KK Bindu #142

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Our humble obeisances!

 

Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga!

 

You will find attached to this text issue #142 of Sri Krishna Kathamrita

Bindu.

 

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IN THIS ISSUE

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* "Preaching and Surrender" - His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Prabhupada expresses his delight with the traveling sankirtan efforts of his

disciples.

 

* "Who is Guru?" - Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada describes the

exalted position of the spiritual master.

 

* "Retirement in Puri" - Bhaktivinode Thakur's account of how Sri Chaitanya

Mahaprabhu once came to him in a vision and instructed him to do bhajan in

Jagannath Puri.

 

* "The Meeting of Parshuram and Lord Ramachandra" - Part two of a six-part

series of English poetry by the late Christian missionary Reverend A. G.

Atkins. In this installment, Lakshman speaks insolent and sarcastic words to

the proud Parshuram.

 

* "Gaura's Feelings of Separation" - A Sanskrit song by the medieval poet

Radha Mohan Das.

 

COMING IN OUR NEXT ISSUE:

 

Bindu 143 will include a story told by Yadunandan Das in the late sixteenth

century about the mercy shown to Sri Gopal Bhatta Goswami by Sri Chaitanya

Mahaprabhu.

 

We pray that this issue may bring some happiness and inspiration to the

Vaishnavas who are preaching the mission of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

 

Das anudas abhas, Madhavananda Das, editor

 

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"This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions,

revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting."

- His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, from Lilamrita Vol.6

p.182