tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77788081305620446312024-02-07T15:17:52.324-08:00A Day in the Life...KLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734995492906207401noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778808130562044631.post-77397157724876885942012-06-30T07:22:00.002-07:002012-06-30T07:27:07.125-07:00My 45th Broken Bone and Giant Bulls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">I know, I know - it has been over a year since my last post. But I have mentally posted to the blog. Anyway, quit your complaining cus here is a new post. Okay, okay - family members and the odd friend has already read this. But I'm sure you will still be entertained. This is the story of my 45th broken bone... a toe. How? you ask? Get out the Kleenex,
you will need it to wipe the tears from your eyes from laughing too hard...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Well, the
office that I work for – MCS – decided to buy me a bike to get around the
‘campus’ as they refer to this place. The bike was delivered to me yesterday (ok, months ago, but remember that this was written at the time)
and as I approached the damn thing it occurred to me that I hadn’t been on a
bike for nearly 25 years. Too late... I had a little wobbly practice under the
watchful eyes of the office manager who felt I was good to go. ... fool ...</span></div>
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another ride last night to pick up a few grocery items, still wobbly but no
accidents (although I did drive into a ditch on the way home from the office
earlier but nobody noticed, I didn’t get hurt so it doesn’t actually count – I
didn’t even fall off the bike). However, this morning was another matter.</span></div>
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house to go to the temple. It wouldn’t have been 3 yards before I slipped in
the mud outside the house. I blame the fact that the pathway has a marked
camber and that the gardeners, who witnessed the incident, had dumped their
muddy prunings in piles along the pathway. This actually has nothing to do with
it, but it works for me. I was actually just trying to ‘kick-off’ but my sari
kinda tangled me up (not really, but it still works for me) and when I put my
foot down to catch myself I slipped in the mud rather ungracefully. “Oh!
Mataji!” (Oh! Mother! – as they respectfully address women here in India) but
with slight grins they couldn’t hide. No, this isn’t when I broke my toe...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">So I
gathered myself, with a little less dignity, and again with a wobbly start I
kicked off and continued on my wobbly way. There is a little guard house, less
then 5 ft x 5 ft and about 9 ft high and a guard standing out front on the
opposite side of the pathway meaning I had to ride between the guard and the
guardhouse. You would think this implies that there was little room for me to
pass, but no, there would have been about 10 feet or more and no one in else in
the way or any other obstacle. But there it was; I could see it heading
straight for me. You know how they say these kinda things happen in slow
motion...well, it was just like that. I knew about 15 feet before it crashed
into me, that I was going to collide straight into the side of the guardhouse!
And so I did and managed to lift out of my seat and hit my head on the wall in
front of me right in front of the guard. “Oh! Mataji!” But no, this isn’t how I
broke my toe either. Wait! There’s more...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">I gathered
my self and the shreds of my dignity and continued on. Turned right onto
Samadhi Road, rode the 40 feet safely passing several other riders, a few other
pedestrians and a scooter. Turned right onto the temple road and there it was –
about 40 feet in front of me was a bullock cart with 2 very large bulls, whose
horns span a meter each, pulling the 6.5 foot high trailer that collects the
garbage from all around the campus. “FUCK!” I mutter under my breath. “Now
what?” The bulls and the cart take up nearly all the road. There is some little
room on either side, but, you know, BULLS! Ok, be cool, go around the
right side. Of course, there are about 3 dozen pedestrians all about. So I
manage to get around the side of the bulls and I’m feeling a little better when
all of sudden, as I’m alongside the bulls I realise that the cart is actually
wider than the bulls! “Oh-My-God!” And so I ride head on into the front of the cart.
This time not in slow motion but in real time. Again I leave my seat, hit my
head on the cart and my bike and I slide down the back flank and leg of the
bull on my side. Fortunately the cart stops dead and the bull kindly freezes
and doesn’t shift in any way. “Oh! Mataji!” in chorus from all the pedestrians.
And that’s how I broke my toe, bruised my thigh and scrapped my shins. Again I
pick up my bike, no dignity left to collect and continue to the temple not a
little in shock. I decided to leave my bike there and limped home instead.
Bhaskara had to pick it up for me. Sigh...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">But this was some time ago now and I manage to get around basically without incident. I have even been out on the street several times and regular pass the bull carts and even the elephants...two of them...walking side by side. But the other day I did have to get off the bike and walk past them because they were surrounded by 50 people. Safety First! </span></div>
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</div>KLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734995492906207401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778808130562044631.post-62375415444614853522011-06-06T09:56:00.000-07:002011-06-06T10:34:46.938-07:00Chandan Yatra and a Fire Sacrifice at Govardhana Hill<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Sorry guys, I've not been back to this blog for about a month! I've been so busy. We arrived back in Mayapura on the 9th of May and I have started work at the Mayapura Community Sevaks (sevaks = servants) which is like your local community council and looks after the needs of all the members of the community especially foreigners here in Mayapura. I am just starting in on it and it is quite a busy little center. Full-on. But I will get to that later...<br />
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We left Vrindavan on the 6 of May - can't believe it has been that long - which was also the beginning of the 21 day festival of Chandan Yatra which is when the Deities get covered in sandalwood paste. Sandalwood paste is very cooling and here in India you can imagine how hot it gets.... actually you can't imagine. It gets really hot!<br />
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So on the 6th we got up early and had to head out to Govardhana Hill which is about 45mins to an hour away. A dear friend of ours from the temple in Hawaii, Srutakirti, was getting married and we were invited to the fire sacrifice, which is an very special ceremony where there a fire is made while mantras are chanted along with offerings of grains covered with ghee (clarified butter) thrown into the fire. That, by the way, is what the fire sacrifice was for. It isn't like you sacrifice an animal or anything. The fire is liken to the mouth of the Lord and the offerings is like throwing sanctified, important grains into the Lord's mouth. We had to leave at 6am as we were told that the ceremony was going to start at 7am as it would only get hotter as the day went on. But as this was also the day we were leaving Vrindavan we were up late at night packing and cleaning out Pranada's house - the house we were staying in - as she had sold the house. She allowed me to take pretty much anything I wanted but we were willing to clean the house for her as well. So it was nearly midnight when we went to bed, maybe later. Got up early as we do and basically showered and got dressed. The taxi was late, went to the wrong gate so it took sometime to get him around to the right gate and off we went.<br />
