Varnasrama College Diary

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Varnasrama College Diary

By Rabindranatha Dasa Adhikari

Sunday, January 23, 2005

 

Things went on as usual today.*

 

Finished my 16 rounds at 8:26p.m. and Brigupati Prabhu (ACBSP) lead mangala

arati and a lecture tape of Srila Prabhupada was played for

Srimad-Bhagavatam class.

 

Today at the Varnasrama College table I signed up three more students for

the Vedic music class for $60.00, got $26.00 in donations and sold one of

the marriage books (Srila Prabhupada quotes about marriage) for $10.00 for a

total of $96.00. Today I brought out for the first time the "backdrop"of the

cows in front of Govardhana hill for the Varnasrama table.

 

It's been a long day.

 

 

Quote of the day

 

"The varnasrama-dharma is meant for imperfect, conditioned souls. It trains

them to become spiritually advanced in order to return home, back to

Godhead. A civilization that does not know the highest aim of life is no

better than an animal society. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam: na te viduh

svartha-gatim hi visnum [sB 7.5.31]. A human society is meant for elevation

to spiritual knowledge so that all of the people can be freed from the

clutches of birth, death, old age and disease. The varnasrama-dharma enables

human society to become perfectly fit for getting out of the clutches of

maya, and by following the regulative principles of varnasrama-dharma, one

can become successful. In this regard, see Bhagavad-gétä (3.21-24)." --Bhag.

5.4.14P

 

Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever

standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.

O son of Prtha, there is no work prescribed for Me within all the three

planetary systems. Nor am I in want of anything, nor have I a need to obtain

anything-and yet I am engaged in prescribed duties.

For if I ever failed to engage in carefully performing prescribed duties, O

Partha, certainly all men would follow My path.

If I did not perform prescribed duties, all these worlds would be put to

ruination. I would be the cause of creating unwanted population, and I would

thereby destroy the peace of all living beings. -Bg. 3.21-4

 

 

*For now that means me raising up before 4 a.m., brushing my teeth, taking

bath, putting on tilaka, getting dressed, putting a clean cloth over my car

seat, getting in my car and driving for about a mile to the temple, being on

time for mangala arati, Going back into the Pujari rooms and making sure

that everyone is there to bath and dress the Deities, then worshiping my

four Salagrama silas, then chanting some rounds in the temple room, then

greeting the Deities at 7a.m. then going to Guru-puja, then being on time

for the Srimad Bhagavatam class, giving out maha prasadam halava and fruits

right after the Srimad Bhagavatam class, leading the prasadam prayer for

breakfast; Sarira avidya jal (I recite this prayer even on ekadasi) cleaning

the Varnasrama college office by sweeping and mopping the floor, empting the

trash and cleaning off the office desk and at night setting two alarm clocks

before I turn out the lights. As time goes on I will write down some of the

other things that I do on a regular basics.

[Guest guest]

Does any one want to know what soap Rabindranatha uses

and how long he takes to shower. What kind of food he

eats and how much. Does he go and clean the stalls and

does he bathe the cows?

 

I wonder how many of us want to read his personal

dairy other than Kalavati108, on a daily basis. I

joined this conference to learn about cows and

concerns of cow protection and not to read some one's

personal dairy.

 

Sastri

 

--- "holycow108 (AT) juno (DOT) com" <holycow108 (AT) juno (DOT) com> wrote:

 

>

> I have to ask the same question as Gosh, "This is

> all very nice, but the

> relevance to cows is.....?" As Kakavati also says

> all very nice and great to

> hear but this is the cow conference not the

> Varnasrama College conference and I

> thought we were suppose to be talking about cows not

> someone's diary about

> their daily life. I think it would be different say

> if Gosh posted memorys

> from his diary about working with cows or Hare Krsna

> did, that would be ok. I

> really don't think Rabindranatha should post his

> diary here, or is that ok now

> since he is now in charge and can now post what ever

> he wants. No offense

> intended in any of this just want to know what

> direction this confrence is

> going to be going. Cows or Varnasrama College

>

> -- Kalavatidevi108 (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote:

> In a message dated 1/22/2005 10:10:42 PM Mountain

> Standard Time,

> Rabindranatha.ACBSP (AT) pamho (DOT) net writes:

> One may ask why mention all these things? The reason

> I do is to get feedback

> from others whether or not one should do such things

> or for that matter even

> mention them. Another reason being is that I am

> interested in writing a book

> on Nitya-Kriya i.e. regular daily activities and

> also giving a class in it

> here at the college.

>

>

> I think it's great - for one, because it's your

> diary (which has relevance to

> you personally, to your Varnashrama College service

> and community, and for

> posterity in general) and also because hearing that

> you're sweeping and mopping

>

> the office floor is not some mundane, irrelevant

> fact. It's enlivening. A

> devotee's service is glorious and transcendental.

> When I first read that I

> thought, "This is so nice! It's one of the

> regulative principles (from the

> long

> lists of what devotees are supposed to do - not the

> 4 regs.) that we're

> supposed to do. Clean our homes (or offices!) to

> start the day in devotional

> service

> right!" So all glories to your orderly life and

> detailed information! By

> being so regulated and having records, you are

> giving a good example of the

> qualities of a brahmana.

>

> Your servant,

> Kalavati devi dasi

>

>

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