Gaura devi biography of christopher
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Remembering Gauri bygd Dvarakadhisa Devi Dasi
Both in living and in dying, this senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada's exemplified the essence of Krsna consciousness.
On June 5, 1986, Gauri-devi dasi passed from her body in the holy land of Vrndavana, India. For seventeen years she had been devotedly serving her spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, within the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Gauri was a sincere and dedicated preacher, giving herself fully to Srila Prabhupada's uppdrag and working tirelessly to distribute his books. Even as she became very ill with cancer in late 1984, she never lost her vigorous determination to give Krsna consciousness to others.
In 1974 Srila Prabhupada heard how the devotees were distributing his books in increasing numbers. This book transport is called sankirtana, a direct means of glorifying the Supreme Lord, Krsna. Lord Caitanya specifically cited sankirtana as t
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Hindu dharma contains several instances about the worship of natural entities in its sacred texts such as the Vedas, Upanishads, and Puranas. For millennia, Hindus have been reciting their mantras to revere the rivers, mountains, trees, animals, and the earth. In 1970s, when the Chipko (tree-hugging) Movement arose in the Indian Himalayas, several observers noted its connections with the Hindu traditions [1, 2], but there are several other examples of Hindu action for the environment that are centuries old [3]. The majority of rural Hindu communities are still living their premodern lives and therefore are yet to wake up to the modern environmental movements that started after 1970s [4]. However, the modern urban Hindu organizations have included environmentalism in their agenda as we will see in this chapter. Most of the Hindu organizations that have started in twentieth or twenty-first century are responding to modern ecological problems with modern means much in line with Weste
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River Ganga, communities, cultures and Livelihood
It is an honor for me to speak at the Jawahar Bhawan, dedicated to the iconic man, I did not see him but whatever that I read about him, through his writings, has made an everlasting impression on me. I would like to quote Jawahar Lal Nehru from his ‘Will’.
He says,
‘My desire to have a handful of my ashes thrown into the Ganga at Allahabad has no religious significance, so far as I am concerned. I have no religious sentiment in the matter. I have been attached to the Ganga and Januna [Jumna] Rivers in Allahabad ever since my childhood and, as I have grown older, this attachment has also grown. I have watched their varying moods as the seasons changed, and have often thought of the history and myth and tradition and song and story that have become attached to them through the long ages and become part of their flowing waters. The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved by her people, round which are intertwined her rac