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People were moving about getting on with their day. Children were going to school, all dressed so perfectly - girls with their black hair oiled back into neat, tight braids and ribbons to match their uniforms and boys in their shorts and neat pressed shirts, their short hair also slicked down with coconut oil or special scented Indian hair oil. In India, young children will have their heads shaved at different intervals in their life while still young, under 10 years, believing this to help improve and thicken the hair. Sometimes you will see some of the school kids also with shaven heads or short hair resulting from a head shave. Other kids who don’t go to school might be out moving the cows, oxen or goats from one place to another. Girls might be carrying water on their heads or baskets of dried cow dung patties that are often used for cooking fires. Many shops are made from little more than some plywood or clay walls, if it had walls at all, and a corrugated tin roof. People were sitting in wooden chairs worn smooth by decades of bums polishing the wood or on wooden beds made with cloth straps woven back and forth across its frame, gathered around chai stalls or the stalls of friends chatting and drinking chai, eating puris and hot subji or for lucky ones, milk sweets from the sweets shop.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">Here you can just make out the peacocks running across the fields. The ladies have little interest in the male right now and are chasing him away. You Go, Girls!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8meyBx00nDc7OwgOjh4TflI2bgOTsUyeAkLc75a-y6OEv90Lbr1fEh8q2ZOtmdKforxxBDR6W3W9ecH0OBn7LMICdEwCiTEmlS-_TV3HzI2wqHDjSKXc4-UJyCGD11JJoc-XUnNr0Dc/s1600/06052011822.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8meyBx00nDc7OwgOjh4TflI2bgOTsUyeAkLc75a-y6OEv90Lbr1fEh8q2ZOtmdKforxxBDR6W3W9ecH0OBn7LMICdEwCiTEmlS-_TV3HzI2wqHDjSKXc4-UJyCGD11JJoc-XUnNr0Dc/s1600/06052011822.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Here the males are hiding and only their heads can be seen above the young corn plants.</span> <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: right;">It was 7:10 when we finally drove into the gates of ???, I've forgotten the name, the little community where Srutakirti's son lives with his wife, Campakalata and their 14 year old daughter. Narayani, another guest coming from Vrindavan, had arrived just before us. I was so worried that we were late and holding up the show but boy, was I wrong! We entered the living room and I could see Madhavi, mother of the bride, in the kitchen cooking. She had a huge mound of spinach sitting next to the sink that she was slowly washing and chopping to make lasagna. She was only just starting the wedding feast and it was 10 minutes past the time the wedding was suppose to start! The bride, Vishaka, was upstairs still getting dressed and the pujari (priest) was across the road at the foot of Govardhana Hill still preparing the sacrificial mound of sand, mandalas, clay pots with water and with painting symbols on them and so forth. I immediately went into the kitchen to help Madhavi. I chopped tomatoes, washed and chopped spinach, made the sauce. Madhavi made Bael juice, made from bael fruit which has a very hard outer shell and very sweet inside. It takes a bit of skill to make and Madhavi had what it took. It is known to cool down the body and is very appreciated in the Indian summer.</div><br />
Well, time just kept ticking on... 8:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00! I couldn't believe it! I mean, devotees are known for being late but sheesh! Madhavi managed to have the entire feast cooked and set aside in the time that we were waiting. She was thinking for a while that she wouldn't have it done in time and would have to miss out on the ceremony, which of course, we all said "No way!" Finally, the fire yajna (sacrifice/offering) as well as bride were ready and the bride was called downstairs to come over to the area selected for this ceremony.<br />
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Srutakirti's son, Mayapura Chandra, came over from his apartment in the same complex and got his father to take him and the other men over to Govardhana Hill. Still, there was a little delay from Vishaka, but eventually she was ready and we all moved over to Govardhana. First we had to crawl under the fence, even the fully dec bride! LOL and then walk a fair distance, again crawling under some barb wire. It was spectacularly hot as we walking closer and closer to Govardhana.<br />
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</tbody></table> The wedding party headed over to the fire yajna. Vaisnava, the pujari, stops us before we get too close and asks the bride not to come any further until called. It is very hot at 11am and Vishaka's brother wears a clothe over his head to protect himself from the heat. That is why you will see many Indians wearing turbans - as protection for their heads against the heat. Here it is so hot and humid that I wet a gamsha (like sarong for men and worn around their waists), put it in the fridge if there is room, and wrap it around my head and shoulders when I go out!<br />
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Govardhana Hill is famous for having been lifted by Krishna with the little finger of His left hand when Lord Indra became puffed up and tried to drown all the residents of Vrindavan. Krsna lifted Govardhana and all the residents took shelter under the Hill including the cows and other creatures of Vrindavan. Govardhana Hill is non different from Krishna Himself, so performing such a ceremony like a fire sacrifice at the foot of Govardhana Hill was extremely auspicious. In addition, the day itself was another special day, the name of which I forget, but was a very important day in India where it is believed that anything started that day was guaranteed of success and would last for an eternity. On this day many weddings are performed, pilgrims will travel to Holy places and would circumambulate Govardhana Hill or go on Parikrama (circumambulate) around Vrindavan and many businesses would be started.<br />
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Here is the pujari on the left offering prayers and opening the ceremony. The bride's brother is on the right.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">Here ghee is being offered into the fire along with mantras and mudras (shapes and formations made with the hand/s). You can see Govardhana Hill in the background!<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">Narayani devi dasi. Madhavi, mother of the bride and a very sweet devotee from Armenia is in the background on the left. Bhaz and I are behind Narayani. And of course, the real star of the show, Govardhana Hill behind all of us. But you can't see how HOT it is!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSy6iof-Z4CxJOZ8l4NqeL7CQT0eK-1uwjGbDTOrYr8mjQnNUuNs6YaUpEhD2mWez0nfZOSx5gLKKdaBkT5Fz2crDVkRMwhWAuzRmp9FjMCJ7dL0xv6pIgsyighN4UCpIMv7tOUzAoKKw/s1600/227681_224264527589444_100000176951799_1047976_3441640_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSy6iof-Z4CxJOZ8l4NqeL7CQT0eK-1uwjGbDTOrYr8mjQnNUuNs6YaUpEhD2mWez0nfZOSx5gLKKdaBkT5Fz2crDVkRMwhWAuzRmp9FjMCJ7dL0xv6pIgsyighN4UCpIMv7tOUzAoKKw/s400/227681_224264527589444_100000176951799_1047976_3441640_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Here you can see Their Lorships covered from head to lotus-like toes in sandalwood paste mixed with camphor as it has a very cooling affect during the hot season. Devotees began making the paste by hand for nearly a month by rubbing sticks of sandalwood, about 1.5 inches thick, back and forth on stone slabs while adding water little by little. Even Dad lent a hand. As you can see, they needed a lot of sandalwood paste!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family of monkeys at the very ancient Govindaji temple established by Srila Rupa Goswami personally and later desecrated by the Mohammedans. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"> They do this several times a day as I watch them through the window where my laptop is situated under. There are several panes in these windows with the outermost pane being glass, then innermost a screen window and metal grille sandwiched between. The grille is there to keep the monkeys out otherwise they will not hesitate to enter and steal anything and in fact if both fly-screen and glass are open the will reach in through the grilles and take something or even send a small enough baby in who will bring things out to the older ones. Once, in the temple kitchen here before they had screen windows, only the grilles, a small, young monkey slipped in and was scurrying over to a pile of hot chapatis and taking a few at a time was running back to the window grille and handing them out to the older monkeys who were lining up to get their chapati! </div><br />
