Hare Krsna,

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

September was a good month, as always, thanks to all the sincere book distributors worldwide. Next year is the fiftieth anniversary of Srila Prabhupada founding ISKCON, and on this occasion devotees will hold events and celebrations. Book distribution, as everyone knows, is very dear to Srila Prabhupada and was a big factor in his spreading Krsna consciousness throughout the world in a short time. So we would like to celebrate by distributing twelve million books for the pleasure of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In 2014 we distributed nine million, so we will have to have a big increase. To do this, we will need a lot of devotees participating and a lot of books to distribute. Sometimes I’ve found that there aren’t any books at temples to distribute. Please contact your BBT to make sure you have a good stock of books. You may be asking, “What can I do? I have a family and responsibilities, and I’ve never sold anything in my life.” There are many devotees who are family men or women and are somehow able to distribute books, and even if you’ve never sold anything, Krsna will help you, just as devotees are being helped in all aspects of devotional service. Where there’s a will, there’s a way, by the mercy of Krsna. You can also get some guidance from the videos at our Web site, listed under my name below. Just go to videos, then action. I’m setting myself a goal to distribute books every day of the year next year, Krsna willing. These books brought most of us to Krsna consciousness and keep all of us alive in Krsna consciousness, so let’s show our gratitude to Prabhupada and Krsna by doing this nice service for their pleasure. I will also be traveling worldwide to encourage the devotees to distribute. If you would like me to visit your area, then write to me and I’ll try to add your area to the tour.

