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Vyasa-puja in Mayapur Dear Devotees, Hare Krishna! Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Here are pictures of the ecstatic Vyasa-puja celebration in Sri Dham Mayapur for the108th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada's appearance in this world.
Child Abuse: Did Some time ago an absurd and offensive argument was put forward that Srila Prabhupada, when with us, was omniscient just like Krsna and thus knew every detail of the child abuse in gurukula—even before it happened. Of course, innumerable statements from sastra and by Srila Prabhupada himself refute this argument. In addition, the following quotation from a book by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura should forever lay to rest this misconception:
Snana Yatra in Detroit Detroit Hare Krsna Temple (Devasadan Mandir) had its snana yatra (bathing) festival for Lord Jagannatha on Sunday July 18. A hundred devotees participated in the bathing of the Lord. Attached is a photo of Madhusudana prabhu lovingly bathing Their Lordships. Ratha yatra festival was Sunday, July 25. Jai Jagannatha! Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai in Phoenix Posted September 30, 2004 Dear Maharajas and Prabhus, Hare Krishna. Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. It is our great privilege to invite you all to attain the installation ceremony for Their most merciful Lordships Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai in ISKCON of Phoenix, Arizona, on October 1 and 2, 2004. For more details please contact 480-705-4900, or email to laxmanb2@yahoo.com [Article complete on this page] From Radha Govinda dasa Posted September 29, 2004 Dearest Dasas(is), Prabhus, Gosais, Goswamis, Swamis, Maharajas, and Acharyas, Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Having recently witnessed on DVD the most auspicious installation ceremony of the heroic-sized Deities of Sri-Sri Pancha-tattva at Sridhama Mayapura, we have become quite convinced that this event has marked the visible, manifest beginning of the foretold 10,000 year Satya-yuga within this simultaneously auspicious and terrible Kali-yuga. A letter from Jivananda das to Shyama Priya Devi Dasi Posted September 29, 2004 Many times people ask us why we are helping people in prison. They committed the crime. Why not let them do the time? But we see that we are all prisoners in this material world. Some of us are in a state or federal prison, and some of us are in the prison of our minds or a physically disabled body, but just having a material body is a type of prison. We have no freedom to enjoy all our insatiable desires. So we, at the Prison Ministry, try to help others and ourselves by practicing Krsna consciousness. The following letter is a nice example of how Krsna consciousness is working in the prisons.
Without Attachment Bhagavad-gita As It Is 2.57 First Edition: He who is without attachment, who does not rejoice when he obtains good, nor lament when he obtains evil, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge. Second Edition: In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge. Original Manuscript: (In the material world) one who is without any affection either for the good or for the evil neither does pray or envy such things, such person is situated fixed consciousness. Posted September 29, 2004 ISKCON Govindadwipa, Ireland, are looking for two pujaris to come and serve beautiful Sri Sri Radha-Govinda, to cover service for a pujari who wishes to go for six weeks on Vraja-Mandala Parikrama. Successful candidates will be second initiates, chanting 16 rounds, and strictly following the four regulative principles. Any devotional service performed during the month of Kartikka is magnified 1,000 times, so do not miss this golden opportunity to serve Their Lordships and to visit this beautiful and unique temple.
Michigan: Fourth Annual Ratha Yatra Dear friends and well-wishers, On Saturday October 2, 2004, at 12:00 Noon (EDT), the Hare Krishna Center of Michiana will be participating in the annual Apple Festival Parade through downtown Niles, Michigan. This is a huge parade, extending for over two miles, with marching bands and a hundred floats. There will be literally thousands of people, young and old, lining the streets. The lotuslike Deities of Lord Jagannatha, Lord Baladeva, and Lady Subhadra will leave their sanctuary at the Center and ride along in the parade on Their newly built chariot, gracefully bestowing merciful smiling glances from Their moonlike faces upon the fortunate residents of Niles.
My Personal Update Dear Maharaja and Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to ISKCON Founder Acharya Srila Prabhupada. My personal update. I have completed my first few weeks of intensive treatments in Mexico. They went from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Eight hours each day I was on IV, which administers different solutions through a catheter, which was inserted into my chest. In about 10 days I will have some tests to have an evaluation about the cancer. Earlier, it had spread to other parts of the body, but hopefully we have now stopped it from advancing and gradually it will be eliminated.
