Urban Missionary

I've hooked up the Sounds menu item at the top of my blog, and it now goes to the Sounds page, where I will link to all the aural goodness that I post here.

Here are the Woodford Folk Festival Tracks remixed:

• Jaya Radha Madhava, mp3, 4' 30", 6.3 MB
• Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya, mp3, 3' 40", 5 MB
• Sri Krishna Caitanya, mp3, 3' 27", 4.8 MB

This is the mix that we've submitted as our demo.

I played bass and guitar on all the tracks, harmonium and keyboard on Jaya Radha Madhava, and mrdanga on Sri Krishna Caitanya. Vraja Dham played shaker, mrdanga on Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya, and the dholki on Jaya Radha Madhava. Prem Yogi handled cartals, Rasika Seva sang and played harmonium, and we all sang chorus, along with Ram, Prabhu, and Prahlad who clapped.

This was a pretty rushed demo, with no rehearsals. The version of Jaya Radha Madhava that we did was spontaneous based around Vraj's dholki playing. We also didn't have all the musicians for the group, such Andy, who plays saxophone with us.

I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out considering it was a three day exercise - two hours of live recording, and then two days of polishing and mixing.

By popular demand, the first five parts of my seminar on the Three Modes of Material Nature.

• Part One - mp3, 4.5 MB
• Part Two - mp3, 6 MB
• Part Three - mp3, 4.9 MB
• Part Four - mp3, 9 MB
• Part Five - mp3, 3.7 MB

I gave the Bhagavatam class at the temple the other day, at short notice. Param Satya was scheduled to give it, but she is doing three hours of yoga a day demonstrating at a shopping complex near Atma, and needed extra rest.

I didn't have time to prepare so I just spoke about what I'm thinking about: "Human Life".

Listen to Madana Gopal das brahmacari change my state during the questions at the end.

A lot of interesting points in this - check it out:

Fully Human, Fully Spiritual, mp3, 30MB, 1:05:00

Here's the latest Urban Missionary Podcast. I cover two things this time around:

• "If you give something to a Ksatriya you're not giving something to a Ksatriya - he's letting you keep the rest." :-)
• Role vs Position Organization

Here the link for this edition:

• Chuck Norris Facts

Check it out:

• Urban Missionary Podcast "Role vs Position Organization", mp3, 26MB
• Urban Missionary Podcast "Role vs Position Organization", mp3, 17.6MB

A special for Gaura Purnima, recorded on Saturday night. Here it is:

• Urban Missionary Podcast mp3, 21MB
• Urban Missionary Podcast ogg, 18MB

It's here - the latest Urban Missionary Podcast. There is no Red Hill Conversation this week because of the istagoshti (community meeting) at the temple. Next week there won't be one either, because of the Brisbane Yoga Expo / Gaura Purnima.

• Urban Missionary Podcast mp3, 34:48, 32MB
• Urban Missionary Podcast ogg, 34:48, 27MB

Here are the links for the podcast:

• Some quotes on Creativity and Innovation
• Loft Preaching Article on Dandavats.com
• The Payovrata vow
• Wikipedia on Emergence

In this podcast I share some sutras that I've developed or adopted, and that I regularly use. Here is a list of them.

Sita-pati uvaca:

• "Be Conservative at the Core, Innovative at the Edge"
• "Things are the way they are because of the people who are there and the way they think. To change things, change one or the other."
• "There are many ways to peel a mango, but your strategy should arise from your capabilities and the environment"
• "Guidance is the Secret to Success"
• "Consult and Inform, Consult and Inform, Consult and Inform!"
• "Everyone is a leader - at the very least you are responsible for leading yourself"
• "Leaders seek Guidance before they give Guidance"
• "One is too small a number for Greatness"
• "Individual Success that does not contribute to Organizational Success is simply another form of Failure"

This week I've restarted the Urban Missionary podcast, which has been in hiatus. I talk a bit about what I'm up to these days, and what I'm thinking, in the context of the books that I'm carrying around with me and reading from day to day.

The Red Hill Conversations Podcast team is taking a sabbatical this week to catch up on a few things. Both podcasts will continue to be published here.

Download the recent Urban Missionary podcast:

• Urban Missionary Podcast February 18, 2007 mp3, 34:53, 47.4 MB
• Urban Missionary Podcast February 18, 2007 ogg, 34:53, 25MB

Here are the links for this podcast:

First off, books:

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  Bhagavad-gita As It Is, pocket edition

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  Leadership Journal

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  Communicating for a Change

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  Seven Practices of Effective Ministry

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  Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture

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  Principle-centered Leadership

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  The First XI: Winning Organisations in Australia

And the new Hare Krishna video site, www.gouranga.tv:

And North Point Community Church, Andy Stanley's organisation.

Here's the mentioned quote from H.H. Hrdayananda Goswami:

Hridayananda Das Goswami thanked Tamohara Prabhu for this good presentation about an important program [ed: leadership training]. We train devotees to win debates in classes, but not to persuade people to become devotees, he said. Regarding gender separation, he acknowledged its benefits, but warned that in many parts of the world graduates will face an environment far from the ideals of gender separation. He suggested that we do not employ a culture that will not serve our leaders well in the field.

source

Sri Nandanandana's article: "Your Thoughts Create Your Future". It was on Dandavats.com, which is how I discovered it, published on Feb 14 according to Google, but it has been removed by the look of it. Not sure why...