the next target. Human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis is outraged at the continuing destruction. “The authorities are showing that they will do what they want, despite the international outrage at the earlier demolitions of Hare Krishna-owned homes.” He believes the local administration chief “doesn’t care about the political damage to Kazakhstan’s reputation – or to its desire to chair the OSCE.”

ys Radha Mohan das

Kuli Mela, the festival to bond and inspire youth (Kulis) who have grown up in the Hare Krishna movement, truly showed its scope and adaptability this year when it reached Siberia.

Held in Tomsk from July 3 ­ 7, the event attracted 250 young devotees from CIS countries that most westerners have never heard of, and probably couldn’t even pronounce, including Moscow, Ulan Ude, Almaty (Kazakhstan), Novosibirsk, Novokuznetsk, and Krasnoyarsk. “Many imagine that Siberia is a place where bears walk on the streets,” laughs Siberian ISKCON youth Radha-Tattva Dasi. “True, we are rather remote, but the fact that so many people came to our Mela just shows that all devotee youth are bound like one family ­ a friend is a friend everywhere, in every town and village.”

The festival was organized by five enthusiastic local youth ­ Tatyana Stukalova, Kirtana Rasa, Roman Dvaladze, Oleg Lavrenov, Roman Lankin, Lakshman, Sergey Danilenko, and Sasha Filkina. “We attended Moscow Kuli Mela in 2007, where we met Kapila Monet, one of the creators of Kuli Mela,” Tatyana says. “We started to discuss organizing a festival in Tomsk -- and suddenly everything just started moving.”

 All four days of the festival were saturated with spiritual, cultural and sports activities. Participants got the opportunity to make friends and share their life and spiritual experiences. They also attended varied seminars and workshops, joined enthusiastic chanting parties, took part in evening fire sacrifices and ceremonies, and ate delicious sacred food. Despite uncertain weather and power cuts, nothing could spoil the festive occasion.

Highlights included Mukunda Murari, a Moscow congregation leader, who delighted everyone by transforming his usual persona into that of a hip-hop superstar and delivering a set of philosophical rap compositions. And the night-time kirtan that culminated in hundreds of red-hued candles being released to drift down the river burned itself into everyone’s memory.

“The festival’s motto was ‘Kuli Mela is a family,’” says Ananda dasi, one of the main organizers of Moscow’s Kuli Mela earlier this year. “And all the participants could really feel it. On the last evening, no one wanted to leave. So we stayed up glorifying each other, after which we had an ecstatic kirtan. All of us could feel the mission of Srila Prabhupada spreading throughout the world, and bearing with it the power of the Holy Name and service. Everyone was inspired to take part in spreading it further.”

It’s already happening: ISKCON youth in Kazakhstan are fearlessly organizing a Kuli Mela in Almaty for 2009, despite recent oppression from the government. They aim to make the event a significant one for both their community and for the entire ISKCON CIS. “Kuli Mela is going to draw a lot of attention to the Almaty community and will host a large number of people from outside it,” Ananda says. “So it may even help to change the attitudes and opinions of the wider community.”

“Each Kuli Mela has its own flavor,” she adds. “But I think Kuli Mela in Almaty will be a particularly interesting event, because they are going to make the festival open and attractive for non-devotee youth as well. Kazakhstan devotees are very enthusiastic and active so I'm sure it will be a very bright spiritual experience.”

At least 400 are expected for the groundbreaking event. And with a second event planned for Siberia in 2010, the Kuli Mela juggernaut shows no signs of slowing down. “I think that Kuli Mela can give our movement a real breakthrough in relationships between devotees of different generations,” Ananda says. “It inspires us to serve and to connect with each other in friendly warm relationships without dividing the society by groups, clans or levels.”

She concludes: “The energy from Kuli Mela, from the youth, is what will give our society a second life.”

Kazak Edition of Bhagavad-gita presented to Srila Prabhupada.
This is now the 55th language in which Bhagavad-gita has been printed.

Read HERE how the original issue began in Kazakstan

Read HERE what the previous articles from November 2006 were

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Tusker attacks homes of those who damaged Ganesha temple
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14770714

Saturday, 04 October , 2008, 16:56
 
Ranchi: An elephant attacked houses of people allegedly involved in damaging a temple of Lord Ganesha in Jharkhand and ensured their arrest.

According to media reports on Saturday, a wild elephant attacked houses of around 10 people who on August 16 had damaged the temple of elephant-headed god Ganesha situated in Mahudi hills of Hazaribagh district, around 120 km from here.

Later the police arrested those allegedly involved in the incident. The villagers point that the elephant did not hurt anyone else.

Reports suggest that the angry elephant appeared near the temple on August 17 and did not allow any devotee to enter. Later the elephant attacked houses of those involved in the damage. The villagers feel it identified those involved with its strong sense of smell.

"The elephant was staying around the temple. We succeeded in pacifying it, to install another statue of Ganesha," said Awadh Kishore Yadav, a villager.

Ranganatha Temple Reclaims Land, Charging Rent
http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/D2B7E0C61091D7F7652574DD002CA46D?OpenDocument

SRIRANGAM, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, October 9, 2008: Pay or move out is the ultimatum given by leaders the famous Lord Ranganatha temple to over 3,600 families residing on temple land. Ownership of the land was bestowed on the temple during the British regime in 1866 and was confirmed again in 1910. Ever since people can remember, they had lived there without paying any rent.

This 1,000-year-old Vaishnavite temple near Tiruchirapalli, 350 km from Chennai, owns a 98-acre property. Over the centuries, shops and buildings sprung up in the area.

