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Cranbrook, British Columbia

I Stepped On

I stepped on what appeared to be a trail at Cranbook’s west end.  I was wrong.  A sign posted on this narrow cleared space near this swampy body of water, was a natural maternity habitat for local turtles.  An elderly man was raking the ground, readying it for turtle nesting.

I apologized to the man when I discovered my mistake.  “Oh, that’s alright, you didn’t know,” he replied forgivingly. 

Whenever there is an opportunity to trek somewhere parallel to a super busy highway, I jump for it.  Karuna, my walking partner for this morning, and I, spotted the Trans Canada Trail while walking during the morning rush hour.  We dashed for that trail and enjoyed the shade and tranquility it offered.  When it is inevitable that we stick to the main road, then we accept it as a practice in austerity.  The traffic is particularly busy through Cranbrook, a juncture that leads to Vancouver, Calgary, and the States. 

Being where the motorists frequent is always the most challenging, but I did meet nice samaritans today.  I had stopped by at a house asking for a possibly alternative parallel road.  The owner of the home informed me that there wasn’t any.  Somehow or other he was intrigued when I told him about the nationwide walk, because a half hour later, he and his wife pulled over and presented a bag full of goodies.

“Now, if there’s anything in this bag, you can’t eat, you can just take it out right now.”  So I looked inside and I pulled out the can of tuna and the package of beef jerky, and then went on to enjoy the fruit with thanks.  Not much later, a woman who had heard there’s a monk in town, drove out to the shoulder of the road where I continued to amble along.  Intrigued, she offered a donation and a smile.  Both were precious. 

I have one lament about these days, we don’t seem to be having success in school engagements in either Alberta or BC like we experienced in the prairies and north western Ontario.  Even yoga societies appeared too busy for our presentation.  Either that, or it’s too short notice.  So be it.  We are spending time with Paul and Sara and their friends who have come to visit.  Paul is 83 and he makes a mean rhubarb apple pie.  Due to our presence there, Paul and Sara’s company is enjoying vegetarian cuisine which we consecrate to make it prasadam. 

I thank Arnie from the Daily Townsman for coming to do an interview.

May the Source be with you!

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Hare Krishna!

My first contact with the devotees, without even noticing it, was with the George Harrison’s song “My Sweet Lord”. It was a #1 Hit in Spain and I loved it. I bought the LP and I listened to it everytime I could. I was 14 years old.

At 17, when I finished my studies, I decided to go to Paris and just by life chances, I ended up living close to the Hare Krishna Temple. It was in the Rue le Sueur, next to the park where I was going every day with the little girl I was taking care of. During the two years I was there I could see them quite often, but I never went to the temple. It seems it wasn’t my time yet.

I came back to Spain and I had to go through a couple of years of suffering to realize that this life is not made to enjoy it. At the beginning of ’82 a Srila Prabhupada book, “Elevation to Krishna Concioussnes” arrived to my home. Years after I discovered that during these Christmas there was a Ladies Sankirtan Party who did a Marathon in Bilbao, near to where I was living, and probably someone from my family bought them that book. When I first saw it I loved it, especially the Srila Prabhupada picture, to which I started to offer incense (in my way, of course). I built a little altar and I even put a little cactus. I liked the book so much, and I started trying to follow the principles Srila Prabhupada was mentioning.

A bit later I found out that a friend of mine was living in New Vrajamandala and during Eastern I went there to see the farm. I loved it so much that I had to stay, I couldn’t go back home.

One month after arriving to the farm, I joined the ladies Travelling Sankirtana Party and we travelled all around Spain. Later on, in the ’87, I got married with Sabda-Brahma and we lived for 5 years more in New Vrajamandala, until we moved to Jalón, in Alicante, where we are still living with our son Nityananda.

Here we have a prosper devotee community quite near, wich helps us to stay Krishna conscious, and without the London Temple morning programs, it wouldn’t be the same. Mayapur.tv has brought back to me enthusiasm for participating in this marvelous Srila Prabhupada movement. There I have met great devotees from all over the world, who like me are willing to please Krishna. We are a big family, and this makes me feel very motivated.

Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to share my life with you all. See you in the next London program. Haribol!

 

 

 

Beautiful gems on sacred ground

Bend and sway to magical sound

Glowing colours alight with love

Dance before you, Lord above

Radha and Krishna inspire such a sight 

I kneel in awe with devotees so bright

 Julia

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You may remember that last issue, Nitai Gaurasundara, President of ISKCON Paris, sent in a book distribution story.  Pics were promised later, and now here they are:

26-12-2010 SB 6.5.29-30 Narada and the Sons of Daksa Part 1, ISKCON Cape Town, South Africa.mp3

Just imagine a person who manifests everything that exists out of His transcendental body, Who is so powerful that not even a blade of grass can move without His sanction, who is so kind that no matter how much you neglect Him, He still has unlimited love for you, Who is so attractive that anyone who comes into His contact cannot help but fall madly in love with Him, Who is so sweet that anything else besides Him is by comparison unbearably bitter, Who is so funny that He can make everyone laugh uproariously, Who is so serious that He can make everyone very sober even the most frivolous buffoons, Who plays His flute so artistically with such unlimited depth of beautiful emotions that He can make everyone cry pools of tears in ecstasy, Who is so accessible that even though He is the supreme superstar you can have Him exclusively as your personal companion, and Who has so many unlimited wondrous qualities that I could go on writing this sentence infinitely for all of eternity. (Do I need to stop?) This is Krishna. Now take Him!

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Hare Krishna

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1966 June 9:
"Sasthi. Received one letter from Secretary Sir Padampat that he is not at present interested in Temple Construction in New York. A laughing stock."
Prabhupada Journal :: 1966

1967 June 9: "Prahlada in the womb heard the instruction of Narada Muni and became the most famous devotee. It is the duty of all parents to make every child Krishna Conscious, so they may not have any more to take birth in this material world."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1967

1972 June 9: "I shall be very glad to see the manuscripts. You say my early writings are very powerful and strong, so now it is not that I have become a little soft on account of my disciples. They must follow very strong orders."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

1972 June 9: "Send your songbook to me first and I shall read it and write a short introductory note. In your song book, poet Jayadeva's high madhurya rasa songs may be avoided because they are meant for highly advanced devotees."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

1972 June 9: "Rupa Goswami says enthusiasm, patience, conviction, and acting exactly to the order of Sastra and Guru makes our devotional service successful. So our serious students should follow Rupa Goswami's advice."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1972

1974 June 9: "Your multifarious activities in Krsna Consciousness sound very good. We have so many engagements, therefore I have asked that the political program be stopped as it is creating too much separate effort, separate brain, separate money from our regular program."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

Q: Is there śāstric evidence for the understanding that Krishna is the original Bhagavān, the source of Viṣṇu, aside from the commonly quoted Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.3.28 and Brahmā Saṁhitā 5.1?

I think the first thing to remember here is that Krishna is a very rare avatāra. He is 1,000 times more rare than any other Viṣṇu Avatāra (Because they appear once per kalpa, but Krishna appears only once in an entire day of Brahmā — 1,000 kalpa). And every time Krishna appears, he is immediately followed by Śrī Krishna Caitanya and his associates, especially Śrīla Rūpa Goswāmī and Śrīla Jīva Goswāmī, etc.

So for 95% of the duration of the cosmos, Krishna is rather irrelevant. He is not known except by those very rare mystics whose knowledge extends beyond the beginning of the current cosmos. Therefore in the vast majority of śāstra Krishna is not directly discussed. Simply put, he is irrelevant to most of the material world, and even most of the spiritual progress going on within the material world, for the vast majority of the time.

But when, just after the 500th revolution of kalpa, at the very end of the dvāpara-yuga, Krishna appears… all of the sudden he becomes exceedingly relevant in this world, although for a short time on a cosmic scale. Krishna is like a flash of lightning or a supernova, very rare, and when it happens it is over very quickly, but while it happens… oh boy is it bright and exciting!

After Krishna appears Vyāsa records his līlā in Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Then there is a period of slight pause, and then Mahaprabhu Arrives with his associates to completely explain Krishna and open a huge doorway for almost anyone and everyone to access the beauty of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa and its object.