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</div></div>KLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734995492906207401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778808130562044631.post-61175414920617277012011-04-22T07:42:00.000-07:002011-04-22T07:42:28.028-07:00Shoba Yatra, Rama Navami and the Inauguration of the Opening of the Krsna-Balarama Mandhir in Vrindavan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></div><h1 style="margin: 24pt 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #365f91;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Shoba Yatra</span></span></span></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shoba yatra occurs the day before Ram Navami all the small Deities were taken out on Their palanquins along with Srila Prabhupada. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhs0LRps9ubh-IIzHR5NOjILhCrbSw4eLgQBT6UM_qdteRCekOE40vLyYD1d4Er6ROJyp0OUhxQaUcAp7hPjt3yRtLesl9lVo8b3XtdF5t-hYxdDSMQ8evLwapJsPx-B5ekCq_w7BvZg/s1600/4+Palaquins.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhs0LRps9ubh-IIzHR5NOjILhCrbSw4eLgQBT6UM_qdteRCekOE40vLyYD1d4Er6ROJyp0OUhxQaUcAp7hPjt3yRtLesl9lVo8b3XtdF5t-hYxdDSMQ8evLwapJsPx-B5ekCq_w7BvZg/s320/4+Palaquins.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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We were waving our hands and cloth to <br />
keep the 1000s of flies off the offering. <br />
More than in Australia!!</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">As we live in the village and not within the temple ‘walls’ I have the opportunity to watch the local Bengalis, my neighbours going about their day. As mentioned previously, we live on the third floor and I often watch a few of my neighbours. I feel like a bit of a ‘perv’ but I do hope one day I will be able to meet and communicate with them.<br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I can see into the back of one neighbour’s house where there is the water pump and thus a constant place of activity, creaking away with every downward pump on the handle. On the left side is an outhouse and on the other side is a 2.5 metre waterhole where all the run-off from the water pump goes. It is fairly stagnant and, no doubt, a source of many mosquitoes. But dogs and birds will come by to steal a drink when they can. Behind this is the back yard where all the garbage and food scraps are tossed. Dogs, cows and the occasional goat or even jackal will scavenge through this for a feed. <br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I have counted an elderly couple who I assume are husband and wife and I’m probably correct. There is a man about 30 years old who I’ve seen, but mostly I see 2 women, about mid-20 to 30 years. They are the most active at the pump. <br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In fact, there is a regular program around that pump. Around 3.30 every morning the old man comes out for his morning bath. I lie in bed and listen to the creaking of the pump handle as it echoes through the stillness of the early morning. He collects the water into his lotah, or brass bathing pot. He fills it over and over and as he pours the cold water over himself he shouts out, “Nitai Gauranga! Nitai Gauranga!” in his elderly yet strong voice, calling out the names of those transcendental brothers, over and over again until he is finished. No one ever bathes naked in India and he carefully cleans himself with his kumcha, or short ‘sarong’ in place. Then he goes inside and begins his morning puja or worship. Sometimes he plays his harmonium and sings his scales and then chants lovely bhajans. But more often he plays his karatals, brass cymbals, and chants Hare Krsna. I image they have family deities and every morning he worships them with prayers, kirtan (chanting) and puja (offerings). I think this because later his wife will come out with the arotik trays, the trays used for the puja, and wash these under the pump.<br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">By 5.30 the younger ladies of the house come out. First one of them will go up on the roof and sweep it clean because this is where they will hang the laundry. Then they take turns. One will wash their laundry while the other reaches for their toothbrush (no they aren't sharing toothbrushes...) kept in a stainless steel cup that is nailed to the wall. Then one will disappear into the outhouse and the other will take their bath, fully dressed. Without changing she will take her laundry up onto the roof and hang it out while she herself dries off in the cool morning air as it is only just spring and so cool to cold before the sun rises enough to warm the temperature. Then the other one will do the same thing. Eventually the old lady will come out and bath. Sometimes she has some dishes to wash. <br />
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Around 2 or 3 pm, one of the ladies brings out 2 children, a boy and a girl, about 7 or 8 years old, which I assume are hers. Earlier I will have seen them come home from school and now the mother will give each one a bath while they try to play and laugh with each other.<br />
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<div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">On the other side of our apartment is yet another building going up. We watched them from our rooftop as they were pouring concrete for the topmost floor they were working on. Well, not pouring exactly! There was a steady queue of workers/wallas who were carrying the cement on their heads from the area where all the materials were dumped and being mixed by hand. I haven't seen a single wheelbarrow in all of India! I took a video of it and I will try to upload it here - but you know the lack of success I am having with up loading certain videos Let's see how we go.</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">Yes, I know. It's on its side. One day I will find a program that will help me turn these right side up. But till then you get the picture...if it will load up that is! Hope so, cus it is pretty damn fascinating! So quit your complaining!</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">Oh yes! It worked! Plus I worked out how to fix the previously promised videos so that I can post them. But that will be another day. Time for bed now.</div></div></div>KLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734995492906207401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778808130562044631.post-1371551414263605842011-04-17T09:22:00.000-07:002011-04-17T09:22:17.970-07:00Bhas gets down with the natives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal">Yes, yes. There have been several complaints that I haven’t updated the blog for some time. Several weeks, I think. But I have been busy and not too well so now I am doing something…so quit ya complaining!</div><br />
There have been several doubts how Bhas was going to cope with the locals here. Ok, I had my doubts. But my fears were groundless as he gets on amazingly well with them and they even LIKE him! Who'd've thunk it? Although, when he accompanies me on business he takes on his 'Kebers' persona and becomes curt and rude while complaining about prices and how they aren't giving us enough of a discount, when on the street or anywhere else he gets quite chummy and they all laugh at his jokes and antics...once they get used to him. Many shopkeepers say they think he is very nice and peaceful and calm. Oooookay....whatevers.<br />
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It has been great to be with him traveling around as being a male he can more easily become involved in dialogues more readily than I can as a female. Woman aren't exactly segregated nor 'kept inside' but they are shier by nature, usually in groups around the home which I don't necessarily have ready access to and aren't involved in businesses very much especially in the villages. This is generally the man's domain and so males are usually more accessible. I do have conversations and freindships with the vendors I work with and regularly get invited to their homes for lunch where I will meet their wives, but usually they don't speak English and I suck at learning languages (though I am trying).<br />
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But Bhas will regularly and easily strike up a conversation with anyone. Sometimes there may be a group of men sitting around of an evening and if we loiter around long enough we are eventually invited over to join them. Invariably the conversation leads to cricket and as the world cup series has just concluded this is a hot topic indeed. Especially as India just won the cup there is much joy and delight throughout the nation. We were traveling from Delhi to Vrindavan on the day of the match and where ever we stopped people were huddled around a TV watching the game. Bhas would stop and watch and engage in discussions about the game - not that he is a big cricket fan, but he is reading papers and trying to catch-up. We knew that India had won when as we were lying down to go to bed that night and fireworks were going off. "India must have won the cricket" we deduced!<br />
