Agricultural Pesticides kill more River Life than was thought | TheLocal.de
Other environmental challenges for agriculture include soil erosion, water shortages, and water pollution by manure, pesticides, and fertilizers.
How Long Can Modern Agriculture Feed Us?
By Hare Krishna Devi Dasi
video: Israel – Use of Toxic Pesticides stirs debate in Israel
Published: 18 Jun 13 08:00 CET | TheLocal.de
Pesticides may kill off water insects and other small aquatic life by as much as 42 percent, according to an analysis of German, French and Australian rivers and streams, published on Monday.
The study is the first to compare regional biodiversity in polluted versus less polluted water, said scientists at the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. It was published in the US journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Freshwater invertebrates and aquatic insects were 42 percent less common in strongly contaminated areas in Europe compared to less polluted areas; in Australia, a difference of 27 percent was found across regions.
The analysis included measurements of insecticides and fungicides, which are used often in agriculture and are typically well-studied and heavily regulated.
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I am successful only because I am following strictly | Letter to Madhudvisa
video: Srila Prabhupada’s Guru Puja During Kartik In Vrindavan, India
16 June, 1972
Los Angeles
My Dear Madhudvisa,
Please accept my blessings. I am in receipt of your letter dated June 9, 1972, from Melbourne, and I don’t think you have yet got my last letter to you at Sydney. I am very pleased to hear that you are utilizing your good experience for introducing the Ratha Yatra Festival in Australia, I shall be very pleased to see the photos how it is going.
I fully approve of your program for traveling, now you combine the sannyasi requirement for traveling extensively, and at the same time as GBC man you shall be my personal secretary for maintaining the highest level of Krishna Consciousness amongst the devotees in your zone.
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ISKCON Mumbai Misused Bangalore’s Annual Accounts to Aid their Litigation – ICAI
Press release
Source: ISKCON, Bangalore
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 03:58 PM IST (10:28 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Arts & culture, Consumer interest, Lifestyle, People; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Financial Analyst, Hospitality, Media & entertainment.
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 — (Business Wire India)
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in its finding noted that it was clear that ISKCON Mumbai had misused and mis-interpreted the audit reports of ISKCON Bangalore to further their case in the ongoing dispute between ISKCON Mumbai and ISKCON Bangalore. The council which has been established to regulate the profession of chartered accountants gave its finding after hearing response filed by Mr. VL Varadarajan former chartered accountant of ISKCON Bangalore.
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Don’t keep Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu compact in your room and take some monetary profit
video: bustedhalovideo
Prabhupada, Mayapur, March 30, 1975: [...] So we established this temple, Mayapura-candrodaya. So this is the idea, that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is just like moon. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He appeared in this land of Mayapura; therefore He is said here as “the moon.”
Therefore we say candra, Mayapura-candra. Now, as Sri Mayapura-candra is rising… Rising. Rising means He is to distribute the moonshine all over the world. This is the idea, moonshine. Sreyah-kairava candrika-vitaranam. Sreyah-kairava. Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally said. Don’t keep Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu compact in your room and take some monetary profit.
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Evolutionists shocked about more contradiction than consilience of evolutionary trees
All different forms of species of life, as they are existing at the present moment — you’ll have aquatic animals, you’ll have plant life, microbes, insects, birds, beasts, human beings, uncivilized human beings, civilized human beings — as they are presently existing, they existed even from the very beginning of creation.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.2
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Boston, April 28, 1969
video: DNA Replication | CoolScienceVideos
That Yeast Study is a Good Example of How Evolutionary Theory Works
The Subtleties of Science | Cornelius Hunter (Darwin’s God)
In 1846 astronomers in Europe discovered the planet Neptune. It wasn’t the first time Neptune had been seen, but it was the first time the object was identified as a planet.
And how did the astronomers know where to look, and know that the object was Neptune? Because the position of Neptune had been computed and predicted. So they looked, and sure enough, there was Neptune. In fact similar predictions had been made independently by different scientists. The predictions were based on observations indicating that the next closest planet, Uranus, did not quite follow its expected orbit. Was Newtonian physics wrong? Perhaps Newton’s Law of Gravity broke down at longer distances. Or perhaps there was a perturbing force from another planet. It was the latter and Newtonian physics survived a strong test.