Your servant, Vijaya Dasa
http://www.iskconbookdistribution.com/

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All glories to your service,                                Your servant, Mayapur Sasi dasa      Scores received thru 10/23/2015                      North American offering to Srila Prabhupada           MahaBig   Big   Medium  Small   BTGs   Total   Total    %    Templ/           Books   Books  Books   Books   Mags   Books   Points Change Devote         -------------------------------------------------------------------- January  13025    4067    5383   16598   5783   44856   37663.90 +24% 31/ 99 February 12342    2951    6011   16459   3501   41264   35153.75 +31% 29/ 81 March    12834    4145    6405   19762   8866   52012   38869.00 +34% 30/ 95 April    22218    6766   13004   23085   8893   73966   64364.55 +17% 28/ 94 May      16064    9503   11674   24490   8588   70319   54475.70  +4% 27/ 82 June     21186   10180   12344   22839  10569   77118   65508.25  -7% 29/ 92 July     25201   19143    8502   24163  12052   89061   81200.35 +16% 27/ 89 August   20981    9616   26571   28387   8822   94377   72855.65  +6% 25/ 94 September21446    9889    9093   29160  14358   83946   66066.50 +27% 21/ 88 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Totals   *****   76260   98987  204943  81432  626919  516157.65 +14% 39/199                                                           (%)Change compared                                                                 to last year                         North American Sankirtan Newsletter                                 ALL TEMPLES                                September 2015                                        %    M-Big   Big  Medium  Small  BTGs     Temples (size)           Points Change Books  Books  Books  Books  Mags     _______________________________________________________________________    1 Los Angeles (L)    US  15902.00   -2%   5488   2306   3760   2960     0   2 RupanugaVedicColle US  15015.70  +18%   5200   3140    727   2218  5577   3 Baltimore (MS)     US  10893.25*+273%   3341*   210*   335  12173* 7905*   4 Denver (M)         US   5319.50* +60%   1552   1108    906   2510*  270   5 TBB TSKP (MS)      US   3456.45* +86%    652   1060*   923   2503*   52   6 Chicago (S)        US   3040.45* +76%    867*   674    754*   951   177   7 Gainesville (M)    US   2061.75  +11%    608    588    405    221     0   8 Dallas (M)         US   1740.00   +5%    636    295*   132*   416*   30   9 Silicon Valley(ISV US   1463.00  -70%    695      0      0    292     0  10 Hillsborough, NC ( US   1336.85*+132%    500*    67    178    713    26  11 Laguna Beach (S)   US   1211.85  +11%    493    126*    20    279   201  12 New Talavan (S)    US   1205.25  -31%    502     19    341     47     0  13 Toronto (S)        Can  1107.00   +7%    245    140    231   1384*   23  14 Bhakti Lounge (Phi US    592.95 +124%    223*    23     92    311     2  15 New Orleans (S)    US    446.25  -28%     30      0    135   1275     0  16 Hartford (MS)      US    414.50*+130%    163*    38      4    194     0  17 Miami (S)          US    234.55  -53%     38     50      8    411    18  18 Berkeley (S)       US    231.20  +31%     67     18     53    180*   77*  19 Sacramento/TYM (S) US    199.25  -39%     94      5      8      9     0  20 Vancouver (S)      Can   119.75  -36%     23     21     62     87     0  21 Bhakti Lounge (Tor Can    75.00  -85%     29      1     19     26     0                                     (%)Change compared        (*)New record                                     to monthly average        for this year                         North American Sankirtan Newsletter                              WEEKEND WARRIORS ETC                                September 2015                                        %    M-Big   Big  Medium  Small  BTGs     Individuals or Group     Points Change Books  Books  Books  Books  Mags     _______________________________________________________________________    1 WW Team ISV Week Sil US  1463.00  -70%   695      0      0    292     0   2 CP Bhakti Lounge Phi US   592.95 +124%   223*    23     92    311     2   3 WW Dallas        Dal US   514.00*+310%    68*   281*   101*   186*    0   4 WW Toronto WW    Tor Can  399.85  -24%    47     15     89    985*    1   5 WW Bhakti Lounge Bha Can   75.00  -85%    29      1     19     26     0   6 WW Los Angeles   LA  US    17.50   -9%     2      1     15     20     0                                     (%)Change compared        (*)New record                                     to monthly average        for this year                          North American Sankirtan Newsletter                              TOP 100 INDIVIDUALS                                September 2015                                        %    M-Big   Big  Medium  Small  BTGs     Individuals              Points Change Books  Books  Books  Books  Mags     _______________________________________________________________________    1 Bk Jay Khush     LA  US  5123.25  +75%  1794*    96   2869*    19     0   2 Paramesvara d    RVC US  3280.05   -2%  1095    830    128     61  1808   3 Deva Krsna d     RVC US  2827.25  +21%  1252    260*     0    253     0   4 Ananda Kirtan d  LA  US  2682.50  +12%  1098     18    930     14     0   5 Krishna Bhagavan RVC US  2396.50  +28%   818    521    110    338  1000   6 Brajananda d     RVC US  2003.15   -3%   697    499      0    207   584*   7 Dasya Prema d    RVC US  1543.90   +7%   558    280    192      0   519   8 Nidra dd         Den US  1435.50* +46%   562*   204    119    192     0   9 Bk Carlos        TBB US  1394.00* +59%   304    282*   513    990     0  10 Sacitanoy d      LA  US  1218.75* +89%   283*   566*     0    347*    0  11 Mohanasini dd    Tal US  1205.25  -29%   502     19    341     47     0  12 Bhrgupati d      LA  US  1204.00  -11%   516     32    226    108     0  13 Bk Eric          LA  US  1177.75  +17%   333    244    405    261*    0  14 Maharaja d       LA  US  1174.00*+113%   496*   113*    62*   152*    0  15 Parama Karuna d  Chi US  1084.75  -10%   375    198    216    115     0  16 Bk Tyler         Den US  1080.50* +51%   379*   299     47      0     0  17 Bk Carlos        Gai US  1064.50  +79%   301    331    204    118     0  18 Harinama d       RVC US  1056.90   -6%   293    277     58    466   484  19 Shastra-krt d    LA  US  1056.00   +1%   523      0      0     40     0  20 Nityananda d     Dal US  1008.00  -32%   504      0      0      0     0  21 Gaur Sundar d    LA  US   988.50  +30%   429     90     51     60     0  22 Vijaya d         LA  US   969.50*+108%   427*    68     95*     0     0  23 Raya Nitai d     TBB US   927.00   +5%   151    431*    82    612     0  24 Kalki d(2 Kimani Gai US   892.75  -18%   280    243    168     23     0  25 Madhava Puri d   TBB US   602.50*+118%    97*   194*   112    634*    0  26 Sri Arjuna d     Rup US   586.80*+135%   126*   208*    82*     0   858*  27 Dharmaraja d     RVC US   567.05  -36%   173    189      0     69   148  28 Prana Hari d     Den US   526.25  +35%   208     42     39    195     0  29 Prema Sankirtan  LA  US   480.50  -49%   114    190     40    170     0  30 Bk Karim         Den US   441.50* +58%     1    238*   155*   496     0  31 Krsna Kumar d    TBB US   430.20   +4%    96     85*   212    168    52  32 Bk Storm         LA  US   424.50  -52%   114     81    231      0     0  33 Acarya Nistha d  Chi US   392.25  +70%    91    114    125*   135     0  34 Cakri d          Chi US   330.00   na     72     50    272      0     0  35 Bk Angelo        Den US   325.25  -12%   105     15    147    107     0  36 Samyaprasa d     Den US   294.50  +56%    98*    61*    45     60     0  37 Bk Gus           LA  US   290.50  +18%   101     26    125      0     0  38 Bk Mitch Rampp   Chi US   254.00   na     38    134     44     84    10  39 Vinoda Kovida d  Den US   243.50  +52%    72     56     48     78     0  40 Nanda Suno dasa  Den US   235.75*+199%    52*    52*    93*   133*    0  41 Bk Jordan        Rup US   229.35*+356%    38*    24*    25    399*  171*  42 Bn Karly         Den US   224.75* -50%    13     60*   109*   337*    0  43 Drumila d        NO  US   221.25  -53%     0      0     80    725     0  44 Bk John          Rup US   208.75*+159%    46*    21*     0    383*    0  45 Prthusrava d     Chi US   188.00*+999%    54     24     12    200     0  46 Bk Harish Kumar  Chi US   180.50*+126%    84*     0     25      0     0  47 Kamalini dd      Hil US   175.05*+385%    55*    29*    46*    45    18*  48 Lalita Gopika dd Den US   156.50  -63%    19     23      5    372     0  49 Arya Siddhanta d RVC US   150.75*+155%    35*    18    114*    23     0  50 Karuna Dharini   LA  US   145.50*+171%    50*    11*    49*    40     0  51 Dinabandhu Guru  Ber US   134.50  +22%    36     10     29    128    60*  52 Aditya Narayan d Hil US   129.00   +1%    64      1      0      0     0  53 Cakri d Dallas   Dal US   114.00  -26%    40      0      0    124    30  54 Visala d         Mia US   106.30  -29%    11      7      0    306     8  55 Bk Joey          TBB US   102.75   -5%     4     68*     4     99*    0  56 Bk Sebastian     LA  US    98.00  +23%     1      0     18    348*    0  57 Lalita dd        Ber US    96.70  +60%    31      8     24     52*   17  58 Sarvatarak d     NO  US    87.50   -7%     0      0     25    300     0  59 Ananta Gopal d   NO  US    82.50   +4%    30      0     30     30     0  60 Gopi Gita dd     LA  US    79.00*+138%     8*     0     72*   108*    0  61 Rasikananda d    RVC US    77.50   na     38      0      2      2     0  62 Lilakara d       Mia US    76.50  -30%    15     33      0     54     0  63 Ekatvam d        Gur US    76.00  -16%     0      0     52    200     0  64 Bk Michael       Chi US    72.00  -28%     2     55      0     52     0  65 Gauranga Prema d LA  US    64.00  -91%    13     21     34      0     0  66 Caitanya dd      Gai US    63.50  -37%    24     10      6     10     0  67 Visva dd         Chi US    56.00  -45%    28      0      0      0     0  68 Ananda Murari d  Den US    55.75  -47%    16      9     24     11     0  69 Rohini Nandan d  NO  US    55.00  -27%     0      0      0    220     0  70 Karuna Nidhi d   Chi US    50.20*+378%     0      2     20    100*  132*  71 Dvijamani Gaura  RVC US    47.75  -50%    14     11     16      3     0  72 Bn Demi          Tor Can   42.90  -26%    14      5     16      6     4  73 Mantra Murti dd  Mia US    41.50   -3%    11     10      8     18    10  74 Banke Bihari dd  Van Can   34.75  -36%     8      8     16*    11     0  75 Bn Tessa         Gai US    33.50  -39%     3      4*    27     40     0  76 Apurva d         Hil US    25.55  -32%     3      8     14*    15*    8  77 Visnu Gada d     Van Can   20.25  -31%     7      2      1     15     0  78 Jagatpati d      Van Can   18.25* +40%     0      0     27     19     0  79 Hari Nama dd     LA  US    17.50* +40%     0      0      0     70*    0  80 Prajapati d      Mia US    10.25  -22%     1*     0      0     33     0  81 Upendra d        Gur US     6.25   na      0      1      3     15     0  82 Misra Bhagavan d Dal US     6.00  -28%     1      0      6      4     0                                     (%)Change compared        (*)New record                                     to monthly average        for this year                        North American Sankirtan Newsletter                    MONTHLY TOP 5 TEMPLES AND INDIVIDUALS                                September 2015       -------- Points --------             ----------- Points ----------- 1 Los Angeles           15902.00     1 Bk Jay Khush        LA       5123.25 2 RupanugaVedicCollege  15015.70     2 Paramesvara d       RVC      3280.05 3 Baltimore             10893.25     3 Deva Krsna d        RVC      2827.25 4 Denver                 5319.50     4 Ananda Kirtan d     LA       2682.50 5 TBB TSKP               3456.45     5 Krishna Bhagavan d  RVC      2396.50       ----- (%)Increase ------             -------- (%)Increase --------- 1 Baltimore                +273%     1 Prthusrava d        Chicago    +999% 2 Hillsborough, NC         +132%     2 Kamalini dd         Hillsboro  +385% 3 Hartford                 +130%     3 Karuna Nidhi d      Chicago    +378% 4 Bhakti Lounge (Phili     +124%     4 Bk