2002 || Thanksgiving Day || Atlanta, USA #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Lam jam Ram Ram Sam. It's Sam Sa.

Sam.

Gandama.

Sankhi Nam. Thanksgiving Festival. The Asim move up to this line. Sam.

Ra.

Has a prayer that he offers to his spiritual master. But the prayer is like a thanksgiving because in Sanskrit the verb comes at the end. So he lists a whole number of spiritual lessons. And then in the end he said, yasya Prabhuptav. All these things I got for Tita Kriya vayak just by the mercy of my Guru. So therefore I thank him and I offer my obeisances to Him. So what were the things he says? Nama Shreshtam. The best of the Holy name. Today, when we were visiting Brody's houses, turned on radio and of course got the news station. The news was ran out after five minutes. Too much to talk about. People don't know how to come or something. Anyway, then we switched over to a religious station and there was a preacher giving a sermon. And he was saying, what in our lives? What if God wanted to reveal to us a miracle, A miracle.

To come.

Close to him, to understand. What if he were actually revealing? Would we be able to see it? Would we recognize it at that moment? Then I listened. Would he recognize if the Lord revealed to you the Hare Krishna Mahamantra which is the best of the names of God to give back to God? It is actually the special gift of this Age of Kavi that if we chant the names of God, we can go back to God. Go back to the supreme personality of Godhead Bhagawan very easily. But unfortunately, as the preacher was saying, whether people can recognize that there's so many people who don't have that open mind to really understand how powerful the name of God is. He is a Krishna rather than God. Regardless of just kind of a title. I could say President, Prime Minister or something. Has his own personal transcendental names. Hallowed be thy name. So these names are holy in the Bhagavatam and in the Puranas and all the Vedas. That the name of the Lord is not different from the Lord. Chaitanya explained Nam Naamakari Babudana Shaktis. His holy name has been imbibed, empowered with all of the potencies of the Lord himself. What benefit we could get if we could meet the Lord face to face? You get directly by chanting his holy name. There's no difference between seeing the Lord and hearing the Lord. So this Raghu Mad Das is one of the great spiritual masters in our line. He was assistant secretary to Lord Chitanya. He was born in a very wealthy family. His family had to Pay in tax 1,200,000 gold coins every year. You can figure out. And that was 500 years ago, when people didn't even use money. They used little coin cuddies. For most people, they didn't have to actually use coins. They could just use little coin shells instead of shells. A coin was so valuable practically your whole life. Even a hundred years ago, Prabhupada said his father used to buy grains for the whole year, for a couple of rupees. Just once a year, go and buy grains, keep it in his cellar, just buy vegetables the rest of the year. But the grains is once a year just to yogis. So he didn't thank you for being born in a rich family or thank you for all these other things, but he was just thankful that he could get initiated. And chanting the holy name of Kaep's name of the Lord, he was counting all his spiritual blessings.

His.

And the wonderful thing is that wherever you chant, you see that those who participate in the chanting, they very quickly feel profound changes in their consciousness. A few days ago, I was at the Rathiatra festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the Ipanema beach site. And they have hundreds of devotees for Juggernaut. Banners, Jagannaths, lotus face on a stick of this big. All the kids running around with little. Don't call that. What do you call them? It's not exactly a banner. It's signs, like little signs, but just Juggernaut's face on both sides. So when I came up, you could see it was like Juggernaut smiling hundreds of smiles. So Rio de Janeiro is known as the city of smiles. I say, don't hear the smiles of the Lord. This is a different kind of smile. This is a smile that you never have to suffer for. Whether you see it there or you see in Russia or you see in India, anywhere there's people chanting Hare Krishna. They immediately, within some time, they can feel tremendous spiritual force. So whether someone's a great saint like Raghuna Das, or whether. When I was in Russia then there was this couple that chatted with us the night before. They came the next day, came up to see me, and they said, I just wanted to thank you all because. And I wanted to ask you a question. You see, last night we came by your tent and you were singing this song. So we sang with you for many hours. And I just want to tell you that I never felt happier in my life. But I don't know what I was Singing. Could you tell me what is it that you were singing and why does it make me feel so happy? I mean, I've been all over the music. There was like 250,000 people. There were hundreds of music tents all over it. So you could go wherever you wanted. Like music lovers like these going this far or that far. Once they came into our camp, usually they didn't leave, they stuck out. They said, never feel happier. I said, didn't have a clue what we were singing. Of course, we were just singing Hare Krishna over and over again. If you were to Hitankaranga or something, but mainly Hare Krishna. So even though this person didn't know what the song was, but still have the effect of giving such a profound happiness. So whether someone is a complete, I don't even want to say neophyte newcomer or whether someone is a very bad sing liberating soul. By chanting the Holy Name from beginner to expert, everyone can feel a tremendous spiritual rejuvenation energy. So we get that, that he was appreciating. He got that by the mercy of his guru. So Namasreshtam. See, there are many holy names.

