When party people toast one another, drink in hand, they often say “Bottoms up!” in their enthusiasm, indicating to lift the glass all the way, draining every drop from their glass. All the better to enjoy, I suppose, if you allow the intoxicant to enter your bloodstream in a hurry, blurring the rough edges of the inevitable miseries accompanying material life. But the devotees of Lord Krishna have another way of seeing from the bottom up.
I heard it in this morning’s class on the Srimad-...
Apparently there is no record of Marie Antoinette ever having said this favourite line when told that the common people were starving.
One thing is for sure: I did bake a cake yesterday and here it is. At least this is a photographic record that it existed. As all things in this real but temporary world, it has now gone the way of all great gateaux.
For your culinary and orally-fixated pleasure: it is (or was) a two layer peach, nutmeg, coconut and lemon zest enriched sponge cake sandwiched...
Shri Advaita Acharya is a very important person to understand in the Krishna consciousness movement. His appearance day is tomorrow, or on Saturday, February 16th, 2013. (This is a blog I am "recycling" from 2 years ago. At the end, I also give links to two other blogs about Him) He is in the category of God, yet is also a great devotee of God. He is one of our many superlative family members and spiritual superheroes! Before I briefly speak on this, I thought it would be important to...
Srila Prabhupada in the Second Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam describes that the residents of Vrindavan work so hard during the day that they sleep soundly at night. He is also mentions that had very little time for meditation or other spiritual activities, but still their activity was the highest spiritually. Why? Everything they did, they did for Krishna. He writes,
The central point of activities was Kṛṣṇa, and as such, the so-called activities in the material...
Whenever a special day comes up, we tend to reflect on that same day years before: birthdays, anniversaries, holidays (whether devotional or secular) often spark a train of reminiscences. As we age, naturally this reflective tendency increases---we have stored up more years’ worth of memories than we had when we were young.
This month, February, happens to be the month in which my birthday falls. So I’m remembering birthdays gone by. And one particular birthday stands out in my mind, from 1973...
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I have experienced a few periods of my life that were pivotal to self-awareness, renewal, and divine life. Looking back these were times of special blessings and guidance where I came to think differently and thus change the course of my life. I briefly mentioned in Part 1 of this series about the effect of out of body and near-death experiences on my outlook. As a result, beyond what might have been...
In my capacity as office manager at the beautiful Krishna.com, I have such a variety of duties. From making sure the offices are kept clean, to making schedules for the customer service ladies, to stocking supplies, checking that the esegments of Prabhupada’s books go out on schedule, and any number of other responsibilities, I have no shortage of interesting and useful things to do. One is to assist our accountant in keeping the books. So today he bounced one set of numbers back to me,...
Dallas Morning News,
Each week we will post a question to a panel of about two dozen clergy, laity and theologians, all of whom are based in Texas or are from Texas. They will chime in with their responses to the question of the week. And you, readers, will be able to respond to their answers through the comment box.
Last week, David Blankenhorn, founder of the Institute for American Values, did something unusual. He and the group he heads issued a call for a new conversation on marriage...
12 weeks 3 days agoWhen party people toast one another, drink in hand, they often say “Bottoms up!” in their enthusiasm, indicating to lift the glass all the way, draining every drop from their glass. All the better to enjoy, I suppose, if you allow the intoxicant to enter your bloodstream in a hurry, blurring the rough edges of the inevitable miseries accompanying material life. But the devotees of Lord Krishna have another way of seeing from the bottom up. I heard it in this morning’s class on the Srimad-...0 Comment(s)174 Reads
12 weeks 6 days agoApparently there is no record of Marie Antoinette ever having said this favourite line when told that the common people were starving. One thing is for sure: I did bake a cake yesterday and here it is. At least this is a photographic record that it existed. As all things in this real but temporary world, it has now gone the way of all great gateaux. For your culinary and orally-fixated pleasure: it is (or was) a two layer peach, nutmeg, coconut and lemon zest enriched sponge cake sandwiched...0 Comment(s)157 Reads
13 weeks 16 hours agoShri Advaita Acharya is a very important person to understand in the Krishna consciousness movement. His appearance day is tomorrow, or on Saturday, February 16th, 2013. (This is a blog I am "recycling" from 2 years ago. At the end, I also give links to two other blogs about Him) He is in the category of God, yet is also a great devotee of God. He is one of our many superlative family members and spiritual superheroes! Before I briefly speak on this, I thought it would be important to...2 Comment(s)291 Reads
13 weeks 1 day agoSrila Prabhupada in the Second Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam describes that the residents of Vrindavan work so hard during the day that they sleep soundly at night. He is also mentions that had very little time for meditation or other spiritual activities, but still their activity was the highest spiritually. Why? Everything they did, they did for Krishna. He writes, The central point of activities was Kṛṣṇa, and as such, the so-called activities in the material...0 Comment(s)235 Reads