Welcome To Govardhan Gardens

[suchandra]

Is this the alternative to organized Vaishnava spirituality - institutionalized spirituality - and thereby creating a high risk situation for the members by running an insecure system which failed again and again? Our former TP, Sadhusangananda das (HKS) doesnt regret one second of having chosen to start his own project, Welcome to Govardhan Gardens.

<tt>FRUIT & NUT COLLECTION 2006/07 (280 SPECIES)</tt>

 

 

 

http://www.organicfarm.net/

 

"Govardhan Gardens, located close by Mayaguez (Puerto Rico) is a small organic farm and tropical rare fruit nursery. Its goal is to bring people closer to nature, caring for the earth and environment, as well as encouraging independent living and thought, grassroots social cooperation, and inspiring meaningful, self-sufficiency oriented lifestyles outside the grid of media/consumer-created culture."

ORO VERDE is a thought-provoking publication that convincingly explains why locally grown and processed food is better for your health, our small-scale farmers, the environment and the local economy.

http://govardhan-garden-news.blogspot.com/

[Guruvani]

sounds like a fresh approach to Krishna consciousness.

keep up the good work!

[suchandra]

 

sounds like a fresh approach to Krishna consciousness.

keep up the good work!

Thanks for your kind reply, according our previous KC upbringing the exact quality of spiritual projects could be only measured when taking place within a spiritual institution. In order to appreciate the spiritual value of a project run outside institutionalized spirituality things look presently foggy, misty, nebulous, are easily mistaken with activity under the spell of maya or material illusion. Looks like presently the situation is like that that institutionalized Vaishnavism in the West is so extremely successful that they don't have to stand for that to look left or right!

When Lord Ramachandra was building the bridge to Lanka, Hanuman was doing his bit, so was a tiny frail spider. Somebody laughed about what the spider was doing, however, that did not please Lord Ramachandra very much.

[Vigraha]

 

 

Thanks for the reminder, time to eat the left over prasad from the Suday feast, thanks for reminding me Suchandra prabhu

[suchandra]

 

Thanks for the reminder, time to eat the left over prasad from the Sunday feast, thanks for reminding me Suchandra prabhu

Print more invitation cards so that more people come to the Sunday feast, in this way you don't have to overeat.

 

 

"One's devotional service is spoiled when he becomes too entangled in the following six activities: (1) eating more than necessary or collecting more funds than required; (2) overendeavoring for mundane things that are very difficult to obtain; (3) talking unnecessarily about mundane subject matters; (4) Practicing the scriptural rules and regulations only for the sake of following them and not for the sake of spiritual advancement, or rejecting the rules and regulations of the scriptures and working independently or whimsically; (5) associating with worldly-minded persons who are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness; and (6) being greedy for mundane achievements.

 

PURPORT

 

Human life is meant for plain living and high thinking. Since all conditioned living beings are under the control of the Lord's third energy, this material world is designed so that one is obliged to work. The Supreme Personality of Godhead has three primary energies, or potencies. The first is called antarańga-śakti, or the internal potency. The second is called taṭastha-śakti, or the marginal potency. The third is called bahirańga-śakti, or the external potency. The living entities constitute the marginal potency, and they are situated between the internal and external Potencies. Being subordinate as eternal servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the jīvātmās, or atomic living entities, must remain under the control of either the internal or external potency. When they are under the control of the internal potency, they display their natural, constitutional activity — namely, constant engagement in the devotional service of the Lord. This is stated in Bhagavad-gītā (9.13)":

 

Full purport:http://vedabase.net/noi/2/en