“We have waited for long enough. But at some point we have to establish the Lord’s ownership rights in the temples. That is why we asked those who had constructed houses and shops to pay a decent rent for the land,” temple authorities told PTI.

The temple’s holdings came from land grants by various kings. It has the world’s tallest temple tower at its Southern gateway, at 235 feet high and has seven prakaras (rectangular enclosures) with the seventh one being Srirangam’s sanctum.

courtesy of Hinduism Today  http://www.hinduismtoday.com

MUMBAI, INDIA, September 29, 2008: Call centers are giving new meaning to the term, “dead-end job.” The hours are long and overtime is demanded. The work is simultaneously stressful and mind-numbing. Promotion is rare and salaries have fallen.

India’s youth are becoming disenchanted. Many are leaving the industry, either to complete their education or to move immediately into another field. Even lesser-paying jobs elsewhere are seen as more rewarding, if there is hope of advancement. New applicants are scarce, and the industry has lowered its hiring standards in the effort to remain fully staffed. US companies, which have supplied 70% of all outsourced work, are starting to take their business elsewhere.

Recently a 23-year-old man, employed at a Mumbai call center, has suffered a heart attack. The doctor’s diagnosis: modern lifestyle–stress and odd hours of work.

courtesy of Hinduism Today  http://www.hinduismtoday.com

A Flaming Marvelous Festival
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Festival-is-flaming-marvellous.4560948.jp

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, October 6, 2008: Three giant effigies were visible across central Edinburgh as they burned in the night sky atop Calton Hill, celebrating the triumph of good over evil in the Hindu festival of Dussehra.

Festivities commenced with a Ramlila parade featuring performances by local pipe bands as well as images of Hindu Deities, horse-drawn carriages and youngsters dressed as monkeys and demons. The main festivities began atop Carlton Hill with a display of traditional dancing. The effigies, representing the evil king Ravana and his two henchmen, were set alight to loud applause, and a massive fireworks display continued to delight the crowd as the effigies burned to the ground.

For the third year running, the impressively detailed 25-feet-tall effigies were created by inmates at Saughton Prison. Madhur Chandra, a shop worker from Leith, said, “It’s great that people in prison are allowed to make them because the festival is all about how good wins over evil. That’s a good message for prisoners to take and think about while they’re making them.”

Caitlin Rhodes, a student from Merchiston, said: “I came last year as well and it’s a really peaceful, chilled-out event. Everyone is positive and friendly, and I love the music. People of all different cultures come along and mix together which is what it’s about.”

courtesy of Hinduism Today  http://www.hinduismtoday.com

Ajay Dutta
Hindu Voice UK, October 2008

We are particularly fortunate in the UK, having two free satellite TV channels promoting Hindu spirituality. One is Aastha TV and the other is MATV.

There is a guru whose talks are shown daily on these channels. He attracts thousands of people in each ‘camp’ meeting, across numerous cities in India and abroad. He is a great orator who speaks with great humility, and states that he came from a very poor upbringing, but worked hard to improve his situation, eventually becoming a doctor. But the real attraction is that he spent many years with many unnamed Gurus, Rishis and Swamis in the Himalayas, from whom he learnt the knowledge of the correct use of mantras. These mantras are known as ‘Beej’ mantras, and he claims that they have been hidden unnoticed in the Vedas, Gita, Granth and other sacred books, but have always existed since the beginning of time.

This guru claims a meeting with him can resolve any issue one has, be it emotional, financial, educational or physical. He will give all who come to him a particular personal mantra. The name of this guru is BrahmRishi Shree Kumar Swami Ji of the Bhagwan Shree Lakshmi Narayan Dham, hereafter referred to as BRK for the purpose of this article.

It was BRK’s daily lectures on MATV that caught the attention of my family and me. Each program showed BRK Ji’s seemingly well researched religious lectures, and portrayed him as not an Avatar or Swami - just a helper. When my family discovered that he was coming to the UK, very near to our homes, we decided to go and meet him.

We arrived early and found that although the starting time was 4pm, BRK Ji would be arriving much later. Meanwhile we were given testimonies from people who had chanted their Beej mantras and who in a short time had their life problems resolved. Soon a line staring forming and we found out it was for those that wanted a personal consultation. We queued and were a little shocked to find out that there was a cost of £54 per person for this, but of course this would give each individual a mantra to cure our problems, so in that respect we thought it ay be worthwhile. A form was given to fill our details and problems. After an hour of so of bhajans, BRK Ji arrived with his wife (called Guru Maa) and a young swami (later we found out it was their son in law). The speaker then asked the audience who out of them had already received a Beej mantra. About 30% of people put their hand up from a total of hundreds. Then the speaker asked those to come up and tell their story of the benefits. Only 6 people went up, and one was a British born man whom we saw on TV in India telling the same story.

Ganesha’s name was chanted 108 times and the speaker and the young swami then talked about the background of BRK Ji. Eventually BRK Ji spoke and revealed this month’s password mantra. PASSWORD MANTRA! We were confused, but noted it down. A few other mantras were then spoken for 20 minutes and a talk given. I managed to talk to an organiser and found out that a Beej mantra book is given after a meeting, and that everyone must start with the password mantra else the Beej mantra will not work! This changes monthly as BRK Ji is advised by the Devi’s and Devta’s. Also that to get the monthly mantras an individual must subscribe to their magazine for £27.

At the end, those who paid for the private consultation queued by their ticket number. Each person had an average of 3-4 minutes, and when our turn arrived we presented our form. BRK Ji stated that all would be fine, just that we should read the Beej mantra book that he provided both night and day. There are Ganesha, Swarawati & Laxshmi sections that individuals are told to pay particular attention to. After our brief talk we were ushered to see a lady on a desk. She took our form and reassured us that all our problems would be fine and that a five day puja in BRK Ji’s ashram is required to start the process of resolving our problems. The cost of this was £400!

