Newsletter Number #166  ( End - November issue 2005 A.D. Gaurabda 519 )
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"May there be good fortune throughout the universe, and may all envious persons be pacified. May all living entities become calm by practicing bhakti-yoga, for by accepting devotional service they will think of each other’s welfare. Therefore let us all engage in the service of the supreme transcendence, Lord Sri Krishna, and always remain absorbed in thought of Him."(Srimad Bhagavatam 5:18:9.)

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The Nectar in this Issue 

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Vrscika Sankranti (Sun enters Scorpio)

Sri Katyayani vrata begins for those young maidens looking for a husband (17th Nov 2005 in NZ)

Sri Narahari Sarkar Thakur - Disappearance - Tirubhav

Fasting on Suddha Ekadasi for Utpanna Ekadasi - (Fasting from Beans and Grains - 28th November 2005  in NZ)

Sri Kaliya Krsna dasa - Disappearance - Tirubhav

Sri Saranga Thakur - Disappearance - Tirubhav

Odan sasthi

Fasting on Suddha Ekadasi for Trisprsa Mahadvadasi - Fasting for Mokshada Ekadasi
(Fasting from Beans and Grains - 12th December 2005  in NZ)
Advent of Srimad Bhagavad-gita - The day Bhagavad Gita was spoken by Lord Krishna

Sri Katyayani vrata ends

Dhanus Sankranti (Sun enters Sagittarius)

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada - Disappearance - Tirubhav (Fasting till noon)

Christmas Day - Xmas Madness - 25th December 2005

Fasting on Suddha Ekadasi for Saphala Ekadasi - (Fasting from Beans and Grains - 27th December 2005  in NZ)

Sri Devananda Pandit - Disappearance - Tirubhav

Sri Mahesa Pandit - Disappearance - Tirubhav
Sri Uddharana Datta - Disappearance - Tirubhav

Sri Locana Das Thakur - Appearance - Avirbhav

Srila Jiva Goswami - Disappearance - Tirubhav
Sri Jagadisa Pandit - Disappearance - Tirubhav

Fasting on Suddha Ekadasi for Putrada Ekadasi - (Fasting from Beans and Grains - 10th January 2005  in NZ)

Sri Jagadisa Pandit - Appearance - Avirbhav

Sri Krsna Pusya abhisheka
Makara Sankranti (Sun enters Capricorn) all about Makara sankranti

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ka va pujyatama tatra devata sad-gunarnava
akurvatah syat ko dosa etan me vaktum arhasi

"Oh Gurudeva! When did Ekadasi take birth and from whom did she appear? What are the rules of fasting on the Ekadasi? Please describe the benefits of following this vow and when it should be followed. Who is the utmost worshippable presiding deity of Sri Ekadasi? What are the faults in not following Ekadasi properly? Please bestow your mercy upon me and tell about these subjects, as you are the only personality able to do so."

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Aniruddha's blog: There's more comes out of the beadbag than just the finger...
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Bala Gopala's Mrdanga (formerly Ekendra's Mrdanga)
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Candidasa dasa' Deltaflow Blog
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Sit Properly dot com - go to extras 4 the blog - lots of useful info especially for new devotees throughout site
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From the virtual pen of Sita-pati dasa http://blog.worldsankirtan.net/sitapati/
News and views from Sita-pati dasa in Brisbane Australia.

Hare Krishna Cultural Journal - Krishna-Kirti dasa in USA - A commentary on the culture, views and progress of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
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The International Society for Education in Krsna Consciousness http://www.isekc.com/ has a Blog called Vaishnava Sanga which one can access from the ISEKC home page.

News stories, articles, comment, insights, features, and Vaisnava perspectives available on-line from http://www.iskcon.com/new/

Vraj journal
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Srimad Bhagavad Gita AS IT IS

Bhagavad Gita:  Chapter 5 -  Karma-yoga : Action in Krsna Consciousness

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                          sarva-karmani manasa
                        sannyasyaste sukham vasi
                          nava-dvare pure dehi
                         naiva kurvan na karayan

   WORD FOR WORD

   sarva--all; karmani--activities; manasa--by the mind;
   sannyasya--giving up; aste--remains; sukham--in happiness;
   vasi--one who is controlled; nava-dvare--in the place where there
   are nine gates; pure--in the city; dehi--the embodied soul;
   na--never; eva--certainly; kurvan--doing anything; na--not;
   karayan--causing to be done.

  TRANSLATION

   When the embodied living being controls his nature and mentally
   renounces all actions, he resides happily in the city of nine gates
   [the material body], neither working nor causing work to be done.

 PURPORT by HDG Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad:

   The embodied soul lives in the city of nine gates. The activities
   of the body, or the figurative city of body, are conducted
   automatically by its particular modes of nature. The soul, although
   subjecting himself to the conditions of the body, can be beyond
   those conditions, if he so desires. Owing only to forgetfulness of
   his superior nature, he identifies with the material body, and
   therefore suffers. By Krsna consciousness, he can revive his real
   position and thus come out of his embodiment. Therefore, when one
   takes to Krsna consciousness, one at once becomes completely aloof
   from bodily activities. In such a controlled life, in which his
   deliberations are changed, he lives happily within the city of nine
   gates. The nine gates are mentioned as follows:

                          nava-dvare pure dehi
                          hamso lelayate bahih
                          vasi sarvasya lokasya
                         sthavarasya carasya ca

   "The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is living within the body
   of a living entity, is the controller of all living entities all
   over the universe. The body consists of nine gates [two eyes, two
   nostrils, two ears, one mouth, the anus and the genitals]. The
   living entity in his conditioned stage identifies himself with the
   body, but when he identifies himself with the Lord within himself,
   he becomes just as free as the Lord, even while in the body."
   (Svetasvatara Upanisad 3.18)

   Therefore, a Krsna conscious person is free from both the outer and
   inner activities of the material body.

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Copyright 1983 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with permission.

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Prabhupada Uvacha:
(here's some nectar, sometimes it comes in the form of Srutakirti prabhu's diary, other times from Govinda dasi's diary, Hari Sauri prabhu's Transcendental Diary, or sometimes from a letter, or other related source, but still nectar...)

Prabhupada's Humility and The Force of His Preaching

Just before the start of the Ratha-yatra parade, Srila Prabhupada was driven right up to where the carts were poised to roll. Right in the middle of the filthy, filthy street, Chicago's big State Street, he got down and paid his obeisances to Lord Jagannatha. What humility! Since then I have never hesitated to pay obeisances if the occasion called no matter how dirty the street. Again, example is better than precept.

-- Suresvara dasa

In 1976 in Delhi, Prabhupada was doing a pandal, and he stayed in the home of a rich Indian gentleman. They called a big press conference, and many Westernized, so-called hip young Indian reporters were there, both men and women. They had come to see the sadhu. They asked many questions.

Prabhupada spoke so forcefully, he shook their hearts. He shattered their hearts by his speaking. Although they came in trying to be sophisticated young Indians, Prabhupada shattered their hearts by his preaching. They became frightened. They gave up all their sophistication and simply began to treat him with great reverence, like the sadhu or spiritual master. Even in their fallen condition, when Prabhupada began speaking so forcefully, they became very frightened of continuing with their sophisticated attitude. They became very humble and submissive and simply began to treat him as a spiritual master. Prabhupada was so powerful that any cultured person, anyone who was a little pious immediately became fearful of acting impiously or in an arrogant way in his presence.