So, what I am saying is that most of the time Krishna is irrelevant to the world, and therefore most of the scripture doesn’t deal directly with Krishna. But when Krishna does come, once in 1,000 kalpa he is followed immediately by associates who generate śāstra relevant to his revelation.

So, the words of Mahaprabhu, the words of Kaviraja Goswāmī, the words of Śrī Rūpa, Sanatana, Raghunātha and Jīva Goswāmī… these are equal to and superior to the words of the Sāptaṛṣi who composed the ancient vedas, and the words of the other ṛṣī who composed Upanishads and so on. We do not agree to the idea that simply because something is not extremely old, its not authentic. The relatively modern texts of Śrī Rūpa and Śrī Jīva, for example, are superior to the Purāṇas, Upanishads, and Vedas – because they were written during the “supernova” of Krishna’s revelation.

In the very old Vedas, there is still indication of Krishna but it is indirect. In other words, he is not mentioned much by name, but is regularly pointed to as an ideal.

Two classic, important, examples are

(1) the Vedanta’s analysis of the Upanishads, stating ānanda-mayābhyāsāt — “The Upanishads repeatedly declare that the ultimate life is composed of bliss itself.”

(2) Taittiriya Upanishad, stating raso vai saḥ — “The supreme is certainly rasa himself.”

So, the Upanishads (which bring out the philosophical import of the four Veda) repeatedly point to bliss / rasa as the true essence of life – and that is really what the Krishna conception is. Krishna is the supreme life, and thus the supreme rasa, the supreme bliss. So our ācāryas, like Madhvācārya, confidently say, “All the Vedas glorify Krishna.” And even Krishna says, in Gītā, vedaiś ca sarvair ahaṁ eva vedyo — “The real thing to be known in all the Vedas is me.”

Madhvācārya says (in commenting on Gītā 2.24), that the older Vedic scriptures can be most clearly understood for what they really are pointing towards only if we study them in light of the newer scriptures (especially the Gītā. In Bhagavad Gītā, several statements support that Krishna is Bhagavān and even svayam Bhagavān.)

In this way, we are quite content with the 3rd chapter of canto 1 of Śrīmad Bhāgavata Purāṇa (which elaborately and explicitly makes the point that Krishna is svayam Bhagavān, and the origin of all avatar), and with the Brahmā Samhita discovered by Śrī Krishna Caitanya, and with the statements of Mahaprabhu and the Six Goswāmīs.

Here are a few more instances of indirect descriptions of Krishna in the Upaniṣads:

The essential declaration that the supreme is an entity possessing personality, and desire to expand (the root nature of Krishna) is made all across the Upaniṣad. For example: Chāndogya Upaniṣad (6.2.1):

sadeva saumyedam agra āsīd ekam evādvitīyam
tad aikṣata bahu syām prajāyeya

“In the beginning the One was certainly undivided, and desired to manifest as many.”

Aitareya Upaniṣad (1.1-2):

ātmā vā idam eka evāgra āsīn nānyat kiñcana miṣat
sa īkṣata lokān nu sṛjā

“In the beginning there was certainly only one entity, and nothing else. He desired to manifest all things.”

The Gītā declares in many places that Krishna is Bhagavān, who is defined as the origin of Brahman. For example (Bhagavad Gītā 14.27): brahmaṇo hi pratiṣṭhāhaṁ – “I am certainly the very foundation of reality (Brahman).”

A later Upaniṣad, Gopāl Tāpanī Upaniṣad (Pūrva 50), mentions Krishna by name:

tasmāt kṛṣṇa eva paro devaḥ

“Therefore the supreme divinity is certainly all-attractive (Krishna).”

Q: Should we preach the Krishna conception to those who have other understandings of Bhagavān.

Our natural function, being enamored with Krishna, is that we will speak about Krishna. Much like school boys talk about the various girls in bands like AKB48, and the school girls talk about the various boys in bands like One Direction, or whatever. It is just natural that we will gush about Krishna.

We do not “preach” per se, it is just natural that when we open our mouths, what is in our hearts comes out.

