"Serving Love"

If y'all head on over to www.krishna.com, you can check out the feature "Serving Love", a film about the awesome and ecstatic Vegan Cooking Workshop prasad program run by the monks of the New Vrindaban Brahmacari Ashram.

This film was made by HG Sri-Kishore Das, a super-friend of the Brahmacari Ashram and New Vrindaban Community, currently working for his master's degree in Film at Ohio University. This earthly planet will no doubt hear and see a lot more from Sri-Kishore, for he is a soul of great determination, drive, heart, and appetite!

The New Vrindaban Radio Programming Guide

Please accept my humble obesiances
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Greetings from New Vrindaban Dham. This past Friday, our application for an FM airwave frequency was sent through to the mighty Federal Communications Commission, and within the next 1-2 months, we will find out if New Vrindaban Dham has been awarded its own FM radio station.

As we anticipate the final decision, I just wanted to unveil to you, the friends and well-wishers of Club 108, a early Programming Guide of possible programs we are planning to do for our FM station.

What we are seeking from you is your input to the Programming guide, i.e what additional programs you would like to see, and also we are seeking advice and hands-on help to get the station up-and-running, especially in terms of getting ourselves hooked up to the Internet, where devotees worldwide could share in our programming.

As always, your help and guidance is essential to our projects

Thank you very much for your time
your humble servant
Bhakta-Chris, Club 108, New Vrindaban Dham

without further ado...here is the Programming Guide

Introduction to Krishna Consciousness-A weekly educational series which explores the basics of our philosophy, based on the teachings from the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. Topics will include Dharma, Karma, Reincarnation, The Nature of the Cosmos, Our Real Position, Matter vs Spirit, Reincarnation, and Spiritual Vegetarianism. (59 min weekly program, recorded)

The Lectures of Srila Prabhupada-A series of the essential lectures and teachings given by His Divine Grace A.C Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of the International Society of Krsna Consciousness (88 min daily program, recorded)

Radio Free Krishna-A feature in-studio program with live interviews, musical performances, spiritual discussions, vegetarian recipes, live dramas, and other assorted goodies. Bringing the vibrant atmosphere of the New Vrindaban Community into your very home (88 min weekly program, live)

The Great Teachers of Krsna Consciousness-A series of essential lectures and teachings given by some of the most advanced devotees and leaders of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness. This program will include lectures and talks by such exalted souls as HH Radhanath Swami, HH Gour Govinda Swami, HH Bhakti-Tirtha Swami, and many more (88 min daily program, recorded)

The Sounds of the Lord-The transcendent sounds of the sankirtan movement, as the Holy Names of the Lord resound through many different musical genres, from classical Indian ragas to rock and roll to reggae. Featuring a wide variety of classical and contemporary artists, with occasional live performances. (88 min daily program, recorded and live)

The Vedic Classics-Selected readings from the tree of spiritual knowledge, the Vedas. Readings will be taken from the Bhagavad-Gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Caitanya-Charitamrta, and other works translated by Srila Prabhupada. Discussion of read works will also be included. (59 min daily program, recorded)

Vegan and Vegetarian Cooking-A delightful and delicious program featuring discussion of the art and philosophy of spiritual vegetarianism, and of course we will have presentations of world-class recipes from our tradition. A feast for the ears and the stomach. (29 min weekly program, recorded)

The Garden of Devotion-An educational program on how to grow many different fruits and vegetables for the pleasure of the Supreme Lord. This program will discuss methods and technologies for successful organic gardening, from planting to harvesting and beyond. (29 min weekly program, recorded)

The Sustainable Spiritual Revolution-A discussion on fascinating topics, articles, ideas, and solutions geared towards the idea that the only successful movement of environmental sustainability must be based on spiritual values. This program will included interviews and discussion with a variety of guests from many spiritual and secular fields. (29 min weekly program, recorded and live)

New Vrindaban Today-A public affairs program discussing issues important to the residents of the New Vrindaban Community (29 min weekly program, recorded and live)

Srimad-Bhagavatam Temple Class-A daily recording of the morning’s class on the essential Vedic classic Srimad-Bhagavatam, the ripened fruit of the tree of Vedic knowledge. (59 min daily program, recorded)

New Vrindaban Youth Power-A program hosted by members of the New Vrindaban Brahmacari Ashram and Youth Community, focusing on issues relating to the next generation of Krsna Conscious outreach. This program will feature interview, discussion, music, and improvised segments. (29 min weekly program, recorded and live)

New Vrindaban Memories-Members of the New Vrindaban Community share stories and pastimes of the long history of spirit and devotion here in the hills of West Virginia. (29 min weekly program, recorded)

On the road again...

