Dear devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Guru Maharaja!
On Friday evening, 12. February, Guru Maharaja was invited to the college
preaching program in Cal State LA, organized by local devotees from LA ISCON
temple. There were 15-20 young students present. There were patient to wait
for Guru Maharaja to come since he was late due to the traffic jam. In the
meantime they were watching the video about reincarnation and similar
topics. Guru Maharaja gave a speech about Lord Shiva, since that day was
Sivaratri. On the end of the program prasadam was distributed to the
students.
On Monday 15. February Guru Maharaja attended a house program in Irvine,
near Laguna Beach. The hosts were Meena Patel and her husbend who invited
many of Laguna Beach congregational mambers to the program. There were
around 40 devotees who came, including the Laguna Beach temple president
Tukaram Prabhu. Opulent prasadam was prepared for all the devotees and
special prasadam for Guru Maharaja according to his diet.
Guru Maharaja gave an enlivening lecture about advent of Lord Caitanya and
how fortunate we are because we are present on this planet Earth in this
particular time, just after the Lord Caitanya has started His sankirtan
movement. He was explaining the internal reasons why Lord Caitanya appeared
through the story of Krishna, Rukmini and Narada Muni. After that ha was
explaining the glories of wearing the tilak on the 12 parts of the body. He
said how important is that we put tilak marks on the 12 parts of our body
every day (not only on the forehead), because in that way we put ourselves
under the Krishna’s protection. If we are not able put tilak because of the
circumstances, like in the office or job, than we should put tilak with
water, or better very little gopi chandan dissolved in the water so that is
not visable but we know it’s there, and we should apply it with appropriate
mantras for the 12 parts of the body. On the end of class he distributed the
laminated photo of Srila Prabhupada puting tilak on his forehead, with the
12 tilak mantras written on the back of the photo.
The next evening in his appartment in LA Guru Maharaja was giving class
about the same topic.
Guru Maharaja’s preaching spirit is high and prominent as usual. However
tired he may be, he never skips his daily evening classes that has been
broadcasted on jpsvani.com (even though there are sometimes just a few
people listening in the room), and he never miss any little opportunity to
preach and share message of Krishna consiousness with others. But still, he
gets more time and fascilities for rest than in any other place till now.
For his present condition and therapy schedule is great advantage that only
few people are present around him, so that he hasn’t been too much delayed
in following his daily rutine.
Your servant,
Teja Gaurangi devi dasi