You cannot “make” someone a devotee of Krishna, or a devotee at all. You can only hope to inspire them to make themselves a devotee. Love cannot be created, it comes only from freewill, so we cannot create bhakti in someone else. We can only inspire them to create it within themselves.

If someone is inspired to be a devotee of Narasiṁha, Varāha, Rāma, Viṣṇu, etc. then your expression of love for Krishna will only inspire their affection for Narasiṁha, Varāha, etc. Similarly, if one is inspired to be a devotee of Krishna, then expressions of devotion for Rāma and so on, will only inspire their inspiration towards Krishna.

Śrīla Rūpa and Sanātana Goswāmīs were brothers. They had a third brother, and his son was Jīva Goswāmī. This third brother was a devotee of Rāma. Śrīla Rūpa and Sanātana could not interest him in becoming a devotee of Krishna.

Sometimes it will happen, because sometimes the soul will be inspired. But usually it won’t happen because the soul is already fixed in its inspiration.

There is no need to make the effort, in my opinion.

1974 June 9: "Although you are only two you should carry on all your programs as far as possible. In the beginning I was only one and I started everything, so you have twice as many men. Trust in Krsna and simply dedicate your life to introducing the chanting of Hare Krsna and Krsna Consciousness philosophy to whomever you meet."
Prabhupada Letters :: 1974

1975 June 9: "It is wonderful to hear you are daily distributing 1,000 magazines and daily collecting $1,000. Now, you have plenty of money, milk, fruits, flowers, grains, everything. What more could you want?"
Prabhupada Letters :: 1975

Krsna  has  one  personal   energy called  svarupa sakti  or  para  sakti. This para  sakti has three  vibhavas, three  prabhavas and three  anubhavas by Krsna's  will. The three  vibhavas are the cit sakti,   jiva sakti  and  maya  sakti.   The three  prabhavas are the iccha sakti, kriya sakti and  jnana sakti. The three  anubhavas are sandhini, hladini and samvit. By the  influence of  the  iccha  sakti  (Supreme Will),  the  cit  sakti  manifests  Goloka, Vaikuntha and  other  places  of the  Lord's  pastimes, Krsna's  names, the  Lord's  various two  handed or  four  handed or  six handed forms,  the  pastimes with  his  associates in Goloka,  Vrndavana, and  Vaikuntha, and  spiritual qualities such  as mercy,  forgiveness, and    generosity.   By the  influence of the  jnana  sakti,  the    cit  sakti  produces various perceptions: aisvarya,  madhurya,  and   beauty  of  the  spiritual  world.    Krsna   alone possesses the iccha sakti.  The controller of the jnana sakti is Vasudeva and  the controller of the  kriya  sakti  is Baladeva, or Sankarsana. By the  influence of the  iccha  sakti,  jnana sakti  and  kriya  sakti   upon the jiva sakti,   the forms  of eternal associates, devatas, men, demons  and   raksasas appear.    By  the  influence  of  Krsna's   kriya   sakti,   the  Lord's activities become  manifest. Within  the  cit sakti,  the  sandhini, samvit and  hladini saktis  combine to produce the distinctive ecstasies  of prema.

Chaitanya Shikshamrita, Bhaktivinoda Thakura

 

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- Chaitanya Charan das and Sukadeva das, PhD

"Vegetarians are unhealthier than non-vegetarians." So claimed a recent study:
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/04/01/study-vegetarians-less-healthy-lower- quality-of-life-than-meat-eaters/

The article stated: “Vegetarians were twice as likely to have allergies, a 50 percent increase in heart attacks and a 50 percent increase in incidences of cancer. The cross-sectional study from Austrian Health Interview Survey data and published in PLos One examined participants dietary habits, demographic characteristics and general lifestyle differences.”

At the bottom of the ladder of credibility 

What this article didn’t care to mention was the significance of the term “cross-sectional study.” Most readers would probably pass over the technical sounding term, assuming it to be something that indicates credibility and reliability. Their assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. Researchers, especially in the medical and health fields, have a variety of studies of different levels of reliability; and in that hierarchy, cross-sectional studies fall somewhere near the bottom.

