Safari 1st Day in Govardhan 2024 Evening Session

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Hari.

Krishna, Hare Krishna.

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Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna Krishna Hari Hari Hariram Hari Ramadam Everybody. Hari Krishna. Hari Krishna Krishna Krishna Hariram Hariram Hariram.

Sa.

Har.

Samara.

Sam Sa.

Ra.

Sad Sa.

Hare Hare.

Krishnam.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna. Thank you very much for the wonderful Bhajans. So we're going to start our evening program and welcome everyone. Today is our first evening program here on safari. First gathering together in the evening here in Govardan. So we are very fortunate to be here and we're going to have different activities today. Okay, the first I would like to introduce our drama director is Madhuria Kadambini Mataji here. Oh, Hare Krishna Haribo. Madhuriya Kadambini. She is the director of the Cloud of Nectar's drama party. She's been with us on safari, I think since the past 20 years. 21 years. Hare Krishna Haribolz Naduria. How are you today?

Great. We got prasadam here.

Yes. Actually this is a big. It's an honor actually to have so many devotees want to perform on the stage from different countries. And Madhuri Kadambini, he's actually today he has organized some programs for tonight. And you can please let us know what's happening next.

So we prepared a few different anthems. But main purpose of this safari is Krishna Katha. And main purpose of the safari is Padma Tirh installations. Installation of lotus feet of Prabhu. So we decided this year that we will make many small items and we will show them in between Krishna Katha every night. Oh, we don't need translation today. That's in English. And for tonight we prepared for you few beautiful items just inauguration of a festival. So first item is a chakra dance. And you know like chakra is a symbol of Dharma. Chakra is on Indian flag, chakra on Vishnu temples. And this is a symbol of purification, of cleaning, of removing all inauspiciousness. So today our Madhuri Mahima, he will do chakra dance. Dance with chakra. You know, Lord Vishnu, he can manage chakra just with one finger. And Madhuri Mahimah, she needs two hands to manipulate the chakra. Because she's not Vishnu, she is Lord Vishnu servant. But we hope that it will be for beneficial integration of our festival. And you all will enjoy Hare Krishna.

So I hope you all enjoy. Our next item is chakra dance.

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Oh, thank you very much. Matura Mahini, Matijar Krishna okay. Now that all auspiciousness has been gone by the blessing of the chakra Hare Krishna. So we're going to do next lighting up these lamps here for the official inauguration of the festival tonight. And for this we need the presence of some devotees here to lighten up these candles. We will have. We like to call upon Soma Prabhu with his good wife Vijayarada Mataji. Also Matajis from who can be. We need more devotees here. Six devotees at least or eight devotees. The Matajis from South America come every day. We're going to call different devotees. Thank you, Prabhu. Madhuriya Mataji. We just. Where is Madhuriya Kadambini Mataji? Okay. Oh. We need devotees from Malaysia for three Matajis from Malaysia. Shanti Rupa Mataji, please can you come bring another two devotees today? They have the honor to lighten up the lamps today. Thank you. Vishwamohan Jagannath Prabhu, please.

Yes. So you please like a couple. You candle together just one of these deepers. So somebody do and you just hold hand of your husband and do together.

Yes.

And we will do the same after you do. Yes, yes. A new candle. Just one. Yes. And you please chant. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hari Hari Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hari Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hari Hari Rama Hari Rama Rama Rama Hare. Yes. Mata Gilda. Oh, Amit, you are light operator. You're also supposed to candle something. Amit Prabhu. Amit Prabhu. You know, it's like took so many years. You know, in 2003, Amit Prabhu was light operator for Go Purnima festival. And you know, he was drinking coffee like sitting with a cigarette and doing light operations. Then we started to call him Amita. Maybe you can start travel with us, go somewhere and like make this beautiful light for programs. And Amit said, okay, let's go. And you know, in this. Yes, like smoking Churdo Japakuro, you know, he became Jayapataka Swami, Guru Maharaj, sheltered disciple. And already so many years travel with us. So today we ask him also because he's light operator, he have to candle the light Hare Krishna. Okay. So we come to the next item of our night and we have greeting dance. It's called Poi dance. Just with small ribbons. It's nothing special meaning behind it. It's just to the greet guests of the festival and to create the mood.

Hare Krishna.

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Thank you. Thank you very much. Hare Krishna. Thank you. So what's coming next. I need first some two strong men to bring this chair over there, please. You can bring it to the stage. They can bring another plastic chair. Also one more person, three people to help.

