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GURUDEV KRIPA BINDU DIYA (November 2012)

CONTENTS

*Message to Disciples
– Srila Gurudeva’s personal letter to all his disciples

*Unless you become serious you will go nowhere
– Part-2 – continued from previous issue

* Your Questions Answered
– Srila Gurudeva answers queries reason for falldown, reincarnation, mood of a disciple, etc

* Transcendental Vibration from Guru and Krishna
– A disciple shares the importance of hearing from guru, sadhu and sastra

* The Glories of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

– Featured message – Srila Gurudeva’s Bengali poem as an offering to Srila Prabhupada on the occasion of his 2012 Vyasa Puja

*Nectarian Showers
– Excerpts of various spiritual topics taken from the lectures of Srila Gurudeva

* Gaura Katha
– Srila Gurudeva narrates the nectarian pastime of the sacrifive of Gadadhar Pandit for Lord Caitanya’s mission

* Godruma Kalpatavi
– A Serialized extract from Sri Godruma Kalpatavi, written by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and translated by Srila Gurudeva

Contact: Vaishnavananda Nitai Das – (gurudev.kbd@gmail.com)

Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Guru Maharaja. All
glories to Srila Prabhupada and his sincere followers.

We would like to inform you that Guru Maharaja is planning to give
initiations on the last day of Bhisma Panchaka, 28th November, 2012  which
falls on Rasa Purnima. Devotees wishing to get initiated at that time are
requested to kindly go through the following guidelines:

Date of Initiation: 28th November 2012 (Wednesday)
Last date of registering your details with JPS Office (Email:
jpsoffice@pamho.net / Phone: 03472-245277): 10th November 2012 (Saturday).
Registration can be also done by coming to the office personally.

My Dear Diksa, Siksa, Shelter, Aspiring disciples and other well wishers,
All Glories to His Divine Grace, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Please accept my blessings.

From Saturday,18th August 2012 to Sunday,16th September 2012, we observed
the Purusottama month,the month that has been personally adopted by Lord
Krishna. It is the month of pure bhakti, which is free from all karma and to
which the Lord has given His special mercy.

In the glories of Purusottama month, it says that if one observes this month
then one leads a fairly happy and comfortable life in this world, and at the
end of life goes back to Goloka Vrindavan. We hope that all the devotees
have had a transcendental and blissful time observing the Purusottama month.

A few days ago, we celebrated Radhastami. We are very thankful to Radharani
because She came and established Navadvipa dham. This beautiful dham of nine
islands, was not only created by Radharani, but She created it to attract
Krishna. Krishna was so blissful in Navadvipa dham that He decided to take
the form and mood of Srimati Radharani when He appeared. Therefore He
appeared as Lord Krsna in the combined form of Radharani, or Sri Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu. This holy dham is very special because it is constantly giving
out unlimited mercy. It is the audarya dham, or the holy place of mercy.
Vrindavan is the madhurya dham or the place of great sweetness.Jagannatha
Puri is the aishvarya dham, or the place of opulence.

Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Guru Maharaja. All
glories to Srila Prabhupada and his sincere followers.

Guru Maharaja is planning to give initiations at Mayapur on 23rd Sept 2012
which falls on the day of Radhastami.

If any of you are planning to take initiation at this time then kindly do
the following:

Hare Krsna Dear Devotees!

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad!

Under the instruction of Guru Maharaj and by his causeless mercy we have developed a new Facebook page by name Transcendental Blessings and a new Facebook app also by name Transcendental Blessings. Please visit the following links and ‘Like’ the page and install the app.

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/transcendentalblessings

Facebook app: https://apps.facebook.com/transblessings

Please read the following message of Srila Gurudev regarding this project.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupad one time asked me to expand the propaganda of Krsna Consciousness unlimitedly. So after hearing the potential of social networking sites like Facebook, I thought I would try to see if I could make something grow viral. So I trying that by promoting a Facebook page called Transcendental Blessings and a Facebook app also called as Transcendental Blessings. Although there are many quotes from the Vedas if we find any appropriate and harmonious quotes from other scriptures we also may include that. So the idea is to attract many people and then from there later we will have a Bhakti Yoga page or some other suitable page. So we hope to offer the blessings of all the vaisnavas. Haribol.

Yours in the service of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupad,

Jayapataka Swami

This facebook page and app were developed to attract new people and guide them on the path of Krsna Consciousness. This project can succeed only with your help. Please share this page and app with as many people as possible and help them achieve ajnata sukriti. Please keep hitting the ‘Like’ buttoneveryday on the posts in the Transcendental Blessings page so that the mercy of Lord Gauranga reaches as many fallen conditioned souls as possible.

We would like to thank the following devotees for their contribution in Facebook development – Sri Sakti devi dasi, Ghanashyam Govinda das, Gauranga Prasada das, Cooper Ladnier and Sonu Kumar.

Hare Krsna!

Yours in the service of Srila Gurudev,

JPS Office Team

My dear Diksha, Siksa, Shelter, Aspiring disciples and well wishers,

Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

In the month of July 2012, after staying in Mayapur, I went to Serbia for the national festival. This was my first visit to Serbia in about four years.Devotees from Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, and other places came to see me. It was a very wonderful experience and the devotees gave me a very good reception.
My stay there was exceptionally ecstatic especially in the association of Sacinandana Maharaja, Bhakti VaibhavaMaharaja, Bir Krishna Maharaja, Prahladananda Maharaja, Kadamba Kanana Maharaja and others. After Serbia, I went to the

Russian Summer Bhakti Vrksa Festival in Moscow. There were about two or three thousand devotees in attendance. It was a very nice festival with Rathayatra, kirtans and dramas. All the devotees had brought their Deities.
They were put on display and worshiped there. There were hundreds of
Deities: Gaura-Nitai, Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra, and Radha-Krsna. I delivered some lectures. Naru Gopal Das and the ‘Mayapur Chandras’ were there leading kirtan. They also sang the song which I wrote as an offering to Srila Prabhupada for his Vyasa Puja this year. The translations of this song were read thereafter. It was a very nice experience to be unitedwith the devotees in Russia, CIS, and various other places nearby. Then after that I went to Birmingham, U.K. for the Rathayatra. There we had Rathayatra and the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, with his good wife, also attended the Rathayatra. In my speech I mentioned that Birmingham was the largest city in the U.K. Some people wanted to correct me saying that London was the largest. I said “No,Birmingham.” The Lord Mayor, he grinned and was very happy. He said, “Yes,Birmingham is the largest. London is divided into many boroughs like Greenwich borough, Westminster borough, this borough that borough, so as a result London is not such a big city because of the boroughs”. The crowd for the Rathayatra festival was large. The Bhakti Vrksa Festival for all of U.K. was also very well attended. I was fortunate that I had no leg infection this time, so I could attend all the programs. It was ecstatic to participate in these festivals.

My dear spiritual children and others,

Please accept my best wishes and prayers to Lord Krishna for your speedy advancement in Krishna Consciousness. All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada! ISKCON’s Found