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	===Vanipedia===		===Introducing Vanipedia===
	<br/>'''Akrura:''' What is Vanipedia?		<br/>'''Akrura:''' What is Vanipedia?

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	<br/>'''Akrura:''' What is Vanipedia?		<br/>'''Akrura:''' What is Vanipedia?

	<br/>'''Visnu Murti:''' Vanipedia is a humble but bold attempt to offer an unparalleled platform for Srila Prabhupada to continuously inspire and train devotees, strengthening their faith to take up the process of devotional service through his teachings. It is meant to be a long-term project. We have ~~done~~ this work in the last 35 years since Prabhupada’s demise, but still there is ~~a lot of~~ work to be done. ~~Why?~~ When Srila Prabhupada ~~left the planet~~, he left us ~~possibility~~ to serve him by bringing his teachings to pristine condition.		<br/>'''Visnu Murti:''' Vanipedia is a humble but bold attempt to offer an unparalleled platform for Srila Prabhupada to continuously inspire and train devotees, strengthening their faith to take up the process of devotional service through his teachings. It is meant to be a long-term project. Devotees have been doing this work for the last 35 years since Prabhupada’s demise, but still, there is much work to be done. When Srila Prabhupada disappeared, he left us the inheritance to serve him by bringing his teachings to pristine condition. What do I mean by that?
	What do we mean by that?
	We understand ~~this as~~ a work in progress, because ~~still~~ there are his books, ~~his~~ lectures, conversations and letters, which have to be translated in different languages, Prabhupada’s audio tapes have to be made available and studied. The same applies to all his teachings, that is, we ~~have to have~~ educational courses into those messages.		We understand his teachings are a work in progress because there are his books, lectures, conversations, and letters, which still have to be translated into different languages, and Prabhupada’s audio tapes have to be made more available and studied. The same applies to all his teachings, that is, we would all benefit from having more educational courses into those messages.

	Why should we make such an effort? Prabhupada said, "If you want to love somebody you have to know who they are." He gave us Krsna’s name and telephone number, His address, and then explained His pastimes, His character and His nature. By knowing Him we can fall in love with him. Similarly, if we are going to fall in love with Prabhupada, which is in important element of anyone being able to surrender completely to him, we need to know him. This is one of our goals in Vani, to maximize the chance for people to get to know Prabhupada.		Why should we make such an effort? Prabhupada said, "If you want to love somebody you have to know who they are." He gave us Krsna’s name and telephone number, His address, and then explained His pastimes, His character and His nature. By knowing Him we can fall in love with him. Similarly, if we are going to fall in love with Prabhupada, which is in important element of anyone being able to surrender completely to him, we need to know him. This is one of our goals in Vani, to maximize the chance for people to get to know Prabhupada.
	For example, we have documented 60 ways how we should study his books – seriously, scrutinizingly, penetratingly, minutely, thoroughly, critically, devotionally, faithfully, etc. Therefore, it is not enough just to keep books in print (which is already a challenge). They must be studied, realized, assimilated, and taught. That is how we can keep Prabhupada’s teachings alive and relevant.		For example, we have documented 60 ways how we should study his books – seriously, scrutinizingly, penetratingly, minutely, thoroughly, critically, devotionally, faithfully, etc. Therefore, it is not enough just to keep books in print (which is already a challenge). They must be studied, realized, assimilated, and taught. That is how we can keep Prabhupada’s teachings alive and relevant.

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	Conversations between Visnu Murti dasa and Akrura dasa (Gita Seva) recorded in December 2012 at the Vanipedia headquarters in Radhadesh, Belgium		Conversations between Visnu Murti dasa and Akrura dasa (Gita Seva) recorded in December 2012 at the Vanipedia headquarters in Radhadesh, Belgium.

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	===~~VANIPEDIA~~===		===Vanipedia===

	'''Gita Seva:''' What is Vanipedia?		'''Gita Seva:''' What is Vanipedia?
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	communicating all over the world to friends, e-mails are now a thing of the past. We have mobile phones so it’s not even limited to being with your computer. You can just be anywhere you are, 24/7, and you’re connected with people. Understanding this, for us not to be on the Web in the 21st century is a failure. Therefore Vani, Prabhupada’s teachings, are on the Web.		communicating all over the world to friends, e-mails are now a thing of the past. We have mobile phones so it’s not even limited to being with your computer. You can just be anywhere you are, 24/7, and you’re connected with people. Understanding this, for us not to be on the Web in the 21st century is a failure. Therefore Vani, Prabhupada’s teachings, are on the Web.

