I’ve been a vegetarian for most of my adult life. Although I’ve always felt strongly that the needless killing of animals is morally wrong, recently I’ve come to feel even stronger about it. This of course goes against the thrust of Western civilizations, which have been avid eaters (unlike many Oriental cultures) since their inception. [...]
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A Darwinian Argument for a Non-Violent Diet
Posted in Hinduism, Hinduism and Science on February 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Adventures in ISKCON — an update on the Temple of Vedic Planetarium
Posted in Hinduism, ISKCON, tagged Add new tag on October 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It started with a letter to a group of ISKCON members who had gathered in Florida to discuss a multi-million dollar project, the Temple of Vedic Planetarium (TVP), to be built in West Bengal, India. I wrote a private letter to them on June, 10th 2008 and waited for a reply. To my [...]
ISKCON’s temple project in Mayapura, India
Posted in Hinduism, Hinduism and Ecology, Hinduism and Science, ISKCON on May 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The Governing Body Commission (GBC) of ISKCON recently approved the temple design for a massive structure to be built in Mayapura, India. I have some doubts about the design and the general conception of the project, which I discuss here.
I appreciate that many ISKCON members spent considerable time and energy working on the project. I have [...]
ISKCON; do we have a political voice?
Posted in Hinduism, ISKCON, Politics on August 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have recently become interested in American politics, partly because of 9/11/2001, the preemptive invasion of Iraq, and what appears to be a huge number of civilian deaths there. When I mention my interest with ISCKON members, the reaction is often that Srila Prabhupada was not concerned politics and that politics is not the [...]
Knowledge & Devotion, Meetings of Minds & Hearts
Posted in Hinduism, ISKCON on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Every summer for five years myself and about twelve people who are practicing or in some way connected to Chaitanya Vaishnavism meet at my parents house outside of Boston for a weekend of devotional fellowship and intellectual discussion. By the advice and guidance of HH Dhanurdhara Swami we started this gathering because we had noticed [...]
Mahabharata meets British Theatre
Posted in Hinduism, Uncategorized on June 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In June 2007 we experienced that the dreams of many come true: the Mahabharata, the most famous Indian epic, is being performed on a theatre stage. I went to the performance with my husband, guru and a few devotees from Oxford. A member of Iskcon, Gaura Lila Prabhu from Switzerland, was the co-producer of this [...]
Science, Religion and Vaishnavism: The luxury of being an outsider by Janakirama Dasa
Posted in Hinduism on May 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I had a funny experience in my early teens. I befriended a fellow student who had just moved to my town from
California—let’s call him Louie. We got along great. Louie soon invited me to his house, a newly built mini-mansion on a quite street. When we met his mother in the kitchen, she and Louie [...]
Ecology, Human Motives and Self-Reform by Janakirama Dasa
Posted in Hinduism, Science and Religion on May 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Many world leaders, scientists and scholars are arguing that the planet Earth is troubled by a major ecological crisis, and that human race is directly responsible for this crisis. Many feel that if the human race does not change its course of action, the then we may be headed to our ultimate peril. What have [...]