Can you imagine? They're so fired up that we thought that they won't do one more item. But they said that right away they're ready to do one more item. Yes.

Okay. Wait. The chair. Wait. We're going to do one item more first.

Yes. It's unbelievable. But they so fired up, they said, madhuria, we did make our mind. We will do.

They're amazing. Okay.

And I can tell what the item is. So it's a dance with sticks. So a dance with sticks. And this is not just any dance. It has some special meaning behind. And the meaning behind is, you know, like Tridanda Saniesi Sanesi carry a stick. And it is not just one stick, it is three sticks. Just a set of three sticks in one hold. And these three sticks mean that our mind, our words and our actions have to be dedicated to ka service. Because many times we talk something, but we think something else and do something opposite of what we speak and what we think and expect something else to happen. So it's like material existence and spiritual life is oneness in terms that our words, our thoughts and our deeds are dedicated to the service. So today we do three girls do beautiful dance. But just to remind us that about the trinity of dedication to the supreme Lord Hare Krishna.

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Thank you very much. So now. Yes, we need the asana. The chair, please. Traduction en Espanol Anybody need translation? They have a Bengali translation. I don't see the Bengali crew today. I know some devotees have gone today. Yesterday night they did the govern parikrama because. Okay, I will explain later. Yes, please come, come, come inside. We just need here and 1. I will request his grace, Soma Prabhu to please share some Ka conscience to us of Srila Prabhupada of Krishna. We are here. But we want to take advantage of the most of Srila Prabhupada disciples. As we say earlier, we are very fortunate to have Sila Prabhupada disciples with us. And I was mentioning that I know that the servants of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Maharas. Because from tomorrow they're going to be very busy. They will not have time to to do parikrama. They did the parikrama yesterday night. Please, Prabhu, come. Thank you, Prabhu. Soma Prabhu, Hare Krishna. And they have A tripod. And they took for them approximately five and a half hours to do the Parikama of governance. But with a request kindly to all the devotees. I will repeat maybe the same tomorrow. Try to keep the group together. You know that that's important for us. Not try to avoid, you know, like doing your own programs going here on the right. Now some devotees have gone to Radhakunda. We are excited. Not we are here in Govardhan. There are so many holy places nearby. But we try to keep the group together. That I will appreciate very much. Because we're going to visit many holy places. And of course, if you have to do something, it's also. We understand also. But yes, try to stick together. Try to participate in all the programs. Hare Krishna microphone please. This microphone sound.