	===~~TRANSCENDENTALLY ENTANGLING EXPERIENCE~~===		===Transcendentally entangling experience===


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	<br/>'''Visnu Murti dasa:''' When you go to some video clip or a trailer and you watch it for two minutes, you can get materially entangled by thinking, "I want to watch this movie. I’m going to download it." So then you download the movie and watch it for two hours. That’s called "materially entangled". Because the trailer captured you. Transcendental entanglement means we want people to be attracted by this great personality named A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his teachings.		<br/>'''Visnu Murti dasa:''' When you go to some video clip or a trailer and you watch it for two minutes, you can get materially entangled by thinking, "I want to watch this movie. I’m going to download it." So then you download the movie and watch it for two hours. That’s called "materially entangled". Because the trailer captured you. Transcendental entanglement means we want people to be attracted by this great personality named A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his teachings.

	===~~WHY WE WANT PEOPLE TO HEAR PRABHUPADA~~, ~~BESIDES READING HIS TEACHINGS~~?===		===Why we want people to hear prabhupada, besides reading his teachings?===


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	We can have such a connection with the powerhouse of the Vani that even though we are in the material world, with our material needs, our material body, and our material responsibilities, we are actually transcendental. We hope this "transcendental entanglement" will allow everyone to regain their original nature.		We can have such a connection with the powerhouse of the Vani that even though we are in the material world, with our material needs, our material body, and our material responsibilities, we are actually transcendental. We hope this "transcendental entanglement" will allow everyone to regain their original nature.

	===~~VANIQUOTES~~===		===Vaniquotes===


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	===~~GOING BEYOND OUR PRE~~-~~DEFINED CONCEPT OF WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR~~===		===Going beyond our pre-defined concept of what we are looking for===


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	So if you are not trained in serious study of Prabhupada’s teachings, if you just look at such a big amount of teachings as is manifested in Vanipedia, you are going to say, "Oh, why so many pages, it is all too much." I would even say that the nice thing about the whole presentation of Vaniquotes is that it’s organized in such a way that you are forced to encounter more than what you would have necessarily been looking for, because of the linking process. So if we just have a little bit of an adventurous nature, or a little bit of curiosity to go beyond our pre-defined concept of what we are looking for, then it is very easy to encounter so many new incredible and amazing aspects of Prabhupada’s teachingsthat will push us forward in our devotional lives.		So if you are not trained in serious study of Prabhupada’s teachings, if you just look at such a big amount of teachings as is manifested in Vanipedia, you are going to say, "Oh, why so many pages, it is all too much." I would even say that the nice thing about the whole presentation of Vaniquotes is that it’s organized in such a way that you are forced to encounter more than what you would have necessarily been looking for, because of the linking process. So if we just have a little bit of an adventurous nature, or a little bit of curiosity to go beyond our pre-defined concept of what we are looking for, then it is very easy to encounter so many new incredible and amazing aspects of Prabhupada’s teachingsthat will push us forward in our devotional lives.

	=== ~~VANI ARTICLES~~===		=== Vani articles===


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	living outside with a wife, and you can take shelter in Prabhupada’s words and be enlivened by them.		living outside with a wife, and you can take shelter in Prabhupada’s words and be enlivened by them.

	===~~HOW TO APPROACH SRILA PRABHUPADA’S TEACHINGS~~?===		===How to approach srila prabhupada’s teachings?===


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	This is Prabhupada as he is, but it is concentrated on a specific theme. Without a deep relationship with Prabhupada’s teachings there won’t be true understanding. Srila Prabhupada gives so many repetitive instructions that the devotees should study his books. But he also says that if one can’t study his teachings, if one is illiterate, than he can just chant Hare Krsna, still having a chance to attain perfection. But you cannot be a brahmin, you cannot be a leader without studying Prabhupada’s teachings.		This is Prabhupada as he is, but it is concentrated on a specific theme. Without a deep relationship with Prabhupada’s teachings there won’t be true understanding. Srila Prabhupada gives so many repetitive instructions that the devotees should study his books. But he also says that if one can’t study his teachings, if one is illiterate, than he can just chant Hare Krsna, still having a chance to attain perfection. But you cannot be a brahmin, you cannot be a leader without studying Prabhupada’s teachings.

	===~~OBSTACLES IN DEVELOPING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH SRILA PRABHUPADA’S TEACHINGS~~===		===Obstacles in developing our relationship with srila prabhupada’s teachings===


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	<br/>'''Visnu Murti dasa:''' Yes, Vanisource. This is the basis for the Vaniquotes. Now we have 108,000 Vaniquotes pages. Inside those pages we have 1,800,000 quotes. Any time that anybody wants to read the full letter, the full lecture, the full conversation, or the full purport, he can click and in a second he will be in Vanisource.		<br/>'''Visnu Murti dasa:''' Yes, Vanisource. This is the basis for the Vaniquotes. Now we have 108,000 Vaniquotes pages. Inside those pages we have 1,800,000 quotes. Any time that anybody wants to read the full letter, the full lecture, the full conversation, or the full purport, he can click and in a second he will be in Vanisource.

