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All India Padayatra In Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, South India,…
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All India Padayatra In Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, South India, June 9, 2017 (Album with photos)
By Acarya Dasa
Anantha: On April 14th we reached Thiruvananthapuram, formerly known as Trivandrum. It is the capital and largest city in the state of Kerala. The city’s name comes from the presiding deity of the ‘Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple’, who is also known as ‘Anantha’ (one who reclines on the serpent, Anantha). It is said that the deity was originally 18 miles (28 kilometers) long and it would take devotees three days to do parikrama (holy walk) around the Lord. After hearing the prayers of His devotees, the Lord reduced His size to 18 feet (0.3 meters).

A friend from Gujarat

We took darsana of the Lord and the pujaris there helped us arrange our accommodation. We stayed there for a few days doing sankirtana at the beach. We even gave our Lordships, Sri Sri Nitai Guarsundar, a dip in the ocean. One day while doing sankirtan in some part of the city, a gentleman approached us. He was very happy to hear us singing the maha-mantra. I spoke to him and told him about our Lordships and how we started our padayatra from Dwaraka and coincidently he was from Gujarat. He was really surprised, “Wow! So you all are coming from my home town. Jai! And the Lord also came to give us darsana”, he said. He was so happy that he invited us to his home for sankirtana and prasadam. This gentleman had five brothers all of whom attended our sankirtana program the next day. One of them was named Rakesh, and he was blind. He told us he had once heard a recording of Srila Prabhupada singing the maha-mantra. He then started to sing in exactly that manner. We were so happy to see him singing for the pleasure of Sri Sri Nitai Gaurasundar. The Lord showers his mercy on each and every one of us. The family gave us a donation of 7000 rupees and they also took a Bhagavatam set.

Book scores for Kerala

Since entering the district of Kerala on April 6th, we have distributed so many books. It was amazing, anyone who we tried giving a book to would wait, listen to us and then usually after seeing the book they would buy it. To date we have distributed:

5776 Maha Big Books

694 Big Books

4698 Small Books

Total books distributed: 11315

Anandi Gaura Dasa

Anandi Gaura Dasa joined our padayatra party in Nagpur last month. He is very enthusiastic. In South India we have a lot of challenges with language since the majority of people speak Tamil or English but not Hindi. Anandi Gaura Dasa was a great help; he translated from Hindi to English to everyone I spoke to. He also distributed a lot of books: 598 maha big books and 168 small books.

Matsya Avatar Dasa & Uttamnarahari Dasa

Other devotees who also distributed a lot of books were Matsya Avatar Dasa and Uttamnarahari Dasa. Matsya Avatar Dasa distributed 505 medium books and Uttamnarhari Prabhu 486 medium books.

All the padayatris did book distribution. Our book distribution was done to such a large scale that we had to constantly order new sets of books and as soon as I would order them they would get finished. This was all the mercy of the Lord, these were all chamatkars (miracles) and we, padayatris were nimitta-matram (just instruments). We spoke to Lokanath Swami about the book distribution. He was very happy, he said, “Keep going on, support each other and serve the Lord.”

We also attended a one-day Jaganath ratha-yatra (chariot festival) in Trivandrum where we distributed the following number of books:

230 Maha Big Books

60 Small Books
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Hollywood actress Marie Avgeropoulos visits Vrindavan and starts…
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Hollywood actress Marie Avgeropoulos visits Vrindavan and starts a campaign for its underprivileged girls.
The campaign aims to raise funds to support the education of a thousand more girls at the three Sandipani Muni Schools in Vrindavan, Lord Krishna’s birthplace. During her week-long visit, Marie spent her time trying to understand and document the problems underprivileged Brijabasi girls face. Her six-part documentary series on her experience will be released by Without Exception Films through an online campaign this month and will premier during a series of fundraising events in Los Angeles starting with one hosted by Marie herself on June 15th.
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Panihati Cida-dahi Festival. Wed. 2017-06-07. Raghunatha dasa…
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Panihati Cida-dahi Festival. Wed. 2017-06-07.
Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, who later became famous for his renunciation, was previously a householder and wanted to join the personal association and service of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri. However, his father prevented Raghunatha dasa from doing so. After several failed attempts, Raghunatha dasa heard that Nityananda Prabhu had arrived at Panihati. In order to receive the Lord’s causeless mercy, Raghunatha dasa went to see Him.
When Nityananda Prabhu saw Raghunatha dasa, He ordered him to prepare and serve all His associates chida-dahi, flat rice mixed with yogurt. In order to please the Lord, Raghunatha dasa immediately carried out His order by preparing and distributing large quantities of chida-dahi to the Vaishnavas, as well as hundreds of others who had arrived on the spot upon hearing that a festival was on at Panihati. Finally, Lord Nityananda blessed, and ordered His associates to bless, Raghunatha dasa, that he would be successful in attaining the personal association and service of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Panihati is located near Kolkata. Many devotees from Mayapur and Kolkata assemble and jointly conduct kirtanas and massive
prasada (sacred food) distribution to the thousands of pilgrims who arrive for the festival.