Hare Krishna. So I told a few things stories this morning. It's really such a wonderful fortunate thing to be here in Govardhan amongst devotees. Of course, Lord Caitanya, he came to the world to teach that the worship of the. The method of worship of the Gopis is the highest. So he came to teach that and he came to Vrindavan. He was of course Radha and Krishna combined. And he wanted to teach that this method, that the Gopis, how they worship Krishna with no thought at all for their own comfort or their own advancement or anything but their own. Their only desire is to see Ka pleased. It's completely spiritual. There's no tinge of anything material to it. So he was the one who came and uncovered a lot of these places like Radhakund, Shaimakund. He sent the Sikh Goswamis here to also further reveal the pastimes of Ka so that we could understand what is this pure love of Ka, how the Gopis worshiped Ka. Just like when Krishna went to Mathura, he sent Urba just to learn, just to. To see how the Gopis were feeling. Separation of Krishna. So it's a very, very wonderful topic. It's not cheap at all. We should try to understand it very deeply. Marici wanted me to tell some stories of Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavan. I. I saw RLA Prabhupda in Mayapur in 1977. And he was supposed to come to Vrindavan, but he was feeling a little sick, so he didn't come that time. But like Marici said earlier, that Rla Prabhupada installed Krishna Balaram temple in Vrindavan because he wanted to show the world that Ka and Balaram non different from Gor Nithai. And Gornitai, or Lord Caitanya, is the Yuga avatar of this age. So when I got my initiation from RLA Prabhupada in 1971, we had fixed up a room for Srila Prabhupada to give darshan in. It was the Brahmachari ashram. So all the Brahmacharis had to sleep in the basement while rla Prabhupda was there. But we weren't planning on rla Prabhupda staying in the temple. We were a very poor temple. And some of the devotees were thinking that it wasn't good enough for Srila Prabhupada to stay in the temple. So they rented the best hotel in Boston. I believe it was the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston. And it was the penthouse suite. Very expensive, beautiful hotel room. Devotees personally went and cleaned it, hung pictures of Krishna on the wall, had fresh flowers, made it very nice. But anyways, when Srila Prabhupada finally got to the temple, he went and he sat on the vyasa san in the back of the temple. It was actually my service to make that vyasa san. It wasn't very nice. But rla Prabhupada accepted it and he sat on it, he gave his lecture. And then he went into the room that we had fixed up for him just to give darshans there. And it was a little crowded. I couldn't fit into the room, but I was outside. And one devotee had come up from Miami. They made Sandesh. They gave it to rla Prabhupada. He passed it around. There was just a little bit of talk in Satsrup Maharaj, who is still married at the time, this is 1971, he said, Rla Prabhupada, it's getting late and we've rented a hotel room for you to stay in. So Rla Prabhupada's eyes got very big and he said, a hotel. He said, I'm not going. He said. He actually quoted a verse and he said, the. The country is in the mode of goodness and the city is in the mode of passion. He said, but a hotel is simply a brothel. He said, I'm not going to. He said, the temple is vaikuntha. I'm going to stay in the temple. And of course, you know, we were so happy that rla Prabhupda was going to stay there, but we weren't very well prepared for it. But he stayed there two nights. They just had a mattress on the floor for him. There was only two bathrooms in the whole house. They closed off one so Rla Prabhupada could use it for himself. And he was just very happy to stay in a simple, humble place like that. And he actually had that transcendental vision that it was vaikuntha. Wherever we have temples, it's vaikuntha. It's the spiritual world. So we were very happy. And I can remember that I was doing some cleanup at night, and all the. The Brahmacharis and a lot of visiting devotees were all sleeping in the basement. And by the time I finished my duties and I got down to the where the basement was, I couldn't find a place to lie down. So I finally found a place. And I can remember I lied down on my back and I was looking up at the ceiling. And then I realized I was exactly under where rla Prabhupda was. And I was just thinking, oh, it's so nice. Finally, Rla Prabhupada is here. You know, he's in the temple. But then I got this very strong feeling that rla Prabhupada had always been there. And it was actually a fact that wherever his disciples are carrying out his water, he's also present in his instructions. He was also present always in that temple. So that was just a wonderful little pastime. And the next day, you know, I told about how I got my name from rla Prabhupda also Srila Prabhupada.