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Government is encouraging people how to become sudra
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Prabhupada, London, September 1, 1973: [...] Therefore, according to one’s nature there is occupational duty. That is scientific division. At the present moment there is no such division. Therefore gradually people are degrading to the lowest quality — ignorance, sudra. They are taking to the sudra principles. Yesterday I was presented with a paper, Indian government scheme to help people starting small-scale industries, and government is ready to help.
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Sometimes people paint a picture of God as a very old man
video: Govinda Adi Purusam – Atmarama Dasa
Srila Prabhupada, Mayapur, India, March 27, 1975: [...] In many Vedic scriptures Krishna is described as the puranah purusah, the oldest person. Puranah purusam nava-yauvanam ca: “Although He is the oldest of all, still He is always a fresh youth.”
How it this possible? People are trying to understand God. Sometimes they paint a picture of God as a very old man. “Because He is the original person, by this time He must have become very old.” That is imagination. That old man is not actually the form of the Lord. The form of the Lord is described in the Brahma-samhita and other Vedic scriptures.
advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam
adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca
vedesu durlabham adurlabham atma-bhaktau
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
“I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is inaccessible to the Vedas, but obtainable by pure unalloyed devotion of the soul, who is without a second, who is not subject to decay, is without a beginning, whose form is endless, who is the beginning, and the eternal purusa; yet He is a person possessing the beauty of blooming youth.” [BS5.33]
Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is very kind | Letter to Revatinandana
video: Why influence of Kali persists even after massive sankirtan
June 13, 1970
Los Angeles
My Dear Revatinandana,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 6th June, 1970, along with a check for $100, and thank you very much.
Regarding your question whether you may go to Rathayatra festival, yes, you may go because in your present temple the Deities are not regularly installed. So you can close the temple for a few days keeping in front of the Deities some dried fruits and a tumbler of water. When the Deity is installed it is called niyama seva. That means the routine seva prescribed after installation you cannot stop.
But Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is very kind to the fallen souls of the Kali Yuga and He is satisfied with chanting of Hare Krsna mantra. And for chanting the Hare Krsna mantra there is no hard and fast rules and regulations, so if you are absent for chanting Hare Krsna mantra somewhere else, it is as good as to chant the Hare Krsna mantra in the temple. Your chanting may not be stopped; it does not matter where you chant.
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VEDIC VILLAGE REVIEW # 24
June 16, 2013. Prabhupadanuga Farm in Fiji
KALIYA SERPENT
Overlooking the ocean from the dharmashalla (main guest building), one is able to watch the constant fluctuation and interaction of the elements of nature: day, night, sky, clouds, sunlight, rain, wind, mist, rainbows, waves, sea-haze, and the distant islands of Namena, Taveuni, Koro, and Kumbalau peninsula. It is always beautiful, spectacular actually, and we often remember the local legend of a giant many-headed snake that resides in the ocean bay that lies before us, sheltered by the barrier reef some 8 kilometers out. It is also supposedly resident in mountain caves near Rakiraki. The serpent is called Dengey by the locals, and in 1975 Srila Prabhupada told Vasudeva and Bhagavati Prabhus that he must be Kaliya, banished by Lord Krishna from the Yamuna, coming to Ramanik Island , which is Fiji. Inquiring if there were any indigenous animals in Fiji (there are none very significant other than birds), Prabhupada saw their absence as evidence of Kaliya’s presence. Kaliya Nag is a great devotee of Krishna- would he someday be seen by Prabhupada’s followers here, perhaps while swimming on the shore, or watching from the dharmashalla veranda? Will he be attracted by the Krishna nama kirtans that can be heard far out on the quiet waters of Yanawai Bay ? (see photo)
Stop the Tar Sands | Greenpeace International
We are trying to exploit the resources of material nature, but actually we are becoming more and more entangled in her complexities.
