We had busy days in Istanbul last week. HH Niranjana Swami visited us in Istanbul for the 5th time. Maharaja arrived on 26 May and left Istanbul on 31 May. We organized 4 programs including Sunday Feast in our Goranga Yoga Center. Programs were advertised as Vedic Philosophy & Bhakti Yoga Seminars and Niranjana Maharaj gave classes on well-known Bhagavad Gita Catur Sloki verses. There was a great interest in Niranjana Maharaja’s programs by Turkish audience. Couple of disciples of Maharaja came from Georgia to get association of their Guru Maharaja. Around 170 people attended for 4 programs. There were regular visitors and devotees also every day we got 4-5 first time comer to our programs. Niranjana Maharaja talked in such simple and wonderful way that new comers could understand speech perfectly and devotees were fully satisfied. New devotees got so much inspiration to do more service to devotees, Guru and Krishna by association of Niranjana Maharaja. In addition some seekers in spiritual path got inspiration to start practicing KC seriously. One of the new comers were very grateful to Maharaja and said to our Sri Rama Prabhu after programs: “I always had difficulty to understand philosophy in my all life however whatever Maharaja said I could clearly understand every single word.” When I told it Niranjana Maharaja, he simply said: “This is what Srila Prabhupada taught us. Present philosophy in a simple way so that everybody can understand easily.” All lectures and one of the kirtan were recorded and you can click below:
https://youtu.be/Pwd4ajmPghc
https://youtu.be/yuqpjr2qJ9E
https://youtu.be/g1cx1EpyM8s
https://youtu.be/1Z4ADpmhgdk
https://youtu.be/HAA-wJd_5lE
Niranjana Maharaja mentioned in his last class about how Srila Prabhupada was stressing on the word “special mercy of the Lord”. We now very well understand that his visit was a definitely special mercy for Turkish Yatra. We are all grateful to Niranjana Maharaja and now we are looking forward to HH Sivarama Maharaja’s visit to Istanbul at the end of June.
Your servant, Nrsimha Krsna das
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