A quick analysis of some of the problems of the studies lower in the hierarchy is as follows:

• Cross-sectional studies are weak because they provide no direct evidence of the sequence of events.
• True prevalence surveys—cross-sectional studies of a defined population—guard against selection bias but are subject to measurement and confounding biases.
• Case-control studies are vulnerable to selection bias and can be susceptible to confounding and measurement bias.
• Well-conducted cohort studies are better because they can be performed in a way that minimizes known confounding, selection, and measurement biases.
• Randomized trials are better still because the research design protects against possible biases and provides stronger evidence for a cause-and-effect relationship.
• Systematic reviews are the highest level of evidence.

Fletcher et al - http://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Epidemiology-Essentials-Robert-Fletcher/dp/B00D9TDLT6

Readers interested in learning more about this hierarchy of evidences can refer here for an introductory analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_evidence

or here for a more technical analysis

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/118/16/1675.full

For those who are not into the technical stuff, the simple point is that this study, being none-too-reliable, needs to be taken with due skepticism.

More reliable studies confirm the health benefits of vegetarianism

And an even greater reason for skepticism is that this study is contradicted by many studies of a far higher level of reliability, as can be seen by a quick search of the relevant medical literature. Here are a

A systematic review published in the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism found that vegetarians have a significantly lower ischemic heart disease mortality (29%) and overall cancer incidence (18%) than nonvegetarians.

A systematic review published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association reported that vegetarians have lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease, lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of hypertension and type 2 diabetes, lower body mass index and lower overall cancer rates than nonvegetarians. Additionally, contradicting the popular myth that vegetarian diets are nutritionally inadequate, the study reported that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful and nutritionally adequate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.

A randomized control trial published in the Journal of the American Dietic Association found that a very-low-fat vegan diet increases intake of protective nutrients that combat several chronic diseases and minimizes intake of dietary factors implicated in several chronic diseases.

A randomized control trial published by Cancer Research confirmed that red meat enhances the colonic formation of the DNA adduct O6-carboxymethyl guanine, thereby reiterating the well-known association of red meat with colorectal cancer.

Readers who prefer a non-technical analysis can the various benefits of vegetarianism – health being just one of them – summarized in an acronym: HELP: Health, Environment, Livestock, Poor.

http://www.thespiritualscientist.com/2012/01/are-there-any-logical-reasons-to-choose-vegetarianism/

The overall verdict of scientific research confirms the time-tested wisdom of the Vedic spiritual tradition: we are meant primarily to be vegetarians.

 

 

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Every book has a part of its concept development a surface tension and a substance tension.

The tension in the Puranas is more difficult to understand than that in the Itihasas.

The Bhagavatam progresses towards establishing the glory of pure devotion of the gopis in Vrindavan through various tensions

Seekers' material postion

1. Varna -

2. Race - Vritrasura, Prahlad and Bali vs Indra

3. Gender - Yajnik brahmanas vs their wives

4. Ashrama - Amabarisha vs Durvasa

5. Worldly position - Jada Bharata vs Rahugana

Seekers' conceptions of Absolute Truth

6. Brahman vs Bhagavan - Sukadeva G and Kumaras

7. Vishnu vs Krishna - Maha-vishnu steals brahmana's sons to get darshan of Krishna

8.  Aishvarya Krishna vs Madhurya Krishna - Uddhava in Vrindavan

9. Samyoga vs Vipralambha - Gopis (Rasa Panchadhyaya)

 

 

 

Filled with amorous desires, Sri Sri Radha and Krsna gracefully enter the palace of vines. Their glistening eyes, words, limbs, and motions are all filled with nectar, and Their eyes move with amorous playfulness. Seeing all this, Radha’s maidservants begin to discreetly go outside, but the smiling divine couple brings them back in. They are plunged in shyness and bliss at the same moment. These teenage maidservants of Srimati Radharani have complexions as splendid as gold. They are ravishingly beautiful, with beautiful slender waists and very large breasts and hips, and each wears in her nose a pearl studded with jewels and gold. Their braided hair, their garments, and their ornaments, are all very beautiful. Please meditate on Srimati Radharani’s maidservants in this way.