-- Hrdayananda Goswami

My story is from Chicago in 1975. I had been with the library party for about a year and we had been traveling nonstop doing book distribution in colleges and libraries. In July of 1975, Prabhupada was in Chicago and we had the opportunity to have his darsana. My friend, Apurva, was cooking for Prabhupada. He asked if I could cook a preparation for Prabhupada. I was very eager to volunteer. I made sandesa for Prabhupada. Then they put that on Prabhupada's plate, and I got to take in the plate. I'm sure he didn't recognize me. I was just a brahmacari coming in, offering him prasadam. Prabhupada ate some of the sandesa. Like every cook, the next day I asked Apurva if Prabhupada made any comments. Apurva said, "Yes, Prabhupada said, 'Why are so many men staying back from book distribution to cook for me?'" From this I realized that my relationship with Prabhupada was not based on serving his vapuh form, but on distributing his books.

-- Kalakantha dasa

I had the realization that Krsna is spreading Krsna consciousness all over the world just to glorify Srila Prabhupada. We are doing so little actually, but by Krsna's grace, that little effort is producing such big results. Why? My realization is that it is only because Krsna wants to glorify Srila Prabhupada, His pure devotee. He is making everything so wonderful and so successful. Krsna is even making us wonderful, us mlecchas and yavanas, just to glorify Srila Prabhupada.

And why is Krsna acting only to glorify Srila Prabhupada? Because Srila Prabhupada had no desire other than to glorify Krsna. Reciprocally, at least in terms of the Krsna consciousness movement in this material world (earth), Krsna has no desire other than to glorify Srila Prabhupada -- and why? -- because Srila Prabhupada had no desire other than to glorify Sri Krsna."

-- Giriraja Swami, letter to Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, August 20, 1985

Suresvara dasa, interview; Hrdayananda Goswami, interview; Kalakantha dasa, interview; Giriraja Swami, letter to Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. The "Realizations" entries in Prabhupada Nectar have met with good response from our readers. We like to hear about Prabhupada from the different angles of vision of his many disciples. Another way to appreciate "Realizations" is to understand that no one devotee can see the total extent of Prabhupada in all his moods and with all his instructions. It takes the combined realizations of all the devotees to approach the "complete Prabhupada" -- and even then we can know only a little bit. When an individual devotee tells his realization, we can understand that he is telling as much about himself as he is about Prabhupada. That is not a reason to reject such realizations. The seed of devotional service planted within the heart of an individual disciple is also an expanded form of Prabhupada, and all Prabhupadanugas like to hear expressions of genuine love and realization from those who carry Prabhupada in their hearts. A similar example is given in Caitanya-caritamrta. Lord Caitanya became ecstatic on seeing a brahmana who showed symptoms of love of God. He surmised that this brahmana must have contacted Madhavendra Puri in order to show such symptoms of love of God. Therefore, Lord Caitanya loved the associate of the great Madhavendra Puri. Similarly, we want to hear from and honor every genuine devotee of Prabhupada, and we want to experience Prabhupada coming through such living representatives.

- From the Prabhupada Nectar by HH Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

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Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Listen to Srila Prabhupad on-line
....a different lecture, morning walk, conversation or class daily.

"Science vs. Veda vs. Religion"

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 15, 1973, Los Angeles

Listen to the entire lecture on-line:
http://prabhupadavani.org/Morning_Walks/m3u/MW013.m3u

Prabhupada: ...difficulty for the scientist to understand God? What is their difficulty? We understand God very easily.

Svarupa Damodara: They find it very hard to see the spirit, the soul in... It is very doubtful, they say.

Prabhupada: No, no, spirit you see or don't see, that is dif...

Umapati: He studies matter.

Prabhupada: No, that's all right.

Svarupa Damodara: No, once they see the spirit soul, they can detect somehow, then they are definitely convinced.

Prabhupada: So how you can see? It is... The measurement is given, 1/10,000th part of the tip of the hair. So where is your seeing power?

Svarupa Damodara: Still they want to sense it by some...

Prabhupada: Sense, that is... Any rascal can sense that here is living energy. That is spirit soul. Just like if you inject one grain of poison and immediately he dies, does it require how he dies? That one, not one grain. Even one hundredth part of one grain, venomous poison, how it acts? So even nobody can see it, when the snake bites, nobody can see where is that... How he dies?

Svarupa Damodara: They will explain that by..., it blocks some of the metabolic paths...

Prabhupada: That's all right, but it is acting. That is my point. You can explain in your nonsense way, this, so many things. But I see that because that very little portion of poison is there, immediately he dies. Why don't you see the action?

Svarupa Damodara: Just like taking cyanide. Cyanide, they say cyanide blocks the...

Prabhupada: Whatever it may be, but the thing, we have to see by the effect. Similarly, if the small particle of... Therefore our knowledge is perfect. We take it from Vedas. The small particle of soul, because it is present there, you will see the whole thing is going on nicely.

Karandhara: But they say the soul is subject to material conditions. They are seeing the body as the soul; so they say because it is subject to material conditions, therefore it's not eternal.

Prabhupada: No, no. Maybe material conditions, that is... But soul you have to accept there is soul.

continued.......................

"Glory to the Sri Krishna Samkirtan which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years together. Thus the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death, is extinguished. The Samkirtan Movement is the prime benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction Moon. It is the life of all transcendental knowledge, it increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it helps us to have a taste of the full nectar for which we are always anxious."

(Every Town & Village, album cover)

On-line Virtual Arati to Sri Sri Gaura Nitai - check it out
http://www.in2-mec.com/GNpuja.html

http://www.hknet.org.nz/harernam-page.htm
http://Harinam/rulestheweb.com

What's So Special About Chanting Hare Krishna?
By Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandan dasa ACBSP):
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/chanting_hare_krishna.htm

Hare Krishna is NOT "a Cult":
Is ISKCON a Cult or part of the "Hindu Culture" or Something Else?
http://www.hknet.org.nz/not-a-cult.html

Hare Krishna is NOT a Cult letter by Kunti dd editor of Hare Krishna World:
http://www.hknet.org.nz/HK-no-cult.html

40+ Years of Krishna Consciousness through Iskcon.........
http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa081201a.htm

Very nice articles and numerous links on the About Hinduism web-site.

What is ISKCON ???
http://www.iskcon.org/main/twohk/iskcon/what.htm

Is Iskcon a Cult?
http://www.hknet.org.nz/not-a-cult.html

Iskcon and Hinduism
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What is the syllable Om? (312k)
Who is the girl with Krishna? (200k)
What are the Incarnations of the Lord (1.2mb)

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Agama Tantra and the Vaishnava Samskaras as a way of life:

Recently I was asked, "Don't you find it an inconvenience to always be checking to see when is the right time to do this or the best time for that?"

In simple terms my answer was and still is; if you go to the bus or railway station or airport it is probably an intelligent venture to enquire about the times and routes of vehicles than to just hope that one will be along soon, or one is going in your direction.

There are subtle influences in the Universe that, for thousands of years gone by, advanced cultures have honoured, respected and utilised. Before the corruption of the Vedik literatures by the Christian and Moslem invaders to India all these things were used; Ayurvedik Medicine; Vedik Astrology; etc. Today there's a rennaisance among many to revive these arts.

We have been trained and studied to be able to provide these services. See some of my sites:

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or contact me directly: mailto:jtcd@xtra.co.nz

aham kratur aham yajnah
svadhaham aham ausadham
mantro 'ham aham evajyam
aham agnir aham hutam

"But it is I who am the ritual, I the sacrifice, the offering to the ancestors, the healing herb,
the transcendental chant. I am the butter and the fire and the offering."(Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita 9.16)

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......and the process of Vaishnava Vivaha - sacred marriage

Gurukuli.com
A positive, safe environment to meet and chat
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Young F.O.L.K.
Young Friends Of Lord Krishna
 http://www.hknet.org.nz/YoungFOLK.htm

ete cäàça-kaläù puàsaù
kåñëas tu bhagavän svayam
indräri-vyäkulaà lokaà
måòayanti yuge yuge

“All the lists of the incarnations of Godhead submitted herewith are either plenary expansions or parts of the plenary expansions of the Supreme Godhead, but Kåñëa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.” (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.28)

rämädi-mürtiñu kalä-niyamena tiñöhan
nänävatäram akarod bhuvaneñu kintu
kåñëaù svayaà samabhavat paramaù pumän yo
govindam ädi-puruñaà tam ahaà bhajämi

“I worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda [Kåñëa], who is always situated in various incarnations such as Räma, Nåsiàha and many subincarnations as well, but who is the original Personality of Godhead known as Kåñëa, and who incarnates personally also.” (Brahma samhita 5:39.)

