Pleasing Guru
naca, gao, bhakta-sange kara sankirtana krsna-nama upadesi' tara' sarva-jana SYNONYMS naca — go on dancing; gao — chant; bhakta-sange — in the society of devotees; kara — continue; sankirtana — chanting of the holy name in assembly; krsna-nama — the holy name of Krsna; upadesi' — by instructing; tara' — deliver; sarva-jana — all fallen souls. TRANSLATION...
Los Angeles SD Newsletter VOL. 2, ISSUE 25, DECEMBER 2000
VANCA KALPA… “WORLD ENLIGHTENMENT DAY” By Nitika Thapar HARE KRISHNA! Please accept our greetings from the Sastra Dana program for congregational distribution of Srila Prabhupada’s books. Our last meeting was held at Bhakta Dan’s house and was attended by our organizational committee members. This meeting was primarily meant to discuss the operation of book distribution for the World Enlightenment Day which was...
Marathon Samdhi
CAMP: Bangkok, Thailand HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE While in Vrndavan in early December I had the good fortune of meeting my god brother, Ayodhya Prabhu. He is 65 years old and "retired" in Vrndavana. At age 45 he retired from a good job in Detroit at Chrysler and started working full time for the temple. After moving to Vrndavan 4 or 5 years ago, he got the inspiration...
Make Hare Krishna Land Juhu into a BUS STOP!
Even after Prabhupada got the permit to build the residences for the devotees [in Juhu, Mumbai], he still had to get permission to build the temple. And the government seemed determined not to give it. Sometimes, when things looked really bad, Srila Prabhupada almost appeared to become hopeless. But even when he seemed hopeless, he would always see the positive side. One day he said, “Even if we don’t get permission and...
The Magic Formula to change the world
Srila Prabhupada's book distribution is a long-range program to bring all conditioned souls Back to Godhead. It also has short-term goals, namely, to distribute more books so that we can produce more books in other languages as well. The more book distribution goes on, the more people will understand Krishna. If only one percent of the people we give books to become Krishna conscious, that is a lot of people. Planting the seed of...