Jordan           RupanugaV  +356% 5 TBB TSKP                  +86%     5 Nanda Suno dasa     Denver     +199%       ---- Maha-Big Books ----             ------- Maha-Big Books ------- 1 Los Angeles               5488     1 Bk Jay Khush        LA          1794 2 RupanugaVedicCollege      5200     2 Deva Krsna d        RVC         1252 3 Baltimore                 3341     3 Ananda Kirtan d     LA          1098 4 Denver                    1552     4 Paramesvara d       RVC         1095 5 Chicago                    867     5 Krishna Bhagavan d  RVC          818       ------ Big Books -------             ---------- Big Books --------- 1 RupanugaVedicCollege      3140     1 Paramesvara d       RVC          830 2 Los Angeles               2306     2 Sacitanoy d         LA           566 3 Denver                    1108     3 Krishna Bhagavan d  RVC          521 4 TBB TSKP                  1060     4 Brajananda d        RVC          499 5 Chicago                    674     5 Raya Nitai d        TBB TSKP     431       ----- Medium Books -----             -------- Medium Books -------- 1 Los Angeles               3760     1 Bk Jay Khush        LA          2869 2 TBB TSKP                   923     2 Ananda Kirtan d     LA           930 3 Denver                     906     3 Bk Carlos           TBB TSKP     513 4 Chicago                    754     4 Bk Eric             LA           405 5 RupanugaVedicCollege       727     5 Mohanasini dd       New Talav    341       ----- Small Books ------             -------- Small Books --------- 1 Baltimore                12173     1 Bk Carlos           TBB TSKP     990 2 Los Angeles               2960     2 Drumila d           New Orlea    725 3 Denver                    2510     3 Madhava Puri d      TBB TSKP     634 4 TBB TSKP                  2503     4 Raya Nitai d        TBB TSKP     612 5 RupanugaVedicCollege      2218     5 Bk Karim            Denver       496       ------ Magazines -------             --------- Magazines ---------- 1 Baltimore                 7905     1 Paramesvara d       RVC         1808 2 RupanugaVedicCollege      5577     2 Krishna Bhagavan d  RVC         1000 3 Denver                     270     3 Sri Arjuna d        RupanugaV    858 4 Laguna Beach               201     4 Brajananda d        RVC          584 5 Chicago                    177     5 Dasya Prema d       RVC          519       ------ Full Sets -------             --------- Full Sets ---------- 1 Los Angeles                 21     1 Gaur Sundar d       LA            14 2 Hillsborough, NC            18     2 Aditya Narayan d    Hillsboro     13 3 Silicon Valley(ISV)         14     3 Bk Jay Khush        LA             1 4 Hartford                     6     4 Rasikananda d       RVC            1 5 Toronto                      4     5 Bn Demi             Toronto        1       ----- BBT Payments -----             ------ Matajis - Points ------ 1 RupanugaVedicCollege     42440     1 Nidra dd            Denver   1435.50 2 Los Angeles              26945     2 Mohanasini dd       New Talav1205.25 3 Laguna Beach              6000     3 Kamalini dd         Hillsboro 175.05 4 TBB TSKP                  4894     4 Lalita Gopika dd    Denver    156.50 5 Hillsborough, NC          3241     5 Karuna Dharini dd   LA        145.50       --- Bhaktas - Points ---             ----- Bhaktins - Points ------ 1 Bk Jay Khush  LA       5123.25     1 Bn Karly            Denver    224.75 2 Bk Carlos     TBB TSKP 1394.00     2 Bn Demi             Toronto    42.90 3 Bk Eric       LA       1177.75     3 Bn Tessa            Gainesvil  33.50 4 Bk Tyler      Denver   1080.50     4                                 0.00 5 Bk Carlos     Gainesvil1064.50     5                                 0.00      Veteran Men(20+yrs) Points            -Veteran Women(20+yrs) Points- 1 Sacitanoy d   LA       1218.75     1 Nidra dd            Denver   1435.50 2 Bhrgupati d   LA       1204.00     2 Mohanasini dd       New Talav1205.25 3 Gaur Sundar d LA        988.50     3 Kamalini dd         Hillsboro 175.05 4 Vijaya d      LA        969.50     4 Karuna Dharini dd   LA        145.50 5 Prema Sankirt LA        480.50     5 Lalita dd           Berkeley   96.70                         North American Sankirtan Newsletter                            COUNTRIES (CUMULATIVE)                         January thru September, 2015     Country                 %     Total  M-Big    Big   Medium   Small   BTGs    (Temples)     Points  Change  Books  Books   Books   Books   Books   Mags    _________________________________________________________________________   1 USA (35)    499578.50  +15%  607618 159943   74554   95224  196896  81001  2 Canada (4)   16579.15   -8%   19301   5354    1706    3763    8047    431                         (%)Change compared to Jan-Sep 2014                         North American Sankirtan Newsletter                             TEMPLES (CUMULATIVE)                         January thru September, 2015                                        %    M-Big   Big  Medium  Small  BTGs     Temples (size)           Points Change Books  Books  Books  Books  Mags     _______________________________________________________________________    1 Los Angeles (L)    US 145487.05  +21%  42944  22845  48331* 46399  9888   2 RupanugaVedicColle US 104128.75* +52%  34733* 26480*  3981* 12735*30085*   3 Silicon Valley(ISV US  40392.10   +7%  19146     89     14*  8016*    1*   4 Denver (M)         US  31886.15   -7%   9213   6346*  6390* 14381* 3239*   5 Baltimore (MS)     US  31336.95*+146%   9276*   595*  1373* 35751*25657*   6 TBB TSKP (MS)      US  18353.40*+150%   4953*  1881*  7171  11754*  424*   7 Gainesville (M)    US  16973.00  -23%   4175   4367   5715   5594     0   8 Chicago (S)        US  16882.10  -22%   4724   3847   2864*  8170  1126*   9 Dallas (M)         US  15001.65  +41%   6744    638    564   2251   309  10 New Talavan (S)    US  13360.25  +12%   5162    777*  3984*  1069     0  11 Laguna Beach (S)   US   9947.80   +9%   4308    281*   469*  2726  1348  12 Toronto (S)        Can  9416.80  -39%   2484   1542   2294   5954   425  13 Alachua (S)        US   7150.55   -4%   1212   1060*  3446   6161  4033  14 Washington D.C. (M US   6388.35  -36%   1904    408   3489*  1671   101  15 Hillsborough, NC ( US   5940.15   +8%   1537    445    606   8363   142  16 New York Harinam ( US   5697.50   +6%   1403   1102    775   5608     0  17 Atlanta (S)        US   5397.80  -44%   1815   1009    786    788  1688*  18 New Orleans (S)    US   4775.00  +19%    189*     0   2451  12686*    0  19 Miami (S)          US   3747.20  -25%    936    519*    36   4938   993  20 Bhakti Lounge (Tor Can  3561.80*  na    1463*    27*   628*  1178*    3*  21 Sacramento/TYM (S) US   2829.00*  na    1244*   175*   165*   334*    0  22 Bhakti Lounge (Phi US   2180.20*  na     746*   109*   451*  1414*    2  23 Saranagati Farm (M Can  1995.50*  na     926*     0    287*     0     0  24 Tucson (S)         US   1984.90*  na     811*    74*   248*   306*  884*  25 San Diego (M)      US   1867.40  -88%    494    560    251    774     4*  26 Hartford (MS)      US   1857.50*  na     541*   324*   177*  1452*    0  27 Berkeley (S)       US   1644.00  -73%    380    221    642   1192   440  28 Vancouver (S)      Can  1605.05  +84%    481    137    554    915*    3  29 Seattle (S)        US   1528.75   na     496     92    218*   503*  252  30 Philadelphia (M)   US    924.75  -58%    343     33    192    373   165  31 St. Louis (S)      US    897.00   na     275    207    106    348     0  32 Orlando (MS)       US    290.00*  na       0      0    241*   678*    0  33 Minneapolis (S)    US    234.00  -69%    108      0     11     50     0  34 Hale Krishna Hawai US    140.50  -40%     12     42     37    180   110  35 Las Vegas (S)      US     98.25  -59%     39      0      5     71     0  36 Arkadelphia (S)    US     97.10*+113%     22*    19*    12*   112*    1  37 Texarkana (S)      US     81.70   -9%     34      0      0     12   107*  38 Krishna Culture (S US     44.45  -95%      8      9     23     31     2  39 Columbus (S)       US     33.25  -98%     16      0      0      5     0  40 Boston (S)         US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  41 New York City (M)  US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  42 New Vrindavan (L)  US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  43 Honolulu (S)       US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  44 Detroit (S)        US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  45 BTG/Krishna.com (S US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  46 Portland (MS)      US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  47 New Jersey-Edison  US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  48 Montreal TSKP (S)  Can     0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  49 New York 26 2nd Av US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  50 Murari Sevak (S)   US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  51 Ottawa (MS)        Can     0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  52 New Jersey-Towaco  US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  53 Houston (S)        US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  54 New York Queens (S US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  55 Tampa Bay (S)      US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  56 San Francisco (MS) US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  57 Cintamani Dhama KY US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  58 Halifax (MS)       Can     0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  59 Naperville (MS)    US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  60 San Antonio (MS)   US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  61 Austin (MS)        US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  62 World Harinama Par US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  63 Calgary (MS)       Can     0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  64 Boise (MS)         US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  65 Tallahassee (MS)   US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  66 Winnipeg (MS)      Can     0.00   na       0      0      0  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80 Boulder (MS)       US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0  81 Phoenix(AZ) (MS)   US      0.00   na       0      0      0      0     0                                     (%)Change compared       (*)Better than                                        to Jan-Sep 2014            last year                         North American Sankirtan Newsletter                       TOP 100 INDIVIDUALS (CUMULATIVE)                         January thru September, 2015                                        %    M-Big   Big  Medium  Small  BTGs     Individuals              Points Change Books  Books  Books  Books  Mags     _______________________________________________________________________    1 Bk Jay Khush     LA  US 28479.95*+718% 10431*  1776* 11406*   351   512*   2 Paramesvara d    RVC US 26608.25  -17%  7269   9838   1171   1337*13125   3 Ananda Kirtan d  LA  US 21766.95*+172%  8813*  1544   4204*  1977     7*   4 Deva Krsna d     RVC US 19192.00   +7%  9003    704      0   1928     0   5 Brajananda d     RVC US 16451.35   +3%  5676   4421*     2   1389  3301*   6 Krishna Bhagavan RVC US 15502.60*  na   5119*  3585*   775*  2456* 6781*   7 Bhrgupati d      LA  US 12048.55  -66%  4635   1072   1361*  4007*  243*   8 Dasya Prema d    RVC US 11599.10* +38%  3877*  2479   1115   1782  3631*   9 Nityananda d     Dal US 11460.00*  na   5730*     0      0      0     0  10 Mohanasini dd    New US 11374.50   -1%  4415    690*  3298*   822*    0  11 Kalki d(2 Kimani Gai US  9598.75* +85%  2526*  2791*  2474*  2075*    0  12 Shastra-krt d    LA  US  9407.00   -3%  4584    154      0    340     0  13 Nidra dd         Den US  9323.50   -4%  3481   1231   1091*  2340*    0  14 Bk Eric          LA  US  9250.75* +59%  2475   2401*  3350*   441  1145*  15 Harinama d       RVC US  8947.45*  na   2610*  2508*   919*  1563* 3692*  16 Raya Nitai d     TBB US  7964.50  +12%  2470*   741*  2591   3952     0  17 Dharmaraja d     RVC US  7698.10*  na   2053*  3130*   239*  1184*  466*  18 Bk