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A selection of interesting Krishna conscious articles from New Panihati - Atlanta temple USA:
http://newpanihati.tripod.com/NewsGroup/KCNectar/KCNectarMain.htm

Paradigms - where things are not all they seem

Krishna conscious Dramas and plays:
A collection of 88 transcendental dramas assembled and presented for the pleasure of
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
http://www.cedarpost.com/krsnaconsciousplays/default.htm

Wonderful modern Krishna conscious plays:
http://www.cedarpost.com/krsnaconsciousplays/TableOfContents.htm

These are great for Sunday feasts, or school programs or street presentations, or just for our own understanding.

Read here what Prabhupad says about such plays and dramas:
http://www.cedarpost.com/krsnaconsciousplays/PlaysP2SPquotes.htm

Hare Krsna!

In the download section of my website  http://tinyurl.com/9er95 you will find a copy of Ganguly's complete English translation of the Mahabharata (originally in 13 hardback volumes) in HTML format. It is in a 7.5 MB zipped file.

The Mahabharata explains by example how Lord Krsna's Vedic culture and Varnashrama Dharma are meant to work. Where the Manu Smriti is a concise book of laws for Mankind the Mahabharata shows how those laws are applied. The Mahabharata along with the Ramayana have been the main foundation for the continuation of Vedic culture because they are easily accessible to the masses. The Mahabharata was actually written for the unfortunate people of the Kali Yuga to help uplift them. A close study of the Mahabharata and Ramayana in conjunction with the Manu Samhita would serve as a good guide on how to implement Varnashrama Dharma. And, in conjunction with the Srimad Bhagavatam, insight into Daivi Varnashrama Dharma. The Mahabharata is thus an essential text for anyone interested in implementing VAD.

The Mahabharata is a vast treasure house of Brahminical knowledge and as the Mahabharat itself says: "What is found in the Mahabharata may be found in other texts; whatever is not found in the Mahabharata is not found anywhere."

You will also find a PDF copy  of a canto of Agnivesa's Caraka Samhita (an Ayurvedic text) entitled Sarirasthana, a fascinating account of how the body is formed starting with philosophical details, conception, karmic details, embryology etc. I once gave this text to an obstetrician to read while she was waiting to see me and she was astounded at how much knowledge was contained in such an ancient text. Size 14 MB

Yours faithfully,

Shyamasundara Dasa

http://www.ShyamasundaraDasa.com
"krsnas tu bhagavan svayam"

The Formidable Audio page - Bhajans, Kirtans, Lectures many Iskcon devotees:
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Meditation changes brain thickness
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/051111_medidate.html
LiveScience.com Fri Nov 11,12:00 PM ET

Meditation alters brain patterns in ways that are likely permanent, scientists have known. But a new study shows key parts of the brain actually get thicker through the practice.

Brain imaging of regular working folks who meditate regularly revealed increased thickness in cortical regions related to sensory, auditory and visual perception, as well as internal perception -- the automatic monitoring of heart rate or breathing, for example.

The study also indicates that regular meditation may slow age-related thinning of the frontal cortex.

"What is most fascinating to me is the suggestion that meditation practice can change anyone's gray matter," said study team member Jeremy Gray, an assistant professor of psychology at Yale. "The study participants were people with jobs and families. They just meditated on average 40 minutes each day, you don't have to be a monk."

The research was led by Sara Lazar, assistant in psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital. It is detailed in the November issue of the journal NeuroReport.

The study involved a small number of people, just 20. All had extensive training in Buddhist Insight meditation. But the researchers say the results are significant.

Most of the brain regions identified to be changed through meditation were found in the right hemisphere, which is essential for sustaining attention. And attention is the focus of the meditation.

Other forms of yoga and meditation likely have a similar impact on brain structure, the researchers speculate, but each tradition probably has a slightly different pattern of cortical thickening based on the specific mental exercises involved.

Dear Devotees
Pamho agtSP

I am a soldier in the US Army and thought you all might get a laugh at what happened the other day.

We had to do a 6 mile run for fitness. Its customary to sing during these runs to build soldier cohesion. So they asked me to sing. I agreed so we were running down the street, when the idea popped in my head to get them to chant. Now this wasn't 6 or 7 people, its was a total of 600 soldiers. And they were into it, for 3 miles they chanted the Maha Mantra as loud as they could and were really into it.

Amazing what the power of the Holy Name can do.

your servant
Partha-sarathi dasa
http://www.iskcon.com/new/travel_iraq050204.htm
http://www.wavesofdevotion.com/journal/archives/2005_02.html

Russian Krishna Followers on Hunger Strike

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:22:25 -0000
   From: "vrnparker" <vrnparker@yahoo.com>
Subject: Russian Krishna Followers on Hunger Strike

Krishna Followers Go on Hunger Strike against Expulsion The conflict related to construction of Krishna Followers Temple gained momentum Saturday. Moscow authorities voiced intention to take out the allotment allocated for building the Vedic Culture Temple, Krishna followers responded by a hunger strike.

More than 500 people went on a long-term hunger strike Saturday, November 12, 2005, said Sergey Andreev, leader of the Moscow community of Krishna followers, in a move to preserve the allotment allocated in Moscow for the temple construction.

As a religious organization, Hare Krishna was officially acknowledged in Russia in 1988. Now the country has 106 registered communities of Krishna followers and over 300 parishes.

Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov sealed the ruling on constructing cultural premises for Krishna followers in Moscow in January 2004. The document sanctioned construction of the Vedic Center on the area of 1.05 hectares at 39 Leningrad Ave. to replace the two-store building demolished in Khoroshevkoe Avenue. To oppose construction, the orthodox followers staged a protest rally and vowed "to lie under bulldozers at the constriction site, "as this premise will desecrate Moscow," they said.

As a result, Luzhkov called off his ruling on October 7. "We think the authorities may proceed with decisive actions to expel Indian and Moscow Vaishnavs from habitable land, in which they have invested a lot," Andreev said. "We are truly concerned. We may be on the street deprived of even a temporarily temple." by  www.kommersant.com
http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?idr=530&id=626116
Russian Article as of Nov. 14, 2005

Harrods apology over Hindu bikinis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3790315.stm

By Rajesh Priyadarshi
BBC Hindi online

London's Harrods department store has apologised to its customers for selling controversial underwear bearing images of Hindu goddesses.

Harrods removed the underwear and swimwear range from sale after a protest by a Hindu pressure group.

Hindu Human Rights said the garments, created by Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, insulted the religion.

The store said: "We apologise to those customers who have been offended or distressed by the situation."

Signatures

Hindu Human Rights, a group which says it "safeguards the religion and its followers", lodged a complaint with the store on Monday seeking the removal of the range.
 

 When we see any image of goddesses we bow our heads with respect and here they were displayed in such an insulting way

Amitabh Soni,
human resources executive

"When we heard that Harrods was selling such garments, we registered our protest. We cannot bear the insult to our religion," said spokesperson Sheila Church.

"Our goddesses are revered by millions of Hindus. How can somebody use them for such purposes? We sent Harrods a large number of signatures protesting against it."

The summer range has been on sale for some time but the controversy started on Sunday when an Indian human resources executive, Amitabh Soni, saw mannequins bearing the brightly coloured bikinis.

"I was shocked to see them," he told BBC Hindi Online.