Diary of a
Traveling Preacher Posted September 28, 2004 August, 2004 "Shoot for the Rhinoceros" After the Woodstock festival, we returned to the Baltic coast to resume our summer festivals. But no sooner had we arrived than Maya's forces dealt us a blow. We had chosen a town near our summer base and had signed the contract with city hall well in advance. Two days before the festival we did Harinam and flooded the town with thousands of invitations. Our colorful posters could be seen everywhere. Tourists were pouring in, and the whole town was buzzing about the upcoming event. The second day I took the Harinam party out for another day of advertising. We chanted on the beach, occasionally stopping to speak to crowds about our festival the next day. At the end, we were exhausted. I crawled into my van after the Harinam was over.
Sri Sri Gaura From Mahaprabhu Caitanya Dasa Posted September 28, 2004 Dear Devotees Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Guru Maharaj! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Jai Panchatattva! Jai Gaur Nitai! Jai Krishna Balarama! Jai Radha Madhava! It gives me immense pleasure to inform all of you about the installation ceremony of Sri Sri Gaur Nitai on the auspicious occasion of Balaram Jayanti. The Deities were installed in Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria. The ceremony was marked with much fanfare, and many devotees from Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Ghana attended. The event was successful thanks to the efforts of many devotees, who cannot all be named in this limited space. Text & photos by Vrindavan Lila Devi Dasi Posted September 27, 2004 Dear Devotees, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Here are some pictures of the Janmastami Day celebration here in Mayapur. A lot of people came for darshan and the midday yajna. The yajna was performed as a drama with one of the small boys playing Krishna. Jananivasa Prabhu took different roles, like Sandipani Muni. Ganga Prabhu and his wife, Raseshvari Mataji, played Nanda Maharaja and Yasoda. The various samskaras that Krishna underwent were enacted in this way with a fire sacrifice.
Indonesia: The A letter from Sadashiva dasa to Kavicandra Swami Posted September 27, 2004 Denpasar, 25 July 2004. Dear Guru Maharaja, please accept my most humble obeisances under your holy lotus feet. Guru Maharaja, the kite competition on Thursday 22 July 2004 conducted at Padang Galak beach was wonderful. The Jay Jagannatha kite was made by Parasurama dasa Prabhu's group in Canggu, with Sundar Govinda dasa Prabhu as a painter. The kite was 7 meters wide with a 200-meter tail donated by Ida Bagus Ugrasena, the owner of the Maharani Hotel at Kuta. He and his wife came to the kite competition, and it was he who made it possible for us to take part in the competition. Also: Read about Ranaghat Ratha Yatra
A new book by Amal Bhakta Dasa Posted September 27, 2004 "Our life members love the book—for so many reasons." That's what Nirantara Dasa, the Life Membership director of the Los Angeles temple, says about Amal Bhakta Dasa's The Supreme Mystic—A Biographical Novel About The Early Years of Lord Krishna (a Krishna Productions book, $17.95, 348 pages, paperback). Nirantara Prabhu has given it as a gift to many of his members, and they invariably tell him that they found it, "entertaining, fascinating, spiritually informative, and easily understandable." Emphasizing Krishna's pastimes and only mildly touching on philosophy and theology, this page-turner manages to absorb and involve readers of almost all ages in an ongoing, escalating transcendental meditation. The overall result? An exciting, moving, and inspiring experience!
Srila Thakura Bhaktivinoda
Mayapur: Lord Balarama's Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! These pictures were taken during the celebration of Lord Balarama's Appearance Day. Hundreds of devotees attended the abhishek, the pushpanjali, and the arotik accompanied by ecstatic kirtan. Afterwards everyone enjoyed the maha-prasad, especially the honey. Hare Krishna! From Ananda Tirtha Dasa Posted September 24, 2004 Dear devotees, Hare Krishna! Below is some information about the new temple opening here [September 26]. I should add a few things though: The local devotees have made elaborate arrangments to accommodate visitors to the opening. HH Bhakticaru Swami, HH Vedavyasapriya Swami, and HG Ambarisa Prabhu will be in attendance, along with HH Bir Krishna Maharaja, the GBC for Fiji, who is already here. About 80 devotees are expected to fly in from New Zealand and Australia, but there is still space for plenty more so if you would like to attend, just jump on a plane. By Sravanananda Das Posted September 24, 2004 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:09:13 EDT Dear Prabhus, Bhava Bhuti Das left his body on Friday Sept 17, 2004, in the evening. He joined the movement in 1971, and he was a disciple of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. He was 52 years old. He had suffered since the 1980s from Lou Gehrig's disease [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] and for over 15 years was on a ventilator, remaining with his wife and family. His wife, Mongala Gopi Devi Dasi, who is the sister of my wife, Ananda Gopi Devi Dasi, remained with him throughout this ordeal, taking care of him while maintaining a job and bringing up their two children, Rukmini and Gokulesha.
