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Dear devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

My name is Purna Tattva dasa and I am serving in Belgium since 1977 and

since 15 years as the head of the Antwerp temple.

I like to tell you about an inspiration I had the other day in connection to

the Xmas-marathon.

This year the Gitajayanti is on Thursday 7 December. Last year we celebrated

this event and read all the verses of the Bhagavad-gita together. This year

we shall do this again. I was contemplating on this event and thought that

after Sri Krishna spoke the Gita to Arjuna, Arjuna got a strong inspiration

to fight the battle at Kuruksetra.

The battle lasted for 18 days. 18 days of fighting. So I calculated that 7

December plus 18 days makes this year exactly 25 December, the birthday of

Jezus Christ, the great Vaishnava who sacrificed his life in the battle

against adharma. I thought after hearing the Gita we can also fight for

Krishna for 18 days. I was very much enthused by this idea. Why not inspire

all our members, friends etc. of our society to do at least one book a day.

The temple and travelling bookdistributors can have a longer marathon, but

why not have a marathon for all our namahatta members and friends which will

last minimum 18 days. So every member can fight his and her own battle of

Kuruksetra. It's symbolic but could work as a strong inspiration in our

society if it becomes a part of our programs, I mean institutionalised.

The Jehova Witnesses have their way of inspiring the congregation by

distributing one day a week.

So at least it must be possible to get all our members and friends out for

18 days, with the Gita Yajanti cellebrationday as its starting point, even

if whe inspire them to do 1 book per day, if it is done worldwide every

year, the result will be significant.

The ideology of fighting your own battle could be a great inspiration,

especially if this idea is inspired and backed up by the GBC body. People

need something, some ideology to fight for.

This program would be especially for the Nama Hatta's, preaching centres and

Bhakta-vriksagroup members.

 

Thank you for your valuable time and attention.

Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupada.

Purna Tattva dasa