"When we see any image of goddesses we bow our heads with respect and here they were displayed in such an insulting way", Mr Soni said.

He is now happy at the outcome, but said the store had not listened when he asked it to remove the garments.

"So I got in touch with Hindu Human Rights," he said.

Controversies relating to Hindu icons are not new.

Hindu Human Rights is also protesting against the new film by Ismail Merchant, Shakti, in which rock singer Tina Turner plays the role of goddess Kali.

Last year another department store had to apologise for selling toilet seats with images of a Hindu deity.

Selling slippers with Hindu symbols created trouble for a third London-based retailer.

A number of designers have been attracted by the richness of Hindu iconography and the fad for exotic ethnic patterns.

November 9, 2005 - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has bowed to complaints from the Indian government and stopped trying to convert to Judaism thousands of people in India who believe they are a Biblical lost tribe, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Around 7,000 people in northeast India claim they are members of Bnei Menashe, or the children of Menashe, one of the 10 "lost tribes" of Israel.

Efforts to convert them by a specially despatched team of rabbis were called off after India, a major buyer of Israeli defence exports, voiced its displeasure.

Israel's Chief Rabbinate had given the green light to convert Bnei Menashe in India.

"The Indian authorities, through official channels, told us they do not view positively initiated efforts at conversions to other religions," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.

"When the Indian government issues a complaint we take it seriously. At the moment there is a freeze on all such conversions taking place," Regev said.

Some 800 members of Bnei Menashe have immigrated to Israel since the late 1980s and many live in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Some members of the community were among the settlers evacuated from Gaza in an Israeli pullout completed in September.

An Israeli official, who asked not to be identified, said any Bnei Menashe members who choose to immigrate to Israel would be converted to Judaism after their arrival.

Exiled by the Assyrians around 720 BC, the tribe wandered through Afghanistan and China before ending up in a part of India nestled between Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Decades after being converted to Christianity by missionaries, descendants in various areas began to reconnect with Judaism in the 1970s.

While much of their Jewish traditions had been lost on the way, Bnei Menashe still practised customs which were Jewish in origin. These included sanctifying a baby on the eighth day after birth, the time when Jewish males are circumcised.

UK Postal Service Backs Off Over Stamp Insulting To Hindus

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4420896.stm

LONDON, ENGLAND, November 9, 2005: A Christmas stamp which many Hindus said was "disrespectful" to their religion has been partially withdrawn (see illustration at "source.") The Royal Mail has agreed not to replace the 68 pence stamp, which depicts a Hindu couple worshipping the baby Jesus, when current stocks run out. And the stamp, one of six depicting images of Madonna and child, will be given only to those who ask for it. The Hindu Forum said it was pleased "to a certain degree," but the stamp's sale should have been stopped completely. The group's secretary general Ramesh Kallidai said: "At least they have made some changes in the way the stamp is being sold, but of course we would have been more pleased if they had stopped the sale in its entirety." The forum had said the stamp was the equivalent of having a vicar in a dog collar kneeling down to the Hindu deity Lord Ram on a festival stamp. A Royal Mail spokesman apologised for any offence caused. "We apply a rigorous research process to all our stamp development and in this instance we sought and acted on the advice we were given. "With hindsight we now recognise that we should have consulted further and we are currently reviewing processes to improve and reinforce them." The move represents something of a climbdown as the Royal Mail refused to withdraw the stamp amid protests last week. The image on the stamp, taken from a 17th Century painting, features a man with a "tilak" marking on his forehead, identifying him as a Vaishnava Hindu. The woman in the picture has the traditional "kumkum" mark on her forehead identifying her as a married Hindu woman. The original painting hangs in a gallery in Mumbai (Bombay) in India.

NOTE:  Ramesh Kallidai is Romapad dasa of Bhaktivedanta Manor, brother of our Sridam dasa in Christchurch (soon to be of Auckland).

Courtesy of Hinduism Today http://www.HinduismToday.com/

Gujarat's gau raksha gets apex court nod

Pioneer News Service / New Delhi

In a landmark judgement overruling three previous verdicts, the Supreme Court on Wednesday put a stamp of approval on the decade-old order of the Gujarat Government banning the slaughter of bulls and bullocks in the State.

A seven-judge constitutional bench headed by Chief Justice RC Lahoti set aside the judgement of the 1998 Gujarat High Court. While terming the order as unconstitutional, the High Court had held that the Government order imposed unreasonable restrictions on the fundamental rights of some petitioners who were involved in the trade.

The apex court on Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of the Gujarat Government order in a six-to-one ratio. Earlier, the matter, which was heard by a five-judge bench, was referred to a seven-judge bench for the interpretation of provisions of the Constitution, especially with regard to status of directive principles viz-a-viz fundamental rights.

Terming the Supreme Court as significant, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said it would have an impact on national life. He said the Constitution provides for cow protection. Mahatma Gandhi also used to advocate it. "But unfortunately it (ban on cow slaughter) was not done due to vote bank politics.

The Gujarat Goverment had banned it and we are victorious today," the Chief Minister said.

He said the verdict was "very significant" for those who love the cow and believe in non-violence and "it would have a major impact on our national life."

The VHP also termed the apex court verdict as "heartening" for Hindus throughout the world. "Cow and its progeny are the backbone of our economic, social and religious development," Parishad senior vice-president Acharya Giriraj Kishore said. He demanded that the Centre and State Governments immediately ban cow slaughter as provided in the Constitution.

The BJP also welcomed the Supreme Court order and said with the apex Court's verdict it would be legal wherever such prohibition was in force.

"Mahatma Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave had made efforts in this direction. Article 58 of the Constitution had this intention (ban) in mind. We welcome the verdict," party general secretary and spokesman Arun Jaitley told reporters here. He also said since a constitution bench had taken this decision, such laws in existence in other states or to be enacted by others would be legal.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/archives2/default12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story5%2Etxt&counter_img=5&phy_path_it=D%3A%5Cdailypioneer%5Carchives2%5Coct2705

http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story5%2Etxt&counter_img=5?headline=Gujarat's~gau~raksha~gets~apex~court~nod

SC upholds ban on cow slaughter - Victory to Dharma

Supreme Court upholds ban on cow slaughter
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October 26, 2005

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the 1994 Gujarat government order banning slaughter of bulls and bullocks over the age of 16 years.

A seven-judge constitutional bench headed by Chief Justice R C Lahoti set aside the judgement of the 1998 Gujarat High Court which termed it as unconstitutional.

SC upholds one-year sentence for cow slaughter

The High Court had held that the government order imposed unreasonable restrictions on the Fundamental Rights of some petitioners who were involved in the trade.

The apex court upheld the constitutional validity of the Gujarat government order in a six to one verdict.

The matter, which was heard by a five-judge bench earlier, had been referred to a seven-judge bench for the interpretation of provisions of the constitution, specially with regard to status of directive principles viz a viz Fundamental Rights as well as the effect of introduction of article 31(C) and 51(A).

Meanwhile Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi termed the SC verdict as significant and said it would have an "impact on national life".

"Our Constitution provides for cow protection. Mahatma Gandhi also used to advocate it. But unfortunately it (ban on cow slaughter) was not done due to vote bank politics. The Gujarat Goverment had banned it and we are victorious today," Modi said.

He said the verdict was very significant for those who love the cow and believe in non-violence and it would have a major impact on our national life.

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad also termed the apex court verdict as heartening for Hindus throughout the world.

"Cow and its progeny are the backbone of our economic, social and religious development," Parishad senior Vice-President Acharya Giriraj Kishore said.

He demanded that the centre and state governments immediately ban cow slaughter "as provided in the Constitution and as desired by the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi."