Women's
Ashram in Vrindavan Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The Kirtan Ashram project in Vrindavan is a women's ashram especially meant to give shelter to the devotees who sacrificed their youth to assist Srila Prabhupada establish Krsna consciousness in the West and in India. We want to create a model community exemplifying the six loving exchanges described in The Nectar of Instruction, not just for the benefit of the ashram residents but also for all the Vaisnavis living in or visiting Sri Vrindavan-dham. The project is 80 percent completed, but we still need US $15,000 to finish the construction.
Jhulan Yatra in Mayapur Dear Devotees, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Here are some photos of Jhulan Yatra here in Mayapur. The celebration went on for five days in the evening, until Balarama Purnima. Jananivasa Prabhu would offer bhoga to Sri Sri Radha-Madhava while They were on the swing, and many devotees and guests were lining up to have a chance to swing Their Lordships. Also: more new articles on the Vrindavan Lila DD page From Phalini Devi Dasi Posted September 23, 2004 Dear Matajis and Prabhus, Hare Krsna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. My name is Phalini devi dasi, and I am looking for Palika devi dasi, the former wife of Bhavananda Goswami. She is a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, and she is in the Prabhupada Disciple Database as Palika, initiated 1969 in Los Angeles. Any idea how I can contact her? Thanks in advance. Your servant, [Article complete on this page]
Jaya Sri Radhe! A meditation by Bhakti Tirtha Swami Posted September 22, 2004 Dear Maharaja and Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to ISKCON Founder Acharya Srila Prabhupada I pray this letter finds all of you blissfully engaged in preparing for Janmastami and Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa Puja celebrations. In this spirit I am submitting this short update about my health, but more important a reflection from my Beggar 1 book. " Meditations and Prayers on the Supreme Lord Meditation#33." This prayer and my Vyasa Puja offering to Srila Prabhupada, which all of you will soon read or perhaps have already read, are self explanatory. Posted September 21, 2004 Dear Vaisnavas, We are happy to announce the publication of Srila Sac-cid-ananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura's Jaiva-dharma, translated by Sriman Sarvabhavana dasa for the appreciation of the Vaisnava devotees. In London, 23 September1969, on the appearance day celebration of Srila Bhaktivinoda, Srila Prabhupada gave a lecture on the life and teachings of the Thakura. In the lecture, Srila Prabhupada explained: Posted September 21, 2004 Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! ISKCON Seattle celebrated its 10th annual Jagannatha Ratha Yatra and Festival of India on August 27, 28, and 29 at Seattle's pier 58 (near the Seattle Aquarium). The three-day festival of India was well received by devotees, congregation members, and the general public. We served around 5,000 plates of prasadam during these three days, and the main parade was graced by H.H. Hanumat Presak Swami.
AutoCAD Expert Needed Dear Friends and Devotees, Hare Krishna! We are seeking a devotee to do some AutoCAD work for an upcoming Krishna-related project. Here are the specific requirements:
Pay will be commensurate with experience. Interested parties may contact Sudama das at sudama@harekrishnatemple.com. [Article complete on this page except for signature] Grhasta
Transformation Workshop A weekend grhasata workshop and seminar by Krsnanandini Devi Dasi and Tariq Ziyad in Detroit. 9/25–26. Please join us in the historic and inspiring setting of the Fisher Mansion (Detroit ISKCON) for an enriching weekend, with a couple that is leading ISKCON through a monumental enhancement of Krsna-conscious household life.
