Varnasrama College Diary

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Varnasrama College Diary

By Rabindranatha Dasa Adhikari

Thursday, January 6, 2005

 

Today Bhakta Manabu helped me set up the Varnasrama College web site at

www.vacollege.org. I need to advertise more to let others know what the

College is doing and what it's plans are for the future. In this way the

college can grow more and more.

 

The web site needs a lot more work, but it should have all the basic

features on it by the end of this month. One of the reasons that I want to

get the web site out right now is because the "New Dvaraka" (ISKCON of Los

Angeles) Phone directory, which also lists web sites is coming out next week

and I want to have the college's web site listing on it.

 

Srila Prabhupada said that the west is blind and that the east is

lame, but if they both cooperate then they can do great things.

 

In this way I want to develop this Varnasrama College in a big way in the

United States of America and then have similar colleges all over the world.

 

I think that an active diary on a web site is important to let everyone know

that the web site is not dead, that someone is regularly there to inform

others on what's happening.

 

One of the things that I have been doing more of lately is trying to raise

funds for the college, in order to support more teachers and to eventually

get some more land in order to develop the college in a big way.

 

 

Quote of the day

 

"This place I see, although I have not seen all, is a nice place. And the

grhasthas may come here, have some small cottage, and grow your own food

grains, vegetables, and have your cow's milk. Get nice foodstuff, save time.

Why should you go in the city, hundred miles in car and again hundred miles

come back and take unnecessary trouble? Stick to this spot and grow your own

food, your own cloth, and live peacefully, save time, chant Hare Krsna. Very

nice program. This is actual life. What is this nonsense life, big, big

cities and always people busy? If he wants to see one friend, he has to go

thirty miles. If he has to see a physician, he has to go fifty miles. If he

has to go to work, another hundred miles. So what is this life? This is not

life. Be satisfied. The devotee's life should be yavad artha-prayojanam. We

require material necessities as much as it is required, no artificial life.

That is spiritual life. Simply increasing artificial life, even for shaving,

a big machine is required. What is this? Simply wasting time. Devil's

workshop. Make life very simple. And simple living, high thinking, and

always conscious to go back to home, back to Krsna. That is life. Not this

life, that simply machine, machine, machine, machine. So if you show

practical example that how you are living simple life and how you are

advanced in Krsna consciousness, then people will learn from you. You

American people, if you show example, people will try to follow you, and

they will be happy. So I am very glad to see this farm. Develop it nicely,

live peacefully, and chant Hare Kåñëa." Bhag. Class 1August1975

 

 

Today's expenses:

 

$15.00 Setup fee for web site

$8.95 Monthly fee

Total $23.95