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Another day while bathing down at the Ganges, Bhas made friends with many locals who were fascinated with him (I don't get it myself...). Somehow he attracted the attention of a group of young men who were visiting in Mayapura for the day. They stopped Bhas...<br />
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But now I've been spotted! <br />
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</div>KLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734995492906207401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778808130562044631.post-30515986149024758202011-03-30T04:29:00.000-07:002011-03-30T04:29:53.384-07:00A typical day in the life....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So we have been here in Mayapura for 2.5 weeks and in India for a month now. Getting more into the flow of daily life now rather than the day to day festivities that the previous weeks have held. I am not doing as much Krishna.com work while here as all my vendors are in Vrindavan, but I have found a number of new suppliers of various items and have also located another "my man in India" for this area which is really helpful. I use to know this young Bengali, Sujitendriya das, when he was in the gurukula (devotee school) in Mayapura in 1986 when I was here. He speaks perfectly good English having grown in the ashram with so many American and Australian boys that he speaks like a native with a very light accent. But he is still a Bengali so he a great resource for me and will help me with a number of things such as perhaps finding a new apartment, bikes, fabric supplier and tailor and other things. He was also the married to the granddaughter of Srila Prabhupada, but sadly, in 2006 she drowned in the Ganges during the floods along with one of their 2 daughters and brother-in-law. He is such a nice and friendly fellow, but as soon as the humour or talk dies down you can see the heartache in his eyes. He is still struggling to get over his loss. He still has another daughter who is living with him and his sister.<br />
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Now that we have settled in more we have a bit of a daily schedule going on. We rise at 3.15 am - 3.30, take our bucket bath and dress for the temple. I actually heat a pot of water on the gas stove while I brush my teeth and hair. The morning program starts at 4.30 and it is about a 15 minute walk from here to there. Mangal arotik (early morning services), Nrishingha arotik (services for Lord Nrishinghadeva) and tulasi arotik (services for Tulasi devi) are all finished by about 5.30 followed by any announcements. Then it is japa meditation time until the next half of the program at 7 am, Greeting of the Deities, one altar at a time then Srila Prabhupada's guru Puja. After this, class begins at about 8 - 8.15 and lasts till about 9am. Before class, however, I will go outside to the mahaprashadam stands and buy some Calzone or pizza to take back with me after class. You can't wait until after class as it will be all gone by then. There are also many kinds of cakes, cookies, traditional Indian milk sweets and more.<br />
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It will be about 9.30 - 10.00 by the time I get home, have another bath, because by now we will be hot and bothered by walking home, usually carrying 5 litres of filtered drinking water that the temple sells for rs. 2/lt. - a bargain when the exchange rate is rs 45/$1 and then have breakfast. Check my emails and other such computer stuffs and take a nap unless Sabhita, my new servant (yes, servant as she will do what I ask for the 1-2 hours she is here), has arrived in which case I wait till she leaves. Sabhita is a very petite and sweet young thing, probably in her early 20s but many Indians don't have a clue how old they are never celebrating or even taking note of the day they were born, boys and girls alike. She sweeps, mops, dusts even the windows - remember how dusty I told you it is here. She washes the dishes, cleans the bathroom, washes the clothes and when I bring an iron from Vrindavan, she will iron for me as well. She does less than an hour a day for which I pay her rs 30/day which is a third more than she gets from anyone else. She was very delighted and giggled when I agreed to her price, knowing that it is usually rs 20 an hour. But she will stay for up to 2 hours if I need her to. Maybe if I should ever deign to cook again I might ask her to assist me. Wonder if she is a good cook......... hmmmmm.....<br />
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So there's half the day right there. Second half consists of trying not to over heat by staying inside. Our apartment is actually quite hot as it is on the top floor right under the roof which will always collect the most heat. We are trying to make arrangements to either move, as I've said, or put in an air conditioner and refridgerator. Everyday a subji walla, or fruits and veg. man comes to my door and tries, successfully, to sell me some fruit or vegetables. This isn't the best way to shop and I will have to make other arrangements with another 'temple' subji walla who speaks very good English, is on the phone and you just tell him everything you want and he will go to Nabadwip across the Ganga and get it for you, usually at a more reliable price. With this other subji walla you have to barter on the price of everything. Sigh... Actually, I won't use him again as he way over-charged me for some veggies the other day, didn't have change for rs.500 with a rs.190 bill and, needless to say, we haven't seen him since! Told dad not to do it...but to be fair, we have been out during the middle of the day for the last 2 days since we last saw him...but I don't believe he would have come back anyway!<br />
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Lunch is served between 1-1.30 and 1.30-2.00. We will usually try to make one of these times if we are hungry, which Bhas almost always is. Lunch is a mini-feast served on plates made of dried round leaves held together with small twigs and are usually 2-3 layers thick and will have a swerving of pickles and salt sitting there. 2 kinds of rice, dahl, 2 subjis one with curd, chappatis, chutney, and followed up with sweet rice and rasgullas are served everyday.<br />
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Bhaskara will go over to the office around mid-day, before or after lunch and today I was asked if I could work in one of the offices as a secretary and entering data into a database. I don't know when I'll start or if as I still have a bit of traveling to do before I am more settled here...plus I want to avoid the really hot months of May and June but we'll see.<br />
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4pm will see most of the devotees head to the Ganga to take bath and cool down. It is always such a relief and calming whenever we get it together and go. We may go back home or over to the temple if I have business with some one or need to pick up some supplies. There are a bevy of shops, both inside and outside the temple campus, all along the temple wall. There is even a health food store of European origin. There are actually 3 different temples within the temple compound, or campus as they say here and we may attend one of the evening arotiks at this time. If we are hungry, which I'm not usually, but Bhas almost always is! we can either get evening prashad from any of 3 kitchens or go to the Govinda's restaurant here. No shortage of eating places here and virtually never a need to cook. And since writing this post, I have discovered another 4 eating places, including a bakery, also within the campus.<br />
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Usually tired at this point and don't feel like walking so either take a rickshaw or a flaat which, like a rickshaw, is driven like a bike, but instead of seats for 2 it has a wooden flat bed that can carry many passengers as well as items. We pay about 10 rs for the pleasure. I tend to prefer the flaats as the seats on the rickshaws are very uncomfortable and for some reason always slope downward maybe hoping you will slide right off.<br />
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I brought my camera down to the Ganga this afternoon. Here are some pictures:<br />
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He started out cranky... <br />
