Ox Power as emblem of Hare Krsna's

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billy bob buckwheat wrote:

 

>When I went to the Ox training course in Kalamazoo MI. the head cheese there,

>Dick Rosenburg, while giving a lecture outside in front of huge groups of

>people, he would give examples of the techniques.... And to my suprise, he

>quite often for some reason, gave examples that caught my attention... He

would

>refer to the Hare Krsna's .... " The Hare Krsna's will do like this ;; and

>that..." ect.... He would describe in a way in front of all those people and

>still does, as being that Hare Krsna's live this way in common.... As a way

of

>life.... There is alot of people going through there and thinking that this is

>what is part of the life of the Krsna's.... After some people started to catch

>on that Me and Madhusudana were Hare Krsna's then we got alot of eyes and

>attention when we were demonstrating our abilities at driving the oxen through

>courses... People were asking questions about Ox psycology, cause they were

led

>to think thats what we do... A few of their live in trainiees were intrested

>to come to the farm and stay to learn and check things out..

>

>If only Dick Rosenburg realy knew what is going on.... maybe better

not.....??

>

>

>Hare Krsna,

>

>Derek-

>

>

I had a similar experience this summer when Drew Conroy (author of Oxen:

A Teamster's Guide) took me and my son Asto to New Hampshire to visit

the BerryBrook Ox Supply store (as far as I know, it's the only store in

the world devoted specifically to ox power supplies).

 

When he introduced us to the owners, he said, "This is Noma Petroff and

her son Alexander. They're Hare Krsna's."

 

Instantly the man and his wife were in awe, "Oh, Hare Krsna's! Well,

you must know a lot about ox power already. They are really the experts

at working with the oxen."

 

I felt like you, Derek. I didn't know whether to feel proud or whether

to crawl under the carpet in embarassment.

 

Anyway, thanks to the hard work of a lot of people on this conference,

the idea of Ox Power as an emblem of the Hare Krsna's is still there on

the outside -- even if it's not so visible within ISKCON itself. I

thank you ox workers -- but Srila Prabhupada surely thanks you even more.

 

Also, if anyone is interested, BerryBrook Ox Supply finally has their

website up and running -- ox power books, videos, yolks, pins, lashes,

gift items, etc.

 

Also, speaking about gift items -- now that the holidays are coming,

don't forget that many people greatly appreciate ISCOWP ox power T-Shirts.

 

Does Bhaktivedanta Manor or other farms have ox-power or cow-related

gift items? It's always important to keep up the cow/ox propaganda.

 

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hkdd