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Jayadvaita Swami

Jayadvaita Swami

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Techie devotees: Help build the BBT digital repository

June 17, 2009 by Jayadvaita Swami

The BBT has a lot of valuable stuff--books, manuscripts, letters, photos, paintings, audio, videos, and more, some of it in the Bhaktivedanta Archives, some of it elsewhere. A lot of it is in digital form, some of it not. Following the model for an Open Archival Information System, the BBT has begun a "Digital Repository" project. Among its purposes: To put all the BBT's stuff (as far as possible) into an up-to-date digital form, with suitable "metatags" to help in finding things. To archive all the stuff in one digital repository--one digital "box" (of course with backups). To … [Read more...] about Techie devotees: Help build the BBT digital repository

Psychology meets reality

April 26, 2009 by Jayadvaita Swami

Enough of those cheery motivational slogans trying to psych us into believing "it's all in the mind" and whatever we wish will be ours if only we've got the right positive attitude. The blessed souls at Despair, Inc., have come out with a series of posters (oh, and T-shirts and mugs and whatnot) designed to deflate us and bring us down to earth (and make themselves a bit of money while they're at it). Deliciously depressing. www.despair.com. Enjoy. Thank you to my godsister Urmila Devi Dasi for letting me know about this site. … [Read more...] about Psychology meets reality

BBT publishes unauthorized changes in Vaishnava Calendar, concerned devotees say

March 2, 2009 by Jayadvaita Swami

(Exclusive to the SAMPRAJALPA SUN) "At first I couldn't believe it," said Rijidatma Dasa. "The books, yes. But who would ever think the BBT would start monkeying with the Vaishnava Calendar?" The Vaishnava Calendar has been the guide for ISKCON's holy days and festivals since the early 1970s, when Srila Prabhupada first asked for it to be published. And for nearly two decades the BBT has published an annual BBT Art Calendar with a beautiful picture of Krishna-lila for each month. But ISKCON has now been plunged into turmoil by the discovery that the BBT, unannounced, has made changes … [Read more...] about BBT publishes unauthorized changes in Vaishnava Calendar, concerned devotees say

“A man of his word”

February 2, 2009 by Jayadvaita Swami

Class on vows and Integrity, March 2008, London (To download: right click, and save as...) This is a slimmed-down version of a class I gave in March 2008 at the ISKCON center at Soho Street in London. One mistake: I say that "some girls" who wanted Bhisma to marry them asked his guru to oblige him to do so. In fact there was only one such girl--Amba. The other girls, her two sisters, married Bhisma's half-brother Vicitravirya. In any case, my point concerning Bhisma's personal integrity remains the same, as do my points concerning our own. Full class - CC Madhya-lila 1.96 - 30 … [Read more...] about “A man of his word”

My personal finances, 2008

January 6, 2009 by Jayadvaita Swami

Every year I make my personal finances public. Attached is an accounting of my finances for 2008. Financial Report 2008 … [Read more...] about My personal finances, 2008

An obituary I don’t have to write

December 9, 2008 by Jayadvaita Swami

On October 23, while I was stopping briefly at the ISKCON center in New Delhi on the way from Govardhana to Mumbai, an anguished disciple of my godbrother Jayapataka Swami told me that Jayapataka Swami had fallen unconscious while in Mumbai to attend a meeting and had been rushed to the hospital, where he lay still unconscious and in critical condition. When I reached Mumbai I got a fuller story. He had suffered a major stroke, with hemorrhaging in two locations in the brain, one of them in the brain stem, an area so neurologically delicate and so hard to reach that no direct intervention … [Read more...] about An obituary I don’t have to write

Don’t badmouth sadhus

November 26, 2008 by Jayadvaita Swami

Here is a class I gave in India last January for a course at the Mayapur Institute for Higher Education. I spoke on this verse from the Bhagavad-gita (9.30): api cet su-duracaro bhajate mam ananya-bhak sadhur eva sa mantavyah samyag vyavasito hi sah "Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination." Cannot see the audio below? Click here... https://archive.org/download/JAS_Classes_2008/JAS_Dont-badmouth-sadhus_Jan-2008_MIHE_mayapur.mp3 The class was held on a lawn … [Read more...] about Don’t badmouth sadhus

A quantum loss

September 24, 2008 by Jayadvaita Swami

On Thursday, six days ago, I'd been thinking of a book to send to a cousin, Bill, a semi-retired pediatrician. In response to some points I'd made in talking about the spiritual nature of consciousness, he had asked me if I'd ever read anything by Stephen J. Gould, the Harvard paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and author of popular scientific articles and books. The unstated message: I doubt whether your ideas about consciousness can stand up in the face of what we know from science. I haven't read more than a few brief essays by Gould, so I later wrote to ask … [Read more...] about A quantum loss

It all comes down to genes

September 18, 2008 by Jayadvaita Swami

  John Cleese has great fun with "the God gene" and mechanistic science. (For a while it had been removed from YouTube, but now it is back. Thank you to gndd2000 for letting us know.) … [Read more...] about It all comes down to genes

9/11: “A distant view” revisited

September 12, 2008 by Jayadvaita Swami

Three years ago, I published here the article A distant view of 9/11. Its theme, in brief, was that when freedom-hating Islamic terrorists struck on 9/11/2001 and the armies of American democracy struck back, the events rolled out in patterns so exquisitely neat and familiar as to suggest that the entire show had likely been scripted and staged by powerful hands within (and beyond) the United States government itself. Oh, paranoid conspiracy theories! The article further discussed the idea of divine and demonic traits of human character, a topic to which Lord Krishna devotes an entire … [Read more...] about 9/11: “A distant view” revisited

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