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TD Singh Contibutions on Art and Culture
October 19th, 2009
Taken from Bhagavata-Sevarpanam
(a glimpse of TD Singh Achievement in Serving his Spiritual Master)
In the numerous conferences and festivals that Dr. T. D Singh had organized and attended all over the world, he introduced the divine principle of the Vedantic culture through the medium of arts. He did this through the literary, culinary and performing arts at a myriad of venues ranging from urban schools to the most prestigious universities, from senior citizen centers to the Kennedy Center, from South America to Singapore and to audiences from elementary school students to heads of states.
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All India Students’ Conference on Science and Spiritual Quest
October 19th, 2009
DR. T.D. Singh (1937-2006) His Holliness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami: A pioneer in advancing the dialogue on synthesis of Science and Spirituality throughout the world since 1974
Dr. T. D. Singh received Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from the University of California at Irvine in 1974. He was a scientist and spiritualist known for his pioneering efforts in the synthesis of science and religion for a deeper understanding of life and the universe. He was trained in Vaishnava Vedanta studies from 1970 to 1977 under Srila Prabhupada and was appointed Director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute in 1974. He organized four major International Conferences on Science and Religion – First and Second World Congress for the Synthesis of Science and Religion (Mumbai, 1986 & Kolkata, 1997), First International Conference on the Study of Consciousness within Science (San Francisco, 1990), and Second International Congress on Life and Its Origin (Rome, 2004). Collectively thousands of prominent scientists and religious leaders including several Nobel Laureates participated. He has authored and edited more than dozen books including What is Matter and What is Life? (1977), Theobiology (1979), Synthesis of Science and Religion: Critical Essays and Dialogues (1987) and Thoughts on Synthesis of Science and Religion (2001). He was also the founder Editor-in-Chief for two journals of the Bhaktivedanta Institute.
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Kehidupan dan Evolusi Spiritual
October 11th, 2009
Kehidupan dan Evolusi Spiritual
Saat ini, konsep Evolusi telah memengaruhi seluruh dunia. Konsep ini diajarkan hampir di seluruh sekolah dan universitas di seluruh dunia dan memengaruhi ribuan siswa di muka bumi setiap saat. Kehidupan, menurut paradigma ini, merupakan hasil evolusi debu-partikel-kosmis yang tidak hidup (atom dan molekul), dimana paradigma evolusi ini kelihatannya tidak memiliki makna dan tujuan (dari suatu kehidupan). Meski demikian, semua tradisi agama dunia telah menyampaikan makna luhur dan tujuan tertinggi kehidupan. Vedanta sebagai risalat filosofis spiritual tertinggi serta warisan budaya India, memberikan uraian yang jelas tentang kehidupan, asal mula dan maknanya. Dengan mengambil intisari literatur Veda, penulis, Dr. T. D. Singh, mempresentasikan paradigma holistik kehidupan yang baru dengan menggabungkan dimensi spiritual kehidupan dan evolusi kesadaran. Paradigma Vedanta ini memiliki potensi untuk menyelami lebih dalam sifat-sifat kehidupan (the nature of life). DR. T. D. Singh-sang penulis buku ini merupakan gabungan unik antara ilmuwan dan rohaniawan- telah menulis dan mengedit sejumlah buku dalam usaha memahami realita termasuk ‘kehidupan’ dari pendekatan interdisipliner (sains dan agama/spiritualitas.)
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A Voyage into Environmental Issues
October 11th, 2009
Released as dedication to Srila Sripada
by Jaganmohini dd
A Publication by Institute of Science and Religion
All glories to Srila Sripada, All glories to Srila Prabhupada
During the 3rd Tirobhav celebrations at Sri Radha Kund, a publication titled, “A voyage into Environmental Issues – Scientific, Ethical and Spiritual Perspectives” was released by Institute of Science and Religion, Navi Mumbai for the pleasure of Srila Sripada. This is the second publication from the Institute. One of the instructions we recd. from gurumaharaj was to publish books.
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Vaishnava Culture in Manipur (Part 2
October 10th, 2009
Continuation from Part 1
by ISKCON Manipur
INGA (June):
On the day of full moon of the month of Inga (June), the Vigrahas of Sri Sri Jagannatha, Balabhadra and Subhadra are taken out in the Prangal (verandah) of the Mandir. The brahmanas and pujaris of the temple will perform seva puja and snana of the Vigrahas. The day is called snana yatra day. Countless number of vaisnavas will attend the snana yatra festival and have darshana of Sri Sri Radha Govindaji.