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Vegetarians Have a Right to Know Whether Food is Vegetarian or Not

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI, INDIA, October 5, 2005: Vegetarians only want to be informed about the ingredients in foods so that they can make a choice about what they eat. Sounds simple but as the news release explains it can be rather daunting at times, "Unless you carefully read the fine print, you could be eating eggs, animal fat and insect dye with your foreign chocolates, jelly, instant noodles, bread, ice cream and even vitamins. Most foreign chocolates like Toblerone and Mars contain egg white. Britannia cakes and some Casatta cakes have eggs, so do Oreo cookies.

Kraft and other international cheeses contain rennet -- made from the inner lining of the stomach of a young cow. And most jelly powders have gelatin -- which in many cases is made from the boiled skin, bone and tendons of pig, cow and fish. Even sweets, especially those lined with silver foil, contain ox gut obtained from slaughterhouses."

Nutritionist Naini Setalvad adds, "My vegetarian clients are increasingly wary of what they eat because it could contain something non-vegetarian. Even vitamin supplements, Vitamin D3 for example, has cholecalciferol,
which is generated in the skin of animals. Several pharmaceutical products contain Vitamin D3."

In India, food companies are required by law to label their items as vegetarian or non-vegetarian, that includes even chocolates and chewing gum. As demand increases for vegetarian products, the article point out that some companies like Amul in India and Baskin Robbins internationally are advocating their 100% vegetarian products. Pankaj Chaturvedi, CEO of Baskin Robbins, says, "When we entered the Indian market 13 years ago, some of our imported ice creams contained bone marrow. But five years ago, we turned completely vegetarian and are now positioning this as our USP."

Courtesy of Hinduism Today http://www.HinduismToday.com/

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Lord Macaulay

- from a letter to his father dated Oct. 12th, 1836

Ancient World was a Vedic World  "Hindu Dharma" is a book which contains English translation of certain invaluable and engrossing speeches of Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi MahaSwamiji (at various times during the years 1884 to 1994).

"The fact according to me, is that in the beginning the Vedic religion was prevalent all over the world. Later, over the centuries, it must have gone through a process of change and taken different forms. These forms came to be called the original religions of these various lands which in the subsequent period- during historical times- came under Buddhism, Christianity or Islam as the case may be."

In the dim past what we call Hinduism today was prevalent all over the world. Archaeological studies reveal the existence of relics of our Vedic religion in many countries. For instance, excavations have brought up the text of a treaty between Rameses II and the Hittites dating back to the 14th century B. C. In this, the Vedic gods Mitra and Varuna are mentioned as witnesses to the pact. There is a connection between the name of Ramesses and that of our Rama.

About 75 per cent of the names of places in Madagascar have a Sanskritic origin.

In the Western Hemisphere too there is evidence of Hinduism having once flourished there. In Mexico a festival is celebrated at the same time as our Navaratri; it is called "Rama-Sita". Wherever the earth is dug up images of Ganapati are discovered here. The Aztecs had inhabited Mexico before the Spaniards conquered that land. "Aztecs " must be a distorted form of "Astikas". In Peru, during the time of the holy equinox [vernal? ] worship was conducted in the sun temple. The people of this land were called Incas: "Ina" is one of the Sanskrit names of the sun god. Don't we call Rama Inakula-tilaka?

There is book containing photographs of the aborigines of Australia dancing in the nude (The Native Tribes of Central Australia, by Spencer Killan, pages 128 & 129). A close look at the pictures, captioned "Siva Dance", shows that the dancers have a third eye drawn on the forehead.

In a virgin forest in Borneo which, it is said, had not been penetrated by any human being until recently, explorers have found a sacrificial post with an inscription in a script akin to our Granthas characters. Historians know it as the inscription of Mulavarman of Kotei. Mention is made in it of a sacrifice, the king who performed it, the place where the yupas was installed. That the king gave away kalpavrksass as a gift to Brahmins is also stated in this inscription. All such details were discovered by Europeans, the very people who ridicule our religion.

Now something occurs to me in this context, something that you may find amusing. You know that the Sagaras went on digging the earth down to the nether world in search of their sacrificial horse. An ocean came into being in this way and it was called sagara after the king Sagara.

The Sagaras, at last found the horse near the hermitage of Kapila Maharsi. Thinking that he must be the man who had stolen the animal and hidden it in the nether world they laid violent hands on him. Whereupon the sage reduced them to ashes with a mere glance of his eye. Such is the story according to the Ramayana. America, which is at the antipodes, may be taken to Patala or the nether world. Kapilaranya(the forest in which Kapila had his hermitage), we may further take it, was situated there. It is likely that Kapilaranya changed to California in the same manner as Madurai is something altered to "Marudai". Also noteworthy is the fact that there is a Horse Island near California as well as an Ash Island.

Another idea occurs to me about Sagara and sagara. Geologists believe that ages ago the Sahara desert was an ocean. It seems to me that Sahara is derived from sagara.

Some historians try to explain the evidence pointing to the worldwide prevalence of our religion in the past to the exchange of cultural and religious ideas between India and other countries established through travels. I myself believe that there was one common religion or dharma throughout and that the signs and symbols that we find of this today are the creation of the original inhabitants of the lands concerned.

The view put forward by some students of history about the discovery of the remnants of our religion in other countries- these relating to what is considered the historical period of the past two or three thousand years- is that Indians went to these lands, destroyed the old native civilizations there and imposed Hindu culture in their place. Alternatively, they claim, Indians thrust their culture into the native ways of life in such a way that it became totally absorbed in them.

The fact, however, is that evidence is to be found in many countries of their Vedic connection dating back to 4, 000 years or more. That is, with the dawn of civilization itself, aspects of the Vedic dharama existed in these lands. It was only subsequently that the inhabitants of these regions came to have a religion of their own.

Greece had an ancient religion and had big temples where various deities were worshipped. The Hellenic religion had Vedic elements in it. The same was the case with the Semitic religions of the pre- Christian era in the region associated with Jesus. The aborigines of Mexico had a religion of their own. They shared the Vedic view of the divine in the forces of nature and worshipped them as deities. There was a good deal of ritual in all such religions.

Now none of these religions, including that of Greece, survives. The Greek civilization had once attained to the heights of glory. Now Christianity flourishes in Greece. Buddhism has spread in Central Asia and in East Asia up to Japan. According to anthropologists, religions in their original form exist only in areas like the forests of Africa. But even these ancient faiths contain Vedic elements.

Religious and philosophical truths are often explained through parables, stories, so that ignorant people can understand them easily. Since metaphysical concepts are difficult to grasp, either they have to be told in the form of a story or they have to be given the form of a ritual, that is they must find expression as religious acts. For the common people the performance of a rite is a means of finding the truth present in it in the form of a symbol. I do not, however, agree with the view that all rituals are nothing but symbolic in their significance and that there is no need to perform them so long as their inner meaning is understood.

Ritual as ritual has its own place and efficacy. Similarly, I would not say that stories from the Puranas are nothing but illustrations or explanations of certain truths or doctrines. As stories they are of a high order and I believe that they really happened. But, at the same time, they demonstrate the meaning of certain truths. As for rites, their performance brings up benefits. But in due course, as we learn to appreciate their inner meaning we shall become purified in mind. This is the stage when we shall no more yearn for any benefits from their performance and will be rewarded with supreme well-being (that is, liberation).

It is likely, though, that, with the passage of time, some stories or rites will become far removed from their inner meaning. Or, it may be, the inner meaning will be altogether forgotten. So it must be that, when new religions took shape abroad, after the lapse of thousands of years-religions not connected with the Vedic faith that is the root-the original Vedic concepts become transformed or distorted.

You must be familiar with the story of Adam and Eve which belongs to the Hebrew tradition. It occurs in the Genesis of the Old Testament and speaks of the tree of knowledge and God's commandment that its fruit shall not be eaten. Adam at first did not eat it but Eve did. After that Adam too ate the forbidden fruit.

Here an Upanisadic concept has taken the form of a biblical story. But because of the change in the time and place the original idea has become distorted-or even obliterated.

