New Zealand Hare Krishna Spiritual Resource Network Newsletter12 Archive:
New Zealand Hare Krishna Spiritual Resource Network Newsletter
Number #0012 ( Y2K ) mid-February 2000 A.D.

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_0/\, ( PAMRO & BW to you all)

_0____,   All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

I'd like to Officially welcome everyone who is receiving this
either directly from me or second or third hand from friends to
our Network. Many of you will have had a chance to view our
WWW-site by now - and the feedback has been appreciated. As we
expand the facility of resource more pages will appear, and with
the intent of assisting you all in the smooth execution of your
individual prescribed duties/services/functions in life, we will
keep you updated. We now go out to 725 receivers. I trust that
all is well with everyone by the Mercy of the Lord. However, if
anyone would like to be removed please just send me a message
requesting me to do so, and I will do promptly. If you would like
to be added directly to the mailout please also let me know and
I will do the needful. Hare Krishna. =>B-) JTCd
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IN THIS ISSUE:

   WWW - news and views: Calendar Updates.
 JayA - Bhaimi EkAdasii
 Lord Varahadev's Appearance day
 Lord Nityananda's Appearance day

   Deals for members: More amazing deals for everyone.
   Missing Links:  are you here?
   Advertisements: check them out...
   Words of Wisdom - Shastra & Shastrakaras speak:
   (Srila Prabhupad & the previous Acaryas)
   At Grass Roots: topical stuff

   Prasadam Recipes: To slake the thirst of body, mind & soul
   Krishna conscious - Vedikly acceptable jokes:

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The Interactive Vaishnava Calendar page is coming along nicely:

http://members.xoom.com/hknetworks/CalendarWhosWho-page.htm

The trancendental Appearance days of Lord Varaha and Lord Nityananda.
The disappearance days of Madhwacarya, Ramanujacarya, etc.
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Check out the Ekadasi pages that are coming together, with links
to every Ekadasi:

http://members.xoom.com/hknetworks/ekadasi-page.htm

JayA Ekadasi
http://members.xoom.com/hknetworks/ekadasi-6.htm
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Some interesting Youth and Young devotees / young Hindus sites.
coming off the main index page:

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http://members.xoom.com/hknetworks/YoungFOLK.htm
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Brahma-Madhwa-Gaudiya-sampradaya's Guru parampara listing:

http://members.xoom.com/hknetworks/guru-paramp-1page.htm

A Who's Who...... something about everyone - their pastimes,
teachings, mission, etc. Where they fit in on the Calendar.
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enjoy water environments safely.

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Y2K update:

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http://www.y2k.govt.nz/

Download your Vaishnava Calendar and make a hard copy for the next
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This is a totally free service, we have worked hard to organise it
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On-line Bhagavad Gita As It Is:
http://www.prabhupada.com/bg/versus.cgi?ix
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Of all dreaded maladies, saàsära is the worst, because it includes
all other diseases. As long as we are bound to take birth in the
material world, we must inevitably expose ourselves to cancers,
heart attacks, AIDS, and so on. All cures within this world are
temporary because even if we are cured of one disease, we will
eventually contract another, either in the present life or a
future one. As with our attempts for happiness, our attempts
for health must fail sooner or later.
In previous ages in India, a criminal would sometimes be
strapped to a chair and immersed in water almost to the point
of drowning. Upon being brought up, he felt great relief—only
to be plunged under again by his torturers. Similarly, the
times when we are pain-free and happy are like the few seconds
of relief the prisoner feels when he is brought up from under
water. The basic principle of material life is suffering.
Therefore we should be very eager to receive the medicine
that will cure all our diseases. The word nirväëa in this
verse refers to the permanent cessation of samsära and its
attendant miseries. Nirväna has become famous from the teachings
of Buddhism, but the voidistic liberation the Buddhists teach
is unnatural for the living entity, and thus it is temporary.
We can find factual, permanent release from pain only in the
kind of liberation King Kulashekhara refers to here: the
liberation of a devotee engaged in eternal service to the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. When through the process of
devotional service we become free of all material desires
and attain pure love of God, we will be transferred to the
Vaikuntha realm, where there are no anxieties or suffering.
At the beginning of the Tenth Canto of the Shrimad-Bhägavatam
(10:1:4), King Parikshit also uses the word aushadhi (“medicine”)
to refer to the chanting and hearing of krsna-kathä, or words
about Krsna: “Descriptions of the Lord are the right medicine
for the conditioned soul undergoing repeated birth and death.”
Such descriptions, of course, include the chanting and hearing
of the Lord’s holy name.
As with any bona fide medicine, one should take the nectarean
potion of the holy name under the guidance of experts, in this
case sages and the spiritual master. The Supreme Lord’s names
vary with His different pastimes and relationships with His pure
devotees. He appeared as the son of Mother Yashodä and also as the
son of Mother Devaki, and therefore He is named Devaki-nandana
and Yashodä-nandana. One should receive the Lord’s authorized
names from the spiritual master in disciplic succession.
The shästras recommend which names we should chant. For example,
the Kali-santaraëa Upanishad recommends the Hare Krsna mahä-mantra:
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Räma, Hare Räma,
Räma Räma, Hare Hare. We don’t have to search for some name or
manufacture one. Rather, we must follow the saintly persons and
the shästras in chanting the Lord’s holy names, as Shrila
Prabhupäda recommends in his Shrimad-Bhägavatam (8.1.13, purport).
(A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Mukunda Mala stotram 16. purport)
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 Hopes are but the dreams of those who are awake.