INGEL (July):
On the second day of the bright fortnight of Ingel (July) Sri Jagannatha, Balabhadra and Subhadra will move out in a Ratha specially designed for the Ratha yatra festival. Before the Vigrahas are taken out of the temple, They will be properly decorated with beautiful garments. After that, the pujari will offer arati to the Vigrahas. Then the three Vigrahas will be shifted from the temple to the Ratha by using three well designed palanquins, to be carried by the selected pujaris and devotees involving the Gvala arati. Many sankirtana palas of Sri Govindaji will come in procession for offering devotional service while shifting the deities from the temple to the Ratha, kept ready for being pulled by the vaisnavas on the main road of the Govindaji palace complex. Seven groups (dals) of sankirtana palas will perform sankirtana during the Ratha yatra procession.
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Vaishnava Culture in Manipur
October 10th, 2009
GURU PARAMPARA AND VAISNAVA CULTURE IN MANIPUR b
by ISKCON MANIPUR
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the founder Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), besides being well known as Jagat-guru, has occupied the most prominent position in the field of transcendental knowledge. This has been well accepted as an undisputable fact even in the galaxy of the world famous material scientists including Nobel Laureates as well as spiritually enlightened transcendentalists of the twentieth century. This Jagat-guru of such a great personality placed the Manipuri vaisnavas at a very high spiritual level and expressed his will that in these days of Kali when evil thoughts reign the hearts of the people causing mutual distrust and destruction against each other, the old vaisnava spirit should be revitalized to make Manipur the first vaisnava state in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
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Free Download: Bhajan, Kirtan and Lecture
October 9th, 2009
by Sripadanectar.com
Temukan Puluhan lagu-lagu Bhajan, Kirtan dan Lecture Srila Bhaktisvarupada Damodara Swami di Swiss.
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Greetings of Love and Peace
October 3rd, 2009
by Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs, Executive Director of URI’s
(Sent By gopijana of www.Mayapur.com on Mon, 2009-09-28 17:33.
Today is HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja’s disapperance day.Maharaja is a dear most disciple of Srila Prabhupada. It was Maharaja’s desire to have URI (United Religious Initiative)Global Assembly in Mayapur.Honouring Maharaja’s desire, URI Global Assembly 2008 took place in Mayapur.This meeting has a profound impact for us in Mayapur,which gave a unique oppurtunity to understand the vision of Maharaja and work with URI brothers in spreading the message of love and peace. On this day, as a dedication at the lotus feet of HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Maharaja, we offer Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs, Executive Director of URI’s letter on the URI experience in Mayapur.)
Greetings of love and peace. Hare Krishna! Namaste!!
Seven months have sped by since the URI community was blessed with your remarkable hosting of our Global Assembly – Pilgrims of Peace: Many Paths One Purpose – in Mayapur, but I don’t believe a single day has passed that you have not been present in our thoughts and in our prayers, with profound gratitude and a deep desire for blessing for the ISKCON community and for Jayapataka Swamiji’s return to health.
Indeed, in the conference room in our global office in San Francisco, which hosts nearly constant meetings every day dedicated to the ongoing work and development of URI around the world, there is a poster filled with pictures of the Global Assembly. I spend many hours each week in that room, always sitting in the chair where I can look at those pictures and feel that even as I am sitting in San Francisco some part of me is connected with your remarkable community on the banks of the Ganges.
Down the hall, Mark Mancao’s office wall is adorned with large posters from Mayapur. In my office, there are several pictures of our beloved Dr. T.D. Singh, including one with Jayapataka Swamiji. URI’s You Tube site has over 60 videos, most of them from the Global Assembly.
And these are simply symbolic representations of the profound impact our time in Mayapur has had on the life of URI. Our time with you was a time of spiritual deepening and broadening for all who came – a time of deepening in our own traditions, and a time of broadening as people learned about the traditions of others they had never encountered before, and especially of the tradition of the ISKCON community. That deepening and broadening is an incomparable blessing to our work. Then I think of the flowering of our Young Leaders Program, catalyzed by our time there. I think of one young man’s journey of service to help set up a computer training center, with donated computers he had obtained, in Malawi. I think of another young leader who has set up a program connecting high school students in Israel and Iran.
