Prabhupadanuga festival in Vrndavana

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Srila Prabhupada Glorification Festival

12-18th Nov 2001

Vrindavan, India

Organizers : New disciples of Srila Prabhupada

 

Dear Devotees of Srila Prabhupada,

Hare Krishna! Please accept our humble obeisances! All Glories to

Jagat-Guru Srila Prabhupada! All Glories to your service to His

Divine Grace!

 

We are inviting all followers of His Divine Grace A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada from all over the world to come &

together celebrate His Divine Grace's glorious Disappearance Day

Festival in the Holy Vrindavan Dham. There will be a whole week

(12th - 18th Nov, 2001) of Festivities.

 

Main features of the festival :

 

- Association of scores of old, new and aspiring like-minded disciples

from around the world exclusively devoted to Srila Prabhupada and

to his mission.

 

- Daily classes given by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada on

Nectar of Devotion, hopefully in the Radha Damodar Temple

courtyard near the Holy samadhi of Srila Rupa Goswami. This will be

followed by lively discussions on the class.

 

- Initiation ceremony for new disciples of His Divine Grace

conducted by bona-fide ritviks on the Disappearance Day of Srila

Prabhupada.

 

- Maha-Abhishek of His Divine Grace.

 

- 108 preparations cooked by everyone & offered to Srila

Prabhupada on His Disappearance Day.

 

- Seminars on various relevant topics led by senior disciples on

Hearing Srila Prabhupada, Sadhana, Srila Prabhupada's rtivik

initiation system, Original Kirtan style, Book Distribution etc.

 

- Senior leaders would be discussing how to practically assist Srila

Prabhupada in organizing his Worldwide Movement again.

 

- Organized parikramas, daily ecstatic maha harinams in the original

kirtan style given by Srila Prabhupada, exotic prasadam and

Prabhupada memories sessions.

 

- Gift of a special Prabhupada memorabilia.

 

The festival is being organized by new & aspiring disciples of Srila

Prabhupada under the auspices of many seniors leaders of Srila

Prabhupada's mission in the west like HH Kapindra Maharaj(NY),

His Grace Narasimha Prabhu(Oregon), His Grace Nandi Kesavara

Prabhu (Montreal) etc. & many more. We are still in the process of

contacting all senior disciples of His Divine Grace as we consider

that the personal presence, help, cooperation, blessings and guidance

of all sincere and loyal followers of Srila Prabhupada is extremely

important in an endeavor like this. We are all confident that this

endeavor of re-starting a Annual Festival for Prabhupada disciples in

the Holy Dham, will help in re-uniting the family of Srila Prabhupada.

It would also certainly help us all focus on His Divine Grace as our

bona-fide Spiritual Master.

 

There are various ways each of us can be engaged to see this annual

festival a reality. Especially this year devotees can come forward to

serve either in organizing, planning, fund-raising (approximate

budget is $6000), communication, publicity, travel arrangements,

cooking, chanting, decorating, or just with ideas, suggestions and

specially for giving association. Or to get 1st or 2nd initiated by Srila

Prabhupada. Any way you can, please take part in the combined

glorification of OUR EVER WELL WISHER - His Divine Grace

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

 

Understandably the notice is short. But as Srila Prabhupada says

"strike when the iron is hot". We are expecting around one hundred

Prabhupada devotees this year. Devotees can write, phone or e-mail

at the following contact addresses. Contributions are welcome.

 

Contact :

Nimai Pandit Das

Prabhupada Sankirtan Society

48 Ave B, NY - 10009 USA

(212)674-0698

nimaipandit

 

Advisors:

HH Kapindra Swami HG Narasimha Das HG Nandi Kesavara Das

pss108 vanachari n_allard

(212)674-0698 (541)865-7977 (514)685-3421

 

We leave you with some quotes from Srila Prabhupada :

 

Sometimes there is a tendency to neglect what is our real

purpose of life, namely, to become mad after Krishna, and

instead we become carried away by big, big talk.

(Letter to Satsvarupa 4th April, 1972).

 

Simply become more concerned with increasing the spiritual

content of our lives, and in this way all other problems like

management will be easily solved, not that they can be

solved by making some legal formula and having big big

meetings and talks.

(Letter to Jagadisa 2nd May, 1972)

 

The purport is that the Lord does not award devotional

service to ordinary persons who are not serious about it. But

even such unserious persons who execute devotional

service according to the regulative principles during the

month of Karttika, and within the jurisdiction of Mathura in

India, are very easily awarded the Lord's personal service.

(Nectar of Devotion Ch.12)

 

Hope to hear from you and see you in Vrindavan.

Hare Krishna! All Glories, All Glories, All Glories to His Divine

Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

 

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