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They bathed the Yabi Shaikh, the Radhakrishna deities. And rla Prabhupda asked for Radharani to dry and polish her. And, you know, I was just sitting, I don't know, like 10ft away and just watching RLA Prabhupda polishing Radharani with so much love. He would polish, polish, and then he'd sit back and look at Radharani and then, you know, do some more polishing. And it was very obvious, you could tell that Rabhupada was just right there with Radharani doing this service. And then he asked for his servant. His name was Aravinda. At that time, he asked him to go get the Brahma Samhita. So he got the book. He brought him the Brahma Samhita. And Srila Prabhupada put on his glasses and he started reading all the verses from the Brahma Samhita. And at that time, you know, I had never heard of any other tune except for, you know, the greeting of the deities tune. But rla Prabhupda he chanted kind of a slower chant. It was more like govindam adipurusham, tamaham bajami. And he went through the whole book, not wasn't in a hurry, just did it with so much love and devotion. And everybody was just, you know, in awe, watching rla Prabhupada chant these Brahma Samhita prayers right there in front of everyone for the pleasure of Radha and Krishna, who he had just installed. And shortly after that, like I say, rla Prabhupada, we weren't planning on having him stay at the temple, but because he was staying there, we had to share one bathroom between the men and the women. So me and another devotee, his name is Petit Adarant. He was an older godbrother of mine. We were standing in the hallway right outside of rla Prabhupda's room, waiting to use the bathroom when rla Prabhupda came out of his room. And Petit just threw his arms up in the air, and he said all glories to rla Prabhupda and paid our obeisances. And rla Prabhupda, you know, just walked out and down into the bathroom. And then when we got up, we were just looking at each other, thinking. I think he might have even said, wow, that was really special, you know, rla Prabhupada just right there. And he was only in the bathroom a short while, and then he came out again, and again Petit shouted really loudly, you know, all glories to rla Prabhupada. And we paid our dundabats in the hallway floor. And it was only, you know, about five feet wide, the hallway. But this time when we stood up, rla Prabhupda was just standing right there, and he had this very beautiful smile. It was like he was an innocent child. And he was almost a little embarrassed that, you know, Petit had yelled so loud, but it was filled with so much compassion and love. And he just looked at both of us, and he didn't say anything. And then he walked into his room again. But for me, it's a very cherished and favorite remembrance of rla Prabhupada. But he had only given me first initiation a couple hours before that. He had accepted all my karma, accepted me as his disciple. Then all of a sudden, I was just face to face with him in the hallway, and he just had this, you know, beautiful smile, and it just, you know, melted your heart, and it just really made you want to devote your life just to serving him. So that was some time in Boston. I can tell some more stories in the next year. This was 1972. In July, RLA Prabhupda was coming to Brooklyn, New York, New York. The temple was in Brooklyn. And because I had that experience of intense feelings of Srila Prabhupada, when I got left at the airport and he drove away, I decided not to go to the airport to greet rla Prabhupda. But a lot of devotees, the Radha Dhammadar traveling party was there with Vishnuja and Swami, and they all went to the airport to greet rla Prabhupda. But I stayed back. And it seemed like for a while I was the only one at the temple. But then Mataji came with a silver tray and had a garland on it and said, oh, when rla Prabhupda comes in the temple, can you put this garland on rla Prabhupda? So I was thinking, yeah, I made the right decision. You know, I stay back. Now I get to put a garland on rla Prabhupda. And then Jaya Dwita Swami, who, he was still a Brahmachari at that time, he also didn't go to the airport. So I asked him, should I put this garland on Srila Prabhupada right when he comes into the temple, or how should I do this? And he said, no, let him go pay his obeisances, the Radha Govinda ji. And then when he sits on the Vyasasan, then you can put the garland on him. So I thought, okay, that's what I'm going to do. So shortly, rla Prabhupada came, and he came into the temple, of course, paid our obeisances. He went and paid his obeisances to Radha Govinda. And then he sat down on the Vyasa San. And I went up and, you know, with the garland, I put it on him. But I remember thinking, geez, I hope somebody takes my picture when I'm doing this, you know? And then I started like, oh, how stupid. And a lot of devotees have said this, that whenever you're around rla Prabhupda, you are very conscious of what you were thinking, because you know that rla Prabhupada knows what you're thinking. He can read your mind. He knows these things. So I kind of felt like that was stupid. But Interestingly, that like 30 years after that, one of my godbrothers sent me a picture of rla Prabhupda. Giving me my beads in my first initiation. And I had no idea that that picture existed. And actually, I thought, this is a much better picture of Rla Prabhupda actually handing me my beads. So Krishna fulfilled my desire, you know, in a slightly different way. So anyways, after I put the garland on Srila Prabhupada, I kind of sat down right by his in front of his feet, and Rla Prabhupada looked around and he said, where are my cartels? And of course, nobody knew. But then somebody, you know, tapped me on the back and handed me some cartels. So I got to hand some cartels up to Rla Prabhupada. And he started chanting Jai Radha Matava. And that's also another wonderful experience, to just sit in front of Rla Prabhupda and watch him, you know, go into the spiritual area. Ecstasy of chanting Jairadha Madhava. It was, I don't know, indescribable, but wonderful. So anyways, he was chanting Jaya Radha Madhava for a while. And his servant at the time was Nanda Kumar. And when Nanda Kumar came to the end of the temple, even when Rla Prabhupada was chanting the Jai Radha Madhava, he said to him, he said, where are my cartels? Because he wanted his personal cartels and he gave them to him. So I never, you know, did very much, you know, important service to rla Prabhupda. But I was lucky that I was around and I got some mercy from him. And I never asked Rla Prabhupda a question. I was always a little too scared to. But he asked me a few questions on a few different times. One time in new Vrindavan in 1974, he came and toured the RLA Prabhupada's palace of Gold, which we were building. And it was very, very much a construction site. You see a lot of construction sites in India. You know, this was just like the brick walls, the block walls. It was a mud floor. But we were saying this was going to be Rla Prabhupda's palace. And RLA Prabhupada wanted to see it. So when he came there, Kirtananda was showing him, you know, this is where the servants quarter is going to be. This is where the temple room will be. This is where your bedroom will be. This is your study where you can write books. Write your books. And Rla Prabhupada had a big smile. He was just looking at all these things. And with his cane, he was tapping on the walls. He was tapping on this one door jamb. It was loose. He was very, very observant. And we had a pile of cement bags on a pallet that was covered with plastic because there was no roof.

