Dear
esteemed devotee interested in the spiritual welfare of the
world,
Please accept our humble respects
“All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu!”
We bring you warm greetings from ISKCON of
Silicon Valley (ISV), where our mission is to serve all living
beings by widely distributing the Holy Names of Krishna.
We invite you to join and register at
http://7thgoswami.com/ to have
fun and blissful drive that will bring good fortune to everyone
it touches.
Benefits for you:
• Feel great about
yourself
• Have fun along with
your friends and relatives
• Link up with
positive-minded, dynamic devotees around the world
• Make new
friends
• Serve the great
Acaryas
• Alter the destiny of
the world
• Get recognized and
promoted by Lord Caitanya
• Be a part of a
winning team
Over a three-week period starting this June,
2011, we will assemble a team of at least 1,008 members to actively
distribute transcendental books to benefit people of the world. We
will offer the results of this event to the great Acarya (world
teacher of spiritual knowledge) Bhaktivinoda Thakura on his
disappearance day, Thursday, June 30th. Around the same time last
year, with much less time to plan, 550 people joined this campaign.
We are starting earlier and in a much better organized way this
year.
Our principle for success is to get a lot of
people, each one doing a little and while doing making it fun and
easy. And to make it even more exciting, we ask everyone to invite
their friends, family members, and colleagues to join them, asking
everyone to do a small bit.
This website http://7thgoswami.com/ serves as
kit to help you and your friends get started. It contains:
• Audio video introduction to the
mission
• Information on where & how to
get books, report scores, and so on
• Presentation on how to sell a book
• List of materials
you’ll need and where to get them
• Language cards (so
that you can sell a book in any language)
• Wrist band (Shows
your participation and attracts others to join you)
• Contact info for a
mentor who will guide you
• Links to information
websites
• Links to YouTube
videos where you can see examples of devotees distributing
books
By joining this festival you will feel inner
happiness because you will be contributing directly to the
spiritual welfare of people of the world.
In the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krsna says that
the person who spreads spiritual knowledge does the highest welfare
work and is dearest to Him. And there has never been a better time
to please Krsna in this most exalted way.
People of the world are unsettled as they
see their fellow citizens rising up against their leaders, while
the leaders are blindly employing stopgap measures or violence to
stem the tide. The Middle East is broiling. Japan, New Zealand,
Chile, and Haiti are all facing epic natural and man-made
environmental crises. Even affluent nations are going through times
of economic uncertainty and working people everywhere are juggling
finances just to stay afloat. And these are a few samples of what
is happening throughout the world.
Fading is the promise of happiness through
material acquisition or advanced scientific research. People are
now hungry for a spiritual practice that will give them direct
experience of the supreme transcendence and tangible inner
happiness that they can share with others.
The ancient Vedas — now available in
beautifully presented books – show this path. We have stockpiled
these books and are ready to distribute them to the masses.
You can make a difference!
Join our team of world-wide distributors for
this unprecedented mission that will distribute thousands of
transcendental books, providing effective spiritual solutions to
sincere people of the world.
Following Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and
displaying his own compassion for the people of the world,
Bhaktivinoda Thakura sent transcendental books to people outside
India. As the first Acharya in our line to do so, he sent the book
entitled, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, His Life and Precepts, to scholars
and literary luminaries of the time, thereby planted seeds for the
Sankirtan movement (the movement for cooperatively spreading
spiritual knowledge) in the West.
Bhaktivinoda entrusted Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu’s sankirtan movement to his son, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
Saraswati, who in turn passed it on to his disciples, among whom
was Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who personally
brought Lord Caitanya’s mission to the United States in 1965.
Following the order of his spiritual master and the example of
Srila Bhaktivinoda, Srila Prabhupada brought trunk loads of his
transcendental books on Krishna consciousness for
distribution. He also tirelessly traveled
throughout the world, speaking, writing, and training his own
disciples in the science of Krsna consciousness as taught by Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura says . . .
jive doya,
krishna-nam-sarva-dharma-sar
The showing of compassion to all fallen
souls by loudly chanting the holy name of Krishna is the essence of
all forms of religion.
Passed down through this chain of teachers
and students (disciplic succession), this treasure of
transcendental knowledge has now been laid at our doorsteps by Lord
Caitanya and his followers. And they are inviting us to distribute
this knowledge. His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
has put all of Lord Caitanya’s teachings into beautifully
illustrated and perfectly bound books that are waiting to be
distributed to millions of people all over the
world. Help pass these books on!
“The more such literatures are read and
distributed, the more auspicity will be there in the world.” (Srila
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada; quote from letter to Lilavati;
26 March, 1972)
Srila Prabhupada not only fulfilled
Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s prediction that “a great General would soon
appear to spread Lord Caitanya’s teaching’s all over the world,”
but also ensured that it would continue through the generations by
passing the torch to his disciples
and followers, training them and empowering
them to “do as he had done.”
Catch these divine orders from the disciplic
succession and in honor of Bhaktivinoda Thakura. Reap the mercy of
Bhaktivinoda Thakura! It’s fun and easy. We look forward to assist
you.
On behalf of Team ISV,
Vaisesika Dasa
