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Los Angeles SD Newsletter VOL. 3, ISSUE 24
VANCA KALPA… INATTENTIVENESS By Mahat Tattva Dasa It seems that kirtan is becoming a standard part of the Sastra Dana home programs. At the last program at Jonathan Prabhu’s place devotees lost the control over themselves and without any consideration of time and circumstances performed a wild, uncontrollable kirtan very loudly chanting Krishna’s holy names. It was so ecstatic that we were not able to take any photos, no one wanted to miss out on even a second of the program. Few devotees who played instruments sitting on...
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MEDITATION A letter His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami sent to his disciples’ conference Dear devotees, Please accept my best wishes and blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, by whose mercy we all now have the chance to chant Hare Krishna. The month of December marks the Srila Prabhupada book distribution marathon. Throughout this month devotees throughout the world will be making special efforts to distribute more of Srila Prabhupada's books. Some will go out daily for long hours solely for this purpose. Others will make...
read moreWho’s in control? (Bh Gary – South Africa)
Hare Krsna. Please accept my humble obeiscances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and his Sincere servants. Krsna is in control and he can do what he likes. Book distribution is a very effective way to realize this. A little while ago a few devotees and myself went to the airport for sankirtan. Somehow or the other that day was just not going my way. I got caught up in organizing all sorts of things in the morning after an extremely late night and late feast so i was really tired and by the time we reached our destination I needed to take rest...
read moreInterfaith encounters and Lord Nityananda’s Mercy
Most sankirtan devotees probably feel uncomfortable when a Christian priest enters the distribution scene. Quite often they just give you trouble, but there have been quite a few occasions when they turned out to be positive and encouraging. Here are couple of very interesting stories. We were distributing in a small town near Helsinki, called Tuusula, and it was quite a good day. There is one good parking lot (It looks like a small park with trees and birds & everything) where people are quite at ease and seem to take books easily. I was...
read moreBook Distribution Marathon
Dear devotees, Again the December book distribution marathon for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada is nigh. Again devotees from all over the world will be making even greater sacrifices than usual in their sincere endeavors to distribute more and more of Srila Prabhupada's wonderful life-changing books. Due to the climate, book distribution can be especially difficult in much of the northern hemisphere during December, yet we have almost come to expect that the devotees undertake amazing austerities in their one pointed determination to...
read moreThis is Bhakti
Preaching is the best service to the Lord. The Lord will immediately be extremely satisfied with one who engages in this service of preaching KŠa consciousness. This is confirmed by the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-g…t€ “There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear.” If one sincerely tries his best to spread KŠa consciousness by preaching the glories of the Lord and His supremacy, even if he is imperfectly educated, he becomes the dearmost servant of the...
read moreSomething from the BDS editor and Book Distributor
Going on Book Distribution with Devotees from Radhadesa by Tattvavit Dasa Recently, Hamsavatra Prabhu, the sankirtan leader in Radhadesa, was at the temple for a few days to repair a van. He announced after mangal arati that he would take out a vanful of book distributors the next day, and that anybody could go along. So I jumped in the van the next morning, and seven of us men headed out. We went to Maastricht, a Dutch city. In the morning, on the pedestrian shopping street, I met a psychology student. He grasps the idea that we have minds...
read moreTamal Krsna Gosvami ki jaya!
Please accept our humble obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada H.H.Kavicandra Maharaja told shortly some nice stories in Mayapur`s bds-seminar conserning H.H.Tamal Krsna Gosvami as a skt-leader, how, besides being strick, he was always very caring about devotees and attentive to the details. In other speeches it was mentioned how Maharaja was daily worshiping his murti of Srila Prabhupada. We have been contemplating these subjects every now and then, and would be very inspiring if some of our seniors could elaborate these subjects, or...
read moreLetter of appriciation to Taptakancani Devi Dasi
Hi Tanya, You might recall that we met in the airport yesterday. I wanted to thank you for being there, as the encounter has changed my life already. Additionally, your obvious advanced state of spirituality (relative of course) is strong evidence to suggest that what you represent in Krishna Consciousness is true. No selling me on the idea is necessary, you're just sitting there radiating spiritual energy is enough. I have had a some interest in eastern philosophy, particularly TM in past years, but lost interest in the last few years. I...
read moreIt is the Duty Save them – this is human life
Srila Prabhupada also explained that in Vedic culture, the ksatriyas collected taxes and protected the citizens while the sudras worked in the fields or at trade. The women would cook, spin, weave, and take care of the milk products. The low-class men, such as cobblers, who used the skin of dead cows, were allowed to eat meat. "But not that one is Professor Such-and-such and yet he is eating meat," Prabhupada said. "This is the way of the degraded modern society. Teacher means brahmana, and yet he is eating meat. How horrible!...
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