ALONE IN BODY

BUT NOT IN SPIRITS

I guess everyone is born with fear. It taps at your shoulder at every every step of your life. It intensifies and grips you tighter if you weak, diseased or helpless. Loneliness gobbles you up and the heart stops seeing the dreams. Suddenly the signboard of ‘ NO THROUGHFARE’ blocks and halts the race of your life.

So was my case. Being a patient of ‘LIMB GIRDLE MYOPATHY’ fear gripped me at every step of my life. Ironically it was not the disease but the fear which

Macaroni & pasta

Mati (das) HKS (Siberia)

01-Jul-95

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I'd like to ask You is it OK to offer to Deity a macaroni bought in a shop and prepared as normal? My question created from thought that macaroni were manufactured with warm by karmi.

Shyamasundara Dasa

12-Jul-95

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Such items as macaroni, spagetti, etc., which fall into the general catagory of pasta are not cooked by karmis. They are

Different things that can or cannot be offered

Dill and Lilac

Mati (das) HKS (Siberia)

29-Apr-95

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I have one question regarding theas plants. I heard that one can't to use dill in cooking for Deity. And I also heard that one can't to use lilac-flowers in Deity worship. Is it properly?

Frozen and canned foods

Urmila (Devi Dasi) ACBSP

18-Apr-95

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Why do most ISKCON temples use canned and fr

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.19.28-32

QUESTION:

Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, O chastiser of the enemies, please tell me how many types of disciplinary regulations and regular daily duties there are. Also, my Lord, tell me what is mental equilibrium, what is self-control, and what is the actual meaning of tolerance and steadfastness. What are charity, austerity and heroism, and how are reality and truth to he described? What is renunciation, and what is wealth? What is desirable, what is sacrif

Cooking/Bhoga – Prasada

Bread

Kamsahanta (das) HKS (Copenhagen - DK)

16-Apr-95

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The cooks are sometimes substituting papadams for breads. Is that proper/acceptable ?

Krsna Ksetra (das) ACBSP

Date: 22-Apr-95 17:45 SST

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If you mean by "breads" capatis, papadams have a totally different "funtion" in a menu. I always understood that they would be served (if one were not serving everything a

Hare Krishna PAMHO AGTSP

Dear vaishnavas we are group of devotees from Gujarat we have 150 indigenous pure breed cow. Who grazing only natural grass .

We are manufacturing ghee by Vedic method as following..

First we boil the milk on the cow dung cakes and wood stove. When it became cool

we add little curd in it. Next day morning it will be a complete curd. Now it is ready to churn.

This churning process is done with two people by wooden motor {MANTHANI} in mud pot. When churning process is completed

Clothes

Anadi (das) (Melbourne - AU)

19-Feb-95

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Can one use clothes (dhotis, chadars) which had been washed in a public laundromat in Deity worship?

Nrsimha Kavaca (das) IDS

30-May-95

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… all the 'pujaris' I know wash their own cloth by hand, or it is washed by another devotee, ie. their wife, in the case of grhasthas. Astarata prabhu, as well as Jananivasa and Pankajanghri prabhus in M