Name.

Of Vishnu, which is more than all the other names. There's a thousand names of Vishnu is equal to one name of Ram. Eka Sastrama, Churubis, Eka rahmanama Ra. And 3000 names of Vishnu is equal to one name of Krishna. See, within the science of the holy.

Name.

There are different kinds of names of God. There's the names which are more titular, just describing his position. And those are some of his qualities that in relation to the material world all pervades to all knowing, all powerful. But something which is directly related to his pastimes when he incarnates or when he descends in this planet and has pastimes like his word Ram. Those are a thousand times more powerful than the generic names about God Almighty. All powerful, such things Vishnu. But then when Krishna comes, because he's so much more merciful and he accepts everyone, there's even a thousand times three times more powerful than the Abraham. So there's a whole science of the organisation of the Lord, which maybe here in the west people are not. So maybe how much can elevate the chant? Siva is appreciating and somehow of all the different names he got the best. The mantra specifically mentioned and recommended for this age. And there are many powerful mantras and all of them are holy and respectable, worshipable. But some mantras are more suitable for a particular period than others. And this particular period Era. The mantra which is recommended, which is the best for delivering us is this Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna. Krishna Krishna. I was just at 2, but we had a three day retreat there with 500 devotees. So we got the Tirupati Ladus. It's a special sweet. The ladus. They're like. You can get a ladu this big, bad big. Everybody usually gets this one on the ladu. They get plastic bags when they give. It says where tea lag put room somewhere in your house. Chanta daily mantra. So it says. But that's mentioned in the Puranas for the previous guest. This era specifically mentions Hare Krishna. So Nama Shastra Manum also Agatha Gayatri Mantra. After first we come to Ka consciousness and we participate in the programs. We chant Hare Ka. Then we get formally initiated into the chanting. Except spiritual NASA. But after some time the spiritual master gives us a further blessing of Gayatri Mantra. Seven devotees are getting there. Well, they pass all the exams. Probably tomorrow morning, eight in the morning. The ceremony. Maybe some ceremony for some ladies who are mother who are expecting for families to give them a blessing for their mother and their child. But this mantra is a secret mantra. Secret in the sense you don't chant it out loud. You have to chant it mentally. And the people get the mantra before they are qualified as a way benefit them. So it's kept secret. So that mantra also helps us to control our mind, helps us to advance. She was thankful because of the Guru. I could get this guide to mantra Rama Shastra Munobhi Sa Chi. Good job. I could get what she taught. Association. He tried for many, many times to get the association of Lord Chaitanya. And finally here at Panihati. We're here at new Panihati. So it's kind of extension of the old Panihati. So he's saying here the store gave the place in Panihat which is where Lord Nithyananda who is the original Guru became Ravanath. God's a blessing to go and meet watch Every June we celebrate that festival here. For what Uchinani gave that mercy to Reverend and D. How many festival in.

June.

They would have been? Yes. So those who haven't been.

Don'T miss.