I think of the work moving forward to observe the International Day of Peace with a major football match between the North and South of Uganda – a division in that country that was been deep, long standing and tragic in its consequences. This football match, which the organizers hope will attract international participation, was born of a vision inspired when URI and ISKCON youth played each other in Mayapur.
I think of seven young leaders from diverse parts of the world who are privileged to spend a week this summer at a youth conference organized by Ven. Jinwol Lee in Korea. And I think about the e-mail conversations that take place each day involving young leaders all over the world who have a deeper commitment to change the world, beginning with their own deep spiritual practice and service, and a higher vision of what is possible when we reach across the chasms that can divide us and unite in mutual respect and common purpose for service.
Let these few examples from our young leaders symbolize the far-reaching impact our time in Mayapur has had on URI’s development. We were enriched beyond expression by the deep spirituality and extraordinary hospitability of your community while we were there, and the seeds that were planted in that soil will continue to bear fruit as long as URI exists. As long as the URI story is told, the Mayapur Global Assembly will be a part of that story, and we will be forever grateful to you and your community for the incomparable gift you have given us.
I look forward as the months and years untold, to exploring ways we can continue to deepen our relationship, and trust that our dear brother, Vrajapati Das, will play an important role in that effort.
In the meantime, please extend my deepest gratitude and respect on behalf of URI to the members of your community who gave so much to our community. And please accept my personal thanks to you and my pledge that you and your community remain in my prayers to continue to receive blessing upon blessing, even as you bestow the blessing of peace, justice and hearing on our world through deep devotion and selfless service.
Faithfully,
The Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs
Executive Director
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Tirobhava in Maryland, USA
October 3rd, 2009
Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Sripada and Srila Prabhupada.
Here in Maryland, we had a very sweet celebration in honor of Guru Maharaj. The festival was held at Vrindarani’s and Gauravani’s house. Our dear god brothers and god sisters joined us for this festival. They were Sacirani, Jiva Mukta, Lilavati and her son, Ramadhira, Abhijeet, Hari Guru, Govinda Madhava, Sravananda, his wife, Pushpa and their two daughters, and Amala Gaura and his wife, Sharmila and His Holiness, Madhava Maharaj. They all came to Maryland from different cities in the USA.
On Monday, the day of the tirobhav, devotees woke up early and began cooking many of Guru Maharaja’s favorite preparations. It was so wonderful to be cooking together for the pleasure of Guru Maharaj.. At 1PM we offered the bhoga to Guru Maharaj, did arati, and offered puspanjali. Then we partook of the feast.
That evening, we had another program for Guru Maharaj with invited guests. The evening program was incredibly sweet. Gauravani and the Mayapuris sang some beautiful bhajans for Guru Maharaj. We also showed the beautiful slide show that Sacirani had made of Guru Maharaj. Watching that slide show was very emotional and bittersweet. I am sure many of the disciples were remembering their times they spent with Guru Maharaj, and how much they miss his physical presence in their lives. I do know that my husband and I miss him very much.
Our family enjoyed hosting the tirobhav festival, but most importantly, we enjoyed being with our god brothers and god sisters during this festival. As my husband said, “It is as close as we can get to being with Guru Maharaj–being with each other”.
Your humble servant,
Rama Tulasi dd
Rama Morrison
Elementary School Teacher
“I touch the future, I teach”
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Srila Sripada Thirobhava Celebration
September 22nd, 2009
All Glories To Srila Prabhupada
All Glories To Sri Sri Guru and Gaurangga
Dear Devotee, PAMHO
We Would like to Invite All of you to join the Third Srila Sripada Thirobhava Celebration
Please Come and Join With Us.
In Bali, the celebration will be held in Sri Sri Radha Rasesvara Ashram.
for further information, please contac:
Sri Sri Radha Rasevara asrham
Contact Person:
Sundarananda dasa, Sadhu Krishna Dasa
Phone: +62-361-8583403, +62-361-228391,
Mobile: +62 85237400456,
E-mail: bsfestival@yahoo.com, radharasesvara@gmail.com
Website: www.RadhaRaseswara.Com
INDIA CELEBRATION
Please Contact:
Sri Gopalji Mandir &
Srila Sripada Samadhi Mandir
Parikrama Marg, Radhakund-281504
Tel.+91 565 2960372
Mob. +91 9897430910
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