By Madhava Smullen
To celebrate the 125th birth anniversary of ISKCON Founder-Acharya Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON New Vrindaban in West Virginia is set to hold the Prabhupada 125 Tournament from Friday September 24th to Sunday September 26th.
The tournament, which will take place at New Vrindaban a month after Prabhupada’s August 31st Appearance Day, will be open to all and will feature a series of exciting prizes for the winner and runners-up. Contestants should register here, and will have nearly two months to study Srila Prabhupada’s life, achievements and his favorite most-oft quoted verses to prepare. Questions will be derived mostly from Prabhupada’s official biography Srila Prabhupada-lilamrita, as well as from A Bond of Love: Srila Prabhupada and His Daughters.
New Vrindaban Communications Director Anuradha Dasi, who is organizing the tournament, felt it would be a fun way to incentivize people to learn about Srila Prabhupada and the unique position he holds in the life of every ISKCON devotee, both now and for generations to come, as our Founder-Acharya.
“As they say, to know someone is to love them,” she explains. “Personally, I was really convinced to become a devotee thirty years ago when I read Srila Prabhupada-lilamrita. And as soon as I read it, I was convinced that other people would become devotees too if they read it. During the book distribution marathon of 1992, I got a big donation, and subsidized the sale of Lilamritas, so that I could sell them for half price. That way, I distributed hundreds of Lilamritas for the marathon that year.”
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