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I am looking for bakery space and machines in the New York area. I am in the process of buying a prasadam business and will need to use bakery equipment and space.
Hope this finds you well.
Your servant,
Lilananda dasa
Lilananda.acbsp@pamho.net
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On this new website of Parividha das, http://www.krsna.nl/pdp/ , you can listen to songs and scenes from his Krishna lila productions—musicals, dramas, and comedies—which elucidate the Vedic philosophy whilst exposing the flaws of atheistic science.
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This is an urgent request!
Two heavy brass lines 40- or 50-gallon pots (typically made in India or Pakistan) are need for the July 4th weekend by New Vrindaban, purchase or borrow. Please contact Malati dasi: Malatidevi@aol.com or call 304-845-9591.
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The Fourth Annual Himalayan Performing Arts Festival will be held Saturday June 4th at the Krishna Temple, one mile south of Spanish Fork on Main St. Performing artists will take the stage from 6 pm and present a menu of folk dance, classical Indian dance, drama, music, and songs.
One presenter will be Anju Thapaliya, from Nepal, who will demonstrate the folk dancing of this mountain kingdom.
All are invited to a grand and memorable Ratha-yatra and Reunion Festival to be held in Guyana, South America, from July 6 to 20, 2005, by the mercy of Sri Sri Radha Gokulachandra.
Invited guests include HH Jayapataka Swami, HH Romapada Swami, and HG Virabahu Prabhu.
April 29 - May 15, 2005
"Same Mission, Same Mercy"
I arrived back in Warsaw on May 8, after an absence of nearly six months. My travels had taken me to the far corners of the earth, to such places as Australia, India, the United States, and South Africa. People in those prominent countries often consider Poland, tucked away in Eastern Europe and off the beaten track, as a place of less importance.
The First Annual Lord Balarama
Raft-A-Yatra
at Saranagati Village,
British Columbia
Honey Harvest and Getting-to-Know-You Festival
August 16-20, 2005
Join us for a four-day campout in the country culminating in Lord Balarama's moonlight floating Harinam Festival, when a flotilla of devotees will serenade Lord Balarama and His younger brother, Lord Krishna, as They drift through the moonlit waters of Lake Saranagati.
This year will see the 14th Annual Prabhupada Festival. The festival will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 28th and 29th, at the Hare Krishna Temple in Los Angeles, California. It is for the purpose of glorifying His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is the Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Srila Prabhupada is the only reason anyone knows the words "Hare Krishna" in mainstream culture.
Dear Devotees and Friends,
You are cordially invited to join us in the celebrations of the auspicious Appearance Day of Lord Nrsimhadeva at Sri Sri Radha Govinda Mandir on Sunday May 22, 2005.
The Rainbow Gathering, located in an isolated national forest, is an annual festival that attracts over 40,000 spiritual seekers. Since 1980, the ISKCON Krishna Camp has been flooding the gathering with prasadam, books, and Krishna kirtan.
July 1-7 2005
Dear Prabhus,
Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
What movies have devotees appeared in since 1990?
ITV is planning to update its original Hare Krishna in the Movies video, which was released in 1990. If you know of any films that had scenes with devotees or mention of Hare Krishna, please let us know the names of the movies. If you can't remember the names, then please describe whatever details—stars, plot, etc. —that you can.
June 10-12, 2005
Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisance’s, all glories to Srila Prabhupad.
Because of circumstances beyond our control, there aren't any more accommodations in the Brooklyn temple for visiting devotees during this year’s Ratha-yatra festival weekend.
Radhadesh Tue 5 - Sat 9 July
Dear Prabhus,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Just a reminder that the ISKCON European Convention in Radhadesh will be taking place soon. There is a great line-up of teachers this year. The convention takes place each year in Radhadesh, the Hare Krishna temple in the Belgian Ardennes. This is a good place for the seminars because of the nice facilities for delegates as well as the pleasant and peaceful surroundings.
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October 3–After three months of resting and gearing up, with the horses shoed and healthy-hoofed, we left Los Indios. During this period, many people had the opportunity to come in touch with the Lord and render some aspect of devotional service towards the mission, some more than others.
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Dear Tapati Devi Dasi,
Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I recently read your letter regarding your sexual preference. I know that you had requested Hrdayananda Maharaja to comment about gay monogamy, but I felt the need to also reply you. I hope you don't mind.
First of all, I am truly sorry that one of your Godsisters stopped writing to you.
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Dear devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
The devotees in the Chicago congregation want to invite children and their parents to come to Chicago and take part in a two-week Bhagavad-Gita summer camp, from August 1 to August 5 and August 8 to August 12. In the past, devotees have come from as far as Buffalo and Long Island, so please come and do not let the distance deprive us of your association. Devotees in the congregation can provide adequate accommodations.
Dear Maharajas and Prabhus
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
In his final letter to the Vaisnava community, H.H. Bhakti Tirtha Swami mentioned that all the remaining laksmi from what had been donated to him for his medical expenses would be put into a fund to provide grants of $1000 to $3000 to devotees requiring financial assistance with their health care.
Day One – April 17
Rama Navami, April 18, marked the 30th anniversary of the first and only complete temple ever built by Srila Prabhupada, Sri Sri Krishna Balarama Mandir. Up to that time we had remodeled churches, a temporary temple in Mayapur, one in the making in Bombay, or houses in the low-rent area painted bright colors with a sign "Radha Krishna Temple" hung out front.
The temple is located right on the main road named by the Municipality as Bhaktivedanta Swami Marg in honor of Srila Prabhupada's making Vrindavan famous all over the world.
