Archive for May, 2008
Sick & Aging Cows
Syamasundara prabhu speaks at the Cow Protection Conference.
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22 May: Cow Protection Conference
The wrap up to the Cow Protection Conference at New Vraja-dhama.
Speakers are Syamasundara and Balabhadra prabhus, and Sivarama Swami.
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Máj.22: Vena király megölése 1.
A bölcsek fegyver nélkül, csupán haragos szavaikkal véget vetettek életének.
Lecke Budapesten 2008. május 22-én a Srimad Bhagavatam 4.14.34-37. verseiről.
- Napjainkban kevesebb joga és ereje van a szenteknek.
- Még a rossz uralkodó is jobb volt, mint az anarchia.
- A fél megoldások nem szoktak működni.
- Vena király a királyok paramparájának tagja volt.
- Nincs jogod életet elvenni, ha nem tudsz életet adni.
- Az igazán nagy erejű brahmanák nagyon ritkák ebben a korban, ha egyáltalán léteznek.
- A mai korban a maha-mantra megtisztítja a szívet azoktól a szennyeződésektől, melyektől pokolba juthat az ember.
- Anyagi szinten unalmasnak tűnik a lelki élet, mert mindig ugyanazt csináljuk, de az az ugyanaz végtelenül dinamikus. A bhakták nagy ízt kapnak az odaadó szolgálat gyakorlásából.
- Aki nem prédikál vagy csinál sok pénzt a városban, annak a vidéki élet való a Krisna-tudatban.
- Az önfenntartó farmok voltak Prabhupada missziójának a 2. fele.
- Aurangzeb politikája nem kímélte a templomokat és a brahmanákat, de a vaisyákat mindenáron védte, mert enni kell.
- Az emberek 70%-ának kellene élelmiszer termesztéssel foglalkoznia, de ma csak 9% foglalkozik vele.
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21 May: Announcements
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Polly Want A…GPS?
Meet Yosuke: the lost parrot who found his way home by reciting his name and address to strangers…
When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught – recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.
Police rescued the African grey parrot two weeks ago from a neighbour’s roof in the city of Nagareyama, near Tokyo.
After spending a night at the station, he was transferred to a nearby veterinary hospital while police searched for clues, local policeman Shinjiro Uemura said.
He kept mum with the cops, but began chatting after a few days with the vet.
“I’m Mr. Yosuke Nakamura,” the bird told the veterinarian, according to Uemura.
The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.
“We checked the address, and what do you know, a Nakamura family really lived there. So we told them we’ve found Yosuke,” Mr Uemura said.
The Nakamura family told detectives that they had been teaching the bird its name and address for about two years.
But Yosuke apparently wasn’t keen on opening up to police officials.
“I tried to be friendly and talked to him, but he completely ignored me,” Uemura said.
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Máj.21: Tehénvédelem
Most zajlik a Tehénvédelmi Konferencia Krisna-völgyben.
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21 May: Cow Protection
Morning class, and the theme is the 2 day Cow Protection Conference happening now in New Vraja-dhama.
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Cow Protection Conference
Syamasundara Prabhu [36:58m]: Play Now | Downloads 365 Smita Krsna Swami [10:33m]: Play Now | Downloads 347 Gaura Sakti prabhu [8:14m]: Play Now | Downloads 342 Dhirasanta & Haladhara prabhus [30:43m]: Play Now | Downloads 332Four speakers from today’s conference at New Vraja-dhama:
1. Syamasundara prabhu (UK) on the importance of farms.
2. Smita Krishna Swami on housing.
3. Gaura Sakti prabhu on housing.
4. Dhirasanta and Haladhara prabhus on gardening.
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Watch What You’re Buying…
An NHS hospital is handing over new mothers’ placentas for use in the development of anti-wrinkle skin creams and luxury shampoo.
The trade, which brought in £5,000 for Poole Hospital in Dorset last year, was condemned by politicians and health experts who said they were worried about the ethics involved.
And yesterday one woman, 39-year-old Donna Norman, told of her outrage when she realised that, following the arrival of her daughter Milly, the afterbirth was given to a biochemical company.
“I was under the impression that my placenta would only be used for vital medical research – not that it may help make some skin cream or shampoo,” she said.