It next year it's a very special festival. Biggest festival of the year here. So he was thanking him because he wanted to meet Lord Chaitanya. Now that he meet Lord Chattanooga. But when he met Lord Chaitanya then Lord Chaitanya said okay, you can be my. You can assist Salub Dhawana. Who is Lord Chaitanya aspire the second time. So that put him in a very close proximity to Lord Chaitanya on a daily basis. Where he could hear also from Surabdamina all the intimate mentor about Lord Jakarta. In fact, Ravanad Das is one of the main sources of Chaitanya charity. These books which tell the life of O Chitanya in his latter life when he was in Jagannadapura. So I got the association Vrindavan Arupagoswana Swami and his older brother Sanata Vaguna Das is one of the six called six Goswami. The six spiritual masters who were empowering the Lord Chaitanya to preserve the holy places, to reveal the places of Vrindavan, to write scriptures and to carry on the movement.

So.

To get association with devotees, it's not an accidental thing. It's a special mercy. And if you get association with with some very advanced devotee. Then that can help you to advance also in your ka consciousness. Help all of us. In fact, Bakiri no Thakur. He said that we should look for some advanced devotee to follow, to associate with, to emulate, to serve. That we may get purified. So all the devotees, especially the racing in the bodies that he could rather Das could associate with. He took it as blessing of his guru. That one thing led to the next ultimately is immersing a guru. Sasachi, Pucha, Matra Saru. Then all of the devotees of Vrindavan and Mathura we could associate with Raha Kunda. Then of course Ramana God he was especially fond of. He was worshipping Rah Giriwaram on the side of Govardhan Hill. He used to pay obeisances a thousand times or how many thousands of times to Govardhan, to Vaishnavas, change his mind in humility. So in all of the just as we have Mantra is the holy sound. And we also have holy places. So Radhakunda and Gobardhan, these are special holy places where ka had very intimate pastimes.

And.

Those places also contain a spiritual forest. Recently the chairman of the GBC Ravenda Seripa where he was standing by the Angola next to Gobuda, 50ft from Golgo for one month in 64 rounds, 100,000 days fasting. I was there. So that was the best thing ever did.

So.

Holy places are meant to go to and get bags, spiritual batteries recharged. The temple is also a place for us to do that. This is an extension of the holy place. We come here and do some Service, worship the beast here in the class, get some prashada, get some spiritual vibration. Because as we're working in the material.

World.

It'S very easy to forget our spiritual nature, that we're not this body, that we're eternal spirit, soul that actually came into this world as a conditioned soul. But as a human being we have the birthright to get out of this cycle of reincarnation and to get back to Godhead, back to Ka. But in the material world there's so much propaganda to bring us into the forgetfulness of our spiritual consciousness and just.

See the.

Sensual reality as only the that exists that we need to have that association. So that's why in these cities we have these temples so that all of the city dwellers can come here and get some spiritual rejuvenation, able to go there and stay in Radhakunda Govardhav many devotees having visit these places, many in their lifetime go to these places and visit. I went with 150 devotees to bring down this year. And we started some days different holy places.

Even now.

Taking the time to.

Go.

