Vegan Cooking! (or...in my Hindi...Wegan Cooking!)

It's a Tuesday tradition six years running here on the campus of Ohio University. The world famous Vegan Cooking Workshop! In case you need to catch up, here's a couple of movies we made about it last here (made by yours truly and made by HG Sri-Kishore Prabhu-ji)

Balarama welcomed everyone warmly to the Mediterraean feast (falafel, pitas, tabouli, red pepper hummus! and baklava straight from Mother Yasoda's kitchen), and also promoted our weekly meditation discussions by saying that "everyone needs a little meditation to fight the fear being imposed on us by the amero."

Fight the power! Here's some pics...






The Master Chef, The Iron Yogi.




Garrison ponders it all


Quickly devoured

Tour De Athens

I came to Athens to chant 192 rounds a day, continue my vrata of drinking organic sodas, and to write long-winded blogs, whilst also planning to cut the occasional vegetable and wash the occasional pot. Yesterday I impulsively tore myself out of this routine for what I thought would be a nice bike ride around town with the Transcendental Chaps, but 25 miles later, I realized that that austerity really is the wealth of my life! Here's some pics!

Conscious

As usual, in this time of year, Conscious Ohio and the Vegan Cooking Workshop are dominating the scene at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Balarama Chandra Prabhu and the Loyal Tulasi-Bead Necklace Wearing Crew (Mauricio, Sri Kishore, Tess, Naren, Jason, Garrison, Sam, etc!) are feeding the hungry students of this prestigious Mid-American institution of educations with food for the stomach and for the soul.

Myself, the sometimes humble overseer of the blog, will be here for the next month documenting the flavor of it all.

So, let's begin as always, with the visual proof...


Balarama in his natural state






Soma is "Master Cleansing", and is in the process here...


Serving out at Mountainfest 2008...Mauricio guards the prasad with karate skills

Sweatin and prayin....

Thanks once again to the mercy of "Yoga" Dave, we...


Phani


Soma


Adi-Guru

...and myself (not pictured) once again tasted the sweet austerity of a traditional sweat lodge this past week in the chill but comfortable Maryland air.

Thanks to the wise guidance and enthusiasm of Dave, our experience deep inside the womb was filled with the resounding sound of the Holy Names. All left perspired and inspired. Here's the visual proof...

I need a laptop.....

What is this? A so-called brahmacari asking for a laptop?

Indeed, your senses do not deceive you.

Since this is the 21st Century, some of my services (such as the Club 108 blog and the "Simple Living, High Thinking" newsletter) require that I use a computer.

Since the computer I was using here at New Vrindaban died a tragic and mysterious death a few months ago, I am without a consistent bag of chips and bits that I can call my own, and whether it's here at NV or wherever else I may go, I have to wait and sometimes even compete to use the available computers. I know, the shame...

So, I'm not hoping for a personal laptop to just space out. That is there, but also it will help me continue my sincere efforts to network and strengthen our communities of devotees worldwide.

As a struggling brahmacari, I am also without finances. My options are traditional here. I am asking and even begging for someone very merciful to either sponsor a laptop for me (such as this one or this one or this one or even this one), or donate one that they no longer have use for.

Help a brother out! Contact me by e-mail at cfici26@yahoo.com, or nvclub108@gmail.com.