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River of Erudition: November 2011
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Sunday, November 13, 2011. Okay, that sounds cool and fair. Yay to America for encouraging creativity, which often has low money remuneration, etc, but greatly benefits society. But because creativity often DOES benefit society, how do we share that with the world without stepping on the toes of the creator? As an educator, this will come up frequently in my work. And the best way to create a mood of respect for others' inherent ownership of creativity, that takes setting the example. How so? B) Webcams ...
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River of Erudition: December 2011
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Friday, December 2, 2011. When I think of the digital divide, I am reminded of the "earthshake" scene in the old animated movie The Land Before Time. The world is shaking and changing. And sometimes, the "great divide" is unbroachable. I know, kinda dramatic. Besides, we're in anything but the "dinosaur age"! But "consumers" have little to no knowledge to how technology actually works. They just use a technology that has already been produced.The problem is that as technology advances, less and l...I bel...
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Seed of Devotion: Poetry
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ব্রাহ্মান্দা ব্রাহ্মিতে কনা ভাগ্যবান জিভা গুরু-ক্র্সনা-ক্র্পায়া পায়া ভক্তি-লতা-বিজ. I love the written word. I love to read it, I love to write it. But for me, poetry is possibly the most challenging of words to read, and the most challenging to write. To tell you the truth, I actually used to hate poetry. I sometimes find that an emotion or moment is too poignant to capture in a story. And it's in those moments that I allow poetry to take over and write for me. For Poetry on Seed of Devotion. For the li...
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Seed of Devotion: Video
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ব্রাহ্মান্দা ব্রাহ্মিতে কনা ভাগ্যবান জিভা গুরু-ক্র্সনা-ক্র্পায়া পায়া ভক্তি-লতা-বিজ. With my dinky little Samsung camera, I have somehow recorded some of the most profound experiences in my travels. Publishing each video individually doesn't seem to do the magic of the moment justice, so I have decided to create collages. I remember that I had many issues of faith regarding the holy village of Vrindavan. But when I worked on that first video, Welcome to Vrindavan. Welcome to the South India Yatra. You may...
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Seed of Devotion: Three: The Musician
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ব্রাহ্মান্দা ব্রাহ্মিতে কনা ভাগ্যবান জিভা গুরু-ক্র্সনা-ক্র্পায়া পায়া ভক্তি-লতা-বিজ. Sunday, March 1, 2009. Touch of the Brajabasi: The Musician. In Vrindavan, I had a policy: don’t give to beggars. I envisioned that if I gave to one, I would be swarmed with beggars from the entire street demanding their share. . So I just didn’t give. I had lived in Vrindavan for over a month and I had not given a single rupee to a single beggar. I had planned to keep it that way. . Before, the streets had always been a ...
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Seed of Devotion: Wake Up to Love
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ব্রাহ্মান্দা ব্রাহ্মিতে কনা ভাগ্যবান জিভা গুরু-ক্র্সনা-ক্র্পায়া পায়া ভক্তি-লতা-বিজ. Thursday, June 25, 2015. Wake Up to Love. What am I going to do with my life? Sheez, what a heavy question. Last night in a pool of light from my bedstand, I was scrawling away in my journal. I'm facing the fact that suddenly I'm unsure what. I'm going to do for a meaningful career or service in life. I've been feeling tortured about this lately, seriously. So I decided to lighten up! Just play around. I dare you. Lots of...
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Seed of Devotion: Photography
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ব্রাহ্মান্দা ব্রাহ্মিতে কনা ভাগ্যবান জিভা গুরু-ক্র্সনা-ক্র্পায়া পায়া ভক্তি-লতা-বিজ. Fascinated by National Geographic, as a teenager I read many books on how to take good pictures. Then I stumbled upon Nick Kelsh’s How To Photograph Your Life. And suddenly my fascination became a passion. With photography, I don't have to create anything. Photography is the skill of viewing life. As art. As an artist, it’s like capturing one moment in the billions of ways the universe blossoms and unfolds. Is why I write.
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Seed of Devotion: May 2015
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ব্রাহ্মান্দা ব্রাহ্মিতে কনা ভাগ্যবান জিভা গুরু-ক্র্সনা-ক্র্পায়া পায়া ভক্তি-লতা-বিজ. Saturday, May 30, 2015. For the Kirtan Connection course that I teach, we have a private blog where students write a post every week and comment on their fellow students' posts. This week our topic was kirtan etiquette and pride. I just finished commenting on every post. In this course, we have a woman who received spiritual initiation in 1979 and is now returning to the Krishna conscious movement. I am in awe by the beau...
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Seed of Devotion: EXPLORE
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ব্রাহ্মান্দা ব্রাহ্মিতে কনা ভাগ্যবান জিভা গুরু-ক্র্সনা-ক্র্পায়া পায়া ভক্তি-লতা-বিজ. Would you like to experience more of Seed of Devotion but don't know where to start? Click on the headline or its corresponding picture to head to your next destination. Explore the world - festivals, kirtans, and holy places of pilgrimage. Or to narrow your travels, click on the below pictures for your passport. Alachua is the largest community of Vaishnavas in the world outside of India. The inspiration of my life.
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Seed of Devotion: Courage to Change
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ব্রাহ্মান্দা ব্রাহ্মিতে কনা ভাগ্যবান জিভা গুরু-ক্র্সনা-ক্র্পায়া পায়া ভক্তি-লতা-বিজ. Monday, July 6, 2015. The Serentiy Series is based upon this prayer: God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.]. Time began to spin by and my anxiety picked up speed. I began to fret. How could I have lived in Alachua for seven years and feel so hesitant to reach out to anyone there? Was I a stranger? Now Ghanashyam and I are visi...