Deep into the past times and remember what happened in those places 5,000 years ago when Krishna was walking on the planet, there was something very wonderful too here, the pastimes. At the place where the pastime happened, we went to Vermanga Ghat. That's where the pastime when Krishna was playing with his friends and some balaramas came up to mother Yasoda and complained that Krishna was eating dirt. She called Krishna and said, you're eating dirt, you shouldn't eat dirt. I said, I'm not eating dirt. He's lying. There are small children playing. So sometimes children feed on the other. They just want to get me in trouble. But I'm not eating dirt. You can look in my mouth and see there's no dirt. So the mother said, okay, open your mouth, let me see. Krishna opens his mouth so looks inside, looks at Krishna's mouth. She has a vision where she sees the entire universe inside Krishna. Unlimited universes, the material universes, the spiritual universe, everything. And their head is like spinning and what's going on Then seeing that within the entire creation of all the unlimited spiritual worlds there's material existence. And within that there's this universe that we're in. And in that universe there's a planet Earth. And on the planet Earth there's Vrindava. And there she's in the Bharvamnagar, looking in his mouth. And she's looking at herself, looking at his mouth. And look, you Know, it's like in your eyes you see them. It's a those mirror rooms where you see mirror after just seeing herself looking at his mouth, seeing all this. Then she poses, okay, I'm getting. What is this? So you go there. It's the same God that he e mud. You want to see the mud that allegedly Krishna was eating here. You know, like they give you little pieces of mug. So it's nice to visit those places and where all the different pastimes happen. For Krishna, although he is the supreme Lord who came down, just acted like a boy to give his devotees spiritual happiness. So he was thankful that he could visit all these holy places. We'd be living in those holy places. Ramana Das. Then he said Radha Mahara va asana. The last thing you think is I have a desire to serve Radha and Krishna. Just like we're usually harassed by so many desires to enjoy the senses. So many desires to try to create a material happiness. But it's very rare to find somebody who actually wants to serve a God. Until happiness comes and goes that can keep it permanently the same. Because the nature of this world is always changing. So it's not really something you have to work for. Even somebody works very hard here in this suffer so many difficulties. There's a history. I was the richest man in Brazil a couple hundred years ago. He actually owned the central bank. He owned the railway. He owned everything in the whole country. Was the richest person. But then the emperor and everybody gained upon he had invested. He also owned Uruguay, a few other countries here. The Rothschilds in London did a number on him. They were bigger than he was, of course. And basically because of the concerted effort and bad karma and whatnot, he lost everything. I went bankrupt. He was the richest person to, you know, bankrupt people throwing rotten potatoes at him. Then he had a religious experience again. He got himself back together, materially speaking also. There's so many stories like that Material life, you never know how things turn out. But if we're spiritually fixed and that's what's the most important. We can always get to survive through the material trials. So what's the rarest thing is to actually have a desire to serve Ka So it really wants to serve Rana and my. So he considered that he also got by the mercy of his guru. So that's how he. Every day he would offer his prayer of thanksgiving. That's how he would respect his spiritual master. That was the favorite prayer we heard from different our spiritual uncles that used to play with prayer used by Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Starki Thakur. My spiritual grandfather, Prabhupada Guru used to precisely everything when he was given his classes. I remember some years ago we were visiting holy places in Bengal and we went to this place of Vasudev Ghosh. Vasudev Ghosh is one of the lead singers of Lord Chetanya San. I may hear the names, but I didn't really know so much about Rasmudin Bhoshiman. He was a householder and he was living halfway between Bengal and Oasis. It was easier for him to get down to see a Wachitanjanganapuri. He was in both the pastimes. We sing his name every evening. We sing the Aarti Gora Aarti Kiba Jayo Ojayo. One is Gosh. So Ghosh means Vasudi. But there are other Ghoshas in that song. He was one of our lead singers. So when we were there, this is that holy place. And some of the priests that were there, they sang one of the songs that he wrote. And it was another. It was also a Thanksgiving kind of song. I don't know if anybody here knows. I don't know the whole song.

But it was.

The lead line was, if Ho Chi time hadn't been, what would have been the situation? He gave us the Harinam san Kritan and give us the holy places, revealed us the Bhagavatam. The song goes like that.

Everything.

If he hadn't come, if he hadn't been here, if he hadn't come, then who would have done all that for us? Who would have revealed it to us? When they were singing the song about she goes. It's such a beautiful song. It just really touches one's heart. All the things we take for granted, actually how special it gives. And we get it too easy. So we don't appreciate how wonderful a gift it is. And I was just thinking, if Prabhupada wasn't, you know, if he hadn't come, then what would be the. Our situation here in the west or even in the east, even in India? So many, you know, our fellow Hindus who are not aware about bhakti with the ganes and the karmis and the various other paths are there. And they don't know about bhakti or even those who know about bhakti, they don't know the special facility that Lord Chaitanya has given us. And a lot of the Maha Mantra of Hare Ka which is mentioned in Vegas and how they listen, they're not have that information.

So.

The prabhupada brought this message. Then how. What would we mean? What would the message mean today? So like that. Those are the. Those are two thanksgiving kind of songs that come to mind on this day of thanksgiving. But there's many others like that. A lot of our songs of appreciation, just like we sing with samsara prayer a few times a day. It's also meditation. I don't know how the guru is caring and for his disciples and how.