April 14 - 28, 2005
"Tales of Wonder"
As our two-month tour of the American temples was coming to a close, I found myself drawing on my body's reserve energies. Our schedule of two or three programs a day meant I rarely went to bed before midnight. Constantly on the move, traveling back and forth through different time zones, eating irregularly, and sleeping in a different home every other day had become a taxing routine and had taken its toll on me.
In Alachua, Florida, I fainted one morning as I left the temple. A devotee helped me outside and sat me on the lawn. "Maharaja," he said, "you'd better slow down. Take it easy."
The contention of HH Hridayananda Goswami Maharaja is that homosexual devotees be allowed to stay together with a partner of their choice, as a heterosexual couple would stay together in the grhasta asrama. His statement in a letter to Chakra and Dipika is this: "I am not convinced that marriage is the best means in all cases, but some serious, formal and public recognition and appreciation of gay monogamy is, in my view, in the best interest of ISKCON and its members."
Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Sri Gadadhara's Appearance Day in Mayapur was sweetly celebrated on May 8. New pink ornaments for this outfit were made by Lila Vrindavana Devi Dasi and her team of matajis from beads donated by H.G. Pushpavan Prabhu.
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Hare Krsna,
Srimad Bhagavatam katha is being organized from May 30 to June 5, 2005. There will be two hours of katha in the morning and evening each day. Preparations are in full swing to make this festival a great success. HG Sakshi Gopal Das from ISKCON Kurukshetra and I will lecture from the holy books Srimad Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita.
May 8, 2005
Dear Maharajas, Prabhus and Disciples
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
This is the final letter that I will be sending out. Our movement is like a young adult. There are many things that everyone experiences, individuals as well as institutions, that are part of the maturation process. As we grow, we also have to deal with growth pains. Often after these growth pains we experience the greatest benefits from our struggles, just like a mother who is pregnant and who is bringing forth children. Each time before she gives birth she has to deal with almost unbearable challenges.
Hare Krishna. Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I am a 19-year-old East Asian girl, and I would like to correspond with other devotee girls.
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Dear Prabhus, Matajis and Maharajas,
Please accept our respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
The Mexico City Ratha Yatra committee is happy and honored to invite you all to the third annual Ratha Yatra in the biggest city in the world.
The transcendental and majestic festival of the gigantic chariots will take place on Saturday May 14 and Sunday May 15 this year.
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Rita McNaughton, also known as Momji, is a devotee of Krsna and a faithful follower of Srila Prabhupada. She also happens to be my mother. At present, she is very ill, and therefore I've decided to write a few words in honor of a great soul.
Momji was born in 1922 in rural Manitoba, Canada, on a homesteader farm. She came from a large family of eight brothers and sisters. They had no electricity, running water, or telephone.
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The April issue of the respected science magazine Nature has a feature article on the Intelligent Design movement. The magazine also devotes its entire front page to the topic, and there is an editorial stating that although Intelligent Design is wholly unscientific and fundamentally wrong, it is making big inroads in the scientific world and amongst students and therefore must be dealt with.
Bhagavad-gita As It Is 5.5
First Edition:
One who knows that the position reached by means of renunciation can also be attained by works in devotional service and who therefore sees that the path of works and the path of renunciation are one, sees things as they are.
Second Edition:
One who knows that the position reached by means of analytical study can also be attained by devotional service, and who therefore sees analytical study and devotional service to be on the same level, sees things as they are.
New. Never before seen in ISKCON.
Previews begin on Srila Prabhupada's Appearance Day August, 2005 in Los Angeles/Laguna Beach/San Diego. (Special closed performances for devotees only before going public.)
Come to the Himalayas and personally meet Srila Vyasadeva as he tells you about his extraordinary birth, the age of Kali, his meeting with Lord Ganesha, and the compiling of Mahabharata.
February 11 - April 13, 2005
"Lessons on the Road"
Since leaving Sri Lanka in late February I have had several dreams of the devastation caused by the tsunami and of the victims that I attended to. That real-life drama left an indelible impression on my mind. Even the most beautiful scenes of nature now appear tainted, for I realize more than ever before that everything in this world is temporary and subject to destruction.
I very much appreciate His Holiness Hrdayananda Maharaja's comments about gay monogamy. I would like to comment from my own experience.
I had the good fortune to be initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1977. I practiced Krsna Consciousness for over 15 years. I married in the movement, had two children, and finally left my abusive husband. I went to college so I could support my children with no help from their father.
It was there I realized in stages that I was not solely heterosexual.
Hare Krishna Prabhus,
This is a humble request for information regarding Krishna-Conscious summer camps in the eastern United States. We have two daughters, 13 and 8, who would benefit from such an opportunity.
Kindly submit any information to Mother Chatamayi at the.chadwicks@rcn.com.
Thank you.
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Hare Krishna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
On behalf of the devotees from Brasilia, Brazil, I'd like to know if anyone can help us obtain a 12-inch set of the Mayapur Pancha-Tattva Deities for our preaching center.
Your servant,
Giridhari Das
GD
[gd@pandavas.org.br]
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From Riddha Prabhu:
I first came in contact with Bhakti Tirtha Swami in Chicago around about 1974. Maharaja was then named Ghanasyama dasa Brahmacari. It was while I was stationed at the O’ Hare Airport in Chicago working for the BBT that I was fortunate enough to become a close Godbrother and friend.
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Dear Maharajas and Prabhus
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Harinama Press is glad to announce the early printing of The Beggar IV: Die before Dying by H. H. Bhakti-Tirtha Swami. The book comes off the press in one week, so please put in your orders now. The book costs $12.95 softbound. Please send your orders to either of the following persons: egmurari@aol.com or devacor@aol.com. Below are excerpts from the foreword by H. H. Radhanatha Swami, the introduction by H. H. Sacinandana Swami and the epilogue by H. G. Bhurijana Prabhu.
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