We Just Bought the Land for Krishna's New Temple
We have the greatest auspicious news to share with you all today! Here in Austin, Texas USA on Monday 23 February 2015 we finalized the purchase of 1.27 acres of land for constructing a temple at 13800 Ida Ridge Drive in north Austin. We are eternally grateful to all of you who donated last year in our fund raising drive for getting this land. We were able to pay cash for it. So now ISKCON Austin owns it completely debt free.
Although it was bitterly cold our hearts were warmly beaming with joy. We gathered whatever devotees we could muster to celebrate Krishna's new land with an ecstatic Hare Krishna kirtan. One neighborhood family driving by were so intrigued by seeing us singing and dancing in ecstasy even though it was so miserably cold that they stopped their car for a few minutes and rolled down their windows despite the frigidity so they could enjoy our ecstatic singing and dancing and see what the rapturous celebration was all about
Now we have a wonderful exciting new project to focus on. We are going to get an architectural plan with an accurate cost estimate so that we can kick off our fund raising campaign for this wonderful temple.
When I joined ISKCON forty-four years ago here in Austin in 1971 my beloved spiritual master, ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, personally ordered me to make our Austin center a grand success. Now we are one step closer to achieving that goal. I am now humbly begging all of my disciples, students, readers as well as all devotees of Krishna and lovers of God and truth all over the world to please help us in whatever they can to make a beautiful temple for Krishna here in Austin. Austin is many ways becoming a prominent city in the world. Therefore it should certainly have a first-class Hare Krishna temple to inspire and train the Austinites and those who visit Austin in the powerful, liberating science of Krishna consciousness.
Inaugural Hare Krishna Kirtan on Lord Sri Krishna's Land
Regards,
Parag R. Rane
In the Vedic society the leaders were the brahmanas whose advise of how to govern the human society was strictly followed by the administrator-warrior class. In the modern day society the administrator class has chopped off the head of the social body illegitimately usurping the leading role by ignoring the learned, enlightened guidance of the qualified brahmanas. Therefore there is ever-increasing chaos in the human society. One can lose his arms, legs, and even his belly and still survive. But if one's head is cut off, his death is immediate. The brahmanas are the head of the society. When a body without a head, it is immediately dead.
In the Kali yuga, the age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the unqualified descendants of the former qualified brahmanas have claimed brahminical status on the basis of birth. This perverted act has led to the destruction of the Vedic culture. Krishna clearly states in the Bhagavad-gita that one is known as a brahmana not by his birth, but by his qualification and his activities. The real brahmana is described as follows the Bhagavad-gita:
śamo damas tapaḥ śaucaṁ
kṣāntir ārjavam eva ca
jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ
brahma-karma svabhāva-jam
"Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, knowledge, wisdom and religiousness—these are the natural qualities by which the brahmanas work."
--Bhagavad-gita 18.42
The Krishna consciousness movement has revived genuine brahminical culture by training up a new class of enlightened spiritual teachers all over the world that can save the human society from spiraling down into total destruction. Now it is up to the administrative class of men all of the world to recognize the leadership of these qualified brahmanas and bring back the happy days of Vedic culture to this miserably suffering world.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Although it was bitterly cold our hearts were warmly beaming with joy. We gathered whatever devotees we could muster to celebrate Krishna's new land with an ecstatic Hare Krishna kirtan. One neighborhood family driving by were so intrigued by seeing us singing and dancing in ecstasy even though it was so miserably cold that they stopped their car for a few minutes and rolled down their windows despite the frigidity so they could enjoy our ecstatic singing and dancing and see what the rapturous celebration was all about
Now we have a wonderful exciting new project to focus on. We are going to get an architectural plan with an accurate cost estimate so that we can kick off our fund raising campaign for this wonderful temple.
When I joined ISKCON forty-four years ago here in Austin in 1971 my beloved spiritual master, ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, personally ordered me to make our Austin center a grand success. Now we are one step closer to achieving that goal. I am now humbly begging all of my disciples, students, readers as well as all devotees of Krishna and lovers of God and truth all over the world to please help us in whatever they can to make a beautiful temple for Krishna here in Austin. Austin is many ways becoming a prominent city in the world. Therefore it should certainly have a first-class Hare Krishna temple to inspire and train the Austinites and those who visit Austin in the powerful, liberating science of Krishna consciousness.
Filling Out the Paperwork for this Auspicious Land Purchase
The Sale is Finalized. The Land Now Belongs to ISKCON!
Wonderful 1.27 Acres for Our Future ISKCON Austin Temple
Inaugural Hare Krishna Kirtan on Lord Sri Krishna's Land
Although Bitterly Cold We Were Celebrating in Ecstasy!
Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:
Question: Who is a Brahmana?
What is meant by being Brahmana by gunas, by qualification?Regards,
Parag R. Rane
Answer: A Person Who Possesses Brahminical Qualities
In human society, no matter what culture, there are always four natural divisions, four social orders: brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, and sudras. Brahmanas are the priestly intellectual class, the head of the social body. Ksatriyas are the administrator-warrior class, the arms of the social body. Vaisyas are the mercantile-farmer class, the belly of the social body. And sudras are the legs, the worker class.In the Vedic society the leaders were the brahmanas whose advise of how to govern the human society was strictly followed by the administrator-warrior class. In the modern day society the administrator class has chopped off the head of the social body illegitimately usurping the leading role by ignoring the learned, enlightened guidance of the qualified brahmanas. Therefore there is ever-increasing chaos in the human society. One can lose his arms, legs, and even his belly and still survive. But if one's head is cut off, his death is immediate. The brahmanas are the head of the society. When a body without a head, it is immediately dead.
In the Kali yuga, the age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the unqualified descendants of the former qualified brahmanas have claimed brahminical status on the basis of birth. This perverted act has led to the destruction of the Vedic culture. Krishna clearly states in the Bhagavad-gita that one is known as a brahmana not by his birth, but by his qualification and his activities. The real brahmana is described as follows the Bhagavad-gita:
śamo damas tapaḥ śaucaṁ
kṣāntir ārjavam eva ca
jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ
brahma-karma svabhāva-jam
"Peacefulness, self-control, austerity, purity, tolerance, honesty, knowledge, wisdom and religiousness—these are the natural qualities by which the brahmanas work."
--Bhagavad-gita 18.42
The Krishna consciousness movement has revived genuine brahminical culture by training up a new class of enlightened spiritual teachers all over the world that can save the human society from spiraling down into total destruction. Now it is up to the administrative class of men all of the world to recognize the leadership of these qualified brahmanas and bring back the happy days of Vedic culture to this miserably suffering world.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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