He'S.

Giving a spiritual connection with Krishna in different ways. Some partners like thanksgiving meditation. The word in Sanskrit for merciful is called royalu or kripalu. And the word for miser is kripal no mercy.

Mercy.

Kripalu is merciful. And kripa no mercy means miser. So they say that if a person is not grateful for the things that he receives from others, then that's another form of being a miser or kipan that is naturally should be grateful for whatever we maybe our nature tendency to think that the world owes it to us. We should get it because we're remember numero uno. Everything revolves around us. Someone heard something. The sun rises every day is just to remind us every day that love is not revolving around us. If you feel grateful, then that's very gracious. And that's. Then we think of mercy giving out some chairs to the impoverished. It's used also just to reciprocate. Even what project we should do automatically to help our parents do for us help our spiritual master or Krishna or friends or whoever it may be. Of course, today in school, especially thanking for the pioneers of America. They were thinking about how they survived so many difficulties. So they were feeling thankful. They have a way of expressing that. If we really appreciate how much Krishna is doing for us, then the reciprocation for that, of course is not just to offer one day in prayer.

But.

To really reciprocate on a daily basis. The difference between devotional service and other forms of religion is that devotional service or bharati means that we actually establish our intimate personal relationship with the Lord, which includes appreciating the things he's doing for us, which appreciating his wonderful nature and trying to please him. If you realize somebody is your best friend through the thick and the thin, they've always helped you. Everybody else deserts you. And this friend is there to help you. At some point one should be appreciative and reciprocate with the friend. So he realizes that Krishna is such a friend of all the living. Entity. And we reciprocate with his friendship to us trying to be a friend to him, a servant to him, to worship him, to appreciate him, to serve him, glorify him, to name him for him. And that's, that's like he really appreciates that. It's very rare. Most people, they just have a very rudimentary kind of relationship. Taking from the Lord without giving. We're reading in the Bhagavatam class this morning how the Lord has two functions. To give blessings and to protect his devotee. That's the general for all he has. But the highest benediction he can give is when he actually brings you into his inner circle and lets you serve Him. So that's what I appreciate what he does for us. He brings us to also wanting to serve him out of appreciation. Even if a servant accidentally without knowing it what we're doing still it brings animated good benefit. And if we actually consciously do it, then that opens up the doorway to go back home, back to Godhead and to be with Henry family. We're basically here because we're ungrateful, rebellious souls. We start to appreciate the word.

Stop.

Being rebellious, becoming submissive and serving in the service attitude. There's no reason for being here where we rehabilitated. Sabhakti is the supreme rehabilitation process and it's very joyfully done. One can adopt somehow or another, by association, by purification, the attitude and devotion, then you're free. That itself is a liberation. Some reason Bhakti, they don't suffer in the material world. Their consciousness is elevated beyond that. So I was wondering whether we say much. It would be nice to have somehow interact active about one way. Break up into small groups, have a really brainstorm about who and what they feel grateful to in their spiritual life, who and for what. But I don't know if that would take five minutes, it might take longer. We can get a sprawl feel for several people. Otherwise you could just have everybody talk to their friend next to them and just share some something that they like to share. And after that we can just get some highlights from people what they heard, what they like to share and do that for 10, 15 minutes. That's another way of doing won't be as comprehensive. Get the feel for things, everything like whoever you're sitting next to just tell them one or two things that's on your mind that you'll feel thankful for in your spiritual life. Right now this will be for three minutes. Take anybody you want, whoever's next to you. Two people make three people here Here, here.

Comes up.

How many like it? Now you can share with us. Tell us some of the persons that you were thankful for or some highlight spirit of our Krishna temple. I'm also grateful for Krishna's mercy.

I'm grateful for my husband for being such a good Krishna conscious husband and for my son. And I feel very blessed to have my son and this other child. And I'm also grateful for Krishna allowing me to remain in the association of the devotees to derive the nectar of being in the association. Thank you.

