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Devi, under the direction of Lord Sri Krishna, will lavish her opu-
lence on human society so that everyone can live a healthy and
spiritually enlightened life.

Once our model of self-sufficiency works, we project building hous-
ing projects in the Seattle area so that devotees and friends can
live in moderately priced homes that will have very low energy
costs. I invite any interested parties to contact me to help make
this project a reality. The price of energy will increase in the near
future due to new environmental laws. Therefore, such a project
will be a welcome opportunity for spiritually minded devotees to
live in reasonably priced homes that are environmentally friendly,
in a neighborhood of predominantly devotees.

Our first Vedic education center for children from pre-school to 2rd
grade opened in 2010. In 2013 it progressed to fourth grade. If
Krishna permits, in 2014 we will open a Vedic education center in
Bellevue and expand to 5th grade. Our goal is to add a new grade
every year until we have pre-school to 12th grade.

Also, our Vedic University for Adult Education has been progressing
for the last three years. By 2016 we will work towards getting it
fully accredited as a genuine education institution for University
level Vedic studies. The new Bellevue facility is named Vedic Insti-
tute for Benevolent Education (VIBE). This institute will offer a
wide variety of courses from Mathematics, Physics, Sociology,
Anthropology, Economics, Law, Ethics, Logic, Alternative Lifestyle.
All these courses and more will be based on original Vedic
knowledge which can be described as Savijnanam or the scientific
application of Vedic Knowledge to solve all problems of life and
achieve ultimate liberation from cycle of birth and death.

Lord Caitanya, the 15th century combined avatar of Radha and
Krishna, has revealed that there are two effective means to change
the destiny of people born in the present age of quarrel and hypoc-
risy (Kali Yuga). In this age of Kali, there are many inauspicious
conditions that discourage people from genuine spiritual life and
development of pure love of God. Therefore, Lord Krishna ap-
peared as Lord Caitanya to give an easy and pleasant means of at-
taining the goal of life which is prema pumartha mahaan, achieving
pure love and devotion for God (Lord Krishna)

These two easy means to achieve a most auspicious destiny for all
living beings is Harinaam Sankirtan (congregational chanting of the
holy names of Krishna) and massive, free vegetarian food
(prasadam) distribution. As a step towards this goal, for the last