By this time my suspicions were justified. Many people had paid the £54 consultation fee and many were paying or would go onto pay the £400 puja fee. I asked another person who had had a meeting with BRK Ji and he told me that on top of all these charges, he was told that special Ayurvedic medicine was needed for him, which can only be bought from their ashram in India. The cost being £300 per course! My estimate was that the turnover was in then tens of thousands for this evening, with no indication of why such prices were being charged.

We were all quite angry by the end of the evening, and as we walked through the car park, we saw the car that BRK Ji and his party arrived in. It was a brand new black Mercedes with the number plate ‘G19URU’. I leave you to form your own opinion.

Of course with our society in disarray and many of us with problems, this venture is proving to be highly successful! It’s unfortunate as there are genuine Swamis and Gurus, but such money making operations tarnishes the image of all other Swamis and Gurus, confuses our Hindu society and indeed opens the doors for others to attack us.

Mantras have always been accessible for all, and have been a spiritual tool for many centuries. This is the first time they’ve been put up for sale.

April 27, 2008 ·

Blacklisted News | Apr 25, 2008

Barbara Blair says this new gel she’s been using makes her face look a lot younger than the Retin-A and vitamin C creams she’s been using.

“It’s really tightened my skin. Firmed it. The little lines are much better. The texture is very appreciably different.”

What Blair probably doesn’t know is that a key ingredient in the cream is the foreskin of a circumcised baby.

The skin that would otherwise be tossed away. It was first made into a product that helped burn victims heal. Now it’s in this antiwrinkle gel, called TNS Recovery Complex.

Betsy Rubenstone is the aesthetician in the plastic surgery department at the University of Pennsylvania and she swears by this stuff.

She knows why the foreskin is used.

“It’s filled with everything we begin to lose as we age,” Rubenstone says. “And that includes growth factors, amino acids, proteins, collage, elastin and holyuronic acid.”

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital dermatologist Paul Bujanauskas says while TNS might have merit, he would not prescribe it for his patients because no scientific research proving its value has been published in medical journals.

The cost of one bottle of TNS is about $130. And that will last you about a month and a half. How does it smell? Well that’s another downside. Just ask anybody who uses it.

“It’s disgusting. It’s got a sour smell to it that makes you want to gag,” says Blair. “But you get used to it.”

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By Rakesh Mohan Chaturvedi for Press Trust of India
http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/2F0299078EDB23A9652574DF004CBC47
on Sat, 2008-10-11

Image from 1937 Marathi film Tukaram.

Indian President Pratibha Patil today said that the uncertainty and fear around the world caused by terrorism and religious hatred could be dealt with by spreading the age-old philosophy of Indian saints.

"When I meet the heads of state I get a feeling of uncertainty and fear caused due to various problems. There is a general atmosphere of fear caused due to terrorism and one religion fighting against the other. The philosophy and teachings of Indian saints can bring people together," Patil said at a function in Pune.

Patil spent the first part of her day today in visiting the temples dedicated to Saint Gyaneshwar and Saint Tukaram, both of which belong to the Bhakti cult, in the nearby Dehu.

Later, while speaking at the function near Saint Tukaram's temple, Patil said, "In today's world which is enamoured by globalisation and is blindly following the western culture, the teachings of saint Tukaram can be a good guide."

The Vilasrao Deshmukh government plans to spend Rs 434 crore to develop Dehu into a pilgrimage centre in the next three years.

"The development will be undertaken in consultation with Warkaris (pilgrims who leave their homes and spend a month travelling from Dehu to the Vittal temple in Pandharpur)," Deshmukh said on the occasion.

New Hindu School Opens in the Netherlands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8709uYIwfE

ALMERE, NETHERLANDS, The Shri Ganesha primary school opened with 35 pupils on August 8th 2008 in Almere, Netherlands. This is the fourth Hindu school opened by the Hindu Education Foundation (Stichting Hindoe Onderwijs) and is the sixth in the Netherlands. Other schools are located in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague. The Foundation expects that the new school will eventually have a student body of 200.

The first school opened by the The Hindu Education Foundation was the Shri Vishnu primary school, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in September this year. Serving a student body of 550, it has a beautiful new school building at Abraham van Beyerenstraat 56 in The Hague.

For two five-minute YouTube videos about Hindu schools in the Netherlands, click the above link.

courtesy of Hinduism Today  http://www.hinduismtoday.com

Did you hear the story of the man who rode his tricycle up to the gates of our Mayapura, West Bengal temple to sell ice-cream? He had one of those tricycles you see a lot in India - the ones with a refrigerated box on the back. There’s nothing sells quite like ice-cream on a hot day. Only he wasn’t selling ice-cream at all.

He opened the lid of the ice-box, pulled out a handbell and a bunch of papers, then began ringing the bell calling out: “Diksha! Diksha!” or “Initiation! Initiation!” He was selling ‘Diksha’ and, as it happens, was selling it very cheaply: “Diksha doh rupya” or: “Diksha, two rupees!” People gathered around, examined the papers, and handed their money over.

Such dikshas are commonplace in India. For a fee, a certificate of initiation is handed over, like a title deed bestowing a certain spiritual status and religious community identity rights. A person receives a blessing and becomes an ‘adhikari’ or ‘one who has been awarded the right’. For a relatively modest investment of cash, you too can be a more qualified person than you were yesterday. What’s slightly more important is that you can tell others about your improved social status too. Your Diksha Certificate, signed in ink by the guru, can also get you in to certain places and is very handy when you want to go to particular parties or festivals.