Hare Krishna. I'm very grateful to Meeta Godinda Das and Gita Devi Dasi who are initiated devotees of Gopal Krishna Maharaj who exposed us to Krishna consciousness about four years back. And they were so persistent on a daily basis, daily, weekly basis. They used to invite us to programs, house programs. And they're not only persistent with us, they used to be persistent with everybody. They used to invite people to programs. People used to not come but stop calling them. Maybe if they don't call them a week, they'll call them about a month, two months later on. But one way or the other, people used to come maybe after six months, years together and be grateful because they got the exposure to iskcon. I remember a case of they told us about a devotee in. In Atlanta. They did not come for six months year for about two years. After about two years they came and they heard the program. They came on repeatedly and then after about a couple of years they got initiated. So they expressed their gratefulness to Gita Binda a lot. And I cannot express in words the gratefulness about Gita Gurunga. They are present in India and Bombay but they are really the shakers of the movie and they doing preaching programs in Bombay. They used to do so many programs in Atlanta. So I just wanted to express my grish.

Krishna, I give thanks to you. If it wasn't for you at Gandhari, coming from the professional world, I'm just coming out here every Sunday and being a true observer, observing what's going on. Even though I'm not physically writing them and writing it in my head, which I think I could write a pretty book right about now. But for you too, your dedication to the temple and also to the temple body and the congregation has really overwhelmed you and I thank you very much. Mine kind of echoes hers. I wanted to say that I was really grateful for our temple president Baba Butcher because I think he's the. He's the glue that holds the temple together here in Atlanta. And we just all need to realize.

What a great soul we have in.

Our midst because a lot of times we tend to take it for granted. I know for me I'm, you know.

Joining here in Atlanta.

I'm very used to having you temple president and sometimes I forget how wonderful he is. So it's a nice time to express gratefulness for that. First, I want to thank Gandhari very much. She was very, very nice to me when I was living in the temple. I can never forget that. And then of course Balvatra and you have to. I don't understand just God, but I believe in God. I don't understand this. And I also want to thank Acharibar and Nimas. So my way of playing my system is little different. It's hard for me to understand otherwise. I appreciate him very much and I, I thank very much. I want to say thank you to Raja Rani. We had heard lot about Navi Prabhu but he's back and said, and I'm very happy seeing him today in Tampa. And I want to thank everyone for praying for him. I want to thank, thank actually Krishna for giving birth to Shila Prabhupada coming to Prabhupada who actually brought this temple, you know, alive. Otherwise all of us wouldn't even be here to thank all these people. Shula Papa's mercy. He came here to do no faith and did so much. So if it wasn't for him, I don't think I'd be existing the way I am. My father, my mother, all these different devotees. I don't think I'll ever be able to. Actually.

Last year at Thanksgiving I came to this temple to visit and they're having this Thanksgiving feast and jaigoram vegetables in the kitchen. And a year later I'm still here. And it's a wonderful experience to be here in Krishna consciousness. I want to thank His Holiness Chakra Tadaswamy. I was here three days and he gave me a nice blessing that I could continue here. I just like to thank Krishna, all the devotees for that opportunity. I have to certainly thank my Guru Maharaj. I know I'm a big rascal, but I was sitting here trying to think of something that's the most wonderful, zero in on the single most important thing which is again Krishna's action, how Ka acts. And that is having a deep lifelong desire to know the essence of everything. To know what is the Sunam Bonham to get to the bottom of it before I would leave this body. That was my great, great fear. Somehow or other in A a secondhand shop I found easy journey to other planets. And from that point on Rla Prabhupada's books and Gurudev's mercy has kept me. Jai Prabhupda. I want to thank Krishna as the super soul within and representing as a spiritual master on the outside. And I'd also like to thank all the devotees who guided me in my life that brought me here and especially like to thank everyone, each and everyone here who has helped support this temple one way or another and allowing us to become a great light, a pilgrimage and an opportunity for those of us to perfect our lives. Thank you very much. Really there's thousands of things to be thankful for.

But.

I think one of the things that I'm most thankful for is.