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...along with others... <br />
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</div>KLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734995492906207401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778808130562044631.post-10036859681348027422011-03-23T00:44:00.000-07:002011-03-23T00:44:54.102-07:00Up On the Roof<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;">हरे क्र्सना हरे क्र्सना क्र्सना क्र्सना हरे हरे</div><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;">हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे</div><div style="text-align: left;">23 March 2011<br />
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Today we went up on the roof to hang out the laundry. Did the bedding today so there was too much for the little line on our veranda. We took pictures all around our building. Hope you like them...<br />
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Facing toward the main road coming into Mayapura. You can see 2 lines over head from the clothes line. Fascinating isn't this? <br />
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In the background here you can see a large crane which is part of the new temple construction. You can just make out the new floor for the actual temple room. But it is hard to see...<br />
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Facing the main road into Mayapura. As you can see, there is a lot of construction going on here to accommodate all the new residents. Very noisy and dusty during the days.<br />
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Dad took this picture of the guys on the bamboo scaffolding .<br />
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Another picture where you can see the large crane and new temple room floor in the background. <br />
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So, nothing else really exciting to report today. I have been sick pretty much since we got to Mayapura with a head cold that settled in my chest after arriving here in the Bengal heat and humidity from Vrindavan's cold, dry winter. I saw an ayurvedic doctor the other day and am taking his medicine which seems to be working very well.. This is my second day home without going out, but at least I felt well enough to do the laundry, which is all by hand of course, so I must be getting better.<br />
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Last week was Gaura Purnima, Lord Chaitanya's appearance day, which is why there is such a big festival this time of year, here in Mayapura which as I explained previously, is his place of birth. This was a wonderful festival day with at least 50,000 people from all over India and the world coming here. There was a big hek (bathing of the Deities) in the gardens outside under 3 temporary pandals or stages. I don't as yet have pictures or video but I will look it up on YouTube later and see if anyone posted there. I was very fortunate. Again, they gave special permission for the Prabhupada disciples to go up first and bath the Deities with special ingredients. From here I stayed there and helped with the many other people who purchased tickets to go up there, otherwise it is very very crowded. Afterward, Jayapataka Swami, who has been living and managing Mayapura for 40 years and who is now paralyzed on half his body, invited the Prabhupada disciples up on the roof for a special feast of 32 preparations from India, Italy, US, Argentina, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, Portugal. It was quite amazing and filling after fasting all day.<br />
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Our simple bedroom picture taken from the door... <br />
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From the bedroom door onto the veranda where we sometimes hang our laundry. <br />
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The sitting room <br />
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</div>Well, later today I will be checking out another apartment in one of the pictures above, a yellow building with 6 floors. This apartment is on the 5th floor, no elevator, but has a/c, fully furnished with fridge so if we take it we can have milk and left-overs and be able to fall asleep earlier without having to wait for things to cool down! Yeah!<br />
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</div>As mentioned in my last post, the month long Mayapura festival is on and so there are thousands of devotees from all over the world here right now. For the first week there were parikramas (transcendental tours to special places where Krsna and/or His devotees had pastimes) to the nine islands of Nadia, the land of Lord Chaitanya. We unfortunately managed to miss out on all of these. But in the evenings when the devotees returned there were a variety of different activities/events. One of these was the Elephant Procession where Radha-Madhava are taken around the complex on the back of an elephant along with another elephant. At different points along the procession they stop and allow the devotees to make offerings of ghee lamps/candles and incense. All along the path there are mandala paintings that are done with dyed rice flower and in some cases different coloured flower petals.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one is being made with flower petals</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This one is made with rice flour</td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Every night there is a wonderful kirtan party that goes around the Chandraya for several hours. There are thousands of participants including thousands of Indians that come from all over to visit the temple and take dharsan of the Deities. In the morning many devotees set-up stalls in the temple courtyard of all varieties to sell books, prasadam, dolls, paintings, clothing, etc.</div><div class="separator" style="border: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Temple courtyard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here you can see Gauranga, Sadhana's son, behind a gas<br />
cooker while he fries up kachoris to order. Behind<br />
him you can see Surabhi selling her T-shirts from<br />
a suitcase. She is collecting on behalf of Prabhupada disciples<br />
to pay for their accommodation during the festival so that <br />
they can stay for free...maybe we should have booked <br />
with her!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mindhi that I had done by a Russian mataji</td></tr>
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</div></div>KLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734995492906207401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778808130562044631.post-35818929078237480802011-03-16T23:43:00.000-07:002011-03-16T23:43:11.035-07:00Arriving in Mayapura; the Road from Kolkata<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, <br />
Who have kindly allowed us <br />
to come to Sri Mayapura Dham</td></tr>
</tbody></table> We left Vrindavan for Mayapura on the 10th March. The day before I took my last set of pictures (for the time being) of the Deities at Krsna-Balarama Mandhir.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sri Sri Krsna-Balarama<br />
Presiding Deities of Krsna-Balaram Mandhir, <br />
Sri Vrindavan Dham</td></tr>
</tbody></table> We left Vrindavan at 8.30 am to arrive at Delhi Airport by 12.30, which we did. Our plane was scheduled to leave at 1.40 pm, but unsurprisingly, was 1 hour late so our arrival in Kolkata was 1 hour behind. But our car was still there waiting and we were 'safely' delivered to our new residence by about 10pm. A very long day, most of it spent in cars and the last leg was something like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. My friend, Pranada, had told me once not to travel at night, but I thought she was referring to being a female travelling alone. But after that drive, which Bhaskara is saying, 'never to be repeated ever again at night' and how 'we were reduced to quivering on the floor of the backseat', 'the most terrifying adventure' and more! Especially after the driver we had from Vrindavan to Delhi who was most careful and not rushed, this next driver was driving as madly as you expect from a Bengali. It is so amazing to see... or not see, as the case may be... how many people are walking about on the edge of the roads, or crossing the roads, in pitch blackness. You can't see them until you are just about on top of them or <br />