	===~~RELATIONSHIP AND SERVICE~~===		===Relationship and service===


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	<br/>'''Visnu Murti dasa:''' Yes, and actually imbibe a culture of informed discussion.		<br/>'''Visnu Murti dasa:''' Yes, and actually imbibe a culture of informed discussion.

	===~~INFORMED DISCUSSION~~===		===Informed discussion===

	<br/>'''Gita Seva:''' What does it mean?		<br/>'''Gita Seva:''' What does it mean?
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	<br/>'''Visnu Murti dasa:''' Well, we have three modes of material nature which affect us in all varieties of ways. We are at different stages of our advancement in Krsna consciousness, neophyte, madhyama, we are in different stages of anartha nivritti, determination and conviction that pure Krsna consciousness is our ultimate goal. So this puts us all into a whole variety of different perceptions and desires. And therefore inside of Prabhupada’s teachings one person can give a class saying something and fifty people can listen to the same aspect and still hear fifty different things. So application takes place according to that.		<br/>'''Visnu Murti dasa:''' Well, we have three modes of material nature which affect us in all varieties of ways. We are at different stages of our advancement in Krsna consciousness, neophyte, madhyama, we are in different stages of anartha nivritti, determination and conviction that pure Krsna consciousness is our ultimate goal. So this puts us all into a whole variety of different perceptions and desires. And therefore inside of Prabhupada’s teachings one person can give a class saying something and fifty people can listen to the same aspect and still hear fifty different things. So application takes place according to that.

	===~~SRILA PRABHUPADA AS CONSCIENCE~~===		===Srila prabhupada as conscience===

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===VANIPEDIA=== '''Gita Seva:''' What is Vanipedia? '''Visnu Murti dasa:''' Vanipedia is a humble but bold attempt to offer an unparalleled platform for Srila Prabhupada to continuously inspire and train devotees, strengthening their faith to take..."

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Created page with "D Conversations between Visnu Murti dasa and Akrura dasa (Gita Seva) recorded in December 2012 at the Vanipedia headquarters in Radhadesh, Belgium <div style="float:right;">__TOC__</div> ===VANIPEDIA=== '''Gita Seva:''' What is Vanipedia? '''Visnu Murti dasa:''' Vanipedia is a humble but bold attempt to offer an unparalleled platform for Srila Prabhupada to continuously inspire and train devotees, strengthening their faith to take..."

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	<br/><br/>'''Visnu Murti:''' When you go to some video clip or a trailer and you watch it for two minutes, you can get materially entangled by thinking, "I want to watch this movie. I’m going to download it." So then you download the movie and watch it for two hours. That’s called "materially entangled". Because the trailer captured you. Transcendental entanglement means we want people to be attracted by this great personality named A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his teachings.		<br/><br/>'''Visnu Murti:''' When you go to some video clip or a trailer and you watch it for two minutes, you can get materially entangled by thinking, "I want to watch this movie. I’m going to download it." So then you download the movie and watch it for two hours. That’s called "materially entangled". Because the trailer captured you. Transcendental entanglement means we want people to be attracted by this great personality named A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his teachings.

	===Why we want people to hear ~~prabhupada~~, besides reading ~~his~~ teachings?===		===Why we want people to hear Prabhupada, besides reading His teachings?===

	For example, one of such promising ways for achieving this is a Vanipedia project we want to develop now. We believe that not enough people have had access to Prabhupada’s speaking. We also believe in the power of the way how the speech is delivered. And when it comes to text there is a tendency to interpret. We can think that the emphasis is on this or that word, when you read it in the text form. When we hear, we are much more aware of where the emphasis is, so there is less probability to interpret the message wrongly.		For example, one of such promising ways for achieving this is a Vanipedia project we want to develop now. We believe that not enough people have had access to Prabhupada’s speaking. We also believe in the power of the way how the speech is delivered. And when it comes to text there is a tendency to interpret. We can think that the emphasis is on this or that word, when you read it in the text form. When we hear, we are much more aware of where the emphasis is, so there is less probability to interpret the message wrongly.
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	living outside with a wife, and you can take shelter in Prabhupada’s words and be enlivened by them.		living outside with a wife, and you can take shelter in Prabhupada’s words and be enlivened by them.