Storm         LA  US  7505.55*  na   2188*  1376*  2519*  1789*  468*  19 Parama Karuna d  Chi US  7138.45  -14%  2193   1582   1181*  2319     2*  20 Prema Sankirtan  LA  US  7122.50  -29%  1156   3611   1405*  1982    15  21 Bk Carlos        TBB US  5781.25* +30%  1291*   619   2553*  5215*    0  22 Sacitanoy d      LA  US  5726.15  -24%  1414   2408    419*  1121     4*  23 Gaur Sundar d    LA  US  5564.70*  na   2357*   532*   445*   348*   92*  24 Bk Carlos        Gai US  5224.50*  na   1349*  1262*  1640*  1778*    0  25 Maharaja d       LA  US  4475.25*+204%  1924*   424    177    459*    0  26 Bk Tyler         Den US  3934.00*  na    925*  1627*   851*   126*    0  27 Prana Hari d     Den US  3644.00   +4%  1240    532*   409*  1710*    0  28 Drumila d        New US  3075.00   -3%     0      0   1925   8450*    0  29 Vijaya d         LA  US  2831.50  +49%   886    910*   298*     2*    0  30 Krsna Kumar d    TBB US  2498.40  -51%   696    149   1369    922   424*  31 Bk Gus           LA  US  2263.50*  na    516*   669*   897*   456*    0  32 Bk Josh          Ala US  2060.75*  na    375*   778*   473*  1185*    0  33 Bn Karly         Den US  2035.50*  na    524*   433*   520*  1178*    0  34 Navadwipa d      Tuc US  1923.90*  na    786*    70*   238*   306*  864*  35 Ghosh Thakhur d  Sar Can 1914.00*  na    888*     0    276*     0     0  36 Bk Karim         Den US  1834.50  -36%     3    862    695*  2476*    0  37 Samyaprasa d     Den US  1804.00* +61%   396    220*   908*  1352*    0  38 Acarya Nistha d  Chi US  1776.10  -58%   489    466    287*   742    31*  39 Vinoda Kovida d  Den US  1528.25* +36%   448    322*   343*   555*    0  40 Gauranga Prema d LA  US  1452.25*  na    338*   453*   500*   293*    0  41 Madhava Puri d   TBB US  1431.00*+999%   234*   397*   349*  1566*    0  42 Cakri d Dallas   Dal US  1339.40* +89%   491*     0      0   1306   309  43 Madhukari d      Mia US  1266.75  -90%   560     95      0    207*    0  44 Divyanga d       Ala US  1212.50   -6%   275*     0    700*  1230    50  45 Visala d         Mia US  1153.40  -11%   197     55*     0   2576   604  46 Aditya Narayan d Hil US  1151.00*  na    468*    38*    18*   612*   18*  47 Bk Angelo        Den US  1061.75   na    306    130    392    495     0  48 Dinabandhu Guru  Ber US  1016.75    0%   229    152    342    817   315  49 Lalita Gopika dd Den US  1012.50   na    261    225     63    936     0  50 Babhru d         TBB US   915.00  -90%   330      0    315    390     0  51 Bk Michael       Chi US   875.65   +9%   136    297*   192*   833*   24  52 Caitanya dd      Gai US   875.25  -36%   105    109*   702    821     0  53 Lilakara d       Mia US   840.60* +70%   217*   110*     0   1130*   97  54 Sri Arjuna d     Rup US   836.45*  na    185*   301*   112*     3* 1087*  55 Ananda Murari d  Den US   796.25  +15%   270    103*   239*   135     0  56 Sarvatarak d     New US   744.75* +99%    16*     0    115*  2621*    0  57 Bk Himanshu      Chi US   738.75  -60%   219    174    111    285     0  58 Bk Sebastian     LA  US   733.75*  na     60*    13*   195*  2013*    0  59 Bk David         SD  US   728.30*  na    147*   294*   150*   260*    3*  60 Syama dd         Ala US   711.55  -61%   173      0     72    449  2173  61 Visva dd         Chi US   665.00*+633%   213*    83*    60*   504*    0  62 Valmiki d        RVC US   658.20*  na    281*    41*    19*   182*    2*  63 Bk Chang         SD  US   621.50*  na    203*   137*     0    314*    0  64 Dvijamani Gaura  RVC US   621.25  -14%   174    178    176*    23    15  65 Bk Jeremy        Den US   613.25  +45%   218    105     13    263*    0  66 Bk Angelo        Mia US   583.75*+646%   209*    89*     1    277*   70*  67 Nila Madhava d   LA  US   554.80*  na    180*    56*     0    184*  928*  68 Gargamuni d      St. US   548.00*  na    179*    94*    68    248*    0  69 Lalita dd        Ber US   519.00* +51%   139*    45*   240*   266*   95  70 Rohini Nandan d  New US   510.00* +17%     0      0     20*  2000*    0  71 Bn Demi          Tor Can  503.85  -28%   128     38*   161*   501    41  72 Ananta Gopal d   New US   480.75*  na    171*     0    170*   215*    0  73 Nanda Suno dasa  Den US   472.50*  na     85*   129*   200*   294*    0  74 Bk Nihal         NY  US   471.25*  na    143*   172*     0     53*    0  75 Bk Steve         LA  US   425.00*  na      0      0      0   1460*  600*  76 Bn Nickole       Den US   424.25*  na    161*    39*    90*    73*    0  77 Karuna Dharini   LA  US   413.50  -20%   150     29     81    176     0  78 Banke Bihari dd  Van Can  412.25  +84%   162     47     50*    65*    0  79 Sura d           LA  US   374.00   na     31      1    160*   924*    0  80 Kamalini dd      Hil US   355.65  +32%   109*    61     68    151    49  81 Cakri d StL      St. US   349.00   na     96*   113     38    100*    0  82 Gopi Gita dd     LA  US   344.50  +39%    16     15*   320*   540    25*  83 Mantra Murti dd  Mia US   340.75  -20%    90     85*    35    153   200  84 Cakri d          Chi US   330.00   na     72     50    272      0     0  85 Arya Siddhanta d RVC US   328.00*  na     65*    93*   162*    96*    0  86 Bk Mikey         Gai US   326.00*  na     67*    40*   204*   200*    0  87 Gadagraja d      Ala US   320.00  -45%     0      0    640      0     0  88 Bn Tessa         Gai US   309.25*  na     10*    11*   460*   193*    0  89 Bk John          Rup US   289.50*  na     77*    35*     0    402*    0  90 Bk Jordan        Rup US   279.70*  na     43*    27*    61*   464*  202*  91 Bk Harish Kumar  Chi US   260.50*  na    124*     0     25      0     0  92 Visnu Gada d     Van Can  256.55*  na     84*    19*    67    143*    3  93 Bk Rohit         Chi US   255.50*  na     56*     0    237*   100*    0  94 Bk Zan           LA  US   255.50*  na     17*    15*   349*    64*  160*  95 Bk Mitch Rampp   Chi US   254.00   na     38    134     44     84    10  96 Bk Joey          TBB US   210.50  -72%    37     99     22    106     0  97 Prthusrava d     Chi US   193.00*+112%    54*    24*    12    200    50*  98 Bk Adhama        Mia US   193.00  -79%    78      0      0    148     0  99 Jambavati Suta d Rup US   186.00*  na     66*    24*     8*   104*    0 100 Bk Nikolas       Rup US   179.75*  na      0    138*     0    167*    0                                     (%)Change compared       (*)Better than                                        to Jan-Sep 2014            last year                        North American Sankirtan Newsletter                  CUMULATIVE TOP 5 TEMPLES AND INDIVIDUALS                         January thru September 2015       ----- Points(Cum) ------             -------- Points(Cum) --------- 1 Los Angeles          145487.05     1 Bk Jay Khush       LA       28479.95 2 RupanugaVedicCollege 104128.75     2 Paramesvara d      RVC      26608.25 3 Silicon Valley(ISV)   40392.10     3 Ananda Kirtan d    LA       21766.95 4 Denver                31886.15     4 Deva Krsna d       RVC      19192.00 5 Baltimore             31336.95     5 Brajananda d       RVC      16451.35       --- (%)Increase(Cum) ---             ------ (%)Increase(Cum) ------ 1 TBB TSKP                 +150%     1 Madhava Puri d      TBB TSKP   +999% 2 Baltimore                +146%     2 Bk Jay Khush        LA         +718% 3 Arkadelphia              +113%     3 Bk Angelo           Miami      +646% 4 Vancouver                 +84%     4 Visva dd            Chicago    +633% 5 RupanugaVedicCollege      +52%     5 Maharaja d          LA         +204%       -- Maha-Big Books(Cum) --            ----- Maha-Big Books(Cum) ----- 1 Los Angeles              42944     1 Bk Jay Khush        LA         10431 2 RupanugaVedicCollege     34733     2 Deva Krsna d        RVC         9003 3 Silicon Valley(ISV)      19146     3 Ananda Kirtan d     LA          8813 4 Baltimore                 9276     4 Paramesvara d       RVC         7269 5 Denver                    9213     5 Nityananda d        Dallas      5730       ---- Big Books(Cum) ----             ------- Big Books(Cum) ------- 1 RupanugaVedicCollege     26480     1 Paramesvara d       RVC         9838 2 Los Angeles              22845     2 Brajananda d        RVC         4421 3 Denver                    6346     3 Prema Sankirtan d   LA          3611 4 Gainesville               4367     4 Krishna Bhagavan d  RVC         3585 5 Chicago                   3847     5 Dharmaraja d        RVC         3130       --- Medium Books(Cum) ---            ------ Medium Books(Cum) ------ 1 Los Angeles              48331     1 Bk Jay Khush        LA         11406 2 TBB TSKP                  7171     2 Ananda Kirtan d     LA          4204 3 Denver                    6390     3 Bk Eric             LA          3350 4 Gainesville               5715     4 Mohanasini dd       New Talav   3298 5 New Talavan               3984     5 Raya Nitai d        TBB TSKP    2591       --- Small Books(Cum) ---             ------ Small Books(Cum) ------ 1 Los Angeles              46399     1 Drumila d           New Orlea   8450 2 Baltimore                35751     2 Bk Carlos           TBB TSKP    5215 3 Denver                   14381     3 Bhrgupati d         LA          4007 4 RupanugaVedicCollege     12735     4 Raya Nitai d        TBB TSKP    3952 5 New Orleans              12686     5 Sarvatarak d        New Orlea   2621       ---- Magazines(Cum) ----             ------- Magazines(Cum) ------- 1 RupanugaVedicCollege     30085     1 Paramesvara d       RVC        13125 2 Baltimore                25657     2 Krishna Bhagavan d  RVC         6781 3 Los Angeles               9888     3 Harinama d          RVC         3692 4 Alachua                   4033     4 Dasya Prema d       RVC         3631 5 Denver                    3239     5 Brajananda d        RVC         3301       ---- Full Sets(Cum) ----             ------- Full Sets(Cum) ------- 1 Silicon Valley(ISV)        286     1 Gaur Sundar d       LA            77 2 Los Angeles                101     2 Nidra dd            Denver        76 3 Denver                      79     3 Aditya Narayan d    Hillsboro     33 4 Hillsborough, NC            46     4 Shastra-krt d       LA            10 5 Toronto                     42     5 Bk Jay Khush        LA             4       --- BBT Payments(Cum) ---            ---- Matajis - Points(Cum) ---- 1 Los Angeles             241631     1 Mohanasini dd       New Tala11374.50 2 RupanugaVedicCollege     96827     2 Nidra dd            Denver   9323.50 3 Silicon Valley(ISV)      80500     3 Lalita Gopika dd    Denver   1012.50 4 TBB TSKP                 41626     4 Caitanya dd         Gainsvil  875.25 5 Denver                   39767     5 Syama dd            Alachua   711.55        Bhaktas - Points(Cum)               --- Bhaktins - Points(Cum) --- 1 Bk Jay Khush  LA       28480.0     1 Bn Karly            Denver   2035.50 2 Bk Eric       LA       9250.75     2 Bn Demi             Toronto   503.85 3 Bk Storm      LA       7505.55     3 Bn Nickole          Denver    424.25 4 Bk Carlos     TBB TSKP 5781.25     4 Bn Tessa            Gainesvil 309.25 5 Bk Carlos     Gainesvil5224.50     5 Bn Magda            Denver    108.00      Veteran Men(20+yrs) Points             Veteran Women(20+yrs) Points 1 Bhrgupati d   LA       12048.5     1 Mohanasini dd       New Talav11374.5 2 Prema Sankirt LA       7122.50     2 Nidra dd            Denver   9323.50 3 Sacitanoy d   LA       5726.15     3 Syama dd            Alachua   711.55 4 Gaur Sundar d LA       5564.70     4 Lalita dd           Berkeley  519.00 5 Drumila d     New Orlea3075.00     5 Karuna Dharini dd   LA        413.50                            HOW TO SEND IN SCORES  Monthly scores can still be sent the usual ways: fax, phone, snail mail and e-mail. 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Oct 9 & 10, Kochi, Kerala : While news forums around the world were replete with angst filled reports of a sinister and wanton environmental damage that a world famous automobile company committed . . . in Kochi Kerala, coincidentally, a rich confluence of eminent personalities deliberated Ethics , Economy and the environmental crisis. S E E 2015 – Summit on the Environment & Economy was hosted by the Prakriti Forum of ISKCON, commemorating 50 years of the unique voyage of His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada to the USA via Cochin.

