New Hare Krishna center in East Oakland
Posted by Hansadutta das on February 23, 2010
1406 East 77th Avenue
Oakland, California
Call 510-593-7291 or 415-678-6446
Bhagavad-gita Class: Mon & Wed, 7pm
Free lunch Saturday, 1:00pm More here… »
What are you praying for?
Posted by Hansadutta das on February 21, 2010
What Are You Praying For? Chant Hare Krsna and Connect!
HANSADUTTA: When you say “prayers”, what are you praying for? Everyone is actually praying at all times. When you go to the bank and ask for a loan, it’s a prayer. “Sir, I need that fifty thousand dolllars”—it’s a prayer. When we go to the university, we pray to the professor, “Please give me a good mark. Please give me my degree.” When we go for employment, we go to the interview, we give the person our resume and try to convince them they should hire us, we’re praying. Candidates for presidency or governor, they go to the public and plead, “Please give me your vote.” So everyone is praying. More here… »
Feeding the sadhus
Posted by Hansadutta das on February 11, 2010
How to Make Kitri (aka Kitcheree) Part I
Kitri is a sadhu’s meal, because it’s a combination of rice and dal and vegetables all cooked in one pot. The sadhus, the holy men in India, since they have no home, are generally wandering, living a very simple life, and they don’t want to be bothered with cooking every day. They don’t have the time, and they don’t have the facility, so they make what is known as kitri, a combination of dal, rice and a variety of vegetables, whatever is available to them. More here… »
Want your fortune told?
Posted by Hansadutta das on January 31, 2010
I can tell everyone’s fortune, even my own….
There is BIRTH and DEATH, in between there is OLD AGE and DISEASE, and baked into this sweet cake of life (KUCHEN) are three other ingredients, adhyatmika, adhidaivika, adhibhautika*.
The cake of life is eaten with six other preparations, they are: lust, anger, greed, lamentation and illusion, topped off with a strong cup of MADNESS like a cup of strong coffee as in a German Kaffeestube, where friends, lovers and countrymen gather to “chit-chat” (Kaffeeklatsch) prajalpa** about their birth, death, old age and diseases, oblivious that their small spot of life is dwindling away, like the sand running down in an hour glass. More here… »