“I feel violated by what I have been through. It feels like they stole it because it was all done on false pretences. It’s from my body. It’s my DNA and I feel like they tricked it from me.”
Mrs Norman, who works in publishing, said she was given a complicated medical consent form to sign after giving birth.
“They said my placenta would be used to help cure cancer research,” she recalled. “They didn’t mention anything else. I was elated having just given birth and just signed it.”
Mrs Norman, who also has three boys, feels betrayed by the hospital’s actions. “I would never have signed had I known the truth of what was happening,” she said.
The hospital has harvested mothers’ placentas and sold them to Sigma-Aldrich, a nearby biochemical company, for five years. Sigma-Aldrich extracts the placentas’ valuable proteins, which it sells on to cosmetic scientists.
Its customers include some of the world’s biggest cosmetic companies, but it is impossible to tell exactly which products were developed with material from Poole mothers.
However, the Daily Mail has established that placentas from Poole were used in American research to find a new “anti-ageing” skin cream.
In 2005, biochemist Zoltan Kiss registered a U.S. patent for a chemical compound which he claims “restores and maintains the strength and thickness of ageing skin”.
Professor Kiss says he used Sigma-Aldrich’s human alkaline phosphatase in his work.
A Sigma-Aldrich salesman confirmed that the chemical was “of UK biological origin.”
Once a week, a van makes the four-mile round trip from Sigma-Aldrich’s high-security plant to the hospital to collect up to 70 frozen placentas, all of which have been delivered over the previous seven days.
Poole Hospital: It made £5,000 selling placentas
For the company’s scientists, the placenta is a rich raw material as it contains especially high levels of proteins and enzymes. They are able to extract these and turn them into a total of seven chemical compounds which it offers for sale to laboratories around the world.
Among them are alkaline phosphatase and collagen – a substance widely used to stimulate skin growth and in some cosmetics to combat wrinkles. It is also used in shampoos and conditioners to strengthen hair.
Sigma-Aldrich advertises its human collagen at £1,215 for just half a gram and the placenta plant at Poole last year helped it post global pre-tax profits of £195million.
The practice, which has chilling echoes of the Alder Hey organ removal scandal, led Conservative MP Nadine Dorries to call for stronger regulation.
“It amazes me that a hospital is doing this – I do not think the products of pregnancy should be bought and sold.”
The Royal College of Midwives claimed the practice is “deeply concerning in terms of ethics and morals”.
And Colin Sibley, a foetal development expert, described the hospital’s ethical behaviour as “not good enough”. Professor Sibley, of the University of Manchester, said: “The molecules could be used for cancer research, yes, but they could also be used in any sort of research. The ethics of this, as they are described to me, appear to be inadequate.”
European legislation bans the sale inside Europe of any cosmetic containing human biological elements. But the law does not cover their use in cosmetic research.
Sigma-Aldrich strongly denies that its human placental byproducts are used in the manufacture of any cosmetic products.
But a spokesman conceded the chemicals may be used in the development and testing of cosmetics.
Malcolm Shaw, the firm’s regulatory affairs manager, said: “We sell products purely for research and analytical use. However, they could be used in cosmetic research.”
Yesterday Poole Hospital insisted that the £5,000 it received for its placentas was a “donation” rather than a payment, and the money was used to buy medical equipment.
A spokesman also pointed out that the mothers had signed a special consent form.
However, the form states only that the placentas will be used for “research into…cancer, cystic fibrosis, Parkinson’s disease and HIV/AIDS”.
No mention is made of their potential use in cosmetic research – nor are mothers told that both the hospital and Sigma-Aldrich will profit from the trade.
The hospital said it was unaware the placentas could be used for cosmetic reasons.
It added that Sigma-Aldrich had been asked to revise the information on the consent form “and be much more explicit about what the placentas are used for and mention the donation”.
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20 May: Appearance
Today is the appearance day observances for:
Sri Sri Radha-Ramana Devaji — Appearance
Sri Madhavendra Puri — Appearance
Sri Srinivasa Acarya — Appearance
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20 May: Immortality Pt 2
Second of the two-part class on Prahlada Maharaja from Scotland.