Jayla.

Takaswami accepted me as his disciple. Unworthy as I am. I'm also very thankful for such a wonderful family to go through life with wonderful mother Oita and two wonderful children.

Thank you. The most important person I want to be very thankful to is my spiritual master for giving me rebirth and discipline succession of the Madhva Gaudiya Sampadaya. Do you have a connection to Srila Prabhupada is the second most second my my Parma Guru, my Guru's Guru. And then I want to be thankful to Krishna for giving me the opportunity to be born in this world to be under the discipline succession of Chaitanya Mahavi. Thank you. I'm thankful for God for giving me a life and being in Krishna consciousness. Please everyone and all very nice and first time I came here 1975 and Balur Prabhu was a vice president at that time. And as soon as I walked out of this temple about a few weeks later I started calling to balance those and most of the times I complain more than anything we should do this, we should do that. Still I'm complaining but I can do anything but just one of them. And so thank you for my Gurmara said to me like a disciple I'm very important to my Gurmala. And so I don't probably we fight each other sometimes every single time. Most times no I'll listen no tonight and so I can only I think that I too much complaining. I think I I need to bless and thank you for Mara very much thank you for.

I still get an opportunity to thank one of the most important people persons in my life is life. 27, 28 years later I'm still here by by his kindness that I'm here. So I thank him very much. So it's wonderful to hear Devoni. See, it's a very emotional thing people are feeling. That's what makes spiritual life special is that as eternal living beings we have personal relationship with Krishna and all other hearts and parcels. And that is an emotional, transcendental, blissful mind. I'm very grateful to Srila Prabhupada.

For.

Bringing Krishna consciousness to all of us. Giving association of so many wonderful Vaishnavas like devotees here and Upanihati Bhavadrahu and other devotees. Shiva Rupa gave me some service which I'm very grateful for because without service, what can we do? But I'm not capable to do this service on my own. So I'm very grateful for the disciples and other devotees and Godbrothers and God sisters who are helping me to fulfill the services that shall grow upon me.

And.

Which we still have to complete for furthering Prabhupada's message. We'll go on and on. But that's just a nutshell. We have here a little girl who wants to perform for the Lordship, for all of your pleasure, a little dance also we're having this year. I mean this Vaishnava year. That means next year 2001, January 9th until February 15th or so. There's a Kumbh Mela, Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayag Allabad in India. Last Maha Kuma MELA There were 31 million people that attended it said a few bay then some of the holy days. That's it, Last life. So people don't want to miss the chance is going to have a very big camp for the Kumba Melan. And those who want to go and stay in the camp, they have tents available that you can book. I'll give some papers to Malbandra people who can't. Anybody wants to like. Yeah, I didn't give them yet, but I'll give them.

Also.

There'll be a big massive census. 31. You know, I don't know how many millions of people go there this time, but it'll be somewhere between 25 and 50 million maybe. Population exposure. We also do Prashad distribution and many kinds of charitable programs for the pilgrims. We're one of the main distributors of free food. People go there, they get hungry sometimes. So we feed the people. Apart from having our own tendon and preaching programs, sometimes people like to sponsor some of that Prashad distribution. So I'll say I'll be able to sponsor Shabbat if anybody wants to sponsor.

Them.

Either to me or Malabandra in contact. So there's Kumbha Mela coming up. After Kumbha Mela of course we'll have our Gor Purnima festival. There's a special Mayapur Institute of Higher Education. Starts around beginning of February. January sometimes goes through until five weeks. And Gorpur Nima festival. I don't know the dates offhand but starting at mid February going to about the 6th of March be in Mayapur. Then after that goes to Vrindavision. So those who are interested of course always every year invited to come. This will be a special year because many people are coming for Kuma Mela and then staying on after Kuma Mela for the Korapurnima festival. I just thought I'd get you start thinking about that. In case you're thinking of a time to go and visit India for our pilgrimage this year coming year is special. Special year for that to be thankful. Krishna gives us special festivals sometimes to give us some special mercy. So now we'd like to hear how to introduce this girl.

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