Among other things the summit brought to light the famous Bhaktivedanta purports in the Srimad Bhagavatam, underpinning a “simple living high thinking” lifestyle,while offering spiritual solutions to the toxic problems facing humanity today . Topics discussed ranged from the environmental crisis to an economy and a leadership ethic, that is tottering at the brink of collapse, every now and then.

The summit was inaugurated by the honorable Union minister for environment, forests & climate change – Sri Prakash Javadekar. In his voluble keynote address, the minister stressed that it was possible to achieve economic progress while taking practical mindful measures to improve the environmental situation without sacrificing one for the other. He made noteworthy reference to ISKCON s initiative in pioneering a conference in the beautiful land of Kerala, rich in its biodiversity and culture. The minister spoke highly of ISKCON’s eco friendly projects around the world and its mid day meal program in India, feeding more than 18 lakh children everyday.

The two conferences called “Down To Earth” on the environmental crisis and “Culturally Engineered Economies” on economy and ethics had eminent international speakers from diverse fields of energy, climate change, spirituality, religion, Leadership and ethics.

Mr Rajeev Dubey CEO and HR head from Mahindra and Mahindra delivered a brilliant keynote address about what ails our leadership in our meaningful journey towards humanitarian goals.

Mr Brian Bloch who works for the US Interior in his capacity as a world renowned ADR specialist and ombudsman, brought in a unique knowledge sliver, from his rich experience about ethically and morally engineered profits, at the workplace.

Mr Ramchunder Singh delivered a rich expanse on the ethical side of wealth creation, while attempting to draw a line on a threshold of greed to mark where it was enough !

Dr Hariharan’s brilliant and glib exposition of the legacy that the past generation is handing over to the next,

and the repercussions that await us if dominated with prevailing attitudes , drew much applause and appreciation.

U V Krishna Rao, an energy expert, opened the eyes of the audience to the simple things we could look into, to save energy in our everyday lives while living intelligently in harmony with the environment.

H H Bhakti Vinoda Swami, the chief mentor and inspiration behind the conferences, urged the audience on starting with ‘climate change within’. Trying to go Green outside while being metaphysically dead within, was not a good recipe for success with the environmental crisis, he expounded.

H G Anuttama Dasa delineated how religions of the world could contribute to creating a better disposition towards the earth & environment.

The minister hailed the conference as a useful precursor to the upcoming world meet in Paris and asked the organizers to forward the proceeds of the conference to him.

In the words of U V K Rao “ISKCON has quietly achieved something very wonderful and great in these conferences. They were of high quality and full of valuable information to sensitive people and create an awareness. Even governments are not able to always make this happen.”

The panel discussions that followed the speeches were filled with queries directed at the speakers and the content expressed . It indicated the keen interest that the topics generated in the audience. The ensuing discussions left the audience with awe and fulfillment , only to be broken for paucity of time.

The conference was attended by students and delegates from the Environmental departments of various universities and colleges along with professors, HOD s and research scholars, NGO s etc,. Many noteworthy citizens of Kerala also attended the sessions which ended everyday at the banquet hall with sumptuous sanctified food. The participants were given certificates , gifts and books.

“The conference was very active and dynamic in its content and presentation by speakers. We got a lot to carry home and think about as members of the next generation on this planet ” said Vidya Iyer, a Post Graduate Engineering student from Kochi.

H H Bhakti Vinoda Swami in his final note, thanked the organizing committee members chaired by Sri Madhav Mohan and ably assisted by H G Yudhishtir Govinda Dasa ( Secretary ) for their most valuable service in seeing the conference through successfully. 
A follow up on the sessions with the participants and speakers to carry out more practical steps towards a consummation of the purpose, is on the agenda. The detailed proceeds of the conference in videos and pictures will be made available soon at ISKCON website.

For more information on how Prakriti Forum could help you in your place please contact : 
H H Bhakti Vinoda Swami at

Source.... www.dandavats.com/

Sharad Purnima Festival

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatan Canto 09, Chapter 14, Text 22 by HG Amal Bhakta Prabhu on 22 Oct 2015 at Los Angeles

(In 1976, wanting to deepen his realization of the Divine, Amal Bhakta Prabhu moved to West Los Angeles to study at the ISKCON temple various aspects of Bhakti yoga (the yoga of love and devotion to God) under the famous spiritual master A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)

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Lecture on Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita by HH Lokanath Swami on 24 Oct 2015 at ISKCON Juhu

(Lokanath Swami born in Aravade, a small village Maharashtra, Indian, he went to Mumbai for studying. In the year 1971, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was touring India with his foreign disciples and had organized a pandal program in Mumbai.Intrigued, maharaj attended the whole Hare Krsna Festival and heard from Srila Prabhupada.)

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Lecture on Simad Bhagavatam Canto 07, Chapter 06, Text 12 by HG Vaisesika Prabhu on 19 Oct 2015 at ISKCON Juhu

(For thirty-six years Vaisesika Prabhu has been traveling, lecturing, counseling and inspiring devotees and other serious aspirants of spiritual life throughout the world.)

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Lecture on Practical lessons from Ramayan by HG Prema Manjari Mataji on 09 Oct 2015 at Dubai

(HG Prema Manjari mataji joined ISKCON in 1992 during her MBBS days and received her first initiation from HH Radhanath Swami maharaj in 1996. She has set an example for others to follow by wonderfully balancing between her hectic professional life as a radiologist and spiritual life.)

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By Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami

After he arrived in America, in September of 1965, Srila Prabhupada stayed at a family’s apartment in Butler, Pennsylvania, nest at an impersonalist yogi’s asrama in uptown Manhattan, and then in a tint room on Seventy-second Street. By March of 1966, a few young people were coming to hear him speak, but his circumstances were still humble: he had seen no real breakthrough in his work to spread Krsna consciousness. When a thief made off with what little he had, Srila Prabhupada reconsidered his students’ requests that he move downtown.

Pennsylvania Village

One day in April, 1966, someone broke into Srila Prabhupada’s room on Seventy-second Street and stole his typewriter and tape recorder. As Prabhupada returned to the building, the janitor informed him of the theft. An unknown burglar had broken the transom glass above the door, climbed through, taken the valuables, and escaped. As Prabhupada heard the details of the crime, he became convinced that it was the janitor himself who had broken in and stolen his things, and that the man was now offering a fictitious account of a thief who had gone through the transom. Knowing there was no way he could prove this, Srila Prabhupada simply accepted his loss with disappointment. In a letter to India, he described the theft as a loss of more than one thousand rupees ($125.00).

It is understood [he wrote] that such crime as has been committed in my room is very common in New York. This is the way of material nature. American people have everything in ample, and the worker gets about Rs. 100 as daily wages. And still there are thieves for want of character. The social condition is not very good.

Before long, acquaintances were offering Srila Prabhupada replacements for his old typewriter and tape recorder. But he had lost his spirit for living in Room 307. What would prevent the janitor from stealing again whenever he desired? Srila Prabhupada began to reconsider the requests of young men like Bill Epstein and Harvey Cohen that he relocate downtown, where he would find a more interested following among the younger people. Then Harvey Cohen offered Srila Prabhupada residence in his art studio on the Bowery.

Harvey Cohen had been working as a commercial artist for a Madison Avenue advertising firm when a recently acquired inheritance spurred him to move into a loft on the Bowery to pursue his own career as a painter. But he was becoming disillusioned with New York. A group of acquaintances addicted to heroin had been coming around and taking advantage of his generosity, and his loft had recently been burglarized. He decided to leave the city for California, but before leaving, he directly offered his loft for Prabhupada to share with a boy named David Allen. Prabhupada considered it a timely offer his mission, Harvey Cohen had advised, would be more successful near the downtown area. So Prabhupada accepted the Bowery loft as his new residence.

