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ISKCON News: Help Us Create a ‘Festival for the Eyes’

By Ekendra Dasa on 9 Mar 2008

Would you like to participate in creating a beautiful experience for ISKCON News readers? This Gaura Purnima we're having a 'Festival for the Eyes' that you're invited to help us put together.

On Gaura Purnima Day we're going to unveil a multimedia presentation featuring Gaura-Nitai deities worshiped in devotees' homes around the world.

ISKCONite to Represent Greens at UK General Election

Watford Observer on 9 Mar 2008

A keen environmentalist, novelist, web designer, and member of Hindu temple Bhaktivedanta Manor, has been selected as the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Hertsmere.

Arjuna Krishna-Das, an active member of the Green Party since the early 1980s, is now set to represent the party in the region at the next General Election.

Green is the New God

By Reid Sexton for The Age (Melbourne, Australia) on 8 Mar 2008

God and the green movement are battling for the hearts and minds of middle Australia.

As record numbers desert religion, environmentalism is increasingly being used to fill the void, KPMG demographer Bernard Salt said. The green movement advocates ideas such as salvation, damnation and atonement that are similar to those of traditional faiths.

Indian Music to Feature in UK's School Curriculum

The Hindu on 8 Mar 2008

London (PTI): Lilting strains of the sitar and other forms of Indian music will feature prominently in the curriculum of schools in London from the forthcoming academic year starting in September. The Harrow-based Krishna Avanti Primary School, Britain's first state-funded Hindu school, will weave elements of Indian music, dance, drama and yoga into the national curriculum.

Utah Temple Project Grows Roots in Mormon Country

By Arthur Pais for India Abroad (USA) on 8 Mar 2008

Whatever made the Hare Krishna movement build a Hindu temple in the midst of Mormon dominated Utah?

“The Lord built a temple here just to show He could do it. Caru Dasa, the president of the temple, has often said, “He did it as a prank.”

What Price for Freedom?

By Krishna Dharma Dasa on 8 Mar 2008

We all want our freedoms, but it seems they are not so free. Recent figures reveal that the cost of freeing Iraq and hopefully the rest of us from tyrants and terrorists is well over one trillion dollars and rising. Then there is the grisly cost of casualties, over ninety thousand dead and innumerable others injured.

Common Sense Will Lead You to God

By The Rev. Trent Patterson for Statesville Record and Landmark on 8 Mar 2008

I’m a fairly simple person and it’s quite ironic, given my high school English grades, that any of you would even read these thoughts flowing from my puny, little brain. However, living the simple life is not completely bad. I personally believe that simple living, common sense and a love for the Lord create a winning combination.