Rain in Mayapur Dear Devotees, Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! We have had nearly a week of non-stop torrential rains here in Mayapur, and according to the weather report, they will go on for about another week. The rainwater is quickly filling up the ISKCON grounds, as our land is a little lower than the rest of area. It is still possible to move on foot everywhere, sometimes through more water, sometimes less. Radhastami in New York Posted September 19, 2004 Tuesday September 21, 2004, Sri Radhastami, The Appearance Day of Srimati Radharani Please join us in the celebration of the transcendental appearance day of Lord Krishna's topmost devotee— Srimati Radharani Schedule of Events:
Sankirtan Fever in
Denver Dear Prabhus and Matajis, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. There is a fever spreading in Denver: sankirtan fever. The devotees here are burning with a desire to distribute Srila Prabhupada's books, and we want your help. We are looking for ISKCON devotees, young or old, male or female, who are interested in being engaged in transcendental book distribution. Have no experience? Great! We'll train you. Never lived in a temple? No problem. Join as a new devotee. Ratha Yatra From Rajsurya Das Posted September 17, 2004 Dear Maharajas, Prabhus, Matajis, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! We are holding our ninth grand Ratha Yatra in Ludhiana, India, on October 2, 2004. To celebrate the 108th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada's appearance day, we have arranged three rathas, one each for Sri Jagannatha, Sri Baladeva, and Srimati Subhadra. In past years more than three or four hundred thousand people would participate in this festival, and this year we expect even more. For the devotees who cannot join the Ratha Yatra, we will be broadcasting live coverage of the event through the SADHNA television channel at 3:00 p.m. Indian time, and it will be available for viewing in 156 countries.
Forever Grateful
to Thinking back to the late sixties and early seventies, I fondly remember how the Hare Krsna mantra had already infiltrated contemporary culture because of Srila Prabhupada's extraordinary efforts to spread the holy names throughout the world. A number of famous musicians and artists had begun to discover the chanting and were promoting it in their records and books. For example, the Broadway musical Hair was a big hit and the accompanying record, which included the chanting of Hare Krsna, became a popular staple on the radio. George Harrison recorded the song "My Sweet Lord" with the melodious chanting of Krsna's names in the background, and prior to that, the words "Hare Krsna" could be found on one of the Beatles' albums. Feed the World Week, Oct 15-21 from Lokanath Swami Posted September 16, 2004 What is Feed the World Week? 1. Feed the World Week is based on a simple principle: For one week, the world should experience a wholesome, nonviolent, karma-free diet, which will pave the way for a peaceful and hunger-free world. 2. Feed the World Week is an open community event for raising awareness of the world's chronic hunger problem.
Flowers for Sri Sri
Hare Krishna! Throughout the year Mayapur is filled with the fragrance of seasonal flowers, and the Deities are offered a variety of fresh, fragrant flowers every day. Here are some photos of Sri Madhava wearing bracelets of honey flowers and Sri Radhika with sweet-smelling chamara flowers in Her hand. From Kavicandra Swami Posted September 15, 2004 On July 27, 2004, the auspicious day of Lord Jagannatha's return Ratha Yatra in Puri, the devotees in Bali, Indonesia, held their first full-size public Ratha Yatra. Special guests present for the inauguration included the following:
Courses at Posted September 15, 2004 Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Bhaktivedanta College invites you to take some of our courses. Here is a list of the courses we offer to the public: Vte Bhakti-Sastri Course Monday 21 February - Friday 17 June 2005 Earlier courses: Click here or on title By Jayadvaita Swami Posted September 15, 2004 Bhagavad-gita As It Is 15.8: First Edition: The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas. Second Edition: The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another. Manuscript (partly edited): The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life, as the air carries the smell from the river. Thus does he take one kind of body, and again quit it to take another.
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Update Hare Krishna, devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Thank you for all the well-wishing emails sent by concerned devotees regarding our Guru Maharaja's health condition. I have been asked by many of you to keep you updated on what is going on, so here is an update. Bhakti Tirtha Swami is currently in Mexico, receiving treatment for his condition. I am pasting below a letter where he talks about what is happening. Please continue to send him your love and prayers,
Brazil: Pop Star
By Chandramukha Swami Posted September 10, 2004 Translated from Portuguese by Lalita Priya Devi Dasi An estimated audience of 30 million now listens to the mantra every day. Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 22, 2004– It is 1:30 am on the first night of winter. We are in the south of the country, in Porto Alegre, but in all directions, the night is boiling with activity. The three thousand tickets to participate of the first live DVD recording of the singer and composer Nando Reis had already been sold out some days ago. The Opinion Theater is crowded and the show is already in full swing.
Vyasa Puja 2004
Janmastami & Posted September 7, 2004 [Sorry for the late posting, but maybe this can still help someone.—Ed.] Hare Krsna. Please accept our most humble obeisances. Sri Krishna Janmashtami Maha Maha festival ki jai! His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada's 108th Appearance Day ki jai! Dear Maharajas, Prabhus, Matajis, Sri Krishna Janmastami and His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's 108 Appearance Anniversary are being celebrated with great devotion and dedication in ISKCON Ludhiana. We welcome your participation on the occasion of these maha festivals.
Janmastami 2004
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