                                          Pindar (B.C. 518?-438)
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On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of
companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey;
and it is the greatest property.

                                              Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
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yathä suñuptah purusho
vishvam pashyati cätmani
ätmänam eka-desha-stham
manyate svapna utthitah

evam jägaranädini
jiva-sthänäni cätmanah
mäyä-mäträni vijnäya
tad-drashthäraà param smaret

TRANSLATION
"When a person is in deep sleep, he dreams and sees in himself
many other objects, such as great mountains and rivers or perhaps
even the entire universe, although they are far away. Sometimes
when one awakens from a dream he sees that he is in a human form,
lying in his bed in one place. Then he sees himself, in terms of
various conditions, as belonging to a particular nationality,
family and so on. All the conditions of deep sleep, dreaming and
wakefulness are but energies of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. One should always remember the original creator of
these conditions, the Supreme Lord, who is unaffected by them".
(Srimad Bhagavatam text 6:16:53-54.)
PURPORT
None of these conditions of the living entities—namely, deep
sleep, dreaming and wakefulness—is substantial. They are simply
displays of various phases of conditional life. There may be
many mountains, rivers, trees, bees, tigers and snakes that are
situated far away, but in a dream one may imagine them to be
nearby. Similarly, as one has subtle dreams at night, when
the living entity is awake he lives in gross dreams of nation,
community, society, possessions, skyscrapers, bank balance,
position and honor. Under the circumstances, one should know
that his position is due to his contact with the material world.
One is situated in different positions in various forms of
life that are all but creations of the illusory energy, which
works under the direction of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Therefore the Supreme Lord is the ultimate actor,
and the conditioned living entity should simply remember
this original actor, Shri Krsna. As living entities, we are
being carried away by the waves of prakriti, or nature, which
works under the Lord’s direction (mayädhyakshena prakåtih
süyate sa-caräcaram [Bg. 9:10]). Bhaktivinoda Thäkura sings,
(miche) mäyära vashe, yäccha bhese’, khäccha häbudubu, bhäi:
“Why are you being carried away by the waves of the illusory
energy in various phases of dreaming and wakefulness? These
are all creations of mäyä.” Our only duty is to remember the
supreme director of this illusory energy—Krsna. For us to do
this, the shästra advises us, harer näma harer näma harer
nämaiva kevalam [Cc. Ädi 17.21]: one should constantly chant
the holy name of the Lord—Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna,
Hare Hare/ Hare Räma, Hare Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare.
(A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srimad Bhagavatam
6:16:53-54. purport.)
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If you have any news, events, functions, deals, etc., that you would
like to share with members then please do so by sending what you have
to us, we can pass them on in the next newsletter.

Check out this page:

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After some nice discussion with some of our younger devotees we have
made a forum to inspire and assist the youth and young adults in their
development of Krishna consciousness, as well as their devotee
relationships.

Please check out the page at:

http://members.xoom.com/hknetworks/YoungFOLK.htm

If you have any suggestions, things to add you are welcome to do so.

Now we have some pages for you to check out... and interact with.
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The new Online Content Law is about to go into effect Down Under; the
government will be able to force Web hosts to remove sexually explicit
or violent material. Stewart Taggart reports from Sydney, Australia.
Copyright 1999 Wired Digital, Inc.
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TOASTED CHEESE AND SWEET CORN SANDWICHES:

Make bread - see the recipies that follow.

Toast the bread
Place on the bread Tararua Tasty or A Kapati Coast Veg Cheese, Koromiko
or other Vegetarian society approved cheeses.
 NOTE: Kapati Cheese Co. has 18 varieties of bona-fide cheeses.

Spoon on fresh sweet corn that has been cooked in butter
(or for those out of season - a spoon of creamed sweet corn)
Place another slice of toasted buttered bread on top and its ready to offer.
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Potato and Pumpkin Bread  (Bhaktine Robyn's from Carterton)

1t sugar
250ml lukewarm milk
2t dried yeast
250g mashed potato
250g mashed pumpkin
700g plain flour
1t salt
1T sugar extra
2T melted butter

Dissolve sugar in milk and sprinkle yeast over. Stir lightly and stand for
10 mins to become frothy.
Place potato and pumpkin in a large bowl. Sift in flour,salt and extra
sugar. Mix until the consistency of fine breadcrumbs. Make a well in the
center and add yeast mixture and lukewarm butter. Mix until well combined
and knead for 10 mins until mixture is smooth and elastic.
Form dough into a ball and place in a well oiled bowl. Cover with plastic
wrap and stand in a warm place for 1 to 1 1/2 hrs or until doubled in bulk.
Knock down dough and knead on a floured board for 8 mins. Shape to fit a
large oiled loaf tin. Use a sharp knife to cut diagonal slashes along the
top. Cover and stand in a warm place for 1 hr or until doubled in bulk.

