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"Planet ISKCON" - 41 new articles Rupa Madhurya das, TX, USA: Bhajan - Kalindi dasi - High School Program Spiritual Scientist: Is vegetarianism necessary for spiritual advancement? Akrura das, Gita Coaching: THEY ARE MEANT FOR ENJOYMENT Kurma dasa, AU: Jobs Well Done Devadeva Mirel, Alachua, USA: Earth Balance NYC Trip! Australian News: Melbourne rocks the city with Kadamba Kanana Swami THE VIDEO Toronto Sankirtan Team, CA: The question of atonement (world we live in series) Dandavats.com: Tijuana Rathayatra 2011 Report Dandavats.com: Occupy Wall St prasadam dist Dandavats.com: Live Srimad Bhagavat Katha Dandavats.com: Online College Administrative Coordinator needed ISKCON News.com: Steve Jobs and the Krishna Connection ISKCON Brampton, Canada: Upcoming Events H.H. 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ISKCON Malaysia: September 2011 Book Distribution Scores More Recent Articles Search Planet ISKCON Prior Mailing Archive Rupa Madhurya das, TX, USA: Bhajan - Kalindi dasi - High School Program The Dallas youth were invited to perform at a high school as part of a senior project showcasing performances from various cultures.  Kalindi dasi leads the singing along with Gopinath and Sri Rupa playing mrdanga and Radha Kunda and Gopi Gita singing backup and playing kartals.  All the students end up dancing in the end to a rip roaring kirtan. Dallas, TX 2011-02-12 Download: 2011-02-12 - Kalindi - High School bhajan program.mp3   • Email to a friend • • Spiritual Scientist: Is vegetarianism necessary for spiritual advancement? Q. Is giving up meat-eating necessary for making spiritual advancement? Q. When the highest heads of several religions eat meat, aren't those who claim the necessity of vegetarianism indirectly claiming to be more advanced than the heads of other religions? Answer: Yes and no;  YES -  to the first question,  NO - to the second. All the theistic wisdom-traditions concur that all of us, irrespective of our religious denominations, are spiritually sick. Just as getting cured entails abiding by the medical prescriptions and proscriptions, making spiritual advancement entails abiding by two kinds of scriptural injunctions: 1.         Affirmative injunctions that prescribe activities which promote the development of pure love for God, which is the essential, universal goal taught by all the great theistic wisdom-traditions of the world. 2.         Regulative injunctions that proscribe or minimize activities which obstruct the development of that love. Abstaining from meat is one such regulative injunction. We can understand the importance of this principle if we contemplate the implication of love. If a child loves the parent, an essential way that love becomes evident is by the love shown to one's brothers and sisters. Similarly, if we love the Supreme Parent, an essential way that love becomes evident is by the love shown to our brothers and sisters in God's family – including our nonhuman brethren, for they are also God's creatures and, moreover, they, unlike us humans, can't speak for their rights. That's why the Vedic wisdom-tradition enjoins those aspiring for authentic, pure love for Godto abstain from meat. Vegetarianism is recommended as the desired ideal even in major non-Vedic traditions like Christianity, as is intuited at first brush from the commandment "Thou shall not kill" and is confirmed by well-researched books like the encyclopedic volume "Animals on the Agenda: Questions About Animals for Theology and Ethics" editedby Rev. Andrew Linzey& Dorothy Yamamoto. Consequently, thousands of such God-seekers have discontinued the unfortunate self-delusion inherent in claiming to love God while causing pain and death to God's mute creatures just for the sake of one'staste buds. Those who stick to meat can still advance spiritually to the extent that they adhere to the affirmative injunctions for spiritual advancement. Those who adhere to both the affirmative and regulative injunctions experience spiritual advancement in its full acceleration. When they urge their fellow God-seekers to switch to a vegetarian diet, they do so not due to a feeling of spiritually superiority, but with a desire to share the warming of heart in love to all of God's creatures – and thereby God – that they have experienced due to not partaking ofa diet tainted by blood. Why let one's taste buds stall or slow the tasting of divine love?  Why continue a past misdirection mistake when compassion, scripture and experience all concur to redirectus?   • Email to a friend • • Akrura das, Gita Coaching: THEY ARE MEANT FOR ENJOYMENT By Srila Prabhupada The Vedanta-sutra says, "The living entities orGod, they are meant for enjoyment.''  ANANDAMAYO 'BHYASAT (Vedanta-sutra1.1.12).  By nature anandamaya.  So "Why I am put into this miserablecondition?''  This is the questions by intelligent human being.  And if heremains satisfied with the miseries of this material life, then he's no betterthan the cats and dogs.   • Email to a friend • • Kurma dasa, AU: Jobs Well Done "I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5c deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it..." (From the 2005 Stanford Commencement speech)   • Email to a friend • • Devadeva Mirel, Alachua, USA: Earth Balance NYC Trip! My Winning Dish: Tamarind Peanut Rice Noodle Salad   Remember when Earth Balance crowned my recipe the winner of its Spring to Life Contest? Well, last week the husband and I collected the grand prize. A trip to New York City! De-planing @ LaGuardia Intl Airport   To live vicariously through the non-stop excitement of my ridiculously jet set life, visit Sabjimata on Facebook, give me a Like and check out my trip pics! XO print   • Email to a friend • • Australian News: Melbourne rocks the city with Kadamba Kanana Swami THE VIDEO Once again Russell Prabhu from Melbourne Yatra captures the glory of Harinam Sankirtan in another wonderful video. You will feel like you are there, you will dance and clap and run down the street looking for the Harinam. Kadamba Kanana Swami unentangles the material modes of nature and they dance with the devotees. This Harinam measured on the Richter Scale and a Tsunami warning was issued by local authorities. Click here to see more of Bhakta Russels amazing work Share this story your way:PrintFacebookTwitterGoogle BookmarksStumbleUponYahoo! Buzzdel.icio.usDiggLiveMySpacePDF   • Email to a friend • • Toronto Sankirtan Team, CA: The question of atonement (world we live in series) Atonement is an age old quest of aspiring spiritualists in every culture and tradition. As people embrace a lifestyle of spiritual awareness or purification, one may start to realise the heinous nature of sense gratificatory activities one has indulged in and the guilt could be a heavy thing to carry. For the believers of Karma the realisation of the Karmic imbalance created can be scary sometime and a sense of urgency to get rid of the bad karma. So it's but natural to try and look for means to clean the karmic slate and one such technique is shown in the gruesome images above. So what method does a Bhakti yogi use to get over the bad karma? How do we atone? Indeed it is very noble of these monks to realise the power of bad karma and wanting to rid themselves of it, but what's the merit in this process. This same question of atonement was asked by Maharaj Pariksit to Sukadeva Goswami in the sixth canto of Bhagvatam. Maharaja Pariksit said: One may know that sinful activity is injurious for him because he actually sees that a criminal is punished by the government and rebuked by people in general and because he hears from scriptures and learned scholars that one is thrown into hellish conditions in the next life for committing sinful acts. Nevertheless, in spite of such knowledge, one is forced to commit sins again and again, even after performing acts of atonement. Therefore, what is the value of such atonement? (SB 6.1.10) Sometimes one who is very alert so as not to commit sinful acts is victimized by sinful life again. I therefore consider this process of repeated sinning and atoning to be useless. It is like the bathing of an elephant, for an elephant cleanses itself by taking a full bath, but then throws dust over its head and body as soon as it returns to the land. SB 6.1.11 In the purport Srila Prbahupada explains: In some religious sects a sinful man goes to a priest to confess his sinful acts and pay a fine, but then he again commits the same sins and returns to confess them again. This is the practice of a professional sinner…Regardless of how many times he is punished; one who is attached to sense enjoyment will commit sinful acts again and again until he is trained to refrain from enjoying his senses. Sukadeva Goswami the son of Vedavyäsa, answered: My dear King, since acts meant to neutralize impious actions are also fruitive, they will not release one from the tendency to act fruitively. Persons who subject themselves to the rules and regulations of atonement are not at all intelligent. Indeed, they are in the mode of darkness. Unless one is freed from the mode of ignorance, trying to counteract one action through another is useless because this will not uproot one's desires. Thus even though one may superficially seem pious, he will undoubtedly be prone to act impiously. Therefore real atonement is enlightenment in perfect knowledge, Vedänta, by which one understands the Supreme Absolute Truth. SB 6.1.12 In the purport, Prabhupada sums it up by saying "Real atonement is full knowledge." And as we learn from the Bhagavad gita real knowledge is knowledge of self, Krishna and the relation between the two. Without which all attempts are just incomplete and further implicating. Akarma means without reaction to work. The impersonalist ceases fruitive activities out of fear, so that the resultant action may not be a stumbling block on the path of self-realization, but the personalist knows rightly his position as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore he engages himself in the activities of Krishna consciousness. BG4.18   • Email to a friend • • Dandavats.com: Tijuana Rathayatra 2011 Report By Banabhatta das Lord Jagannatha was seated along with His brother Balarama and sister Subhadra on His gorgeously decorated cart, which was painstakingly transported from Los Angeles once again in record time by His Grace Ratnabhusana, who has been single-handedly designing, building, disassembling, transporting, re-assembling and decorating Lord Jagannatha's carts for various Rathayatra festivals since the 1980's