<div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">silhouetted </span>in the headlights of other vehicles coming at you and everyone driving at breakneck speeds. I reckon India should have a national movement that every human being, at birth, should be fitted with reflectors, front and back and perhaps on each shoulder as well!</div><div> </div><div>Here are some pictures I took as we were navigating through the streets of Kolkata:</div><div> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As we waited for traffic to clear.<br />
Appeared to be an accident ahead...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whipping through the streets of Kolkata<br />
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</tbody></table> <div>There was a bit of difficulty in actually finding the new place but we were eventually met by Sadbhuja's secretary, Radhanarupa dasi and she took us in. We are on the top floor (not the best level in hot climates such as this) of Sarasvati Bhavan, room 8. As we entered our voices echoed amazingly in the near empty rooms, an entrance, bedroom with ensuite - which wasn't bad for India, sitting room and kitchen. There was a table, 2 beds pushed up against each other with single sheet and another top sheet, a chair and gas stove and bottle but the hose was all perished. And that was it...oh! and a bucket for bathing. No hot water. the doorway is a bit strange with a door, 3 inches too short with very old style lock that opens onto a gate:</div><div> </div><div> </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The internal gate with new padlock</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The door with old style lock.<br />
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</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Friday was our first day here which we spent just 'landing' and meeting with Sadbhuja who Bhaskara is to work with. Don't really remember everything, but things are sure going on here with the festival. Ran into Rasarani and Sukla from Australia and met up with Sadhana and Siddhi. The next day we went into Nabadwip to get some basic supplies. Sadbhuja arranged with one of his local men to meet us on the other side of the Ganges/Ganga were Nabadwip is located and where most shopping is done. You have to take a rickshaw to Hular Ghat where we take a boat across the Ganga. There we met Bappa, who was born in Nabadwip and he took us to the various shops where we bought things like plates, bowls, spoon, fork, buckets for laundry and bathing, fry pan and 2 pots, a floor mat (so we didn't go deaf from the echoing in the bare rooms), some tea, sugar, salt, container to collect milk (when we get a fridge), a tiffin and other odds-n-ends...all on the TOVP (Temple of the Vedic Planetarium) account. Wish I had got a few other things like soft mattress for me and cleaning clothes and few other things. But there's always another day!</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view from the edge of the Boat<br />
Nabadwip in the distance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the other passengers with Mayapura in the distance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where we disembark in Nabadwip. When I was here in 1980 <br />
there wasn't a pier but we would have to scramble<br />
up the bank under the big tree there on the left.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The return trip with Mayapura in the distance.</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">We were back by about 3.30pm but a trip like that is enough to exhaust you. Plus I was already sick with a head cold after coming from the cold weather in Vrindavan to the warmth of tropical Bengal. The next day I just crashed out and spent the whole day in. Monday we had to go into Krsnagar to register Baz as a foreigner resident. That was as crazy as expected, dealing with Indian officialdom. We were 2 days late with registering so we had to pay a fine before we could complete the registration. This meant going to the State Bank of India and having already heard of the madness there, I wasn't holding a whole lot of excitement. The place was packed - must've been nearly 100 customers with long lines at each of a dozen windows. It takes at least 15 minutes for each customer to complete his business. We were about 6th in line so we were there for about an hour and a half to pay the rs.1300 fine, have his papers signed and stamped and then return to the FRO (Foreign Registration Office). There we had another long wait, which fortunately I had a chair and could nod off with my fever. Dad got called back to correct his form where he had left out the comma between Brisbane and Australia as well as between Mayapura and West Bengal. So once all his "i's" were dotted and "t's" crossed, literally, he got his seal of approval and we returned to Mayapura 5 hours later... and just in time for lunch at the Gada building. We are very lucky because we are both disciples of Srila Prabhupada, we get to eat for free and usually don't have to stand in lines and get to sit at tables. Lunch consists of rice and dahl (of course), 2 subjis (one with curd), pakoras, puris or chapattis, pickles, sweet rice, fruit, water and juice. That usually takes care of us for the rest of the day as lunch is served about 3pm and we are always fairly late. And this follows a huge more than you can eat breakfast at the Lotus Building with upma or idli, coconut chutney, fresh fruit, sambal, rasgullas, juice and water. Very well cared for!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I should have sent my kids to this school! Don't worry, I'm sure it's <br />
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one day...</td></tr>
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</div></div>KLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734995492906207401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778808130562044631.post-71093178767824288752011-03-07T10:24:00.000-08:002011-03-07T10:24:35.097-08:005 March 2011, Dhauji temple, Rama Ghat, Bihalvan, cobras (reptilian and human) and Yamuna River.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcd3o4FcigoVec1Gge2mhgiWMGJJDhnjlt3Wz0gpThSQpK2oIlVzUFH6NDKNEUz3v08DAdAQZV4gjgAMOFzYBk5DKYP8vxUvL0qGPoPzzyFBuTq1PtDrEOsLbtJOeNRZfogzyXK0rRQPE/s1600/DSC04224.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 319px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 316px;"><img border="0" height="320" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcd3o4FcigoVec1Gge2mhgiWMGJJDhnjlt3Wz0gpThSQpK2oIlVzUFH6NDKNEUz3v08DAdAQZV4gjgAMOFzYBk5DKYP8vxUvL0qGPoPzzyFBuTq1PtDrEOsLbtJOeNRZfogzyXK0rRQPE/s320/DSC04224.JPG" width="213" /></a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> Today, finally we got to go out somewhere other than Loi Bazaar. Deena Bandhu, as usual, was offering another parikrama (tour of the holy dhams). This was the final in the series he was doing in celebration of the 8th Anniversary of the Inauguration of Vrinda Kund temple and today we went to a number of wonderful places and I have many photos and a few videos from this day's adventures. Supposedly we gather around 7.30 am to load into the buses, but in true Indian time frame (very very similar to Hawaiian time) the bus didn't arrive until 8 am, which is of course, normal. Before this I was looking for Deena Bandhu because he has an SUV which he usually reserves for Prabhupada disciples (which Baz and I both are) but I couldn't find him and I didn't want to miss out so we went ahead and loaded into the bus. We sat way at the back because in Australia that's where the older kids reserve for themselves so I'm assuming it is the best spot. But apparently Australian kids are retarded because that's the absolute WORSE spot to sit in, especially if it is a rough road... which it certainly was. Baz and I and other went airborne with every bump, which was every 100 feet or less and eventually we learned to sit out of our seats to avoid hitting our heads on the roof. <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirOF2qSuuPSoi_FHjaPwgzRAlyqtwbm_SemwzOM6c7MpZCB5cjDNxjHqRYgElg-5WoNMt08rH6EjNVlG2bz5cYaAOHxBhMvgQoSu5jZp_ajDTJUCj1EAdZ0zwcwGRzYb7ftF9H6MomVEY/s1600/DSC04218.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirOF2qSuuPSoi_FHjaPwgzRAlyqtwbm_SemwzOM6c7MpZCB5cjDNxjHqRYgElg-5WoNMt08rH6EjNVlG2bz5cYaAOHxBhMvgQoSu5jZp_ajDTJUCj1EAdZ0zwcwGRzYb7ftF9H6MomVEY/s320/DSC04218.JPG" width="320" /></a>After an hour of this I was over it and by this time I could see Deena with the SUV so was determined to try and move out of the bus. He was perfectly fine about it when we asked. But first we went to Dhauji temple. Dhauji is the affectionate address for the older brother and this is the temple where Lord Balarama, Krsna's older brother, has been worshipped for 100s of years by the same generation of pujaris (priests). There was a very sweet pujari there who, as per usual, offered us maha prasad (food offerings given to the Deity) - little puffed rice, some rock sugar, little chappati with spicy subji (vegetable stew/curry). (Gee, I might need a glossary for this blog!)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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We sat down under the banyan tree and had breakfast prasadam served hot from the temple. After this Deena Bandhu talked story about Krsna's and Balarama's activities there. Then we served prasadam to all the kids that gathered while there. You can see the pictures of this serving out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The banyan tree under which we had <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The temple pujari is second from the left with colourful chadah (wrap). He <br />