As Prabhupada was preparing to leave his Seventy-second Street address, an acquaintance, an electrician who worked in the building, came to warn him. The Bowery was no place for a gentleman, he protested. It was the most corrupt place in the world. Prabhupada’s things had been stolen from Room 307, but moving to the Bowery was not the answer. The electrician urged Prabhupada to take his friendly advice: “No, Swamiji, you cannot go there!” But Prabhupada had decided that an auspicious offer was being made. Now he wanted to go forward, and he disregarded warnings of the Bowery’s dangers. As he would later say, “I couldn’t understand the difference between friends and enemies. My friend was shocked to hear that I was moving to the Bowery, but although I passed through many dangers, I never thought that ‘this is danger: Everywhere I thought, ‘This is my home.’ ”

Between Harold’s and the Half Moon

Srila Prabhupada’s new home, the Bowery, had a long history. In the early 1600’s, when Manhattan was known as New Amsterdam and was controlled by the Dutch West Indies Company, Peter Minuit, the Governor of New Netherland, staked out a north-south road, which was called “the Bowery” because a number of boweries, or farms, lay on either side. It was a dusty country road, lined with quaint Dutch cottages and bordered by the peach orchards growing on the estate of Peter Stuyvesant. It became part of the high road to Boston and was of strategic importance during the American Revolution as the only land entrance to New York City.

In the early 1800’s, the Bowery was predominated by German immigrants, later in the century it became predominantly Jewish, and gradually it became the city’s center of theatrical life. However, as a history of Lower Manhattan describes, ‘After 1870 came the period of the Bowery’s celebrated degeneration. Fake auction rooms, saloons specializing in five-cent whiskey and knock-out drops, sensational dime museums, filthy and rat-ridden stale beer dives, together with Charles M. Hoyte’s song, ‘The Bowery! The Bowery! I’ll Never Go There Any More!’, fixed it forever in the nation’s consciousness as a place of unspeakable corruption.”

The reaction of Srila Prabhupada’s electrician friend was not unusual. The Bowery is still known all over the world as a skid row, a place of ruined and homeless alcoholics. Perhaps the uptown electrician had done business in the Bowery and had seen the derelicts who at various times sat and passed a bottle or lay unconscious in the gutter or staggered up to passersby, drunkenly bumping into them and asking for money.

Most of the Bowery’s 7,600 homeless men slept in lodging houses that required them to vacate the rooms during the day. Having nowhere else to go and nothing else to do, they would loiter on the street standing silently on the sidewalks, leaning against walls, or shuffling slowly along, alone or in groups. In cold weather they would wear two coats and several suits of clothes at once and would sometimes warm themselves around a fire they would keep going in a city garbage can. At night those without lodging crawled into discarded boxes, slept on the sidewalks, on doorsteps, and street corners, or sprawled side by side next to the bars. Thefts were commonplace; a man’s pockets might be searched ten or twenty times while he slept. The rates of hospitalization and death in the Bowery were five times higher than the national average, and many of the homeless men bore marks of recent injuries or violence.

Prabhupada’s loft, at 94 Bowery, was six blocks south of Houston Street. At Houston and Bowery, derelicts converged in the heavy cross-town traffic. When cars stopped for the light, bums would come up and wash the windshields and ask for money. South of Houston, the first blocks held mostly restaurant supply stores, lamp stores, taverns, and luncheonettes. The buildings were of three and four stories old, narrow, crowded tenements, their faces covered with heavy fire escapes. Traffic on the Bowery ran uptown and downtown. Cars parked on both sides of the street, and the constant traffic passed tightly. During the business day, working people passed briskly among the slow-moving derelicts. Many of the store windows were covered with protective iron gates, but behind the gates the store owners lit their varieties of lamps and arrayed their other merchandise to attract prospective wholesale and retail customers.

Ninety-four Bowery was just two doors north of Hester Street. The corner was occupied by the spacious Half Moon Tavern, which was frequented mostly by neighborhood alcoholics. Above the tavern sat a four-story Bowery flophouse marked by a neon sign “Palma House” which was covered by a protective metal cage and hung from the second floor on large chains. The hotel’s entrance at 92 Bowery (which had no lobby, but only a desolate hallway covered with dirty white tiles) was no more than six feet from the entrance to 94.

Ninety-four Bowery was a narrow, four-story building. It had long ago been painted gray and bore the usual facing of massive black fire escapes. A well-worn black double door, its glass panels reinforced with chicken wire, opened onto the street. The sign above the door read “A.I.R. third and fourth floors,” indicating that artists-in-residence occupied those floors.

The first floor of the next building north, 96 Bowery, was used for storage, and its front entrance was covered with a rusty iron gate. At 98 Bowery was another tavern Harold’s smaller and dingier than the Half Moon. Thus the block consisted of two saloons, a flophouse, and two buildings with lofts.

Temple in a Loft

In the 1960’s, loft living was just beginning in that area of New York. The city had given permission for painters, musicians, sculptors, and other artists (who required more space than available in most apartments) to live in buildings that had been constructed in the nineteenth century as factories. After these abandoned factories had been fitted with fireproof doors, bathtubs, shower stalls, and heating, an artist could inexpensively use a large space. These were the A.I.R. lofts.

Srila Prabhupada

Harvey Cohen’s loft, on the top floor of 94 Bowery, was an open space almost a hundred feet long (from east to west) and twenty-five feet wide. It received a good amount of sunlight on the east, the Bowery side, and it also had windows at the west end, as well as a skylight. The exposed rafters of the ceiling were twelve feet above the floor.

Harvey Cohen had used the loft as an art studio, and racks for paintings still lined the walls. A kitchen and shower area were partitioned off in the northwest corner, and a room divider stood parallel with the Bowery about fifteen feet from the Bowery-side windows. This divider did not run from wall to wall, but was open at both ends, and it was several feet short of the ceiling.

It was behind that partition that Srila Prabhupada had his personal living area. A bed and a few chairs stood near the window, and Prabhupada had set his typewriter on his metal trunk, next to the small table where he kept his stacks of Bhagavatammanuscripts. He had also strung a clothesline for drying his dhotis.

On the other side of the partition was a dais, about ten feet wide and five feet deep, on which Prabhupada sat during his kirtanas and lectures. The dais faced west, toward the loft’s large open space. In that open area were a couple of rugs and an old-fashioned solid wood table. Before leaving for California, Harvey had painted a canvas depicting Lord Caitanya dancing with His associates, and this stood on an easel in the open area.

The loft was a four-flight walk up, and the only entrance, usually heavily bolted, was a door in the rear, at the west end. This door opened into a hallway, which led to the right for a few steps and finally into the open area. If a guest entered during akirtana or lecture, he would see Srila Prabhupada about thirty feet from the entrance, seated on his dais. At other times, a guest might enter and find the whole loft dark, with a light visible only on the other side of the partition, where Prabhupada was working.

Srila Prabhupada was living on the Bowery, sitting under a small light, while hundreds of derelicts also sat under hundreds of naked lights on the same city block. He had no more fixed income than any derelict in the area, nor any greater surety of a permanent residence. Yet his consciousness was entirely different. He was translating Srimad-Bhagavatam into English, speaking to the world through his Bhaktivedanta purports. His duty, whether in a fourteenth-floor apartment on Riverside Drive or in a corner of a Bowery loft, was to establish Krsna consciousness as the prime necessity for all humanity. He went on with his translating and with his constant planning and dreaming of a temple for Krsna in New York City. Because his consciousness was absorbed in Krsna’s universal mission, he did not depend on his surroundings for shelter. Home for him was not a matter of bricks and wood, but of taking shelter of Krsna in every circumstance. As Prabhupada had said to his friends uptown, “Everywhere is my home,” whereas without Krsna’s shelter the whole world would be a dangerous place.

Often, Srila Prabhupada would refer to a scriptural statement that people in the material world live in three different modes: goodness, passion, and ignorance. Life in the forest is in the mode of goodness, life in the city is in passion, and life in a degraded place like a liquor shop, a brothel, or the Bowery is in the mode of ignorance. But to live in a temple of Visnu is to live in the spiritual world, Vaikuntha, which is transcendental to all three material modes.

But is a Bowery loft a temple? At least this loft, when Prabhupada was holding his meetings and performing kirtana there, unquestionably was. And when he was behind the partition, working in his corner before the open pages of Srimad- Bhagavatam,that room was as good as his room back at Radha-Damodara temple in Vrndavana, India.

“The Energy of Being Close to Him”

News of the Swami’s presence in the Bowery loft spread, mostly by word of mouth at the Paradox restaurant, and people began to come by in the evening to hear and chant with him. The musical kirtanas were especially popular on the Bowery, since the Swami’s new congregation consisted mostly of local musicians and artists, many of whom responded more to the transcendental music than to the philosophy. Every morning he would hold a class on Srimad-Bhagavatam, attended usually by David Allen, Robert Nelson, and another boy, and he would ‘still occasionally teach cooking to whoever was interested. He was almost always available for personal talks with any inquiring visitors or with his new roommate David.

David Allen had heard that Harvey Cohen was moving to San Francisco if he could sublet his A.I.R. loft. Harvey hadn’t known David very long, but on the night before Harvey was to leave, he coincidentally met David three different times in three different sections of the Lower East Side. Harvey took this as a sign that he should rent the loft to David but he specifically stipulated that Srila Prabhupada should move in with him.

Srila Prabhupada and David Allen got on well together. Although each had his own designated living area in the large loft, the whole place soon became dominated by Srila Prabhupada’s preaching activities. At first, Srila Prabhupada considered David an aspiring disciple. Writing to his friends in India, he described his relationship with the American boy.

