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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Vrinda Davidasi, Alex Chadwick. Timecode In: 00:04:13. Timecode out: 00:59:01. Notes: Religion discussion. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Nandan Swami, Alex Chadwick. Timecode In: 01:11:41. Timecode out: 01:59:06. Notes: Religion discussion. Equipment Notes: x2 Sennheiser MKH 20. Partial log follows: Show: Geography of Heaven; Vrindavan, India Log of DAT #: 15 Engineer: Flawn Williams Date: November 2003 DAT 15: 20s. Friday morning Nov 7 interview Indian school administrator woman at MVT gazebo. Very loud aggressive birds nearby during several stretches of interview, other parts fine. Return to rooftop of Raoul's temple, another interview with Goswami Nandan. 2:06:00. FW: this is tape 15 it'll be starting out with split track mkh 20 ambis. We're hoping to do an interview with a school teacher¿that's as much as I know right now¿let's get a little ambi here in anticipation of that¿ (00:00:40) Nd: soft ambi, birds cawing occasionally, squeeking and sqwaking, chirping. Human activity in distance¿ (00:03:00) That's ending room tone at the Gazebo at the MTV¿Preceeding was some ambience¿ including some parrot fly overs. New track starts, AC and FW talking, AC introduces [Vrinda] to FW¿ chatting¿ (00:04:14) AC: When did you do that? (00:04:16) Vr: Ahh, Three four days before. That was nineth day of this month, auspicious month, and ah, that is very auspicious. On that day, people do it prikrima (sp) of Matura and Vrindavan. And on that day I hurt my toe. It became bleeding also. It's belief that on some auspicious day we are doing some pious day and you get hurt, it means that your past birth, some big deed, big bad deed, and you get smaller punishment due to grace of Krishna. (00:04:58) AC: From a past, past birth? (00:05:00) Vr: Yay. (00:05:06) AC:¿Well that is kindof what we wanted to talk about, the idea of past birhts and future births. Let's see, are you ok? Could you just begin, ok, my name is Alex Chadwick. I'll give you, here I'll give you one of my business cards, so you can just see who is¿now I don't have one here with me, but I will get one and give it to you¿But, could you just give me your full name and how we should identify you? (00:05:41) Vr: My full name is Brinda Dividarsi.. (00:05:43) AC: And could you spell that for me please? (00:05:45) Vr: V_R_I_N_D_A_D_A_V_I_D_A_S_I (00:05:52) AC: And is that three individual words? (00:05:56) Vr: No, this is ah, Vrinda Davi, first two initial names, Vrinda Davi is the name of Goddess Vrinda, so here in Vrindavan, you know, Vrinda one, one in hindi means forest, and vrinda is a tree of tulisi, tulisi name is also Vrinda, its synonym of tulisi. So this is the forest of vrinda, intially when vrinda was here, I tell you from starting. 5000 years ago, God became in the incarnation of the Krishna, and then he was born here, and he was born in Gokul, this is 84 coasts, 500 kilometers, full area of Brazeria, where Krishna took birth, Krishna play sport, this whole area is in 500 kilometers, and so this full area was full of trees of Tulisi, this sacred trees was full of tulisi, so this was named as Vrindaone, forest of Vrinda, and this tree is one goddess Vridna, she took the form of this tree, behind it there is also a story. She took the form of tulisi because she was the wife of ah, some demon (?), and she was very much dedicated to her husband, and god came to take test of her didication towards her husband, whether she is fully fidel, fully you know dedicated to her husband or not. So, he took the test of, lord took the test of here fidelity to her husband and she gave curse to god also, even to god also, and she became in the form of a treee, Vrinda, and god was like under her feet, because please, please forgive me, and then Vrinda Davi said, ok, you will always remain with ... (Notes truncated)
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- 7 Apr 2010 - David McCartt
- Digitized
- 7 Apr 2010 - David McCartt
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- 7 Apr 2010 - David McCartt