Achintya wants YOU for seva

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Hare Krishna!

 

Dear devotees,

 

I would like to take a moment to again invite list members to help

contribute to and develop the Achintya home page, located at

www.achintya.org. Those of you who are members, but who do not have

a userid and password, can get one for free by going to

the above website and clicking on "join this group." When it takes

you through the registration process, simply give the email address

with which you are already d. It will then link a

userid to your subscription, allowing you to access the

Achintya page's special features.

 

These special features (which you can access after logging on),

include: message archive, ability to post through the web, online

chatting, file download area, photo album, bookmarks, book & music

database, and calendar.

 

I would like to take minute to recognize some of the contributors

who are already helping out with the webpage. Ninar has agreed to

review the bookmarks and make certain that they are updated.

Narayana Subramanian has graciously taken up the calendar seva,

updating it periodically and sending out reminder notices for

important dates like Ekaadashi.

 

There are other areas in which we could still use help. These are as

follows:

 

FILES: We are maintaining an online collection of useful files for

Gaudiiya Vaishnavas. These include Indian language fonts, diacritic

fonts, essays, devotional music mp3s (traditional styles only),

recipes, a Gaudiiya Vaishnava verse list, and pretty much anything

else that might be useful.

 

- Recipes: As mentioned earlier, we want to have a collection of

various vegetarian recipes that are fit for offering to the Lord.

Recipes of all ethnicities are acceptable, so long as they are

vegetarian and don't have onion/garlic/mushroom which are forbidden

for us. There does not need to be any one specific devotee in charge

of this. Rather, everyone can simply contribute whatever they have.

The files should either be in Word format or standard text file

format, and if the recipes are foreign in nature, it would be good

to mention from what country they are from.

 

- GV verse list: This was a small effort on my part to put some

verses in ITRANS format (Sanskrit, word-for-word, and English

translation) for different verses cataloged by different areas. It

is meant for devotees who do online preaching; they can simply copy-

cut-paste verses as needed in their correspondence. If one or more

devotees could agree to help maintain and update this list, it would

be a great service. What are needed are verses from mainstream

scriptures, especially Shriimad BHaagavatam and SHriimad Bhagavad

Giitaa. Contact me at achintya-owner if interested.

 

PHOTOS: We are keeping an online collection of pictures of various

Krishna/Vishnu Deities around the world. ISKCON temples have a very

liberal policy towards allowing photography of their Deities, but

there are some other temples that also allow it. Please upload

pictures of temple Deities whom you have visited, to allow all of us

to get their Darshan. Please name the photos appropriately, and

provide a description of who They are, Their names, where They are,

and any other pertinent information.

 

BOOKMARKS: As mentioned previously, Sri Ninar is already updating

the bookmarks section. We are always interested in getting more

bookmarks, especially for homepages of Vaishnava temples, historic

temples in India, web pages containing scriptures & Sanskrit

documents, Gaudiiya Vaishnava web pages, Krishna-conscious

charities, etc. The only requirement for such web pages is that they

are nonpolitical in nature and not offensive to Vaishnavas. Please

submit any suggested links to achintya-owner.

 

DATABASE: We are maintaining an online database for Vedic books, and

Vedic music. Already I have made a start by cataloging books that I

have found. Others should also contribute. We are interested in

books pertaining to the various Vedaanta traditions, either by

devotees or academics. We are also interested in printed versions of

Sanskrit texts, translations of such texts, works of various

aachaaryas, etc. Here again, there need be no one specific devotee

in charge. Everyone can contribute by giving information on any

books they are familiar with. Please just make sure that the books

are cataloged properly. Some books can be cataloged under more than

one area. For example, Shriimad Bhaagavatam translated by Srila

PRabhupada is cataloged under Gaudiiya Vaishnava books as well as

under Puraanas. If there are any questions about this, please

contact me at achintya-owner.

 

 

your servant,

 

- K