He was attending my class at 72nd Street along with others [Prabhupada wrote], and when I experienced this theft case in my room, he invited me to his residence. So I am with him and training him. He has good prospects because already he has given up all bad habits. In this country, illicit connection with women, smoking, drinking, and eating of meats are common affairs. Besides that, there are other bad habits, like using [only] toilet paper [and not bathing] after evacuating etc. But by my request he has given up ninety percent of his old habits, and he is chanting maha-mantra regularly. So I am giving him the chance, and I think he is improving. Tomorrow I have arranged for some prasadam distribution, and he has gone to purchase some things from the market.

When David had first come to the Bowery, he appeared like a clean-cut college student. He was eighteen years old, about six feet tall, blue-eyed, handsome, and intelligent-looking. Most of his new friends in New York were older and considered him a “kid.” David’s family lived in the Midwest, and his mother was paying one hundred dollars monthly to sublease the loft. Although David did not have much experience, he had read that a new realm of mind expansion was available through psychedelic drugs, and he was heading fast into the hazardous world of LSD. His meeting with Srila Prabhupada came at a time of radical change and profoundly affected his life.

It was a really good relationship I had with the Swami [David relates], although I was overwhelmed by the tremendous energy of being that close to him. It spurred my consciousness very fast. Even my dreams at night would be so vivid ofKrsna consciousness. I was often sleeping when the Swami was up, because he was up late in the night working on his translations. That’s possibly where a lot of the consciousness and dreams just flowed in, because of that deep relationship. It also had to do with studying Sanskrit. There was a lot of immediate impact with the language. The language seemed to have such a strong mystical quality, the way he translated it word for word.

Prabhupada’s old friend from uptown, Robert Nelson, continued to visit him on the Bowery. Robert was impressed by Prabhupada’s friendly relationship with David, who he saw was learning many things from the Swami. Robert bought a small American-made hand organ, similar to an Indian harmonium, and donated it to David for chanting with Prabhupada. At seven in the morning, Robert would come by, and after Bhagavatam class he would talk informally with Srila Prabhupada, telling his ideas for making records and selling books. He wanted to continue helping Srila Prabhupada as he had done uptown. They would sit in chairs near the front window, and Robert would listen while Prabhupada talked for hours about Krsna and Lord Caitanya.

Saffron in a Dingy Alcove

New people began coming to see Prabhupada on the Bowery. Carl Yeargens, a thirty-year-old black man from the Bronx, had attended Cornell University and was now independently studying Indian religion and Zen Buddhism. He had experimented with drugs as “psychedelic tools,” and he had an interest in the music and poetry of India. He was influential among his friends and tried to interest them in meditation. He had even been dabbling in Sanskrit.

I had just finished reading a book [he relates] called The Wonder That Was India. I had gotten the definition of a sannyasi and a brahmacari and so forth. There was a vivid description in that particular book of how you could see a sannyasi coming down the road with his saffron robe. It must have made more than just a superficial impression on me, because it came to me this one winterish evening. I was going to visit Michael Grant probably going to smoke some marijuana and sit around, maybe play some music and I was coming down Hester Street. If you made a left on Bowery, you could go up to Mike’s place on Grand Street. But it’s funny that I chose to go that way, because the shorter way would have been to go down Grand Street and then make a right on Bowery. Anyway, I decided to go down Hester and then make a left, and all of a sudden I saw in this dingy alcove a brilliant saffron robe. As I passed I saw it was Swamiji knocking on the door, trying to gain entrance. There were two bums hunched up against the door. It was like a two-part door one door was sealed, and the other was locked. The two bums were lying on either side of Swamiji. One of these men had actually expired which often happened, and you had to call the police or health department to get them.

I don’t think I saw the men lying in the doorway until I walked up to Swamiji and asked him, ‘Are you a sannyasi?” And he answered yes. We started this conversation about how he was starting a temple, and he mentioned Lord Caitanya and the whole thing. He just came out with this flow of strange things to me, right there in the street. But I knew what he was talking about somehow. I had the familiarity of having just read this book and delved into Indian religion. So I knew that this was a momentous occasion for me, and I wanted to help him. We banged on the door, and eventually we got into the loft. He invited me to come to a kirtana, and I came back later that night for my first kirtana. From that point on, it was a fairly regular thing three times a week. At one point Swamiji asked me to stay with him, and I stayed for about two weeks.

It was perhaps because of Carl’s interest in Sanskrit that Prabhupada began holding a Sanskrit class in the loft. Every day he taught a few students how to form the letters of the alphabet and pronounce the Sanskrit sounds. He used a chalkboard he had found in the loft, and his students wrote their exercises in notebooks. Carl and a few others would spend hours working on Sanskrit with Prabhupada, who would look over their shoulders to see if they were writing correctly and would review their pronunciation. The boys were learning not only Sanskrit but the instructions from Bhagavad-gita. Each day Prabhupada would give them a different verse to write down in the Sanskrit alphabet (devanagari), transliterate into the Roman alphabet, and then translate word for word into English. But their interest in Sanskrit waned, and Srila Prabhupada gradually gave up the daily classes to spend time working on his own translations of Srimad-Bhagavatam.

Prabhupada’s new friends may have regarded these lessons as Sanskrit classes, but actually, of course, they were bhakti classes. Srila Prabhupada had not come to America as an ambassador of Sanskrit; his Guru Maharaja, his spiritual master, had ordered him to teach Krsna consciousness. But he had found in Carl and some of his friends a desire to investigate Sanskrit, so he encouraged it. As a youth, Lord Caitanya also had started a Sanskrit school, with the real purpose of teaching love of Krsna. He would teach in such a way that every word meant Krsna, and when His students objected He closed the school. Similarly, Prabhupada had no mission to perform on behalf of Sanskrit linguistics, and when he found that the interest of the A.I.R. bohemians in Sanskrit was transitory, he gave up holding these classes.

By the standard of classical Vedic scholars, it takes ten years to master Sanskrit grammar. And if one does not start until his late twenties or thirties, it is usually too late. Certainly none of Prabhupada’s students were thinking of entering a ten-year concentration in Sanskrit grammar, and even if they were, they would not have realized spiritual truth simply by becoming grammarians. Prabhupada thought it better to use his Sanskrit background to follow the Sanskrit commentaries of the previous authorities and translate the verses of Srimad Bhagavatam into English. Otherwise, the secrets of Krsna consciousness would remain locked away in the Sanskrit. Teaching Carl Yeargens devanagari, sandhi, verb conjugations, and noun declensions was not going to give the people of America transcendental Vedic knowledge. It was better, Prabhupada thought, to use his proficiency in Sanskrit for translating many volumes of the Bhagavatam into English for millions of potential readers.

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 04 October 2009, Durban, South Africa, Lecture)

We cannot be on automatic pilot; we must capture Krsna by making a special sacrifice! Then, when we have captured Krsna, we see that one cannot keep Krsna also. Mother Yasoda captured Krsna and Krsna was not only bound by Mother Yasoda’s ropes but Krsna was bound by Mother Yasoda’s love.

When Krsna was eleven years old, then Akrura came and Akrura took Krsna away from Vrndavana. From that day on, the residents lived in separation. From that day on, all the residents of Vrndavana, no matter what they did, they could not capture Krsna because it is not automatic.

Krsna was driving them mad… Mad in separation! Mad in their attachment to him! So, one has to earn Krsna’s favour again and again. This is an important point! Therefore, again and again, we are trying. But still, Krsna is such that whatever service is rendered to him, he will never forget. So, if we render this service in the month of Kartik, Krsna will not forget…

The special status of cows and the benefits of caring for them are found throughout the scriptures. All the demigods reside in the body of the cow and the cow is considered divine due to the presence of these divinities in her body. Further, cows are very dear to Lord Krsna. He’s known as Govinda (one who gives pleasure to the cows) and Gopala (protector of the cows). He lives in Gokul (the place of cows) as part of a family of cowherds. He says, “I can be worshipped within the Cows by offerings of grass and other suitable grains and paraphernalia for the pleasure & health of the Cows”– Srimad Bhagavatam 11.11.43.

Mayapur Goshala provides everyone around the world a chance to serve cows. Some of these cows are really special as the milk of these cows is used for the service of Sri Radha Madhava, Sri Pancha-tattva, Sri Nrsimhadev and Srila Prabhupada Samadhi. Not only that, you earn 1000 times more spiritual benefit for your devotional service at holy dhama Sri Mayapur.

When you visit Mayapur, you can personally feed the cows, offer them an aratik, brush and caress them. You can even adopt these cows and sponsor for their food and healthcare.

ISKCON Chandrodaya Mandir, Mayapur has a vast Goshala accommodating about 300 cows and bulls. There are about 50 cows, 70 grazing calves, 100 bulls, 30 old cows and 35 new born calves. The Goshala is well established with a veterinary doctor, a team of medical helpers, a team of cow lovers, cleaners and cowherd men who take the calves and bulls for grazing. The cows are provided grass, hay and fodder three times a day.

If you live in a place where you cannot maintain cows personally, you can engage in cow protection by adopting one of our resident cows, bulls or calves. You can donate for one month, one year or lifetime feeding and care. For one year and lifetime adoption, you can perform worship of the adopted cow with assistance of a Goshala priest. In case of lifetime adoption, you can perform the worship every year on your preferred date. Become a Lifetime Adoption member and we will also send you regular updates and photos of your adopted cow.

Please view below video to hear the pleasant experience of a family who adopted a cow for lifetime.

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Dear Your Holiness Jayapataka Swami Maharaj!