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Srila Prabhupada said, what is this? This is not good. And they just explained, well, the cement bags cover with plastic to keep out the rain. And he didn't say anything more. But a few days later, after he left, when we needed to use some plastic and we opened it up, some of the cement bags were ruined. The rain had leaked in. Rla Prabhupada was very, very observant about these things, and he really wanted to teach us not to waste Krishna's energy. So then on the way out, after pointing out the cement bags, another devotee who was there, Bali Mardan Prabhu, he just made a comment to Rla Prabhupada. He said, you know, it says in the Krishna book that Krishna's palaces were illuminated with the jewels on the wall. And Prabhupada just stopped. And he said, these devotees are my jewels. And it was such a special thing that he said just without hesitation, that these devotees are my jewels. And it's very instructive that Rla Prabhupda saw that way. We should also see devotees as very, very valuable jewels. Take good care of them and respect them and try to serve them. So after that, he got into his car and the window was rolled down. They closed the door. People went to get in the other, other place in the car. And me and my godbrother goes to Bihari. We were the two devotees that were working there. And Rla Prabhupada said, so, are you working here? And I couldn't believe that he was talking to me. So I kind of looked around, see, maybe there was somebody in back of me he was talking to, but it was just two of us. And Ghosta Vihari said, oh, yes, Rla Prabhupada. And Rla Prabhupada said, oh, thank you very much. And it's very, just, very, very kind of Rla Prabhupda like that. But he actually meant it. You could tell he actually was genuinely pleased with somebody just trying to do a little service for him. So I'll tell one more story. When I was a new devotee In Boston in 1970, Satsarup was the temple president, and he used to tell these stories of RLA Prabhupda in 26 Second Avenue. And I used to really like hearing these stories of the very early days of rla Prabhupda and how inquisitive rla Prabhupda was. And I thought. I used to think, oh, boy. I was really like to have been there in those days, you know, to be able to answer some questions that RLA Prabhupda is asking. So in 1976 in New Vrindavan, I was on a morning walk with rla Prabhupda, and we were walking up to the old Vrindavan farm, and we just started walking, and a calf came down from the hillside and started walking in front of us. And rla Prabhupada had put his cane in the. In the dirt and stopped. And he said, how old is that calf? And I was right next to him. I heard him ask that question. And I used to be one of the cowherd boys that worked in the barn, but for a few years, I had not worked in the barn, so I had no idea how old the calf was. So I looked around to see if maybe somebody who would really know the answer was there, but nobody else who knew was there. So I looked at the calf, and I could see that, you know, the milk was female. The milk bag hadn't developed yet. So I said, oh, it's still very young. Shela Prabhupada. The milk bag hasn't developed. And rla Prabhupada looked at me, and he said, I know that. And I just felt, oh, how stupid can I be? You know, I didn't know the answer, but, you know, I felt kind of bad, and I was, you know, walking right next to him, but then I kind of went a little bit to the back of the walk, and.

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Know, he continued the walk. Many other little pastimes on that walk. But the very next day, he would go down to the Bahuluban farm, which was the Radha, Mandhavan, Chandra. The main deities in Nu Vrindavan were there. And he would greet the deities. We would have a guru puja, and he would give rmad bhagavatam class. And after the class, he would go out to his car and then go to where he was staying. So the next day, after all this, you know, we had, like, a little kirtan. He went out to his car. Somebody opened up the door for rla Prabhupda to get into the car, and he didn't get in. He just looked out over the top of the car to the Field across the road. And he had this little smile and he turned around and he looked at me and he said, what's growing over there? And I happened to know that they had planted mung beans there. So I said, oh, those are mung beans. Rla Prabhupda. And he said, oh, thank you very much. And I was ecstatic. I mean it was such a little thing that, you know, he knew that I wanted to answer one of his questions. He gave me another chance and you know, such an insignificant little thing. But for me it was so heartwarming and so just wonderful that he would, you know, take the time and do that. And. And again it just made me want to surrender my life to serving him. Rla prabhupada actually had that potency to transform whoever he met. So I think. Is Marichi still around? Should I.

Okay. Okay.

Thank you very much. Hare Krishna.