The Upanisadic story speaks of two birds perched on the branch of a pippala tree. One eats the fruit of tree while the order merely watches its companion without eating. The pippala tree stands for the body. The first bird represents a being that regards himself as the jivatman or individual self and the fruit it eats signifies sensual pleasure. In the same body (symbolized by the tree) the second bird is to be understood as the Paramatman. He is the support of all beings but he does not know sensual pleasure. Since he does not eat the fruit he naturally does not have the same experience as the jivatman (the first). The Upanisad speaks with poetic beauty of the two birds. He who eats the fruit is the individual self, jiva, and he who does not eat is the Supreme Reality, the one who knows himself to be the Atman.

It is this jiva that has come to be called Eve in the Hebrew religious tradition. "Ji" changes to "i" according to a rule of grammar and "ja" to "ya". We have the example of "Yamuna" becoming "Jamuna" or of "Yogindra" being changed to "Joginder ". In the biblical story "jiva" is "Eve" and "Atma" (or "Atman") is "Adam". "Pippala" has in the same way changed to "apple". The Tree of Knowledge is our "bodhi-vrksa". "Bodha" means "knowledge". It is well known that the Budhha attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree. But the pipal (pippala) was known as the bodhi tree even before his time.

The Upanisadic ideas transplanted into a distant land underwent a change after the lapse of centuries. Thus we see in the biblical story that the Atman (Adam) that can never be subject to sensual pleasure also eats the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. While our bodhi tree stands for enlightenment, the enlightenment that banishes all sensual pleasure, the biblical tree affords worldly pleasure. These differences notwithstanding there is sufficient evidence here that, once upon a time, Vedic religion was prevalent in the land of the Hebrews.

Let me give the another example to strengthen the view that however much a custom or a concept changes with the passage of time and with its acceptance by people of another land, it will still retain elements pointing to its original source. Our TiruppavaiT and TiruvembavaiT are not as ancient as the Vedas. Scholars ascribe them to an age not later than 1, 500 years ago. However it be, the authors of these Tamil hymns, AndalT and ManikkavacakarT, belong to an age much later than that of the Vedas and epics. After their time Hindu empires arose across the seas. Even the Cola kings extended their sway beyond the shores of the country. More worthy of note than our naval expeditions was the great expansion in our sea trade and the increase with it of our foreign contacts. As a result, people abroad were drawn to the Hindu religion and culture. Among the regions that developed such contacts, South-East Asia was the most important. Islands like Bali in the Indonesian archipelago became wholly Hindu. People in Siam (Thailand), Indochina and the Philippines came under the influence of Hindu culture. Srivijaya was one of the great empires of South-East Asia.

[Here the Paramaguru briefly touches upon the stages representing the emergence of various religions]. In primeval times the Vedic religion was prevalent everywhere: this was the first stage. In the second stage new religions emerged in various parts of the world. In the third stage these decayed and their place was taken by Buddhism, Christianity or Islam. In the subsequent stage the Hindu civilization became a living force outside the shores of India also, particularly in South-East Asia. This was the period during which great temples reminding us of those of Tamil Nadu arose with the spread of our religion and culture: Angkor-vat in Cambodia; Borobudur in Java, Indonesia; Prambanan, also in Java. Now it was that our Tiruppavai and Tiruvembavai made their passage to Thailand.

Even today a big festival is held in Thailand in December- January, corresponding to the Tamil Margazhi, the same month during which we read the Tiruppavai and Tiruvembavai with devotion. As part of the celebrations a dolotsava (swing festival) is held. A remarkable feature of this is that, in the ceremony meant for Visnu, a man with the make-up of Siva is seated on the swing. This seems to be in keeping with the fact that the Tiruppavai and Tiruvembavai contribute to the unification of Vaisnavism and Saivism.

If you ask the people of Thailand about the Pavai poems, they will not be able to speak about them. It might seem then that there is no basis for connecting the that festival with the Pavai works merely because it is held in the month corresponding to the Tamil Murgazhi. But the point to note is that the people of that country themselves call it "Triyampavai- Trippavai".

Those who read the Bible today are likely to be ignorant about the Upanisads, but they are sure to know the story that can be traced back to them, that of Adam and Eve. The Thais now must be likewise ignorant about the Pavis but, all the same, they hold in the month of Dhanus every year a celebration called "Triyampavai - Trippavai. " As part of it they also have a swing festival in which figures a man dressed as Siva. Here the distortion in the observance of a rite have occurred during historical times- one of the distortions is that of Siva being substituted for Visnu. Also during this period the Thais have forgotten the Pavis but, significantly enough, they still conduct a festival named after them. Keeping these before you, take mind back to three thousand years ago and imagine how a religion or a culture would have changed after its passage to foreign lands.

It is in this context that you must consider the Vedic tradition. For all the changes and distortions that it has undergone in other countries during the past millennia its presence there is still proclaimed through elements to be found in the religions that supplanted it.

How are we to understand the presence of Hindu ideas or concepts in the religious beliefs of people said to belong to prehistoric times?
It does not seem right to claim that in the distant past our religion or culture was propagated in other countries through an armed invasion or through trade, that is at a time when civilization itself has not taken shape there. That is why I feel that there is no question of anything having been taken from this land and introduced into another country. The fact according to me, is that in the beginning the Vedic religion was prevalent all over the world. Later, over the centuries, it must have gone through a process of change and taken different forms. These forms came to be called the original religions of these various lands which in the subsequent period- during historical times- came under Buddhism, Christianity or Islam as the case may be.
http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part2/chap2.htm

Vedic World Heritage links:

See our pages supporting these views HERE:
http://www.hknet.org.nz/VWH.html (Vedik World Heritage)
Western Indologists been exposed page:
http://www.hknet.org.nz/WesternIndologists-page.htm
How British Misguided the World on Vedic History
http://www.hknet.org.nz/MotiveBritishRajMissionaries.html

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THE FROGS AND THE STONE

Some frogs were worshipping a stone. I was their tradition that this stone next to their frog pond was their deity, their god. So they would go to this stone and they would bow down and pray. One young frog thought, "Why have these frogs been bowing down to this stone for generations? What's so special about this stone anyway?"
So one day in the middle of the worship when all the frogs were bowing down before the stone, this young frog jumped over the stone. Everyone was shocked. "You've jumped over the stone!"
"Yes!" the young frog exclaimed. "So how can that be God? Why have you been worshipping this stone for so long? If that was God, how could I have jumped over it?"
And then the frogs said, "Yes, it's true what he's saying. We've been so foolish! So, our dear young frog, then you please tell us what should we worship?"
"You should worship an entity who is so tall that you cannot jump over him."
"Oh? Who is that?"
"I have seen one big, white bird with a long beak. The stork. He's very tall. A frog cannot jump over a stork."
"Oh very good! Let's go to the stork."
So they all went to the stork and they were paying obeisances. But the stork thought, "Aah! For so long I've had to hunt for frogs to eat, but now they're all coming to me. Very nice." So he ate them all.

MORAL: This story is to illustrate that when one is bewildered, in an inferior state of consciousness, then his conception of the absolute will always be inferior. He can play these mental games, finding faults in previous conclusions and inventing new conclusions, but they're all taking place on a very inferior platform, like the frogs.

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Dear Prabhus,

  Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 With thankfulness to our Founder Acharya Srila Prabhupada, Sri Gaura-Nitai, and the inspiration of all of you, we announce the Grand Opening of "NECTARBOOKS.COM". This website contains rare, wonderful Krishna Literature by our Vaisnava Acharyas, beautifully and carefully translated by Dasaratha Suta Prabhu, a scholarly disciple of Srila Prabhupada, long known for his translation work.