This past weekend, select reps of the New Vrindaban Brahmacari Ashram packed inside into HG Ananda Vidya Prabhu's legendary white Sprinter book distribution van and did one of the things we do best (besides exceptional vegan cooking, charismatic cultivation of pious college youth, and soul-jiving kirtan), which is falling into a deep sleep to the hum of the freeway.

Many thanks to HG Pradyumna Prabhu and family (Manish, Nisha, and Vinay) for hosting us and setting up a wonderful program with members of the Baltimore Bhakti-Vrksa congregation on Friday night, and also bigs ups to HG Gauravani Prabhu and family for another wonderful Sacred Sound program.

We'll be back soon!

Here are some photographic impressions...

Parallel universes really do exist?

This leaves me in quite a quandary, as there is nothing I've come across in my reading of Prabhupada's books that comes even close to incorporating the theory of parallel universes.

How can we, as individual souls, have a bunch of so-called "clone souls" experiencing all possibilities of every situation that we encounter? There is nothing I've encountered yet in the Vedic paradigm that has anything to do with this bizarre, impersonal, and seemingly ludicrous theory.

Original article linked here

Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists described by one expert as "one of the most important developments in the history of science". The parallel universe theory, first proposed in 1950 by the US physicist Hugh Everett, helps explain mysteries of quantum mechanics that have baffled scientists for decades, it is claimed. In Everett's "many worlds" universe, every time a new physical possibility is explored, the universe splits. Given a number of possible alternative outcomes, each one is played out - in its own universe. A motorist who has a near miss, for instance, might feel relieved at his lucky escape. But in a parallel universe, another version of the same driver will have been killed. Yet another universe will see the motorist recover after treatment in hospital. The number of alternative scenarios is endless. It is a bizarre idea which has been dismissed as fanciful by many experts. But the new research from Oxford shows that it offers a mathematical answer to quantum conundrums that cannot be dismissed lightly - and suggests that Dr Everett, who was a Phd student at Princeton University when he came up with the theory, was on the right track. Commenting in New Scientist magazine, Dr Andy Albrecht, a physicist at the University of California at Davis, said: "This work will go down as one of the most important developments in the history of science." According to quantum mechanics, nothing at the subatomic scale can really be said to exist until it is observed. Until then, particles occupy nebulous "superposition" states, in which they can have simultaneous "up" and "down" spins, or appear to be in different places at the same time. Observation appears to "nail down" a particular state of reality, in the same way as a spinning coin can only be said to be in a "heads" or "tails" state once it is caught. According to quantum mechanics, unobserved particles are described by "wave functions" representing a set of multiple "probable" states. When an observer makes a measurement, the particle then settles down into one of these multiple options. The Oxford team, led by Dr David Deutsch, showed mathematically that the bush-like branching structure created by the universe splitting into parallel versions of itself can explain the probabilistic nature of quantum outcomes. © Copyright Press Association Ltd 2007, All Rights Reserved.

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Club 108 is the progressive arm of New Vrindaban outreach, combining the practices and beliefs of Krsna Conscious life with the power of modern technology, making connections between the best of Eastern and Western cultures. "Sight-Sound-Vision" is our motto, as we strive to serve the ISKCON community and beyond with experiences designed to immerse you deeper in the most sublime of spiritual experiences. We are also deeply connected and motivated to the ideals of spiritual self-sufficiency as envisioned by Srila Prabhupada, being put into practice here at New Vrindaban in many wonderful ways. Join us and stay tuned!