December book marathon message from Gurumaharaj
My dear devotees,Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.Camp: Bombay, ISKCONDecember is the month Lord Krsna spoke the Bhagavad Gita on a sacred Ekadashi. It is also the time when ISKCON celebrates their annual book marathon and everyone concentrates on distributing books as the Brhat Mrdanga or Greater Mrdanga. The idea is that kirtan, represented by the playing of Mrdanga drums, can be heard for some hundreds of meters or a kilometer or less. But through the printing of…
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MESSAGE FROM HG Gaura Nandini DD
Dear Godsisters, Godbrothers, Friends and Well-wishers,
Please accept my most loving obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!All glories to Guru Maharaja! All glories to all of you wonderful people!
Sarva Sakti Mataji, who is in Los Angeles with Guru Maharaja had a wonderful idea of starting a "Prayer Marathon" for quick and successful recovery of our beloved Guru Maharaja Jayapataka Swami.As you all know Guru Maharaja is right now in LA working very hard on his recovery, going everyday to the therapy.
This is an opportunity for all of us to come together and do some extra service, extra prayers and in this way be connect with Guru Maharaja and in a humble way support His process of physical recovery. Guru Maharaja would often say that the duty of a disciple is to take care after the body of a spiritual master as the spiritual master is always busy with taking care after his disciples. The power of united prayers are enormous and very moving...and appreciated by Krsna and Spiritual Masters. So please join this prayer campaign... which is starting NOW and is to last until Gaura Purnima 2010, when we will officially offer the results to Guru Maharaja.
What can be done?- extra japa rounds- bhajans events -reiki sessions-Yajnas- inform as much devotees as possible about this prayer marathon-and most important: personal prayers.
The goal of all prayers should be a humble request for Guru Maharaja's fast recovery so He would be able to WALK again.
Proposal of the prayer:
"Please Dear Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai and Srila Prabhupada, if you wish, kindly grant our beloved Guru Maharaja, your devoted servant His Holiness Jayapataka Swami, the capacity to walk again so he can continue with Your mission of spreading Krishna Consciousness all over the world"
Please, keep a record of all activities, extra rounds, prayers, realizations. .. and please send a little report to this address:gaura- nandini@hotmail. com or even better: share them with all of us on Facebook page 'Praying for HH Jayapataka Swami'.
If anyone of you have an idea how to improve or increase this wonderful campaign... please let me know as soon as possible!
With admiration and love,
your servant,
Gaura Nandini devi dasi
"Srila Prabhupada said in Krishna consciousness we need to emulate the Coconut or Palm trees which can bend under the stormy weather, but after the wind stops they bounce back upright. Stiff big trees often get blown over.
So please tolerate all kinds of difficulties and remain fixed in your Krishna Consciousness no matter what kinds of tests come. Always try to serve Guru & Gauranga under all circumstances."
HH Jayapataka Swami
May 25th 1997, Dairy
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