Krsna Consciousness, the Topmost Yoga System
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Greenpeace Canada — The tar sands of Northern Alberta, Canada – also called oil sands – are one of the largest remaining deposits of oil in the world. Developing the tar sands has created the biggest industrial development project, the biggest capital investment project, and the biggest energy project in the world. It has also created a literal hell on earth.
Areas of wilderness the size of small countries are chewed up and replaced by a landscape of toxic lakes, open pit mines, refineries, and pipe lines. The tar sands are what unrestrained fossil fuel use and unchecked greenhouse gas emissions look like. They are pushing us towards runaway climate change.
In September and October 2009 Greenpeace activists took action in the tar sands – see complete live streamed footage on the Ustream channel & more video here.
Get the latest on the campaign to Stop the Tar Sands from:
Greenpeace Canada – English & Français
Greenpeace UK
Greenpeace Norway
Greenpeace France
Why We Cheat: Scientific American
[...] The scientists are now perplexed that, “How we shall maintain ourselves because we have nothing to give anymore? Whatever stock we had, that is finished.” Now they are simply to bluff, no more stock to give. They have given us motorcar and atomic bomb and aeroplane and electronic activities. So many things they have given. That’s all right. Simply they could not give us relief from birth, death, old age, and disease.
Bhagavad-gita, 13.5
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Paris, August 13, 1973
video: Do Scientists Cheat? | oystercollector
Why We Cheat [Preview]
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-we-cheat
Scientists are unraveling the causes of fraud and dishonesty and devising new strategies for rooting them out
By Ferric C. Fang and Arturo Casadevall | April 2013
[...]
In 2005 sociologist Brian Martinson of the Health Partners Research Foundation in Bloomington, Minn., and his colleagues reported that one third of scientists confessed to engaging in questionable research practices during the previous three years.
This article was originally published with the title Why We Cheat.
source: Scientific American
Global Hunger Index 2012 | Concern.net
God is maintaining. That’s a fact. We cannot maintain your, ourself. He has given heat, light, air, water, fruits, flowers, grains, everything. Everything is there for you. There is no scarcity. Simply being less intelligent, taking shelter of lusty desires, false prestige, we are mismanaging the gift of God. Therefore we are in scarcity, therefore starvation. By God’s arrangement there is everything.
Bhagavad-gita 16.10
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Hawaii, February 6, 1975
video: concernworldwide
Tom Arnold’s Blog — The report is called: “The Challenge of Hunger: Ensuring Sustainable Food Security under Land, Water, and Energy Stresses.” According to it, hunger is inextricably linked to growing pressure on land, water and energy resources. It was released in advance of World Food Day by International Food Policy Research Institute, Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide.
Why I Eat Butter | Small Footprint Family
When Krishna and Balarama are caught stealing the yogurt and butter, They say, ‘Why do you charge Us with stealing? Do you think that butter and yogurt are in scarcity in Our house?’
Small Footprint Family: [...] You can’t really make butter from goats milk because the cream doesn’t readily separate out like it does with cows milk. The fat molecules are very small in goat’s milk (and sheep’s milk) so it is naturally homogenized. This makes it more digestible, but not good for butter, whey or any other separative process.
Let’s be sure to distinguish between industrial milk and the milk from a small family farm or someone’s backyard cow or goat, and not make inaccurate blanket statements. No one on this page would ever recommend industrial CAFO milk, which is awful, unhealthy stuff on every level.
It should also be noted that many mammals drink other mammals milk. For instance, pigs are notorious for breaking into the dairy barn just to drink from the cows. Some animals also sometimes nurse orphan animals of other species. Primates love cow’s milk. Raccoons prefer it when dumpster diving/scrounging around in cities.
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World Population Could Be Nearly 11 Billion by 2100 | UN Report
A responsible father never begets children like cats and dogs. Instead of being encouraged to adopt artificial means of birth control, people should be educated in Krishna consciousness because only then will they understand their responsibility to their children.