Over here in England, we have a very long history of mankind’s basic urge to own such deeds of entitlement. One of the formative episodes in the history of our nation was the Norman Conquest. Although its hard for us to talk about any time when we’ve been beaten by the French, every English schoolchild knows the date of AD 1066 when the northern French invaded Britain, defeated King Harold in the Battle of Hastings, and never really went home.

The victorious William the Conqueror commissioned the Domesday Book, a record of every village and field in the land. He then proceeded to apportion those villages and huge tracts of land to all his friends, bestowing upon them ranks and titles according to their respective landholdings. Thus the English aristocracy was born, with all its lords, earls, dukes, barons and viscounts. Even today, nearly a millenium later, a mere 200 English families still own half of the land in Britain.

Yet over the centuries, many of the smaller aristocrats sold off their lands, holding on to only their hereditary title. Still later, even the titles were sold, bestowing upon the purchaser the distinction of a powerful, traditional name, but with no factual wealth or power.

Thus today in 2008, for a mere £2500, you can become known officially as Baron Such-and-Such, Baron of three villages - but without owning the villages. You’ll receive an attractive, elaborately hand written declaration scribed on vellum, sometimes dating back 3-400 years. You’ll have the legal right, under British law, to have others refer to you by your new name and to sign yourself as such on all official documents.

Yet as for the land ownership that the title originally conferred on its owner, you’ll see none of that. No serfs will doff their caps as you ride your white horse into ‘your’ village. You won’t get any tithes of the harvest either. Indeed, you won’t have any power over anybody or anything, save and except the power to look up from your sofa and gaze at your nicely framed certificate proclaiming your membership of the English aristocracy.

Why am I giving you this English history lesson? Because just as powerless peerages are being sold on the internet, conferring nothing on their owner but a new name and smug satisfaction, so ‘Diksha’ is now being sold for a few pounds - or sometimes nothing at all - conferring only the notion of spiritual or religious attainment. The tricycles have come West.

Diksha, or the process of being enlightened with transcendental knowledge and committing oneself to the spiritual path under the guidance of an authentic teacher, is not something that can be purchased out of cold-box on the back of a tricycle. Its real price is committment, demonstrated not only by an intellectual adjustment to one’s belief system, but some form of voluntary restraint and the acceptance of discipline as an essential part of the efforts required for inner growth. As in all areas of life: no pain, no gain. Such personal austerity, or tapa, is said to be the factual spending power of spiritually progressive people. Tapa is the ‘wealth of the brahmanas.’

When Brahma, the original created being within the universe, was perplexed as to his origin and true identity, he tried by his own efforts to discover the Truth. It was only after he heard the divine syllables TA-PA echoing from beyond the universe that he was able to comprehend that he should engage in meditation.

In classical Vaishnavism, the guru does not award diksha unless and until the prospective disciple has demonstrated some personal tapa. Rising early, taking cold water bath, eating frugally from a diet regulated by vegetables, fruit and grains, engaging in menial service, abandoning sinful acts, and placing oneself at the beck and call of the spiritual master - all these are prerequisites for diksha.

Without tapa or tapasya, actual diksha cannot take place. Even if the external formularies are conducted and titles awarded, no substantial inner transformation actually happens.

Writing back in 1885, in Pancha Samskara, an essay explaining the five essential components of Vaishnava initiation and in answering the question as to why, after such initiation, some Vaishnavas are seen not to make progress, Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur says:

“The answer is that Vaishnava samskara is the best, but at the present time it is practised in name only. Both the spiritual teacher and the student block their own spiritual advancement by being content with only the external aspects of samskara... Today, the deeper significance of samskara is not understood. When the student submits himself to the teacher, the teacher gives panca-samskara and then abandons him. What good can come from panca-samskara of this type? Externally the student looks good, but internally there is nothing”

The tongue utters the name of Hari …but the student is addicted to endless sinful practises. At night, he takes intoxicants and practises debauchery! Oh good teacher, how have you benefited your student? What is the difference in him before and after diksa? In fact, he is worse. He is a hypocrite. There is no remorse: “I am sinful. It is my fault. How can my sin be given up?” These days no one thinks like this when they take shelter of a spiritual teacher. Sinful activities are performed without the slightest concern. What misfortune!

Why is this? The reason is that the wrong kind of relationship exists between teacher and student. The sastras give rules to guide this relationship, but they are not followed. The student who is burning in the fire of material life, who analyses his predicament and concludes, “My relationship with material nature is not permanent, therefore I must take shelter of a spiritual teacher in order to obtain the feet of God,” has reached the stage of faith and is qualified to take shelter of a spiritual teacher. The teacher should study the student for one year and observe his atonement. This is called tapa..the faithful soul’s first samskara. In English we define the word tapa as “repentance, atonement, and the permanent impression of higher sentiment on the soul.” Tapa applies not only to the body, but also to the mind and the soul. If it is only physical, in the form of branding or stamping, (here the Thakur refers to the custom of marking the upper body with the symbols of Vishnu) then tapa has not actually taken place and religious practise becomes hypocritical. At the present time this kind of hypocrisy has weakened Vaisnava culture. Without tapa or inner repentance, the soul cannot live as a Vaisnava. Without tapa the whole process becomes useless. Without tapa the heart remains impure. Therefore good friends, seek atonement without delay!