Okay, Someone can help us with this. The chairs and the asana. Thank you so much. Soma Prabhu. Soma Das Das. I like the little. He told in the morning how his name is so special. He got a double dash in his name. He said for many years he told me that he was wondering whether he heard properly because he heard about Das Das. So when he asked, I don't know whether he told me, Harry Sauri prabhu. When devotee was having the. The list, one of the secretaries, after some years after his initiation, he see his name actually Soma Das Das. Very, very special. So now we have our last performance on the cloud of nectar groups. And then we have some announcement to make and one more item, a small item and will be called off for the day. And don't, don't miss the announcement because tomorrow is very important day also. We're going to announce what's happening tomorrow. So we request her grace Madhuriya Kandavini Mataji to please announce the next item. Thank you. Madhuriya Haribol Hare Krishna.

It's very unusual for me like because usually when it's multi language crowd, so few language sounds and especially in the usual situation, just, just talking English and no Hindi, no Bengali, no rush.

Because most of the state programs are like that. They have a mixed crowd and you know, someone talking in one language and in English, it will be definitely a Hindi translation of Bengali.

And who of you speaks English? Who understands English?

Actually many don't understand some of them, you know. But you see they have a translation going on in Spanish. Russians, they have a translation for Russian.

Russian block. Do you have translation? Okay, good.

Okay.

And Indian devotees. And Indian devotees. You have translation?

The Indian devotees all they learn English.

I think they're speaking okay, they don't.

Need a translation anymore.

Okay, so I'm gonna to tell about last item we want to present tonight. It's a small dance called Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna. What else dance in Govardhana? Yes, about Krishna and I have to tell the stories and I didn't knew like I didn't know anything about Krishna consciousness. And then that was my first experience in Krishna consciousness. The song Krishna Krishna. And it's very special song that.

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We meditate Krishna, it's eliminate our path. So that we maybe don't come to him immediately, but we go to him step by step. Step by step. With small steps we come to big goal. And our big goal is Krishna. So. And doesn't matter what is the size of our steps because everybody have own speed. But hopefully soon or later if we keep going, we will come to him Anupadhara with small steps we will come to this big Krishna. And this Krishna, he is like a sun, he is like a fire. And he is giving us light so that we could see where to step when we go to him. So I'm so grateful for this experience in my life to hear this song with Krishna names. I don't know who composed it. I took heart endeavors to find it. And it's really old old record. But just as my gratitude to meet first time Krishna names, we made this item with Krishna Krishna the.

Thank you. Don't get burned.

It Sa Sam.

Round of applause for the devotees from the Cloud of Nectar drama group. Thank you Hare Krishna. Okay, I will request now what is Bizambara Prabhu. Krishnavatara Prabhu. This is our last thing we're going to do for tonight. Mataji, where is. Yes, get all the instruments ready. We're going to do. I think we may need two chairs. Somebody can bring two chairs to the stage, please. And you see what happened this morning. You remember that Jalangi Mataji have the request. Where is Jalangi Mataji? You still have the request or no? Do we have some devotees from Kashadesh also Also here? Not now? No, but in. We will call you in five minutes to. To sing also with us, okay? To sing this song with us. Okay. So while they're preparing the instruments, just I will tell you a little bit about what happened tomorrow, okay? Please devotees be in Mongol Arctic. Okay? You know, you all sharing rooms. So if you are more people sharing, wake up earlier. This is special blessings because mongol Arctic at 4:30 and right after Mongol Arctic we're going to go to the buses. It will not be after that. We're not going to sing other prayers will be Mongol Arctic. And then by 5 o' clock we're going to go to the buses. The Mongol arte will be in the garden like we did today. Under the lotus feet of Giridash here, just in this garden next to the hall. And then by five we have to go. You see, we want to leave by 5:30. What happens if you stay behind? What happened? You know they will not be cooking breakfast here, not lunch. And the breakfast and the lunch will be tomorrow in Vrindavan in the Krishna Balaram Mandir temple. It will be by the Goshala and they have Krishnavalaram hall there. So all the programs tomorrow are in Vrindavan in the morning. So it's okay. You have to get used. Because every day we going to wake up early tomorrow if you want to have free, the evening is also okay. You can rest. But by 3pm approximately we will announce in the group soon. But approximately by 3pm we meeting in the buses to come back. That's why you have to be on time. Because if you come 3:30, the bus is gone. Then you have to find your own way to govern. Retreat center is not good, you know. Because, you know, maybe complicated for you. Once we arrive in Krishna Balaram Mandir tomorrow then we're going to walk about 10 minutes. If somebody you know have difficulties for walking, maybe can take a rigs, you know. But this, this is the place, not the stop place for the buses. And we, we have, you know, try to arrange buses air condition for the pleasure of the devotees. There are two days. We couldn't arrange two days. One is tomorrow, one is on the 6th. Okay. The rest we trying to arrange. You know, the buses are condition but it's a. It's a short journey, maybe maximum one and a half hour. Because we're going in by bus. People going by private car take one hour, sometimes 55 minutes govern to Vrindavan. This is the distance. Okay. This is only one place we're going tomorrow. You see, when we put the announcement, this announcement will be for everyone. You know, we have the. You know we have two colors bands. Okay. One is Goranga group with a golden color. Another is Nithyananda group with a blue color. Correct. So blue color. Blue color. And you Nithyananda group raise your hands. Okay. Also Nithyananda Goranga group. Okay, good. So everybody, everything will be announced. Also this announcement will be Written on the. You know, you have to check, keep checking your WhatsApp because sometimes last minute we may do some adjustment on the announcement. But later on, maybe in half an hour time we plan to put post in the WhatsApp group the program. But whatever it is, you know you have to wake up early because tomorrow is the the welcome day also of our safari captain. His Holiness Jayapata Kaswamima is also the Srimad Bhagavatam class. I need a confirmation to be scheduled for one of our safari sanyasis. So we are almost ready. Okay. Now you know the after. After this we're going to just. Just have some light dinner and then go to sleep. You know, we have some devotees who are sick already. So be careful, be careful. You know how with your health that's normal in India, you know, sometimes, you know, happen. But we have at this moment we have three doctors in safari, four doctors and some more doctors will join in Vrindavan from tomorrow after tomorrow here. You know there is a village area. They don't even have a lot of medical facilities around Govardan. But we trying our best to assist the devotees. If you need any help, you please let us know. Prabhu, you have one stand from microphone. Microphone stand for this you have microphone stand come from this one.

