King of Nepal get the Bhagavad Gita during a visit to India

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Dear Devotees

 

A nice experience for us was to have the opportunity to meet His Majesty

Gyanendra Bir Vikram Shah Dev & Her Majesty Queen Komal Raj Lakshmi Shah

Devi, King & Queen of Nepal during a reception in Calcutta while they were

in an official visit on June 27th. I didn't want to be there without

offering some present to the king and I thought the best thing would be a

Bhagavad Gita in Hindi written by Srila Prabhupada, in fact there were

restrictions for security reasons and the consul told me by phone that it

may be impossible but I prayed to the Lord to allow us this and in fact I

took with me a new BG in Hindi and went to the reception. It was totally

blissful, I could meet and talk 4 times with the King and he was very

receptive and attended me nicely as well all the members of the consulate

were providing good attention and reception. We understood how merciful is

Krsna and Srila Praabhupada who opens all the doors and remove obstacles to

us so we can do easily our preaching, His Majesty was very happy to receive

the Gita and told me that he knows about ISKCON and our preaching activities

and after 30 minutes we again spoke to him and invited him to visit our

centers whenever he comes back to India which he accepted.

 

In Nepal there are some people who worship the king as genuine

representative of Vishnu while others see him as incarnation of Lord Vishnu

himself, although we have different points of view, this was the first trip

abroad to the Nepali Royal Family after the assassination of the King

Birendra and his family one year back.

 

We are posting few pictures about this occasion, for more information please

visit www.mayapur.info

 

Ys

 

Tusti Mohan Krsna das