Such a seemingly alarmist judgement on the bad practises of Vaishnava diksha of the 1880s was intended to be a strong criticism of the gurus of his day. Yet it also stands as a permanent caution to any future would-be disciple collectors. Why such stern warnings from an otherwise compassionate and gentle Vaishnava? Because the tendency of many would-be prophets, philosophers and messiahs - at least those directly desiring to be socially known as such - is to gather as many devoted followers as possible. And the tendency of many of those would-be disciples is to achieve that status with as little pain and committment as possible.

This creates the strong possibility that insincere gurus and uncommitted followers will find each other, a situation that has repeated itself down through the centuries. And the result is always that true and authentic diksha becomes obscured by popular misconceptions.

For many centuries, both the genuine Vedic system of diksha and its pale shadow were contained in India. Since the 1950s however, swamis, yogis and gurus have been coming to the Western countries and offering various kinds of diksha. Finding their Western followers somewhat averse to tapa, they have trimmed their requirements to appeal to their audience.

For many years, the Gaudiya Vaishnavas, those devotees of Krishna in the line of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, were free from this. Represented by ISKCON through the personal vigilance of it’s founder-acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the western Vaishnavas were held to the standard of tapa as prescribed in scripture. Over the last five years, however, there has been a marked increase in the level of diksha with diminishing levels of requirements. As Gaudiya Vaishnava preachers attempt to emulate Srila Prabhupada and his successes, they have begun to give ‘initiations’ leaving aside all traditional requirments of personal tapa, mutual scrutiny of guru-disciple, and the normal levels of affectionate guardianship offered by the guru to his disciple after diksha.

The result is a large increase in the number of those now holding spiritual names with the suffix ‘Dasa’ and ‘Dasi’. Unfortunately, like those Barons and Dukes with their framed certificates, those who have bought their ‘Less-Tapa Diksha’ may find that all that has changed is their name.

Read more on Chanting Hare Krishna HERE:

Arranged Marriages, India’s Newest Export to West
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Arranged_love_Indias_newest_export_to_West/rssarticleshow/3614120.cms

INDIA, October 19, 2008: The ideal of arranged marriage ­ in which individuals wishing to find a spouse welcome the chance to meet prospects suggested by their parents and other elders, while retaining veto power ­ is starting to make sense to more and more Westerners.

The West’s high divorce rate gives weight to Reva Seth’s argument in her recent book, “First Comes Marriage,” that the haphazard dating method is not the best way to find one’s spouse.

Marian Salzman, New York trend spotter and partner at PR firm Porter Novelli, says the economic downturn is helping to convince people of the importance of finding the right spouse to form a sustainable marriage. She says the cost of courtship ­ and divorce ­ is so high that people increasingly want their marriage to have a stronger foundation. “In these hard times, lust wears thin.” Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Varkha Chulani agrees that the arranged marriage could become as popular in the West because it is based on shared values and similar backgrounds, which are more likely to sustain a union than romantic love, which ­ though heady ­ is often short-lived.

courtesy of Hinduism Today  http://www.hinduismtoday.com

This is an interesting article here from the BBC:

TV show linked to teen pregnancy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7707664.stm

Watching shows that have a high content of sex has a direct outcome on sexual activity.
Now theirs a headline for you
As one of my clients favourite sayings goes “I’m stating the blooming obvious so I will shut up now”

TV shows link to teen pregnancies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7707664.stm

Teenage girls who watch a lot of TV shows with a high sexual content are twice as likely to become pregnant, according to a study.

Boys watching similar programmes, like Friends and Sex and the City, were also more likely to get a girl pregnant, the research in Pediatrics found.

The study authors said limiting exposure to sexual content on TV might reduce teen pregnancies.

Experts urged parents to talk more openly with their children about sex.

Study author Dr Anita Chandra of the RAND Corporation said adolescents received a considerable amount of information about sex through television and the problem was that programmes such as these typically did not highlight the risks and responsibilities of sex.
 
 Sexual content on TV has doubled in the last few years, especially during the period of our research. We found a strong association

Lead researcher Dr Anita Chandra

She said:"Our findings suggest that television may play a significant role in the high rates of teenage pregnancy in the US."

According to Dr Chandra, hers is the first study to show such a direct link.

The researchers interviewed 2,000 adolescents aged 12 to 17 three times between 2001 and 2004.

Teens who watched larger amounts of sexually charged TV shows were twice as likely to experience a pregnancy in the subsequent three years, compared with those with lower levels of exposure.

Sexual content

By the third interview, 744 of the teenagers said they had engaged in sexual intercourse and 718 of the youths shared with the researchers information about their pregnancy histories.

Of that group, 91 teens - 58 girls and 33 boys - were involved in a pregnancy.

Dr Chandra said: "Sexual content on TV has doubled in the last few years, especially during the period of our research. We found a strong association."

The US has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates among industrialized nations, with nearly one million adolescent females becoming pregnant each year, with the majority of these pregnancies unplanned, according to RAND.

Britain has Europe's highest teenage pregnancy rate.

Tory MP Nadine Dorries said it would be interesting to see if a similar study in the UK revealed a trend.

"Information such as this empowers parents when making difficult decisions as to what they do and don't allow their daughters to watch," she said.

Psychologist David Walsh, president of the National Institute on Media and the Family said many teenagers relied on the media to act as sex educator.

Dr Walsh said: "If you have a kid who no-one's talking to about sex and who then watches sitcoms on TV where sex is presented as 'this is what cool people do', the outcome is obvious.

"The message to parents is to talk to their kids about sex long before they become teenagers."

A spokeswoman from Brook said: "The causes of teen pregnancy in the UK are quite complex.

"There are a range of ways we can try to reduce the teen pregnancy rate, such as providing sex and relationship education and outreach and community services for young people.

"The idea of parents sitting down with their children and talking about the issues raised in these television programmes is a great one."