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Máj.20: Nandagram Krisna-völgyben
Nandagram a lelki világban Krsna örök lakhelye. Lecke Krisna-völgyben, Nandagramban, 2008. április 28-án.
- Krsna a lelki világban örökké kisora korú (10-15 éves).
- Mandara fa.
- 64 udvar van a palotában.
- Este 8-10 táján tartanak programot.
- Este kimászik Krsna az ablakon, és a hátsó úton elmegy Javatba, Sanketbe vagy a Yamuna partjára.
- Krsnának és barátainak Govardhana a kedvenc helyük napközben.
- Pavana-sarovara.
- Madhusudana-kunda.
- Ahogy a magok az öntözés hatására kinyílnak, úgy a szent helyek a bhakták odaadásának hatására nyilvánulnak meg.
- Az Úr Siva a Nandisvara hegy, és Nandisvara Mahadeva formájában lakik itt.
- Mit fognak látni a bhakták ezeken a helyeken?
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Nrsimhadeva Abhiseka
A slideshow from yesterday’s celebrations in Mayapur….
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19 May: Bhajans
Recorded at a recent meeting of Niranjana Swami, Govinda Maharaja, and Sivarama Swami….
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Multiple Abortions Common, Report Reveals
A sign of the times that today’s podcast refers to:
Thousands of women have had at least four abortions, and scores of teenagers have notched up their third, official figures show.
Nearly 4,000 women have had four or more terminations – and dozens have had eight or more.
The figures were revealed as MPs prepare to vote on whether to lower the upper time limit for social abortions from 24 weeks to 20 – a move which pro-lifers say would cut the number of terminations.
Campaign leader Nadine Dorries, a Tory MP and former nurse, has tabled an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
Attacking the high number of repeat abortions, she said: ‘Abortion has moved from a resource that women turn to in an emergency and a point of crisis to becoming a form of contraception.
“This has been brought about as a result of an ill-conceived notion that it is just a minor procedure with no side or lasting effects – but this is not the case.”
The Department of Health figures show that in 2006, 947 women had their fifth abortion, 192 were on their sixth, 110 had their seventh abortion, while 54 had their eight, ninth or tenth abortion.
In total, more than 3,800 women had at least their fourth termination. There were also 82 teenagers who had their third abortion.
Overall, the number of women having repeat abortions has reached record levels. In 2006, 59,687 abortions were carried out in England on women who had already had one in the past.
A third of terminations are now repeats, and the number has gone up by 5 per cent in two years.
Among the under twenties, the number of repeat abortions is rising. In 2006, 5,542 teenagers – or 32 per cent – had had a previous abortion, up from 28 per cent a decade earlier.
Ann Furedi, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, which carries out 55,000 abortions a year, said: “Most women take embarking upon motherhood extremely seriously, which most people would agree is a positive thing. For some women faced with an unintended pregnancy, that will mean having an abortion.
“As last year’s abortion statistics show however, the majority of women – 68 per cent – having an abortion were doing so for the first time.
“There is no 100 per cent effective form of contraception and as women’s circumstances can change across their reproductive years, more than one abortion may be unavoidable.”
Mrs Dorries claims the support of 200 MPs for her 20-week amendment. But to succeed, she would need at least another 200 MPs to abstain.
She says the law should be changed because at some hospitals growing numbers of premature babies are surviving at younger than 24 weeks. But a major national study has concluded that there was no improvement in survival rates for babies born at such a young age.
Health minister Dawn Primarolo said: “Those who are seeking to move the limit from 24 weeks have not made the case in terms of either women’s rights or on what the medical profession is advising us on what is possible.”
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19 May: Immortality
First of a two-part class from Scotland:
- Jaya & Vijaya’s descent to earth.
- Hiranyakasipu’s austerities to become immortal.
- Immortality is no problem (but it’s not found in Florida).
- Hiranyakasipu knew immortality was not to be found in this body–he preached to his family members about the immortality of the soul.
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Máj.19: Hogyan lehet gyorsítani a lelki fejlődést?
Beszélgetés 2008. május 15-én délután Kecskeméten.
- Hogyan fejlődhetek gyorsabban a lelki életben?
- Hogyan tudok megfelelő kapcsolatokat kialakítani a bhaktákkal?
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Festival In 60 Seconds
Festival highlights from Manorama prabhu:
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