Please accept our humble obeisances!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We are Varanasi Devi Dasi and Gopi Nandini Devi Dasi, the disciples of His Grace Chaitanya Chandra Charan Prabhu. In September 2014 by the causeless mercy of Guru and Gauranga we were lucky to get the nectar service, i.e. to develop the project of the Vedic Planetarium Temple in Ukraine. It happened right after Russian festival “Sadhu-Sanga” where Mataji Varanasi was serving you and helping devotees to spread the information about the project of the Vedic Planetarium and to collect donations for the Temple.

In spite of the difficult political and economic situation in Ukraine as well as the financial difficulties in Zaporozhye Yatra, the president of our temple, Badrinath Prabhu, was enthusiastic about collecting donations for the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium in our city. He announced the launch of this wonderful project in our city and in Ukraine.

We decided to start the development of the project in our city first, and then being an example for other devotees to implement it in other towns and villages of the country. At first we had a feeling that collecting money for the first golden brick of Pancha-tattva will take us an eternity because economic conditions in Ukraine were just deplorable. But Krishna and Srila Prabhupada had a different plan. It is with enthusiasm that devotees start to collect money for the Temple, to fasten the process we suggested collecting the sum for the Pancha-tattva brick till the end of Kartik.

$ 1,600 is big money for our region and the fact that we have gathered half of this sum during Kartik was good news for us. But the devotees were unsatisfied, they said: “How come! We were going to do everything in this favorable month to collect the required sum, and we only have half of it!!!

We tried to reassure them that it is also a good result. But the real miracle happened on the last day of Kartik – our phones were ringing off the hook; all day we were just running around and gathering donations. At the end of the day when we counted the money and saw that we had collected even more than was required for our first gold brick.

Later we got to know that on the last day of Kartik, in the morning, Mataji Varanasi had darshan with His Grace Chaitanya Chandra Charan Prabhu and asked for His blessings to collect the remaining sum as soon as possible…

The day when our first tranche went to Mayapur, Ukrainian financial system was in default. In the morning, all the bank staff was in a panic, but when we came with dollars (which that day no one was selling) and asked to send the sum to the Central Bank of India, bank employees were shocked. When we sent the bank transfer the password for banks was: “Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead! ».

Fundraising of the Nrsimhadeva brick was as well exceptional. Not only the devotees were donating, but also simple people were just coming from nowhere donating big sums of money. On the last day of fundraising the miracle happened again – we received thousands of calls – as if Nrsimhadeva himself was hurrying everybody up! The devotees who don’t visit the programs because of their health, the beginners, and even devotees’ neighbors – everybody was donating. We did not even notice how the sum for the Nrisimhadeva’s brick was collected! We weren’t even surprised when the dollar jumped upright on the day of sending the money to Mayapur. It seemed quite normal to us.

But when we began to collect Lakshmi for Sri Sri Radha Madhava’s brick the economy was just agonizing. Everywhere in Ukraine food disappeared from the store shelves. People swept everything away. There was no salt, no sugar, and no flour. The panic because of military actions came to a head, people fled the cities and at this time the devotees not only from Zaporozhye, but also even from other cities of Ukraine transferred Lakshmi for the altar of Sri Sri Radha Madhava. It was just magical.

However, we couldn’t send the sum for Sri Sri Radha Madhava’s brick. That day there was no Internet in the bank and all the programs didn’t work. We have never seen anything of that kind neither have the bank workers. The operator, who was sending the money by Swift delivery, politely asked us to go home and not to worry. “When everything is adjusted, the payment will be sent”, – he assured. And so it happened. We even were not surprised when the payment “left” in the first minutes of Akshay Tritiya.

The geography of donations collecting started to expand. Devotees from Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mariupol and Dnepropetrovsk joined us. Transcendental stories never ended.

Immediately after the Vyasa Puja of His Grace Chaitanya Chandra Charan Prabhu we received a call from a young man named Marian. He served in the Ukrainian Army and phoned from the hot spot. Once during the “silence”, he visited the website of Alexander Khakimov (HG Chaitanya Chandra Charan Prabhu) and saw a banner of the Vedic Planetarium Temple project. A young soldier, from a small town Chervonograd in western Ukraine, ordered Srila Prabhupada’s books and began to send all his salary for the construction of the Vedic Planetarium Temple. Now Marian is demobilized, he met the devotees from the Lvov city, he is chanting the Maha-mantra and reading Srila Prabhupada’s books. He came to the All-Ukrainian festival “Bhakti Sangama” and was happy in devotees’ company. We were very pleased to meet him, and he thanked us for the opportunity to serve Srila Prabhupada.

Before the All-Ukrainian festival “Bhakti Sangama 2015”, by Srila Prabhupada’s mercy we had the opportunity to meet His Holiness Niranjana Swami and we told him about our service. He gave us His blessing to develop the project of Vedic Planetarium in Ukraine. In the festival, we were distributing cards and leaflets on the construction of the Temple. During the meeting of His Grace Chaitanya Chandra Charan Prabhu disciples on the festival “Bhakti Sangama” we were trying to inspire our brothers and sisters from all cities of Ukraine to participate in the project. Currently, a group of devotees – regional representatives of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium Project in Ukraine is being organized. We hope so much for your blessings. We pray that all the Ukrainians would learn about the construction of the Vedic Planetarium Temple and our country will be actively involved in collecting donations for this most spectacular temple in the Universe.

This summer and autumn Mataji Varanasi Devi Dasi accompanied His Grace Chaitanya Chandra Charan Prabhu on His tour in Ural and Siberia, where He presented the Project of the Vedic Planetarium Temple. He is very devoted to your Grace and to the project because he knows that the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium is your heart, life, and soul. As a result, devotees and especially new people treat this project with great enthusiasm and warmth; they support this initiative and believe in it. Especially they are inspired by the fact that this project will be the personification of the Golden Age on our planet, it gives them great hope for the future. When accompanying Guru Maharaj on His tour we noticed a huge wave of interest towards the Vedic tradition, to the transcendental knowledge and its practical application as well as to the Project of the Vedic Planetarium Temple, especially from the part of new people. As a result, during the tour more than 1 million rubles was raised, and the collection of donations continues thanks to devotees who want to perform service in this Project in their own towns. After the tour, almost everyone in this region knows this wonderful project, and Srila Prabhupada’s dream to build this magnificent temple that will spiritualize all the mankind.

In December 2015, the special “Yoga Festival” is planned to be held in Kiev where a magnificent theater performance of “The Creation of the Universe” and the TOVP project will be presented for a few thousands of people.

We are praying for your blessings to continue our service to Srila Prabhupada, our Guru Maharaj, and You, Your Grace Jayapataka Swami, to be able to involve everyone in realizing of the Great Plan of Lord Chaitanya, to flood the Universe with the pure love to God.

Your servants,

Varanasi Devi Dasi,

Gopi Nandini Devi Dasi

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By Vaishnavanghri Sevaka das

On the auspicious occasion of Srila Krishna dasa kaviraja goswami’s disappearance day today we wish to present the devotees all over the world the dance ballet performed last month in the glory of Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam. This dance ballet was performed on the occasion of Radhastami Adhivas at ISKCON, Mira Road (Mumbai, India) on 20th September 2015, which coincided with inauguration of weeklong festivals to mark the grand opening of Sri Sri RadhaGiridhari temple at Mira Road that is poised to become the crest jewel for the western suburbs of Mumbai. Please relish viewing the video below:

HG Kamal Lochan Das, the temple president, specifically chosen to present the glorification of Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam through dance ballet by Kalakruti Dance Academy to honour Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam, which completed 400 years of compilation by Srila Krishna dasa kaviraja goswami at Radha Kunda. On the occasion of 400th year celebration HG Kamal Lochan prabhu decided to distribute 400 sets of Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam. So far he is successful in distributing 200 sets. He announced a rebate of 50% on the occasion of new temple inauguration.

Originally Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam glorification song was compiled for the occasion of 400th year of appearance. This glorification song, which was beautifully rendered in Hindustani music with ‘MisraDhag’ raga (tune) by Prof. Venukapalli Thirupathiah from Telangana state, India, was given devotion and dedication filled dance ballet by Smt. Guru Rekha Desai of Kalakruti Dance Academy. This dance academy is associated with ISKCON for several years through various devotional dance performances on festival days. Under the dance direction of Smt. Guru Rekha Desai, Ms. Siddhi Desai and troupe performed the dance with great enthusiasm and devotion that received applause from the audience. Now we made an attractive video formatting for the dance performance with English subtitles for the pleasure view of the devotees all over the world.

Glorification song of Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam was composed truly in-line with Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam. It gives the introduction to all the important characters of the scripture, the true identity of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, a brief mention of events in adilila, Madhya lila and antylila. It gives the historical points of its compilation place and Srila Prabhupada’s wonderful commentary. It concludes with a note that the release of Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam in Telugu language (south Indian language) would be soon done by the mercy of Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga. Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) is working to release Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam in Telugu language in January 2016 as an offering to Srila Prabhupada on the occasion of golden jubilee celebration of ISKCON. We request all the Maharajas and all the devotees all over the world to bless us for the successful release of Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada.

About Author: Vaishnavanghri Sevaka Das is an initiated disciple of H.H. Gopalkrishna Goswami Maharaja. He holds Ph.D. in Polymer Science. He translated Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam into Telugu language. His translation work of Sri Chaitanya Charitamritam just completed and is due for release. He translated entire story of Prabhupada Lilamrita for publishing in Bhagavaddarshan (Telugu version of BTG).

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