Ramaṇīpati dāsa offers prayers to Jaya Pataka Swami and reports on running Bhaktivedanta National School with 850 students and 120 staff since July 2016. He describes a branch school that grew from 31 to 52 students and outlines plans for 13 charity projects, with donors pledging over Rs. 30 lakhs.
Questions this video answers
Since July 2016.
About 850 students and 120 teachers and staff members.
About Rs. 50 lakhs every year.
31 students.
Restricted to only up to 52 students.
Foreign Please accept my respectful obeisances. All Lord Shishla Prabhupada all glories to your Divine Grace. Nimtaya Bhutali Shrimate Jayapataka Swamini Ti Namine Namaacharya Padaya Nithya Kripapadayani on this most auspicious 76th Vyasa Puja of your Divine grace I offer my prayers to Lord Narasimhadeva to provide you more and more strength and protect you and keep you with us for a longer period of time if Narashingadeva thinks appropriate. We feel the need of your presence more and more and more as you are one of the leading disciples of Srila Prabhupada who has realized his moods and teachings. You are a legend of Srila Prabhupada. You are doing your best to fulfill various desires of Prabhupada for more than five decades now and exhibiting your enthusiasm even at this difficult health situation. This enthusiasm of yours is spreading like wildfire to inspire tens of thousands of devotees around the world to solidify our determination to tread the path traversed by Srila Prabhupada. Guru Maharaj Only by your mercy and compassion I am engaged in devotional service. You have unique ways to inspire devotees both individually as well as en masse. Sri Caitanya Mahprabhu said that a Vaishnava is one who inspires everyone to chant by his very presence. You are a true Vaishnava. I see how devotees around the world follow you wherever you go both physically and through media following you are ahead in using technological advancement in reaching out to the world around. You are a trend setter to making the best use of the bad bargain. You have the ability to see a spark in dull hearts like me. This makes a big difference in every individual and brings a beam of hope in our lives. Gurudev, I would like to submit a short report on a few efforts based on various services given to me. Firstly, as Divisional Head of Bhaktivedanta National School, I have been associated with the school as divisional head since July 2016. We have gone through several ups and downs in the initial years and the school is slowly steadying in its operations by the able guidance of co directors and his honest Bhakti Purushottam Swami Maharaj who is the chairman of our school. The school has a strength of about 850 students and 120 teachers and staff members. The school is improving from strength to strength Every year we try to organize subsidized fee for students who hail from families who are economically challenged. We are trying our best to raise funds to cover these subsidies which works out about Rs. 50 lakhs every year. On top of this, during the current academic year we have plans to introduce free lunch prasadam to all our students to bring about nurturing good consciousness in them. Few months before, we introduced Dhrida Bhakti sessions for all our students from our community devotee families. While we try our best to inspire our students to participate in this program where we provide good quality Shastric exposure and free prasadam to all the students, it would be good if more students could take advantage of this program. On this auspicious day, I beg for your blessings so that more children can take advantage of this program and get benefited by your mercy. We started a branch of Pattived International School at Urugukanj Jagannath Temple campus Bhaktivedanta Aragya Ashram. We made a humble beginning with 31 students and successfully completed the first academic year. We tried to offer free education and prasadam to all the students there at the beginning of this academic year. Now in this month, we restricted the intake of students to keep the total strength to only up to 52 students. As we run short of classroom space, we are planning to construct a school building there which should facilitate up to Class 8 in the future. I beg for your blessings so that we are able to get a good donor or CSR support to make this endeavor successful. I am very grateful to you and his old nurse Bhakti Purushottam Swami Maharaj for engaging me in the services of Gaura Mandala Development under Bhaktivedanta Swamy Charity Trust. The trust formed by Srila Prabhupada only few days before his departure from this world, making you the lifetime chairman of the Trust. Honestly, over the last many years I could not attend to this service effectively. Although this is such an important service. A direct instruction from Srila Prabhupada to you towards the Sri paths of Governmental Bhumi and unite the Saraswat Gaudiya Vaishnavas. You patiently waited and did not give up hope on me. In spite of my lethargic approach towards this service. By your special mercy and compassion towards me, I started paying little attention to this service. Now during the previous year, I started traveling to different temples and congregations to make presentations about governmental development and trying to increase the development activities. I travelled to Malaysia, Singapore, south India, Durgapur etc. And also started speaking with devotees in Sridhar Mayapur by Your mercy. All these efforts have started reaping benefits for the development activities. During the current year, we are planning to develop about 13 projects in different SRI paths. With the eagerness of the devotees and temples around the world, we have already got confirmation of contribution for 6 PPADs and few more in the pipeline. For getting information today morning, His Holiness Gauranga Prem Swami Maharaj. His Holiness Gauravilas Chandra Maharaj, His Grace Padmantra Prabhu and who are the directors of co directors of Namahatta? They came in a big way to support governmental development fundraising initiative. They have pledged and contributed more than 30 lakhs for this purpose. So all these are flowing because of your mercy. Gur Maharaj, you have facilitated us an opportunity to get blessings of yourself, Srila Prabhupada and all the chariots of Parasampradaya. I hope and pray that myself and many devotees around the world take this wonderful golden opportunity and to become instruments to render this service. You and other trustees made me a trustee in Bhaktivedanta Swami Charity Trust this year. On this occasion, I beg for your blessings and mercy that I live up to the expectations of all the members of the trust and remain humble at all times to carry out this treasured service for this life fully to your satisfaction. On this auspicious day, I beg you to shower your mercy and blessings upon all the children of three different schools of Mayapur Bhaktivedanta National School, Sri Mayapur International School and Mayapur Gurukula for their steady progress in devotional service. I also pray to you for the improvement in devotional service of all the students in Madurai and Australia to whom we conduct regular classes. I beg for your mercy for for your spiritual son Nitha Elila Rajdas and your spiritual daughter Punishree Balaypriya Devidasi for their continuous development in their devotional service to you. I also beg for myself and my good wife Radharati Devidasi to remain focused in devotional service and please you, Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj, your most insignificant son Ramanipati. Thank you for watching our videos. Be sure to subscribe to our channel. We publish new videos every day and don't forget to like and share our channel.
