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Written by HH Bhakti Raghava Swami Maharaj
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 04:22 |
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Srila Prabhupada on Technology : Srila Prabhupada speaks of the simple technology which existed prior to modern industrialization. From a very young age, young children would naturally and easily learn the trade of their father or elders. This kind of easy technology is called silpa-karma in the Vedic scriptures and does not require for one to attend formal school. Actually, when technology remains simple, the learning process is also not difficult. The following exchange took place on July 14, 1977 in Vrindavana, India. Prabhupäda: In India the caste system was very good. From the very beginning the children would learn the technology of their paternal. Just like potter. You’ll see the children of the potter, they are also making a small bird, a small fruit, and they would be sold. A small playing utensils-small glass, small plate—they’re also sold. Other children would purchase. The whole family used to earn something. Nowadays they’re sent to school, wasting time, and then unemployment and idle brain. What is the use of sending a potter’s son to school? Tamäla Kåñëa: No, everything he needs to know, he can learn at home. Prabhupäda: That’s what I… Similarly, weaver, that cloth weaving, “kat, kat.” The wife is spinning, her husband is weaving, the children is weaving, and combinedly at the end of the day there is a cloth. And people were satisfied with simple necessities. They would not charge very much for the labor. And one nice cloth requires half a pound cotton. Half a pound cotton means maybe one rupee. Another one rupee for the labor. So now they are paying twenty to thirty rupees. Unnecessarily he has to earn this money and pay to the millionaires, and he will keep three dozen motorcars, so another man will be engaged in motorcar industry. In this way time is being wasted without any search after spiritual realization. Time is wasted in such so-called technology advancement. And the real purpose of life, jévasya tattva-jijïäsä, that is missing. And when you present that “This is the most important business of life,” they say, “It is brainwashing.” And they fight to check us, Communists and others, that “It is useless, God consciousness.” [break] (long pause) So… Jäniyä çuniyä biña khäinu. Because they are missing the aim of life, they are committing suicide. And this varëäçrama-dharma was planned in such a way that everyone would be spiritually advanced. The weaver will get, the potter will get, the blacksmith will get, the brähmaëa is already there, kñatriya will get—everyone. What is Vedic Technology? |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 January 2010 04:49 )
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Written by HH Bhakti Raghava Swami Maharaj
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 03:51 |
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 Traditional education is practically a thing of the past, something most of us have never even seen, what to speak of having lived or experienced such a life-style. We are generally totally ignorant of what itmay be or what it might have been. Whatever little we have heard about traditional education has often left us with negative impressions and reservations about it, as we were likely exposed to the so called short-comings and even “backwardness” of such an educational system.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 January 2010 03:54 )
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Varnashrama as a means to freedom |
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Written by Niscala Dasi
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 00:49 |
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ISKCON’s four regulative principles (avoiding meat-eating, all sex except for procreation in marriage, gambling and intoxication) are sometimes referred to as “the four principles of freedom”. If they really are the principles of freedom, then they should foster honesty. One can only be free in honesty- for deception is entangling. As the poem goes: Oh! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! Maya is literally ‘illusion”, a synonym for “deception”. So, since honesty is essential, both to freedom, and to self-realization, it follows that to the extent that one can honestly follow the four regulative principles, to that extent they are beneficial and liberating. But what of the contingency plan? Freedom through Honesty If one cannot follow, then the prescription given by Srila Prabhupada is varnashrama. Not that one cannot be a devotee, as the only qualification for becoming a devotee is the desire to be one! In Srila Prabhupada’s conversations about varnashrama (see below), he was stressing it as a means to discourage devotees from accepting principles that they could not follow, and as a means to make bhakti easy for everyone to follow. So why are we excluding people, or why are people going away, because they can no longer follow the four regulative principles? Let them follow a less austere version that will keep the society in peace and prosperity… |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 19 December 2009 01:01 )
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New Varnasrama minister for India |
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Written by Advaita Chandra Dasa
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 00:46 |
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On November 11, 2009, in Jagannatha Puri, Orissa, the leadership of India, IRGB, officially endorsed the establishment of the Varnasrama-based Rural Development Ministry, which will be known as the ISKCON RURAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY Promoting Daiva- Varnasrama-Dharma. His Holiness Bhakti Raghava Swami has been asked to head up the ministry. Soon after the meeting, Maharaja was interviewed by Varnasrama Media Productions, a division of the newly established ministry and he shared the following thoughts: “I am very happy that the ministry for varnasrama development has finally been established here in India. I wish to thank all the members of the Varnasrama Development Committee who have been promoting varnasrama development since year 2007 and to all the leaders here in India who have all been instrumental in making this happen. The varnasrama ministry will concentrate on establishing its national office as well as State offices across India where various information about the ministry will be made available. One of the immediate priorities of the ministry will be to select candidates for the post of Coordinators. At present we only have two Coordinators, our National Coordinator for India, Sriman Bharat Chandra prabhu and our State Coordinator for Andhra Pradesh, Sriman Hari Kirtan prabhu. In the coming new year, I plan to organize, with the help of Sriman Brhat-mrdanga prabhu who is the Chairman of ISKCON LEADS in India, some much needed seminars and workshops in each of the four divisions of India to solicit the involvement of various leaders and congregational members. |
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Get connected with COW, NOW!! |
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Written by Rajaram Dasa
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 00:49 |
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No Meat Eating does not mean just Vegetarianism, Ahimsa or nonviolence is not only non-killing, it also means that one’s attitude must be of maitri (amity) and peace. The real meaning of ahimsa is maitri. There are countless jivas, life or life forms, which populate the earth, air, water and are present all around us. How are we to behave towards these? With Friendly relationship! And what better Animal we can find other than COW, for friendship, for a loving relationship. |
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