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Hare Krishna can we have some matters from sit here? You see what we're going to do now. Okay, we're going to call. You see we're going to devotees from Cassia Des also to sit here. This morning Jalangi Matajir request me to sing something. I was not ready. I am not ready also today. But you want to stand here.

Hare Krishna, for those who miss this morning session, I would like to say something about the song. This song is specially composed by our dear Marici Prabhu. During lockdown at that time he was in Mayapur and in his room he was meditating for a long time. So finally he composed this beautiful melody for offering Pranam prayers to Lord Sri Krishna and Shri Mati Radharani. And the first time he introduced this beautiful melody to us is during last year's Malaysia retreat. At that time a lot of Chinese devotees coming were participating in this wonderful program organized by Marie Chi Prabhu. And since after that almost every day I was singing this melody. And whenever I sing this melody, I just cannot help but cry with tears. So let us now hear the sound with all our hearts at the Lotus Suite of Giri Raj.

This is a very simple song. But I got inspired thinking oh would be Very nice to compose some. Some Krishna conscience song with traditional Chinese melody. And then this particular one came with the Prana Mantra Mantra of Lord Krishna and Srimati Radharani. And this is a for. I feel very blessed that we can sing this song today in Govardan because I never sing before actually I. I was keeping this and then for. For a couple of years when I did I never sing it again. But I had a chance to sing it for Krishna festival in the Penang island where we have is a Vedic temple of Sri Sri Lanka Kanaya Lalji we have this honor to sing but we have almost 100 devotees from Kashadesh singing together with us. And they did a very beautiful choreography because while they sing in the Krishna Pranam Anthravara Prana Pranam the Cortes opens and Radha Madhava Anastasia Shaki appears and was very very beautiful. So this is a pranam to Lord Krishna Srimati Dadharani that we all give the our obeisance to them and begging for their blessings to bless us so we can enter in the Holy Spirit down and participate and serve the eternal lilies of the Lord. Hare Krishna. We have no practice. Actually it looks like we are a team that we've been practicing the Lord actually. But we have not even one single practice. So you don't know how it's going to come. Not even one single practice. I send the tune to them the first time we practicing. But maybe in another stage program we can do it better.

We can improve Sam Ram Sam.

Sa.

Sa Ra.