"Always remember that you promised your spiritual master to chant Hare Krsna without offenses, including the offense of inattentive chanting. It is a personal obligation, and one should chant keeping the order of the spiritual master in mind and therefore keeping the personal connection."

From Japa Reform Notebook
by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

The inauguration of the Hare Krsna Cultural Centre in Southport Queensland was conducted in early June this year. This is the second preaching centre on the Gold Coast, the Bhakti Centre being the first.

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 27 October 2010, Vrindavan, India, Lecture)

Question: You mentioned Dhruva Maharaj stopped eating, drinking and breathing – is it possible for us to take vows and if it is needed, how much is needed?

Yes, there are vows in devotional service that one can take and such vows are being observed by acharyas. On ekadasi, they were following quite strictly. For example, it is said that Srinivas Acharya would sit with a group of devotees on ekadasi and they would chant non-stop all day and all night, and they would tie their sikas with strings to the ceilings!

So, one can take such vows but the greatest vow is the vow to distribute mercy. So greater than fasting is to somehow or other distribute the mercy everywhere – that is our focus! So, if fasting reinforces our ability to give out the mercy then it is alright but if the fasting diminishes that ability then, “Eat and eat and eat!”

But if eating begins to diminish our ability to distribute the mercy then, “Fast and fast and fast!”

 

Giriraj Swami read and spoke from Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.3.17.

“Generally we think, ‘Old age—how terrible; disease—how terrible.’ But if those serve as an impetus to our Krishna consciousness and thus help us realize our eternal, blissful life with Krishna, they are favorable. So we should learn to take every situation as Krishna’s mercy—as an opportunity to remember Krishna more. Actually, everything we experience in this world is meant to help us think of Krishna more. Sometimes in difficulty a person’s Krishna consciousness is accelerated. When things are going well we may think we don’t need God, but then when things go wrong we realize that we do need Him.”

SB 2.3.17, ISKCON Hartford

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A glimpse of Lord Jagannath on the chariot is considered to be very auspicious and saints. The sanctity of the festival is such that even a touch of the chariot or even the ropes with which these are pulled, is considered enough to confer the results of several pious deeds or penance for ages. This event will allow people to have glimpse of mystic India, illustrating the festival in full glory. Rathyatra is a great festival because of its ability to unite people in its festivity. The Rathyatra festival has become common in most major cities of the world. It has been regularly organized in various cities of England (London, Crawley, Birmingham, Liecester, Cardiff). This is for the 4th time it is being organized by “Bath Hindu Community” in Bath on 7th June, 2014. Read more ›

By chanting the holy name of the Supreme Lord, one comes to the stage of love of Godhead. Then the devotee is fixed in his vow as an eternal servant of the Lord, and he gradually becomes very much attached to a particular name and form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As his heart melts with ecstatic love, he laughs very loudly or cries or shouts. Sometimes he sings and dances like a madman, for he is indifferent to public opinion. SB 11.2.40 Read more ›

Dear Prabhus,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I would like to inform you all that we are planning to have the above course next week facilitated by HG Aniruddha prabhu, temple president of Melbourne temple and regional secretary for Perth. Prabhu is arriving on 11 and will be doing the course from Thursday onwards.

This is a well designed course and the student will gain a lot of knowledge from this course. In fact Its a compulsory for all the new devotees to do this before they take initiation from 2015. Also good for the older devotees to deepen the understanding of the process.

I would  strongly recommend all the leaders and preachers to do this course.

For course details check the link “ISKCON Disciple Course“.

THE COURSE HAS LIMITED SEATS. SO FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS.

Registration is essential

Suggested Donation:  $40 for the entire course including all the course materials.

I know this is a bit intense to commit for 16- 18 hrs over four consecutive
days. But its worth doing this.

So please register your interest.

ITS ESSENTIAL THAT DEVOTEES ATTEND ALL 4 SESSIONS TO GET THE FULL BENEFIT.

Please reply to me or call me to secure your place. Please call me soon to
avoid disappointment

–
Sita Rama Lakshmana das

 

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