It was a desire of Srila Prabhupada to give all of us, his children and grandchildren, the entire Vaisnava Library of devotional writings, and we are  blessed by His Divine Grace to recieve some of this literature with which to further water our creepers of devotion.

Please consider forwarding this email to your address list in the mood of going for the mercy of Lord Chaitanya by assisting His missionary desires.

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Tokyo April 27, 1972

.. It is my serious desire to devote the fag end of my life to translating Srimad Bhagavatam and so many other Vaisnava literatures so by assisting me in this regards you will be performing the highest service to Krsna....

HH Bir-Krishna Goswami's site
http://www.bkgoswami.com/

HH Devamrita Swami
http://www.devaswami.com/main.php
http://www.devaswami.com/main.php?&displayPage=home

HH Gopal Krishna Goswami:
http://www.geocities.com/gopalkrsna/

HH Indradyumna Swami
http://www.traveling-preacher.com/
http://www.harekrishna.asn.au/speakers/indradyumna_swami/indradyumna_swami.htm

HH Jayapataka Swami
http://www.hearjps.com/
http://www.jpsoffice.com/
http://www.harekrishna.asn.au/speakers/jayapataka_swami/jayapataka_swami.htm
http://www.victoryflag.com/
Many lectures by HH Jayapataka Swami and HH Radhanath Swami
http://www.radiokrishna.com/rkc_archive_new/

HH Kadamba Kanana Swami
http://www.geocities.com/kksaudioministry/

HH Prabhavishnu Swami
http://home.iprimus.com.au/naractl/Biographys/ISKCON_Gurus/Srila_Prabhavisnu_Swami_Biography.html#Prabhu

HH Prahladananda Swami
http://home.iprimus.com.au/naractl/Biographys/ISKCON_Gurus/Prahladananda_Swami_Maharaja.html#mod

HH Romapada Swami
http://www.prastha.com/cgi-bin/uncgi/renderphilo.pl?ndx=2

HH Sacinandan Swami
http://www.saranagati.net/

HH Sivaram Swami:
http://www.sivaramaswami.com/

HH Sridhar Swami (the late Sridhar swami formerly in Bombay)
http://www.jollyswami.net/home.php

HH Suhotra dasa Tapa Vanacharin
http://www.suhotraprabhu.com/

HH Trivikram Swami
http://www.tvswami.sotiko.pl/

HG Vaiyasaki dasa Adhikari
http://www.kirtan.org/index.html

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What's Going On Where &Adds

FESTIVAL EVENTS AND VENUES:


The New Iskcon Auckland temple

for more information and some wonderfrul pictures of the event see our page:
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page updated September 2005

Hare KrishnaSchool & Playgroup

Krishna Conscious education for children
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Hare Krishna School in Riverhead, Auckland is a government funded school that runs from 9am – 3pm five days a week. We cover all core subjects in the New Zealand Curriculum and in addition teach Sanskrit, Sastra and Vedic arts. Children who come to this school get everything that children at state schools get plus Vedic culture and values in a serene rural environment.

We also run a preschool program for children 3 and up.

A school bus service provides transport from Auckland suburbs.

For enrolment information please contact:- HKSchool@xtra.co.nz

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Find out what the NZ Government Education Review Office thinks of the Hare Krishna School. Click the link below.
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Balgopal Krishna Conscious Preschool in Henderson Auckland prepares children for school with a nurturing academic and character development program founded on Krishna consciousness.

 For details please contact-

Vishnupadi dasi Ph.836-1214

Gaura Yoga Centre
First floor
175, Vivian Street,
Wellington

Phone:  (04) 801-5500

Learn about the Krishna conscious life-style
Learn Yoga
Learn about Vegetarianism
...all in a non-threatening friendly atmosphere.

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Sunday Love Feasts - contact your local temple, or community for details
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http://www.hknet.org.nz/NZKiwi-yatra.htm

http://www.hknet.org.nz/aussie-yatra.htm

Harinaam Kirtan and Bhajans in Tauranga BOP.
Every Saturday in the Red Square by the Strand (or Mt. Maunganui)

Come and join the throng 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

...for more details contact Trivikrama dasa

mailto:touchstone@slingshot.co.nz (for Trivikram prabhu)

Vegetarian Clubs
Waikato University - Hamilton campus

2 days per week serving about 100 plates each day.

for more information contact Mangala Vaishnava dasa
mailto:bhaktamark@hotmail.com

Auckland Veda club.
Auckland University - Wellesley St. campus

Its a simple weekly program thats been running for a few years, at Clubspace,
where we have a vegetarian prasadam lunch and sometimes show a video.
Srila Prabhupada's books are available to browse or buy.

For more information contact Auckland temple:
mailto:radhik@e3.net.nz

Otago University - Dunedin - Vege Club
Room 2., Clubs & Societies Building
Albany St.,

contact Jambavati dasi (03) 477 8277
mailto:jambavati85@hotmail.com

http://www.hknet.org.nz/HKDunedin-page.htm


Auckland
http://www.hknet.org.nz/AuckFFL-page.htm

Christchurch
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Seven hundred plates of free prasadam (food offered to the Lord) were distributed to an appreciative public and to 50 devotees who took part in a central city Harinam (chanting in the streets).

By the mercy of Guru, Gauranga and Radha Krishna, (after our first bhajan album Bhajanamrtam) we have managed to produce a new CD entitled "Bhaktivinoda", a collection of bhajans of Saccidananda Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur and other Vaisnava acaryas in Orissi classical ragas.

The CD includes 8 bhajans and a 12-page booklet with all lyrics and a translation of the songs:
Gurudeva! Kabe Mora Sei Din Habe
Hari Hari, Kabe More Hoibe Sudina
Kabe Sri Caitanya More
Radha-Kunda-Tata
Narada Muni
Janama Saphala Ta'ra
Brajendranadana, Bhaje Jei Jana
Kabe Ha'be Bolo

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Visit Vaidya Yolande Manson's Ayurvedic practice - in Hamilton:
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dhanvantaris cha bhagavan svayam eva kirtir
namna nrnam pururujam ruja asu hanti
yajne cha bhagam amrtayur avavarundha
ayusya vedam anusasty avatirya loke

"The Lord in His incarnation of Dhanvantari very quickly cures the diseases of the ever diseased living entities simply by His fame personified and only because of Him do the demigods achieve long lives. Thus the Personality of Godhead becomes ever glorified. He also exacted a share from the sacrifices, and it is He only who inaugurated the medical science or the knowledge of medicine in the universe." (Srimad Bhagavata Purana 2.7.22 )

Sacred Vegetarian Recipes - Prasadam

World Vegetarian Day 1st October each year

World Vegetarian Awareness Month - October

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see what's already happened last year http://www.hknet.org.nz/VegeWVD2004.html

see what we hear is to be happening this year

See our previous World Vegetarian Day issue of the newsletter for a wide range of Vegetarian issues
2005 World Vegetarian Day newsletter
Shaligram Tirtha Pradarshini newsletter October 2005 - Theme Prasadam

Vege update:
Social scientists and law enforcement officials have identified animal abuse as a symptom of emotional illness and a precursor to violent crimes against human beings. To allow individuals guilty of perpetrating such cruel acts to go unpunished or not sufficiently punished would be to sanction these horrific crimes and would permit them to go on to possibly commit violent crimes against humans.

The Animal Spirit Newsletter - Issue #2 -  4/21/03-4/27/03

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BABY POTATOES WITH ROSEMARY

INGREDIENTS:
5 pounds assorted small potatoes, each cut into quarters
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
rosemary sprigs for garnish

METHOD:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Place potatoes in large roasting pan (17" by 11 1/2"); toss with olive oil, chopped rosemary, salt, and pepper. Roast potatoes 30 to 40 minutes, turning occasionally with metal spatula, until golden and fork-tender. Garnish with rosemary sprigs.