Tomorrow because what happened? We have to keep on the schedule, you know, because. But I. I really appreciate. Hope you like it. Thank you to all the musicians. Thank you for the. To the devotees to cash of Kasha Des. They are online, isn't it? How many devotees are online? 80 devotees. You know, for them it's very late night now. It's almost 11 o' clock in the night. So thank you devotees from Kashadesh. So hope you also were singing together with us. Thank you for to follow safari. I also want to mention how generous they are, you know, because today you know some donations they give from Casades for prasadam for helping on safari. There's very kind, very kind heart. We definitely need help. But maybe we can mention some devotees so we can. We can appreciate them. Actually we will be very nice.

And.

We have a special surprise for you because today you see the safari is full of surprises. The best is going to come now in five minutes. The best of the day. Okay. So don't Move. Okay, so so many messages I get. Oh, here. Oh, okay. Here. The mother of Wang Lang Yue from Casadez, Shang Jing Yao and Xiang Ying, the two daughters they have donated for distribution prasadam on the safari. 10,000 rupees. Wow. I pray that my career will be successful this year and I will develop more new friends into Krishna consciousness. I pray that I will have the opportunity to take people to study in India this year and next. I pray that my family will become devotees soon. So let all chant Mahamantra Hare Krishna for blessings for Yamuna Priya Mat.

Family members.

And then these blessings are going for all the family members. Okay. All the family members who also have given a donation of 1280 rupees. Thank you. Can you help me Jalangi to mention mention the names of the family please.

And it's very wonderful that this Mataji she made all her family members contributed to our safari trip. So our blessings goes to Du Si Zhong, Zhang Jianchen and his family and his family. And his family and family.

So wonderful. Okay. And what was the surprise? Did I say we have a surprise? Yes. Okay. So what happened on safari that today there is a birthday party of one of the safari devotees. So we all want to give a good wishes to the birth party. We have a. So everybody please where is. Okay. Wow. I am amazed how everybody so nicely sitting, waiting. Nobody's in anxiety to go anywhere. This is the place that we don't need anything else here. This is the place free of anxiety in this place. Okay. Because the surprise is very big. Okay. So that's why it takes time to come. Is Bismanamtrabus here And Krishna Premika. Okay. So please devotees, they said to wait two minutes so I can give some advices to please keep healthy. You know, eat nicely, drink enough water. You know, we safari is just a starting. You know, we want to keep you, you know, the full safari very healthy. If you need any help, please let let us know. In the announcement. We also going to put you know some the names of the person to contact if you have some medical issues. If anybody also is an Ayurvedic practitioner or homeopathic, please let us know. We're going to include more natural medicine also in our team and also allopathic doctors. So we are very grateful for their service services. So as we told this morning, we got the news that His Holiness Jayapatakaswamy arrived good in Vrindavan. Actually during the plane he was having also some difficulties for breathing. So he has to use the oxygen on the plane. But you Know, beside all the challenges, he's here, you know, he's amazing. And he. Even the doctors, they are very surprised of his determination to be here leading the safari with all the challenges that he has. And one thing I can say of my Guru Maharaj that you know, sometimes when anybody sick, even sometimes you are in bed for two, three days, the whole body pain, we complain. It's normal to complain of pain or, you know, discomfort. He never. I never see him complaining. Never. You know, he. I don't know. He takes everything like Krishna's blessings. He's such a pure soul. Never complain. He can go through all the challenges so nicely. Okay. Okay.

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Okay. Get that in there. Come on.

Minute.

Wow. My goodness. Look at this. How long you you need for setting up? 5 minutes. Wow. My goodness. How much they have done you like that?

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Please come. Approach here. Hare Krishna. Everybody. Welcome. Today actually we have a very, very special celebration of 50 years birthday of Krishna Premika Mataji. Hare Krishna Bismuth Prabhu, her good husband also are here. Please come. Krishna Premika, please. Prabhu, if we can, everybody can bless her. Okay. In her birthday. With a long and healthy life. And with the blessings here in Govardhan celebrating her 50 years. This is something amazing. So let's all together wish a happy birthday. Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna. Krishna Krishna Hare Hare. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday.

Happy birthday to you.

In Russian. In Russian. Come on. Okay.

She said, of course, if it is possible, she wants to give the first piece of this cake to Guru Maharaj. But because you are the responsible representative of Guru Maharaj. So this piece will go to you.

What? Prabhu and translator also.

Translator also?

Yes.

Dear devotees, I'm very grateful to all of you.

My reason is this.

This is the most auspicious day in my life. On safari, the first time I'm praying. Please give me a blessing that I can have the service attitude and I can satisfy my beloved Gurudev with my service.

Everyone go to the president hall and we're going to distribute the prasadam there, okay?