Exciting Plans Afoot for Spain’s New Vrajamandala. Yadunandana…
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Exciting Plans Afoot for Spain’s New Vrajamandala.
Yadunandana Swami’s first move is to invite capable devotees to build up the New Vrajamandala team. (“Without a good team, you can’t be successful,” he says.) Already, Sabda Brahma Das, who previously worked at a bank, has been named the new treasurer; while retired post office manager Rafael Vasco is the accountant and temple commander.
The team’s top priority is to improve Deity worship. For this, they have calculated the minimum cost to maintain a good standard of worship, including pujari maintenance, which will bring steadiness. They’ve already secured sponsors, funding, and some new pujaris, and are looking for a head pujari to oversee the department.
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Preaching program at “Courage Bazaar” Kiev, Ukraine…
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Preaching program at “Courage Bazaar” Kiev, Ukraine (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: We should not forget the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra under any circumstances. It will help us in the greatest danger, as we find in the life of Gajendra. (Srimad-Bhagavatam, 8.3.1 Purport)
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Croatia Harinama Tour (Album with photos) By congregationally…
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Croatia Harinama Tour (Album with photos)
By congregationally chanting the holy names you achieve everything, including the goal of life and the process for attaining it. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada: …Love of Krishna is the sadhya, and congregational chanting the names of Krishna is the sadhana. Any questions that may arise in this regard can be resolved only by chanting the names of Krishna.
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Srila Prabhupada’s book distribution (Album with…
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Srila Prabhupada’s book distribution (Album with photos)
At the Sadhu Sanga Kirtan Retreat we had a very successful BBT promo. Many devotees got their BBT pen and special bookmarks.
In addition we also distributed 76 sets of Sri Brhad Bhagavatamrta: 20 sets of Sri Chaitanya Caritamrta: 15 sets of Srimad Bhagavatam and 36 copies of Our Family Business
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Pure gold! (1 min video) On this auspicious day of Pandava…
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Pure gold! (1 min video)
On this auspicious day of Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi, one Chakra for the small domes and all of the remaining pieces for the 2 small Kalashes have fully arrived.
You can see in this video how they will look and their size for the small domes.
The Chakras are made of solid stainless steel coated with pure gold. This gold will remain for many years and the chakras won’t need to be recoated for the next 100 years!
This Chakra will be placed very shortly on the domes, once the Kalash will be completed then the Chakra will be installed while we have the cranes.
It will be fully installed by HG Jananivas and HG Pangajangri Prabhus.
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/uVJLLx

News story and audio interview about devotee musician from New…
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News story and audio interview about devotee musician from New Zealand.
Despite the high acclaim Denver received for his work as Micronism, Mechanism, and the music he released under his own name, he stopped producing a year later, pursuing a newfound interest in the Hare Krishna faith. Since then he’s spent time as a Krishna Devotee in Ashrams in NZ, Peru, and is now based in Brisbane with his wife and son.
Find them here: https://goo.gl/QGS2NC

Harinama in Barnaul, Russia, 03.06.17 (Album with photos)…
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Harinama in Barnaul, Russia, 03.06.17 (Album with photos)
“When a person really devotes himself to Krsna consciousness and begins to derive pleasure in repeating the name of his beloved Lord, this repetition captures him entirely. Sometimes he sings the holy names very loudly and dances like a madman. However, he does not care that someone can take him for a madman. He does not care about the opinions of others. This is the perfect level of repetition of the holy name ”
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Bhaktivedanta Clinic (1 min video) “Inauguration…
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Bhaktivedanta Clinic (1 min video)
“Inauguration clip”
Registered as Bhaktivedanta Hospital & Research Institute, it is a non-profit, non-Governmental, non-sectarian organization. This will be the first of its kind in Nepal, serving with a Spiritual theme.
The Medical team at BVH are energetic, empathic and spiritually minded with a total of 20 members including Doctors/Consultants/ Physiotherapist & Paramedics.
BVH is serving with OPD/ Physiotherapy/ Ayurveda/ Naturopathy/ Spiritual Counselling/ Psychiatry Clinic/ Meditation – Yoga/ Home Care Services/ Tele – Medicine/ Pharmacy services.
BVH sub-unit – *Red Trident* is serving by organizing Health camps/ Awareness Programs in Peri-urban & Rural areas of Nepal.
The auspicious Inauguration ceremony was on 2nd April 2017, 10:00 AM.
*We humbly request you to bless us for this project in Nepal.*
Your dear most servants at
Bhaktivedanta Hospital team, Nepal
Watch it here: https://goo.gl/pQEnrM

ISKCON – Panihati Chip Rice Festival (Album with photos) Srila…
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ISKCON – Panihati Chip Rice Festival (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Haraye namah krsna yadavaya namah, gopala govinda rama sri-mudhusudana. This is another way of chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. The meaning is as follows: “I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna. He is the descendant of the Yadu family. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Gopala, Govinda, Rama and Sri Madhusudana.” (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, 25.64 Purport)
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ISKCON Birmingham: Book distribution and Harinama – Saturday 3rd…
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ISKCON Birmingham: Book distribution and Harinama – Saturday 3rd June 2017 – Birmingham City Centre (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: A pure devotee always thinks himself as not-devotee. If one thinks that he is big devotee that is not good, thinking that he is first degree. We should not be puffed up. A devotee avoids it, remaining always in the second degree. Krishna has given everyone something extraordinary, and to serve Krishna with one’s extraordinary talent means successful life. Letter to Sukadeva, March 17, 1973.
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ISKCON Birmingham: Saturday 3rd June 2017 – Birmingham City…
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ISKCON Birmingham: Saturday 3rd June 2017 – Birmingham City Centre (Album with photos)
Srila Prabhupada: A pure devotee always thinks himself as not-devotee. If one thinks that he is big devotee that is not good, thinking that he is first degree. We should not be puffed up. A devotee avoids it, remaining always in the second degree. Krishna has given everyone something extraordinary, and to serve Krishna with one’s extraordinary talent means successful life. Letter to Sukadeva, March 17, 1973.
Find them here: https://goo.gl/Y6NHh2