Bake at 230C for 15 mins. Reduce heat to 190C and cook further 30 to 45mins.
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Here's the recipie for the rye bread also.

Dark Rye Bread

3t yeast
1 1/2cup warm water
2T golden syrup
2T oil
1 1/2t salt
2cup plain flour
1 1/2cups rye meal
2T carob
1t coffee (Caffeine Free coffee of course)
1t caraway seeds

Measure first 5 ingredients into a large bowl with 1cup flour and mix
thoroughly. Cover and leave to stand in a warm place for 15 mins.
Stir in remaining flour, rye meal, carob, "coffee" and caraway seeds. Add a
little extra flour or water to make a dough just firm enough to knead,
like your ear lobe. Knead on a lightly floured board for 10mins, adding
extra flour as needed,
until dough forms a soft ball which springs back when pressed lightly.
Turn in 2-3t oilin a bowl, cover with cling film and leave to rise 30 mins.
Knead dough lightly in bowl for 1min before turning out onto a lightly
floured suface.
Place in an oiled loaf tin, cover and let rise for an hour or until doubled
in size.
Bake at 200C for about 30mins.

Variation: For a light rye loaf, leave out carob and coffee. Vary the
amount of caraway seed, carob and coffee to suit taste.

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KRISHNA FRUIT CAKE - (Mother Kamalaya's):

1 tin condensed milk
1 1/4 cups of water
275 grms butter
1 1/2 cups sultanas
1 3/4 cups currents
1/4 cup chopped cherries
2 1/2 cups flour
3/4 tspn Bicarb soda
1/4 tspn salt

In a pot heat milk, water, butter and fruit.
Boil 3 minutes
Cool and sift in flour, salt and bicarb' soda
Mix together
Pour into 22 cms round tin lined with a couple of layers of
greaseproof paper.

Bake @  160 degrees centigrade for 2 hours.

For a larger cake, double the recipe.

Cover the top with foil for most of the time.

Bring out from oven. Cool it on cake wrack.

This cake is great as just a fruit cake but if you want
to ice it, or put layers of jam and cream so much the nicer.

Offer it to Krishna...
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These and OVER 100 other EGGLESS CAKE recipies can be found
on our Main index and on many other pages.

http://student.anu.edu.au/Clubs/Hare_Krishna_Vegetarian_Society/cookbook.html
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...and the Magic ingredient - Offer it to Krishna........
...with L'n D (love and devotion)
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip.

After a good meal and a cup of tea, they lay down for the
night and went to sleep.
 
Some hours later, Holmes awoke and nudged his faithful friend.
"Watson, look up and tell me what you see."
 
Watson replied, "I see millions and millions of stars."

"What does that tell you?"
 
Watson pondered for a minute.  "Astronomically, it tells me
that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions
of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo.
Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a
quarter past three. Theologically, I can see that God is all
powerful and that we are small and insignificant.
Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a
beautiful day tomorrow.  Why, what does it tell YOU?"
 
Holmes was silent for a minute, then spoke with focus.

"Watson, you idiot. Some rascal has stolen our tent."
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According to a report in the F.O.L.K. Newsletter, with the increase
in materialism in a middle gurukul school in Oregon it was faced with
unique problem. A number of girls were beginning to use lipstick and
would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on
their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens
of little lip prints.

Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all
the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She
explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the
custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.

Then to demonstrate how difficult it was to clean the mirrors, she asked
the maintenance guy to clean one of the mirrors. He took out a long-handled
squeegee, dipped it into the toilet bowl, and then cleaned the mirror.

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There was once an aspiring veterinarian who put himself
through veterinary school working nights as a taxidermist.
 
Upon graduation, he decided he could combine his two
vocations to better serve the needs of his patients and
their owners, while doubling his practice and, therefore,
his income.
 
He opened his own offices with a shingle on the door saying,
"Dr. Agarwal, Veterinary Medicine and Taxidermy -- Either way,
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good, and therefore we should have a smooth and uneventful flight. Now
sit  back and relax - OH MY GOD!"

...then silence.......

...then, the captain came back on the intercom and said, "Ladies and
Gentlemen, I am so sorry if I scared you earlier, but while I was talking,
the flight attendant brought me a cup of coffee and spilled the hot coffee
in my lap. You should see the front of my pants!"

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