Srimad-Bhagavatam, 10.3.33 | Birth of Lord Krishna
World Population Could Be Nearly 11 Billion by 2100
June 13, 2013 | ScienceDaily — A new statistical analysis shows the world population could reach nearly 11 billion by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report issued June 13. That’s about 800 million, or about 8 percent, more than the previous projection of 10.1 billion, issued in 2011.
The projected rise is mostly due to fertility in Africa, where the U.N. had expected birth rates to decline more quickly than they have.
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Moving to Facebook and Twitter | Iskcon Revival Movement
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So long you desire something, you’ll never get peace of mind
video: Jaya Radha Giri Vara Dhari | Srila Krishna Dasa Kaviraja Goswami (1496 -1587 CE)
Prabhupada, Sanand, December 26, 1975: [...] Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, krsna-bhakta niskama: “A devotee of Krishna is not desirous of anything, either bhukti, mukti, or siddhi.” The purport is, so long you desire something, you’ll never get peace of mind. And a bhakta does not desire anything. He is satisfied with any position, whatever is offered to him by Krishna.
narayana-parah sarve na kutascana bibhyati svargapavarga-narakesv api tulyartha-darsinah
Anyone who is narayana-parayana, he does not fear whether he is going to hell or heaven. Because wherever he goes he is with Narayana, he is safe. It doesn’t matter whether it is hell or heaven. That is offered by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in His prayer,
na dhanam na janam na sundarim kavitam va jagadisa kamaye mama janmani janmanisvare bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi
The idea is that a bhakta does not require any material happiness or distress. He does not require any monistic proposition to merge into the existence of the Supreme. Full Lecture
Cambrian Explosion: Evolutionists Have No Answers | CEH
Prabhupada, December 18, 1973, Los Angeles: [...] But how all of a sudden there can be explosion? What is this nonsense proposition? As soon as there is question of explosion, before the explosion takes place, there must be some arrangement.
(Morning Walk, December 18, 1973, Los Angeles)
video: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – The Big Bang Experiment
An intelligent design advocate is publishing a book this month that uses the Cambrian Explosion as evidence against Darwinism and for I.D. Two major evolutionary paleontologists have also published a book about the issue.
Stephen Meyer’s new book, Darwin’s Doubt, is officially released next week. Chapter 4 will tell about the uproar caused at the 
University of Oklahoma in 2009 when Meyer and Wells scheduled a panel discussion after a showing of Illustra’s film Darwin’s Dilemma about the Cambrian fossil record. Darwinists at the university attempted a pre-emptive strike by issuing announcements that the event was religiously motivated. In the Q&A, though, the university’s professors and museum curators could not produce any unambiguous fossil as a credible ancestor to any of the Cambrian animals. Meyer’s book, updated with the latest findings since then, examines all the putative fossil ancestors and evolutionary exlanations for the Cambrian explosion, and assesses the issue’s relevance to the Darwin-ID debate.
Sun Editors are Making Contradictory Statements
BY: GADADHAR DASA
Jun 12, 2013 — DALLAS, TEXAS (SUN) —
The Sun Editors are making contradictory statements in their recent article, “Bhaktivedanta Archives: Pandering to the Ritviks“. On one hand (and over the years) the Sun advocates for “Freedom of Press” and states that the Ramesvara Interview should have been published a long time ago – a few years after it took place. The article states:
“And whose side is the Bhaktivedanta Archives taking in all this? Well, the proof is in the pudding. Here we have an extremely important document that should never have been kept from the devotees for even a few years, let alone 34 years. And what inspired the Archives to finally release it? Money, apparently. The Ritviks have infused the Archives with much needed capital, and in exchange, they clearly have put themselves in a position to leverage that influence.”
Real security is only there at the Lotus Feet of Krishna | Letter to Amarendra
video: Hanuman Jayanti | Iskconbangaloregroup
12 June, 1972
Los Angeles
My Dear Amarendra,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 5-30-72, along with newsclippings about your attempt to get the political post in Gainesville, Florida.
I am very glad to hear from you that you are enthusiastically pushing forward with our Krishna Consciousness programs there. I was very pleased to see in the newspaper clippings that you were voicing our Krishna Consciousness platform very nicely and that the public was given opportunity to understand something.