Serves 10
Each serving: About 210 calories, 5 g protein, 38 g
carbohydrate, 6 g total fat (1 g saturated),
0 mg cholesterol, 335 mg sodium.

~ From The Daily Recipe

ASPARAGUS WITH RED PEPPER SAUCE

Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Servings: 2

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 pound asparagus stalks
1-1/2 large large red eppers
1-3/4 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1/4 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
Salt & pepper

DIRECTIONS:

 1. Peel the asparagus if necessary and cook the stalks in lightly salted water for 4 to 8 minutes, until fork tender.
 2. Drain under cold water and set the stalks aside.
 3. Broil the peppers on all sides until lightly scorched.
 4. Place the cooked peppers in a paper bag for 10 minutes.
 5. Remove the peppers and peel off the skin.
 6. Cut open the peppers and remove the stem, seeds and white flesh.
 7. Puree the peppers in the food processor.
 8. Mix in the olive oil, balsamic vinegar and thyme.
 9. Taste for seasoning and add salt and pepper if desired.
10.Place equal amount of the puree on 2 serving dishes.
11.Top with equal amounts of asparagus.

Nutritional Information Per Serving:
73 Calories; 5g Carbohydrate; 3g Fat; 3g Protein
Exchanges: 1 Vegetable; 1 Fat

Bahama Avocado Dip

Ingredients:
2 cups finely minced walnuts
2 teaspoons bread crumbs
1 teaspoon hing (asofatida)
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1/4 cup extra-virgin Greek Olive Oil
1/3 cup cider-vinegar (non-alcoholic of course)
1 cup avocado puree from fresh crushed avacados (keep the pip in there to stop going brown or black)
1 tablespoon yogurt or (vegetarian no-egg mayonnaise)
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/8 cup cold water

Method:

Place nuts, bread crumbs, hing, cayenne pepper, salt and paprika in bowl and mix together.
Mix in oil and vinegar; add avocado puree.
Add yogurt or (vegetarian no-egg mayonnaise). Blend well and thin with water as needed.
Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Yield: 3 cups  (multiply to your needs)

Baked Zucchini with Cheddar Cheese

Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 3 as a side

INGREDIENTS
2 medium zucchini, thinly sliced
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1/2 cup Cheddar cheese or Tasty Tararua; shredded
1/8 tsp ground white pepper

DIRECTIONS:

Place the sliced zucchini into a large bowl.
Combine the remaining ingredients and toss well.

Pour into a lightly oiled 2-quart casserole.

Bake at 350F. for 35-40 minutes.

CALZONE

Ingredients:
Filling:
1 1/2 cups CHENNA cheese (means milk curd by boiling and adding citric or lemon - casien)
8 cups tomatoes, chopped
3 cups fried eggplant chunks
1 green pepper, chopped
2 teasp. salt
1/2 teasp. hing
1/2 teasp. black pepper
1/2 teasp. tumeric
1/2 teasp. oregano

Dough:
2 Tablesp. yeast
1 Tablesp. sugar
1 cup warm water
4 cups flour (white or fine whole wheat)

Method:

Filling:
1. Boil tomatoes until thick and dark red.
2. Blend with 1 cup fried eggplant, and remaining ingredients except the CHENNA and 2 cups fried eggplant.
3. Stir remaining eggplant and cheese into the tomato sauce.
4. Simmer until cheese soaks into sauce.

Dough:
1. Mix yeast, sugar and warm water. Leave until foamy.
2. Knead flour into yeast-foam until a pliable dough forms.
3. Leave 1 hour.

Assembling:
1. Divide dough into 24 equal balls.
2. On a floured surface, roll each ball into a 1/4-inch thick round.
3. Place 1 Tablesp. filling on lower half of round. Leave border free of filling.
4. Lightly brush border with a fingertip dipped in water.
5.  Fold top half of round over filling.
6. Match up wet and dry edges.
7. Press, pinch and seal along seam, enclosing filling. Do not squeeze filling as you go around.
8. Twist sealed edges in succession to form a fluted skirting. Seal well or calzones will break open during frying.
9. Place calzones on a floured tray.
10. Leave 15 minutes.
11. Heat deep-fryer to moderate temperature.
12. Gently slip in the calzones.
13. Fry until golden brown.
* Yields 10 calzones.

 CAULIFLOWER IN CREAM CHEESE - Govardhan Lila devi dasi's

 Servings: 4 Serving size: 1 serving Preparation time: 1 hour
Ingredients:
1 large cauliflower, head
1 medium zucchini
2 cups panir ( or ricotta )
4 tablespoons olive oil
½ teaspoon asafetida
2 tablespoons coriander, fresh
1 teaspoon salt to taste
¼ teaspoon pepper

 Wash the vegetables. Mince the fresh coriander leaves, set aside. Cut the cauliflower in slices, about ½ cm thick, make sure you have a good slice, try not brake it in small pieces. In a non-stick frying pan heat the oil, add asafetida, when is golden brown lower the heat to very low,, add the cauliflower slices flat, don’t stack them, you may have to cook them some at time.. Cover. Check it often and carefully turn it around when one side is slightly brown. Keep turning until they are tender and ready. Cook the rest of the cauliflower, add more oil if you need , to prevent sticking to the pan. At the end cook any small pieces you have left.

While the cauliflower is cooking, grate the skin off the zucchini (save the zucchini for some soup or dal). In a blender mix the panir (the panir should be freshly made because you need it hot and wet), the zucchini peel, salt to taste, a pinch of black pepper, add some whey from the panir to make a smooth, liquid like yogurt cream cheese. ( The zucchini peel will add some cool greenish hue). Blend for few minutes until smooth. Pour still warm over cooked cauliflower. Sprinkle some coriander leaves. Offer, serve, enjoy it!

This recipe come from Arthia, one of my cooking mentors.
 

DOUGHNUTS - Govardhan Lila devi dasi's

Servings : 18 Serving size : 1 piece
Ingredients:
1 Packet Yeast , active dry
¼ cup water, warm
2 table spoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup butter
4 cups all purpose flour
1 cup milk, scalded
oil for deep friying

Soften yeast in warm water . In mixing bowl, combine sugar, salt, butter and milk. Cool to lukewarm. Add yeast. Gradually add flour to form a stiff dough. Knead on floured surface until smooth and satiny, 3 to 5 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning dough to grease all sides. Cover; let rise in warm place until doubles, about 1 hour.

Roll out dough on floured surface to ½ inch thickness. Cut with 3 1/3 inch floured doughnut cutter (or anything that will serve the purpose). Place on ungrreased cookie sheets. Let rice again until doubled, about 30 minutes. Fry deep hot fat (375 F), 2 or 3 minutes in each side, until golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper. While warm, roll in powder sugar, or coat with any glaze of your choice.

CARAMEL HALAVA - Govardhan Lila devi dasi's

 Serving: 4 Serving size: 1cup
Ingredients:
 2 cups farina - Suji - semolina
3 cups Sugar
1 cup Butter
1 cup walnuts
3 cups Hot Water

In a saucepan melt a tablespoon of butter, add the sugar. At low heat let the sugar melt and caramel, turning constantly to prevent burning. When the sugar is all caramelled add the hot water. At first the sugar will crystal, but slowly will melt and you will have caramel flavored water.

In a saucepan melt the rest of the butter, add the farina. Toast the farina until golden brown, add the walnuts (quartered), add the hot caramel water. Let cook until all the water is absorbed.. Quickly stir the halava to make it smooth.

Transfer the halava on a slightly greased tray. Let it set then cut in cubes.

You could serve it in spoonful too.

When I was in Greece we (all of us at the temple) used to go in harinama at least once a week. Every time we went we distributed some halava. Since halava is a very popular sweet in Greece. I wanted to make a special halava, different from one the Greek people of Athens were used to taste. So, I concocted this "Caramel Halava". It was a success! Many people came to the temple just to ask how it was made.
 

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