World wakes up to food challenge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/business/7672536.stm

BBC NEWS

By David Loyn
International development correspondent, BBC News

On World Food Day in 2007, the early warning signs that something serious was about to happen to food prices were already apparent.

Crop forecasts from big producers at opposite ends of the world last October - Canada and Australia - were disastrous. Both countries were in the grip of drought.

A steady rise in food prices began, spurred by oil price rises that were the most rapid since the early 1970s, knocking on to higher transport costs and fertiliser prices for food producers.

The unprecedented spike in food price rises in January was led by steadily increasing demand, particularly from hundreds of millions of newly rich in the rapidly growing economies of Asia, who wanted to eat better food than their parents had been able to afford.

As the food price shock took hold, there were riots worldwide - the government fell in Haiti - and a prompt return to protectionist policies as 40 countries imposed special measures to try to protect both their farmers, and those who could no longer afford to eat.

The worst hit were the urban poor in Africa, with no land to grow food for themselves, and for whom food takes a high proportion of their income.

In total, 36 countries sent out appeals for food aid.

Biofuel dilemma

The price spike was more pronounced because the usual response of a functioning market, to increase supply, had a limited effect, because food was now competing with biofuels.

Most of the increase in US maize production, for example, went into biofuels rather than onto the table as food.

And along with another huge food producer, India, the US is to continue using government subsidies to encourage farmers to grow biofuels.

Many other places in the world have had second thoughts as the benefits of most biofuel crops in reducing climate change are not as clear as they once seemed.

In 2008 world food prices fell from the spikes of January and February.

World bodies responded swiftly, in particular the World Bank, which provided emergency funding to enable some of the poorest countries to cushion the shock. And farmers worldwide responded to the new conditions by planting as much food as they could.

The EU changed rules that had penalised over-production, allowing land that had lain fallow to be brought back under the plough.

Forecasts for the two big wheat producers where the problem began are higher than last year - around 20 million tonnes for Australia, against 13 million tonnes last year.

Prices vulnerable

But the market has not fallen back to the level it was before the crisis began. After a long era of low food prices, higher prices are here to stay.

Demand from the big Asian economies remains high, and although the price of oil has fallen significantly, for a number of technical reasons the effect of that has not translated into lower food prices yet.

WORLD HUNGER

There are 923m undernourished people in the world The FAO estimates 75m of the world hungry are a direct result of high food prices

And while demand grows faster than supply, it will be hard to replenish food stocks, which are currently at a far lower level than they have been for almost half a century.

That matters because stocks can be drawn on in hard times - so low stocks mean that food prices are far more vulnerable to shocks at the very time that the whole world system rides the turbulent waves crashing against the money markets.

In a sombre new warning, the World Bank says that the poorest people worldwide have been pushed to the brink of survival, and the collapse of global financial confidence has made matters worst.

The World Bank's president, Robert Zoellick, says that "the financial crisis will only make it more difficult for developing countries to protect their most vulnerable people from the impact of rising food and fuel costs".

So the future remains unpredictable. But the higher prices have provided a new opportunity for food production to take a higher share of funding. A sector that has not had proper investment for many years is now seeing more imaginative and innovative attempts to come up with solutions.

Radical solutions do not have to be expensive. There is far more emphasis on finding the answer in traditional methods and organic farming to ensure that agriculture remains sustainable.

In 2008, the world first woke up to the challenges of feeding a population that will grow from 6 billion to 9 billion by 2050.

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Published: 2008/10/15 18:14:22 GMT

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New York School Students Can Practice Yoga, But Not Say “Yoga”
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MASSENA, NEW YORK, October 15, 2008: A high school in the state of New York has won approval to offer students a voluntary yoga program–as long as it’s not called yoga.

Some local parents had voiced fears that a “yoga program” would promote Hinduism and thereby violate the doctrine separating church and state; but they have agreed to let the Massena High School present the program as “relaxation.” The compromise allows the school to set up an after-school club to give interested students to practice yogic postures and gain a deeper understanding of… “relaxation.”

“It is still yoga. If the parents who oppose it feel a name change solves the dilemma, I’m all for that,” Board of Education President Julie Reagan said Wednesday. “We are basically doing the same thing, we’re just calling it something different.”

More than one hundred schools in 26 states use yoga in the classroom to relieve stress, Reagan said.

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PARAMARIBO, SURINAME, October 6, 2008 - Two men were arrested over the weekend by the police in connection with the destruction of Hindu Deities at the temple under the Wijdenbosch Bridge at Meerzorg, Commewijne.

Police inspector Humphrey Naarden told the press that they still are not sure what the motive for the vandalism was, although one of the suspects has made a full confession. This is the second time this year that the temple has been attacked. At Phagwa (Holi), the Durga Deity was damaged.

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by Ariane Sherine

It's real, it's happening: you can sponsor the first atheist advert on a bus ­ and Richard Dawkins will match your money

The atheist bus campaign launches today thanks to Comment is free readers. Because of your enthusiastic response to the idea of a reassuring God-free advert being used to counter religious advertising, the slogan "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life" could now become an ad campaign on London buses ­ and leading secularists have jumped on board to help us raise the money.

The British Humanist Association will be administering all donations to the campaign, and Professor Richard Dawkins, bestselling author of The God Delusion, has generously agreed to match all contributions up to a maximum of £5,500, giving us a total of £11,000 if we raise the full amount. This will be enough to fund two sets of atheist adverts on 30 London buses for four weeks.

