http://www.urbanmissionary.info Communication >> Krishna Consciousness >> Leadership Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:05:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks everyone for your encouragement and comments. Please visit my new blog at www.atmayogi.com when you get a chance. I'll leave this site up with all its resources. I can't maintain two blogs effectively, so I will be concentrating my energy on atmayogi.com and merging into it my livejournal blog (jwulf.livejournal.com). Initially ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/09/11/new-blog-is-at-atmayogicom/ I am no longer going to be maintaining this blog. My server was hacked two weeks ago by a Saudi Arabian hacker sympathetic to the plight of the Lebanese people. At first my reaction was one of dread at the work ahead of me to rebuild the server, but after ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/09/07/goodbye/ Here's a funkin' mix by DJ Vraj, hot off the press. Dhruva had some CDs of it at Janmastami, and I got a rip. It's 28 minutes long, and is a mix from Vraj's record collection. Neither of us can remember all of the artists who got mixed up in there. ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/21/dj-vraj-in-da-house/ Candidasa writes about the power of eating together. A recent article in Time magazine discussed the same subject: Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/19/eating-together/ Param Satya is going to be preparing the prasadam with which the devotees will break fast at midnight on Janmastami. Here in Australia where we are now, and in many parts of the world, devotees talk about an "Ekadasi Feast" to break fast at midnight. When we arrived in Peru devotees ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/14/ekadasi-feast-on-janmastami/ We're "flying the flag" with a Sunday Feast on steroids at the Graceville State School Hall, 23 Acacia Rd, Chelmer, from 3 pm until late. The place has a great PA and lighting system and a modular stage made out of nine or ten units like the one we have at ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/13/sri-krishna-janmastami-2/ This is meant for people who think about what they are doing and what the consequences are. Individual actions aggregate into larger social and economic manifestations. Most people, unfortunately, are only concerned with themselves and the immediate short term effects of their actions on themselves. However, there is always an ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/10/why-you-should-not-use-internet-explorer-7/ F-spot can export photos directly to Gallery, so I've installed Gallery 2 on my site now. I can now click photos in F-spot on any of my desktops, and then directly export them to the website with a couple of clicks. How cool is that? Check out the new photo gallery. http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/09/new-photo-gallery/ THE Devil has been unfairly and wilfully maligned and deserves a reassessment, according to a new study. Finally the big man gets some understanding. :-) This new reading of the Christian material is closer to the philosophical understanding of the Gaudiya Vaisnavas and Hindus (as in philosophical / religious traditions originating in ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/09/satan-a-victim-of-bad-pr/ Lord Balarama's appearance. Today is also the anniversary of the Brahma Vimohana-lila, as I remember it. Not sure where this comes from, but I heard that Lord Balarama was not present when the cowherd boys were stolen (and hence wondered when he saw the effects on their parents of Krishna's ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/09/lord-balarama-and-the-blame-game/ Tonight, Jhulan Yatra at the temple in Graceville. Our resident photographer, Sukanthi Radha, left for London last night after a year as part of the family here in Brisbane. Just before she left I showed her how to use F-Spot, the photo management software that she has installed on her laptop as ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/08/sunday-feast-evolution/ Something in one of the feeds to ISKCON News.net corrupted the disk cache and I had to wipe it out. The page will straighten itself out over the next few hours. http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/03/iskcon-newsnet-out-of-sync/ Your destiny is created daily, not in a day. Whatever you do every day - that is what you will become. http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/03/destiny/ Unfortunately blogspot doesn't allow the photos that are published on blogs on their site to be displayed from within webpages on other sites, so Ride Within and Madhava Ghosh's photos don't display on ISKCON News.net. If anyone has an idea of a way around this, I'm all ears. http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/08/01/missing-photos/ Sriman Caitanya deva tvam vande Gauranga sundaram Sacinandana mantra he Yadi chudamani prabho http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/07/31/prayer-to-lord-caitanya/ Lately I've been reading a few of the articles on yogadangers.com. I first came across this site a few months ago when it popped up in the Google ads I was trialling on my blog. I read through it then, but revisited it the other day after a recent incident. On ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/07/30/kundalini-and-the-real-goal-of-yoga-practice/ Lord Kapila, the Personality of Godhead, who is the highest authority on yoga, here explains the yoga system known as ashtanga-yoga, which comprises eight different practices, namely yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and samadhi. By all these stages of practice one must realize Lord Vishnu, who is the ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/07/30/hello/ Core Power Yoga, which is based on Baron Baptiste's Power Yoga and Bikram's Hot Yoga, has it. 50% of the people absolutely love it, 50% hate it (read some reviews). If you are going to appeal strongly to some people, then other people are not going to like it. That's ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/07/30/love-it-or-hate-it/ This is an interesting article that I'd like to bookmark for myself, and thought I'd share it with you. In the same way, leadership can also be demonstrated in a number of contexts, whether as the head of an organization, or as the unassuming Everyman (or Woman) who may not have ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/07/26/generational-differences-in-approaches-to-leadership/ Today is the 2nd anniversary of this blog. Today in history: 2004 We'd been in Australia for about six months. Let the blogging begin This blog is launched with the identity "The Virtual Pen of Sita-pati das" and the mission statement: "What I'm doing - What I'm thinking" Welcome to my new blog. I will ... http://www.urbanmissionary.info/2006/07/26/happy-birthday-2/