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Srila Rupa Gosvami: In everything there is relationship with Krishna
video: europeanautosource — Watch how the new BMW F30 3-Series is manufactured from start to finish in Munich, Germany.
Prabhupada, Hawaii, February 4, 1975: [...] Dharyate jagat. Whole world is going on just like a motor car. It is combination of gross material — iron, steel, copper, glass, like that, and cotton, and fiber. The car is combination of some material things, but it is operated or it is manufactured by the man. He is controlling this; therefore he is superior. Both of them are energies. The superior energy, living entity, is managing how to collect this iron, copper, this, that, and make nice car. And he is riding on. And this material supply is given by the material energy. The intelligence is given by Krishna.
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prabhupadanugas
- Jai Srila Prabhupada! | Sudarshan Das
- Contradictory Evolution Trees | State University of New York (Department of Ecology and Evolution)
- Hare Krishna Festival Ahmedhabad, India
- Looking for The Bliss / Michael Cassidy
- The London Rathayatra Procession Passes Piccadilly Circus
- A very rich man’s son, why he should suffer? | Bhagavad-gita Lecture, Hyderabad
- Kalki Alankara — Brahmotsava 2013
- Greeting the Deities in Vrindavan | Martin Rosenthal
- Global Urban Agriculture On the Rise | National Geographic
- How to make Kachori by Nisha Madhulika
- VEDIC VILLAGE REVIEW # 23
- RAW MILK VS. PASTEURIZED MILK
- Consciousness is the Symptom of the Soul
- HKM, Jaipur: Holy Trip For Naimisaranya-Ayodhya-Sangam-Chitrakoot Video
- Passing of Ananda Shanti Prabhu
- Our Process is to Chant | Letter to Mukunda
- Living in higher altitude helps to increase the life span | University of Bern
- Did Krishna tell something which is to be understood by the interpretation of a mundane scholar?
- A Spiritual Master has full Knowledge of the Vedas | A Second Chance
- So please read our books very carefully | Letter to Vrindavanesvari
- Jai Srila Prabhupada! | Sudarshan Das
- Rotational Speed of the Planets
- Rocana on DOM / ISKCON / Ritviks (Sampradaya Sun)
- Singapore Ratha Yatra 2013 Trailer
- We must stand united | Letter to Sri Ballavh
- A really awesome cell animation | Giuseppe Francesco
- SRILA PRABHUPADA VANI: KIRTANS AND LECTURES
- BBC: This World 2013
- That is God | Srimad-Bhagavatam Lecture, Los Angeles
- TV9 News: Heavy Rain Hits Central Europe With Worst Flooding in Germany, Switzerland, Austria
- Jai Srila Prabhupada! | Sudarshan Das
- Ambarish Das writes to GBC on ISKCON-Bangalore dispute
- Guru is not so easy thing | Bhagavad-gita Lecture, Tokyo
- Science means it must be correct | Arrival Lecture, London
- Memories of Srila Prabhupada
- Pita das – Memories of Srila Prabhupada
- Govinda Dasi: Ramesvara Das Interview 1979
- Migraine Headaches and Children | Cleveland Clinic
- How to Understand Krishna easily | Srila Prabhupada
- George Harrison memorial garden opens to the public | NME
- BBC World Debate Why Poverty?
- Why This Devotee of God Doesn’t Think Atheists Are Demonic | Huffington Post
- The most important of all instructions of Srila Prabhupada | Lecture by Yashoda Nandana Das
- Hindi lectures by Srila Prabhupada on Youtube
- A spiritual master should have attained the platform of uttama-adhikari (highest devotee) | NOI 5
- Feathers Before Flight | Julia Clarke, University of Texas
- GOVINDA DASI: WE MUST PRESERVE SRILA PRABHUPADA’S ORIGINAL UNCHANGED BOOKS
- Bhakti Caru Swami (BCS) is giving ritvik style initiations?
- Vision system is even more complex than we thought | Tuebingen University
- Learned scholars have no idea that there is soul | Bhagavad-gita Lecture, Bombay
