An unofficial, eclectic, mostly tangential, view of aspiring devotee life. Best viewed with Sense of Humor 8.0 or higher. The cows may come, the cows may go, but the bull is always here.
• Experience with cows preferred but not necessary (training provided by International Society for Cow Protection ISCOWP)
• Familiar with and practicing Vaisnava behavior and principles.
• Motivated, Competent, Mature, Balanced, Self-Starter
Duties Include:
• Working with Oxen
• Transporting milk from barn to temple kitchen (serve as substitute milker)
• Hauling
• Forestry (logging, firewood, fence posts — working with chainsaw)
• Field Work (hauling, plowing, harvesting, etc.)
• Interacting with pilgrims and interns
• Teaching about Oxen
• Basic animal husbandry
References required.
Compensation Package: Salary & Accommodations
Current US legal residents given preference
Will work with ECOV, a New Vrindaban corporation dedicated to cow protection and agriculture
A young boy had just gotten his driving permit. He asked his father, who was a minister, if they could discuss the use of the car. His father took him to his study and said to him, “I’ll make a deal with you. You bring your grades up, study your bible a little and get your hair cut and we’ll talk about it.”
After about a month the boy came back and again asked his father if they could discuss use of the car. They again went to the father’s study where his father said, “Son, I’ve been real proud of you. You have brought your grades up, you’ve studied your bible diligently, but you didn’t get your hair cut!”
The young man waited a moment and replied, “You know Dad, I’ve been thinking about that. You know, Samson had long hair, Moses had long hair, Noah had long hair, and even Jesus had long hair….”
To which his father replied….”Yes, and they WALKED everywhere they went!”
The Eagle Owl is a large and powerful bird, smaller than the Golden Eagle but larger than the Snowy Owl. It is sometimes referred to as the world’s largest owl, but this is actually the Blakiston’s Fish Owl, which is slightly bigger on average.[2][3] The Eagle Owl has a wingspan of 138–200 cm (55–79 in) and measures 58–75 cm (23–30 in) long. Females weigh 1.75-4.5 kg (3.9-10 lbs) and males weigh 1.5-3.2 kg (3.3-7 lbs).[4][5][6] In comparison, the Barn Owl weighs about 500 grams (1.1 lbs).
“ENIAC was completed in 1945 and is regarded as the first successful, general digital computer. It weighed more than 27,000 kg (60,000 lb), and contained more than 18,000 vacuum tubes…” (60,000 lbs = 30 tons)
“To use the EDSAC, one would program an application using a punch card. The punch card would be read by the EDSAC and then the data transferred to its two ton mercury delay lines, which were capable of holding a whopping 1.44 megabytes of memory after their expansion in 1952…” (2 tons = 4000 lb (1818 k)(two tons for the memory alone!))
I am experiencing watching my 11 year old granddaughter spend a great deal of time on her smart phone.
This doesn’t seem to be unusual as we were picking her up from school the other day and I observed that over 60% of the kids exiting the school had their eyes glued on their phones.
One was so intent that there was this temporary sign stuck in the grass by the sidewalk, the kind on a u shaped piece of wire, and she walked right over it, transfixed by what was on her screen at the expense of her immediate reality,
There a brahmacari in New Vrindaban who needs to write a computer coding project to finish the requirements for his college degree. I suggested he write an app for New Vrindaban and he has taken it up.
He can work on one for the Droid on a regular computer but needs an Apple to write for the iPhone. WE have someone who will lend him a Mac for that but it needs a power cable and a mini-display adapter to a monitor cable. Could anyone help us out with these things? Please let me know if you can.
This app isn’t just for kids, more it would be of assistance to anyone contemplating a visit to New Vrindaban or wanting to keep up with what is going on. But we do want to be on those smart phones when the tweens grow up a little and start looking for answers to the mysteries of life.
A devotee should not see anything as being separate from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. Ether, fire, air, water, earth, the sun and other luminaries, all living beings, the directions, trees and other plants, the rivers and oceans -- whatever a devotee experiences he should consider to be an expansion of Krsna.
Thus seeing everything that exists within creation as the body of the Supreme Lord, Hari, the devotee should offer his sincere respects to the entire expansion of the Lord's body.
Chaitanya Caritamrta Adi 1.106:
"Essential truth spoken concisely is true eloquence."
Rabindranath Tagore:
A mind all logic
is like a knife all blade.
The hand that uses it will bleed.
Albert Einstein:
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Marcel Proust:
The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Claude Debussy:
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
Thomas Merton:
There comes a time when it is no longer important to prove one’s point, but simply to live, to surrender to God and to love.
Albert Einstein:
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Jack Rebney (the Winnebago man):
I don't want any more bullshit from anyone and that includes me.
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