sits here with his neighbours who all participate in the affair of our arrival.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> Then as we were leaving there was a family who had baskets with cobras in them. I didn't end up taking any pictures because I ended up taking pictures with someone else's camera who posed with them. But I will try to get her pictures off her.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some children hanging about. You can see how in India all the kids, boys and girls,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Devotees walking to and from the Yamuna River...<br />
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</tbody></table> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Then we all piled back into our respective vehicles but you recall that we transferred into Deena's SUV which meant that two people had to either move to the back, but one choose to transfer into the bus. I felt bad about this but this lady was perfectly ok with it and the next day I took her some cookies by way of thanks. But then there was this other guy that was very very angry about it. He sat in the back and later he had a go at me about it and told me, among other things, how he hated me and such! I spoke to Deena about it and offered to go back in the bus, but he said no, that he had told this man that the seats were first for his godbrothers/sisters and that he would have to move if necessary. This man sulked the whole rest of the trip and told us he cursed us! Deena just dismissed it all saying he was just a hothead and would get over it. But it ruined his trip cause he couldn't enter into any temples or activities after that! Silly man... Here he is on the right with orange beanie: </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very handsome Sadhu who meditates here <br />
and gave us all blessings...for a small fee...</td></tr>
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And that was it for the day. Next we had another very bumpy ride back to Krsna-Balarama Mandir, ISKCON temple where we are staying. We were very tired and thirsty as we forgot to bring the water bottle. So drinks and a nap. but here are a few more pictures. I am having trouble moving pictures around in this program; sometimes it works and other times not.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Yesterday was Sunday - I didn't get around to doing this blog yesterday so this is 2 days after our parikrama. I was still rather tired so I took the day off to work on orders with the cpu and start the blog entry so there aren't any photos from that...actually, there is this one video of this cute little girl dancing in the temple room. Vrindavan becomes alive with visitors on the weekend and there are10s of 1000s of visitors coming. The temple room becomes packed with 1000s of very happy pilgrims and families. I want to edit this though, cus naturally she stopped by the time I thought to record and only near the end did she start dancing again. But I will add when can... </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Hopefully the video of our rickshaw ride into Loi Bazaar will upload before the internet drops out as I did finally get to upload another video above, but I'm not holding my breathe. So here's to HOPE!... Nope, there is no hope and that is the third time I have tried to upload this video. But hopefully other ones will work here. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute young girls that are all very vivacious...and then want rupees, of course.<br />
The one on the right was so determined she reached into the car and took papers from the back.<br />
Then all the kids did. Fortunately, they weren't important.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I know, you will perhaps complain that you can't see this lady's face<br />
but that's just the way it can be here. But this lady handed me her baby to hold for a while<br />
which I did and she would laugh and smile. Very young, small and light-weight. but all <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view from the back of the bus window. It belongs up top, <br />
but I can't be bothered trying to move it there, this program<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">bhaskara standing in the black waters of the Yamuna.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of Katyani's temple and the tree where Krsna stole <br />
the gopis' garments.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Mu7bOZxTG0?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>This is a video of a lovely water buffalo brought down to the <br />
Yamuna for a bath. I don't know if you can tell, but<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And Sri Sri Krsna and Balarama the transcendental brothers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sri Sri Gaura Nitai<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad makes me take the dumbest pictures! This is for you Rick!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the gentleman who always take our shoes and puts them safely in cubbies, otherwise they get taken. Here he is with his son. Cute, yah...</td></tr>
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today was the birthday of several nice devotee matajis (women), Yasoda Mayi and Nitya Kishori. Yasoda is a long term resident of Vrindavan, maybe 13 years, from the US and Nitya Kishori is from Russia. Yasoda is very nice and generous always having gifts. And today was no different; even though it was her birthday it was she who was distributing cake, cookies and toys...yes, toys...to us.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Another fine day in Loi Bazaar - facetious. No, not too bad really. We had lunch today at Manish's house. A nice 4 story home around the corner from his shop which he shares with his parents, his family of four and his brother's family of four as well - 6 adults and 4 children. The women cooked the meal of course and Manish sat with Bhas and I. Hot chappatis to go with 2 subjis, dahl, rice, dahi wadas with tamarind sauce, yoghurt and potato wafers. Very nice!</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I worked with just 2 vendors today and we were in Loi Bazaar from 12.00 to nearly 5pm. But we did stop at a cloth merchant, one that I knew the first 2 times I came to India 30 years ago. His tailoring is not so good so I don't usually use him but we bought 3new saris and 1 silk dhoti for Bhas and some more kurtas, one really nice long one that I like on him. I will take a picture one day and post here...</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But I did manage to take a video during our ride into the bazaar.</span></span><br />