If the buses hit the road, this will be the UK's first ever atheist advertising campaign. It's an exciting development, which I never expected when I first proposed the idea on Cif in June. Back then, I was just keen to counter the religious ads running on public transport, which featured a URL to a website telling non-Christians they would spend "all eternity in torment in hell", burning in "a lake of fire". When I suggested the atheist counter-slogan (now shortened for readability), the response was extremely positive, and hundreds of you pledged your support after the follow-up article.

As you read this, a new advertising campaign for Alpha Courses is running on London buses. If you attend an Alpha Course, you will again be told that failing to believe in Jesus will condemn you to hell. There's no doubt that advertising can be effective, and religious advertising works particularly well on those who are vulnerable, frightening them into believing. Religious organisations' jobs are made easier because there's no publicly visible counter-view to refute their threats of eternal damnation.

The atheist bus campaign aims to change this. In addition to the slogan, the adverts will feature the URLs of secular, humanist and atheist websites, so that readers can find out more about atheism as a positive and liberating alternative to religion. We've also set up an interactive campaign website and Facebook group, so that questions raised by the adverts can be publicly debated.

CBS Outdoor, the bus advertising company, will run the atheist adverts in January if the funds are raised ­ but we need your help to make this happen.

Your donations will give atheism a more visible presence in the UK, generate debate, brighten people's day on the way to work, and hopefully encourage more people to come out as atheists. As Richard Dawkins says: "This campaign to put alternative slogans on London buses will make people think ­ and thinking is anathema to religion."

To donate to the atheist bus campaign, please visit here (says the article).

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This is an interesting article found on the BBC news on the effects of diet on health, especially the western diet and it’s affects on the heart which remains one of the biggest killers here in the UK:

Western diet \"raises heart risk\' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7680283.stm

So we can understand that our efforts to bring high quality vegatarian food to the whole world in the shape of Krishna Prasadam has many good effects, so to everyone keep up this valuable work.

One Response to “Increase in Heart attack”
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Vasu Murti Says:
October 21st, 2008 at 5:10 pm

The following quotes, facts, figures and statistics are taken from Please Don’t Eat the Animals (2007), by Jennifer Horsman and Jaime Flowers:

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

—Albert Einstein

“Each year, the meat industrial complex abuses and butchers nearly 9 billion cows, pigs, sheep, turkeys, chickens, and other innocent, feeling animals just for the enjoyment of consumers. Each year, nearly 1.5 million of these consumers are crippled and killed prematurely by heart failure, cancer, stroke, and other chronic diseases that have been linked conclusively with the consumption of these animals. Each year, millions of other animals are abused and sacrificed in a vain search for a ‘magic pill’ that would vanquish these largely self-inflicted diseases.”

—Alex Hershaft, PhD, president, Farm Animal Reform Movement

When analyzing 8,300 deaths in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany among 76,000 men and women in five different, large studies, researchers concluded that vegetarians have a 24 percent reduction in death from heart disease.

Similarly, in the famous Oxford Vegetarian Study, where 6,000 vegetarians were compared with 5,000 meat-eaters over nearly two decades, scientists found that the rate of death from heart disease was 28 percent lower in vegetarians than in meat-eaters.

One study analyzed eighty scientific studies in leading medical journals. The analysis found that vegetarians had lower blood pressure, and were less likely to suffer from stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure.

A large German study of nearly 2,000 vegetarians found that deaths from heart disease were reduced by over one-third, and that heart disease itself was far less than that of the general population.

Another large study examined the coronary artery disease risk of young adults ages 18 to 30 and vegetarians were found to have much higher levels of cardiovascular fitness and a greatly reduced risk of heart disease.

“The process of gradual blocking of the coronary arteries begins not in adulthood but in childhood…and the main cause of this arteriosclerosis is the steadily increasing amount of fat in the American diet, particularly saturated animal fats such as those found in meat, chicken, milk and cheeses. If there was another disease that caused half a million deaths a year, you can be sure that the public would be acutely aware of the danger, and that the cure or prevention would be universally practiced.”

—Dr. Benjamin Spock, author, child expert

“I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”

—Dr. Dean Ornish, author, Reversing Heart Disease

Stroke is the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. Vegetarians have a 20 to 30 percent reduced risk of having a stroke. Stroke, like heart disease, is associated with diets high in saturated fats, and the vegetarian diet is naturally low in these fats.

The Oxford Vegetarian Study found cancer mortality to be 39 percent lower among vegetarians when compared with meat-eaters. The European Prospective Investigation of Cancer found vegetarians suffer 40 percent fewer cancers than the general population.

Studies have shown that decreasing a woman’s animal fat intake can reduce the chances that she will die from breast cancer. A large-scale, long-term study in the Netherlands found a powerful connection between the amount of animal fat consumed and the rate of prostate cancer. A review of a dozen studies found dietary fat strongly correlated with prostate cancer.

Ovarian, uterine, and endometrial cancers have all been shown to be strongly correlated to the amount of animal fat in one’s diet, and vegetarian women have significantly lower rates of these cancers.

“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wrs of this century, all the natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.”

—Dr. Neal Barnard, Executive Director, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

“Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rate of coronary disease of any group in the country. They have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate.”

—William Castelli, MD, Director, Framingham Heart Study

“Human beings are not natural carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores.”

—Dr. William Roberts, editor-in-chief, American Journal of Cardiology

CALIFORNIA, USA, October 26, 2008: California’s Proposition 2, which goes before voters November 4, has the potential to eventually improve the lives of farm animals nationwide.

The ballot initiative focuses on what are considered the worst animal-confinement systems in factory farms. It requires that by 2015 farm animals be able to stand up, lie down, turn around and fully extend their limbs. No longer would veal calves and pregnant pigs be kept confined in two-foot-wide crates so that they cant even turn around; no longer would four or more laying hens live their lives in a space about the size of a file drawer.

Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and a leading figure in the animal rights movement, says this is a historic ballot. If passed, it will affect more animals almost 20 million than any ballot measure has in U.S. history. Because California is the largest agricultural state in the country, and often a trend-setter on social issues, many experts predict that if Proposition 2 becomes law it will create a ripple effect.

Proposition 2 also marks a seminal moment for Wayne Pacelle, the first vegan to become president of the Humane Society of the United States. Since he became the head of the Humane Society four years ago, he has transformed the group from a kindly but timid protector of the nations dogs and cats into a savvy, unapologetically aggressive player. He has made the Humane Society the richest and most powerful animal-welfare group in the country, with its own in-house investigation, litigation and campaign teams.

It was Pacelle and his organization who shuttered the $100 million Westland/Hallmark Meat Company slaughterhouse in Chino, with the help of an undercover investigator wearing a hidden video camera. Over six weeks last year, the investigator filmed workers using chains to drag cows too sick or too injured to stand, using also other cruel practices.

Pacelle has made farm animals a top priority.” Nine billion animals are killed for food every year, and most of them are confined in intensive conditions,” he told his staff in 2004. “It is the greatest abuse of animals that occurs on this planet. Cruelty is cruelty, he says, and its been our assumption that if decent people see images of these farm animals suffering, they will have a similar reaction.”

courtesy of Hinduism Today  http://www.hinduismtoday.com

UNITED STATES, October 5, 2008: A growing number of experts and common folk in the U.S. are becoming fans of flexitarianism ­ being a vegetarian of convenience. They say that cutting back on meat, rather than abstaining completely, may be a practical compromise that benefits our bodies and our environment.

“It gives you the health benefits of a vegetarian diet without having to follow the strict rules,” Newsweek magazine quoted Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian and author of The Flexitarian Diet: The Mostly Vegetarian Way to Lose Weight, Be Healthier, Prevent Disease, and Add Years to Your Life, as saying.

And while only 2 to 3% of Americans are traditional vegetarians, who shun anything that ever had a face, according to the Vegetarian Resource Group, vegetarian foods have become increasingly popular among non-vegetarians. “If you look around at grocery stores, you have soy milk right next to regular milk, you have veggie burgers in the frozen section, and tubs of tofu sitting there in the produce section,” says Blatner.

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Some labourers were criticizing the minister of the king, claiming that he only sat around and did no work.  The king reminded them that it took intelligence to become a minister.  He said he would give a test for everyone, including the minister.  Whoever could pass the test could become the next minister.  The king said, "Take this big elephant, weigh him and let me know the exact weight."  The ordinary men were baffled.  Where was there a scale for weighing an elephant?  They could not do anything.  They came back to the king with no information.  Then the king turned to his minister and asked, "Will you kindly weigh this elephant?"  So in six minutes he came back and reported, "It is twenty mounds [1,920]."  The other men were standing open-mouthed in surprise.  "How is that?" they asked.  "Within six minutes he came back and he gave the exact weight!"  The king asked, "How did you weigh him?  Did you get some very big scale?"  "No sir," replied the minister.  "It is not possible too weigh the elephant on a scale.  It is very difficult."  "Then how did you weigh it?"  "I took it on a boat.  When I got him on the boat then I saw the watermark and I marked it.  Then, after getting the elephant off the boat, I added weight onto the boat, and when it came to the same watermark, then I understood."  SO the king addressed the labourers and cautioned them, "Now you see the difference?"  They agreed, "Yes."

MORAL:  Buddhir yasya balang tasya nirbuddhes tu kuto balang / pashya singha madonmatah shashah kena nipatata.  A shasha, a rabbit killed a singha, a big lion by intelligence.  One who has got intelligence, he has strength, and one who has no intelligence has no strength.  Foolish people often criticize devotees as do-nothings and weaklings, but such people do not understand the intelligence of a devotee.  Therefore, a devotee does not have to heed such people.

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The phaomnneil pweor of the hmuan mnid: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig!
Mybae the I can sotp slpel ckchenig?

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Written by HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami

Dear Maharaj/ Prabujis/ Matajis,

It is my great pleasure to inform all the devotees of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu that a great service opportunity has been offered by the temple authorities of Gambhira, in Puri dham, where Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu spent the final years of His manifested pastimes on this earthly planet. Kasi Mishra's house, also known as Gambhira, and the Radha Kanta math, were both under the care of the Orissa government due to 20 years of litigation. Finally, this litigation problem has been resolved and the management of the institution has been returned to the temple mahanta.

The temple has sustained much damage over the years due to lack of proper maintenance. The whole place is very dirty and the roofs and walls are falling down. The temple roof is also cracking. Additionally, the temple has a lack of proper income for the maintenance of the devotees and for deity puja—and, of course, the more the Gambhira is allowed to deteriorate, the fewer visitors it will have.

At this crucial point, the mahanta of Gambhira has requested ISKCON to extend kind assistence to him in order to protect and maintain this most holy place. Devotees from all over the world come to offer their prayers and obeisances at Gambhira. This is one of the most important places for the followers of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and must be maintained nicely.

Thus, this is a golden opportunity for devotees to render service to this most sacred cause. I request all devotees to kindly donate towards this purpose. There are many things to be fixed at the place. For the time being we have prepared a rough budget, for whatever the most urgent needs are, just to bring the situation up to  survival position. Later on, we will let you know about further opportunities for service in the development of the Gambhira.

For further information contact

Bhakti Purusottama Swami

Phone: ++ 91 9434506434

E mail: bps@pamho.net

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