	===How to approach ~~srila prabhupada’s~~ teachings?===		===How to approach Srila Prabhupada’s teachings?===
	Prabhupada’s Vani can help you in so many ways. But if you are coming with something this pragmatic, the counseling is better. And once you got that clear, every time you approach Prabhupada’s Vani you will be in a state of mind where you get all sorts of inspiration. Just go to Vani with humble state of mind, and realizing the sanctity of Prabhupada’s Vani, who Prabhupada is, and what shelter he can actually deliver to you. And approach it as you turn to the spiritual master. A problem arises when everybody is thinking that somebody else should solve their problems without making an effort himself.		Prabhupada’s Vani can help you in so many ways. But if you are coming with something this pragmatic, the counseling is better. And once you got that clear, every time you approach Prabhupada’s Vani you will be in a state of mind where you get all sorts of inspiration. Just go to Vani with humble state of mind, and realizing the sanctity of Prabhupada’s Vani, who Prabhupada is, and what shelter he can actually deliver to you. And approach it as you turn to the spiritual master. A problem arises when everybody is thinking that somebody else should solve their problems without making an effort himself.
	Prabhupada said, "Why should I always repeat the same questions all the time? We need a system where I don’t have to repeat the answers to the same questions." So this is our humble attempt in Vanipedia to help Prabhupada, relief Prabhupada of this pressure to answer questions. Although it is just a construction site, we’re dealing with a thousand Vanipedia users. We want 10,000, a 100,000 people a day using Vanipedia. They just have to know how to use it and Krsna will guide them.		Prabhupada said, "Why should I always repeat the same questions all the time? We need a system where I don’t have to repeat the answers to the same questions." So this is our humble attempt in Vanipedia to help Prabhupada, relief Prabhupada of this pressure to answer questions. Although it is just a construction site, we’re dealing with a thousand Vanipedia users. We want 10,000, a 100,000 people a day using Vanipedia. They just have to know how to use it and Krsna will guide them.
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	This is Prabhupada as he is, but it is concentrated on a specific theme. Without a deep relationship with Prabhupada’s teachings there won’t be true understanding. Srila Prabhupada gives so many repetitive instructions that the devotees should study his books. But he also says that if one can’t study his teachings, if one is illiterate, than he can just chant Hare Krsna, still having a chance to attain perfection. But you cannot be a brahmin, you cannot be a leader without studying Prabhupada’s teachings.		This is Prabhupada as he is, but it is concentrated on a specific theme. Without a deep relationship with Prabhupada’s teachings there won’t be true understanding. Srila Prabhupada gives so many repetitive instructions that the devotees should study his books. But he also says that if one can’t study his teachings, if one is illiterate, than he can just chant Hare Krsna, still having a chance to attain perfection. But you cannot be a brahmin, you cannot be a leader without studying Prabhupada’s teachings.

	===Obstacles in developing our relationship with ~~srila prabhupada’s~~ teachings===		===Obstacles in developing our relationship with Srila Prabhupada’s teachings===
	'''Akrura:''' Do you want to say that first we have to change the whole paradigm of how we look at the teachings, what is our attitude towards the teachings, how high we put them on our priority list?		'''Akrura:''' Do you want to say that first we have to change the whole paradigm of how we look at the teachings, what is our attitude towards the teachings, how high we put them on our priority list?
	<br/><br/>'''Visnu Murti:''' Yes. We have thought about five stages, or situations that we have to go through. We call them obstacles in developing the relationship with Srila Prabhupada’s teachings.		<br/><br/>'''Visnu Murti:''' Yes. We have thought about five stages, or situations that we have to go through. We call them obstacles in developing the relationship with Srila Prabhupada’s teachings.
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	<br/><br/>'''Visnu Murti:''' Well, we have three modes of material nature which affect us in all varieties of ways. We are at different stages of our advancement in Krsna consciousness, neophyte, madhyama, we are in different stages of anartha nivritti, determination and conviction that pure Krsna consciousness is our ultimate goal. So this puts us all into a whole variety of different perceptions and desires. And therefore inside of Prabhupada’s teachings one person can give a class saying something and fifty people can listen to the same aspect and still hear fifty different things. So application takes place according to that.		<br/><br/>'''Visnu Murti:''' Well, we have three modes of material nature which affect us in all varieties of ways. We are at different stages of our advancement in Krsna consciousness, neophyte, madhyama, we are in different stages of anartha nivritti, determination and conviction that pure Krsna consciousness is our ultimate goal. So this puts us all into a whole variety of different perceptions and desires. And therefore inside of Prabhupada’s teachings one person can give a class saying something and fifty people can listen to the same aspect and still hear fifty different things. So application takes place according to that.

	===Srila ~~prabhupada~~ as conscience===		===Srila Prabhupada as conscience===
	'''Akrura:''' Can we say that Vanipedia will facilitate creation of more madhyama adhikaris?		'''Akrura:''' Can we say that Vanipedia will facilitate creation of more madhyama adhikaris?
	<br/><br/>'''Visnu Murti:''' Here fitting would be to speak about Prabhupada as conscience. And when I say		<br/><br/>'''Visnu Murti:''' Here fitting would be to speak about Prabhupada as conscience. And when I say