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</tbody></table> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is a cart where they make sugar cane juice. You can see the guy on the right pushing the canes through the crusher the man on the left is manually turning. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHasNy2AdRpGV_wXnikulnBt-fYlnOJl8EHmNak_ap2BPBC5mCN7k2LRk9XLb1LZzXIH_ub1MNeuvEiolpZ3sDwQqN6Wedv-tkZwgN1o0zQTrL-vMgsc3NebSS8KX02yZP5JFAYdfqbNs/s1600/03032011562.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHasNy2AdRpGV_wXnikulnBt-fYlnOJl8EHmNak_ap2BPBC5mCN7k2LRk9XLb1LZzXIH_ub1MNeuvEiolpZ3sDwQqN6Wedv-tkZwgN1o0zQTrL-vMgsc3NebSS8KX02yZP5JFAYdfqbNs/s320/03032011562.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div>KLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734995492906207401noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778808130562044631.post-66453407035168525082011-03-02T20:47:00.000-08:002011-03-02T20:47:33.297-08:001 & 2 March 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am putting today and yesterday together as today I am sick and so not going out. Yesterday we went into Loi Bazaar and I don't have pictures of this yet, but I do have an old video that I took when I came here in 2009 with Mother Ambika...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Nope, can't find it...maybe another day, but you will find it on my facebook videos under the name of "Looking for Vaijayanti Mala" So sorry, no pics or videos.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Anyway, yes, Loi bazaar. We went and met with the many vendors I need to work with. And no sooner had we gotten there, even before dad stepped out of the rickshaw but a monkey swooped down and stole his glasses. I warned him the other day that they will do such a thing and every time Loka would step out of the room she would take her glasses off. This monkey grabbed his glasses and immediately made off with them and up a telephone pole and onto the awnings. I started after him, dad couldn't see anything, but the locals were stopping me. No, no, let the boys get it... which they did and yes, you guessed it Moti, for a small fee! I had to give the boy rs. 10 which he argued about wanting more and his mate came up demanding payment too but I knew he hadn't done anything so I refused to pay him or pay more and scuttled off into our first shop.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Below I have found some pictures I took last year on the way to Loi bazaar. One of the vendors I work had his driver take me as it was pouring rain. Just days after I left to go back to Oz, Vrindavan had huge floods. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">You can see that the buildings are have torn down. This is because the government was/is widening the roads and they just tear into the buildings themselves. Even without warning, the machines will come and rip into the buildings.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> Well, having so much trouble with the internet connections right now going out every 4 minutes, making me very MAD!! So I will post this as is and may add to it later... So onto today's adventures...</span></div>KLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14734995492906207401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778808130562044631.post-25906226662645966932011-03-01T17:43:00.000-08:002011-03-01T17:43:54.168-08:00Sunday, February 27, 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;">Today, or rather, this day, we went on a special parikrama to Vrinda Kund as it is the 8th inauguration of the installation of this special Vrindadevi deity. Deena Bandhu prabhu had buses and cars arranged to take devotees first to Nanda Gram, which is the palace of Nanda Maharaja up on top of a hill…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNQDdCzyOH0X4x84HjI2cFsrdpscoQMGG7r8au88hNznNeq-Ze89ZIDQq8bucBlO33xNyC1yvuflUHAV_JH05PacJtuyHNARP-hG4yftmfc_vQPufwIFlbHbyFDhtSlPYh7xZjEm5jWA/s1600/DSC04175.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNQDdCzyOH0X4x84HjI2cFsrdpscoQMGG7r8au88hNznNeq-Ze89ZIDQq8bucBlO33xNyC1yvuflUHAV_JH05PacJtuyHNARP-hG4yftmfc_vQPufwIFlbHbyFDhtSlPYh7xZjEm5jWA/s320/DSC04175.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;">This is the bathing ghat of Nanda Maharaj. As you can see it is very misty and cold this morning - this is Vrindavan winter - and so it is still chilly. Nanda Gram is on the hill above us and not in this picture, but I will look and see if I can find another picture from the year before.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVagAyI37KoEbYjxuqvZTsiPsY6UCaGRJlHxy2VlO4kKohHQLshAWtoIgVmr1ujH-vt7H3SQ7-ero72TOrPp5035IpQeM7KCZleKNyehQvuo0mGUmDDV7glOt43E_SMwZ0X_R0HZTDHg/s1600/DSC04179.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVagAyI37KoEbYjxuqvZTsiPsY6UCaGRJlHxy2VlO4kKohHQLshAWtoIgVmr1ujH-vt7H3SQ7-ero72TOrPp5035IpQeM7KCZleKNyehQvuo0mGUmDDV7glOt43E_SMwZ0X_R0HZTDHg/s320/DSC04179.JPG" width="213" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8mzQrvC7GbLo7f8cBI8QF0CSSQRTZVa96QquoQf6RhiNWpO2Vc_QrARMDhtVdmr1UD5vlbURORGO88lZOw6H25CBVKMkn5kitHn44rye9xNH_dnzjQqq9s1TW9t-RhQ0vKLumDSumCw/s1600/DSC04177.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8mzQrvC7GbLo7f8cBI8QF0CSSQRTZVa96QquoQf6RhiNWpO2Vc_QrARMDhtVdmr1UD5vlbURORGO88lZOw6H25CBVKMkn5kitHn44rye9xNH_dnzjQqq9s1TW9t-RhQ0vKLumDSumCw/s320/DSC04177.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;">So, first the devotees met at Pavana Sarovar where we all met for breakfast. But first I have to say how this morning at Tulsi puja I met up with some very old and very dear friends of mine from 30 years ago. I was so happy to see them. I have always thought that I didn't want to leave this world without seeing them again so I was so overjoyed to see them. Here is a picture of Mahaguna, a mataji I knew if the early days in Hawaii. I love her so much and was so happy to catch up with her:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQuB2Ib6sr4y-LJ4cthFgLiQQv65eZu6YOaX6_U0ynPXkKy3bottDfbazAZZK8r-PGcdMN3vAAWLqhyphenhyphenrsTNFdPBm7vLku6xiSMUJu2bojgGcluh1yC-vICC_pZGwwqUVCCofV7rnI42s/s1600/DSC04178.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQuB2Ib6sr4y-LJ4cthFgLiQQv65eZu6YOaX6_U0ynPXkKy3bottDfbazAZZK8r-PGcdMN3vAAWLqhyphenhyphenrsTNFdPBm7vLku6xiSMUJu2bojgGcluh1yC-vICC_pZGwwqUVCCofV7rnI42s/s320/DSC04178.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;">So as I say this was a special place and we met here for breakfast, along with about 100 other devotees. Deena Bandhu prabhu, provided cars for us elderly Prabhupada disciples so we arrived in style, but a bit early as we waited and wondered what happened to everyone else. They did eventually arrive with hot, steaming prasadam which we honoured to our satisfaction - kitri, puris, and lime pickle. </div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;">Then we proceeded on with a Kailash Yatra festival where the women carry clay pots with a little water in them with a piece of clothe and a coconut on our heads.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJFgDuISRjCu7IKvF_l23FqH2ROMNxNi4XH3QS2kKMZ4hKdU9eXXbSBAy-hJszB33nKE6kVJYxKd-N6qndxrOowoi5lrA7gcE0YyhD7ZYM1OQD1W2ojUMXtlZIRIn81FWz_pSdAjpsws/s1600/181786_10150192808039838_787814837_8766524_590326_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJFgDuISRjCu7IKvF_l23FqH2ROMNxNi4XH3QS2kKMZ4hKdU9eXXbSBAy-hJszB33nKE6kVJYxKd-N6qndxrOowoi5lrA7gcE0YyhD7ZYM1OQD1W2ojUMXtlZIRIn81FWz_pSdAjpsws/s320/181786_10150192808039838_787814837_8766524_590326_n.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Another old friend I was so very excited to meet up with after 30 years.</span><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dad with Geet Govinda, one of the drivers and the one responsible for most of these pictures that I 'stole' from facebook. Also, Geet Govinda is the man who had to drive me to the hospital then to x-rays and back to the hospital again when I broke my wrist in 2009.</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">It wasn't so much that the pot was heavy but that my arms got tired being over head for so long!</span></td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Geet Govinda in a meditative moment at Nanda Maharaja's home</span></td></tr>
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</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here are some of the many paintings on the ceiling of Nanda Ghram. I don't know this particular pastime of Krsna with his father, Nanda Maharaja.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here Mother Yasoda, Krsna's mother, and Mother Rohini, Balarama's mother, are consulting the astrologer who is telling them that their sons are not ordinary boys...</span><br />
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</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here is a bullock cart outside our door. Dad went outside to take these pictures and then offered 2 garlands to him which he promptly ate! He prefers roses to marigolds... Beautiful though isn't he. His horns are painted blue with yellow decorations, which you can't see too well and he has necklaces.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKOejdh6dQ4oLiUBxwF_mNSexuU6uZKZ8V99ACi5uc7yEGmA_NBPa5AqRKGTHdL7Da1Gt-t6B0TB4OGB99eXbbuqdLCGmW3Vhyphenhypheng-q2EyGZolYQhutAYq97d8Uf5xLGzE-1Cj63ztpUUw/s1600/DSC04202.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKOejdh6dQ4oLiUBxwF_mNSexuU6uZKZ8V99ACi5uc7yEGmA_NBPa5AqRKGTHdL7Da1Gt-t6B0TB4OGB99eXbbuqdLCGmW3Vhyphenhypheng-q2EyGZolYQhutAYq97d8Uf5xLGzE-1Cj63ztpUUw/s1600/DSC04202.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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