Invitation for the Followers and Well-wishers of Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami

[krsna]

G * G * S * M * P * T

INVITATION

HARE KRSNA !

 

Dearest Chairman and Members of GBC, including GBC for Orissa

(HH Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami);

Dearest Followers and Well-wishers of

Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Mahasaya;

ALL Our Dearest Godbrothers and Godsisters,

 

Please accept our humble obeisances.

All Glory to Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

All Glory to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.

 

With deep humility and great earnestness, the Chairman and Fellow-Trustees of

SRI SRI GOUR GOVINDA SWAMI MAHASAYA PURVASRAMA TRUST

are honoured to sincerely extend our warmest heartfelt invitation to one and all of you to the Holy Inauguration Ceremony in Everlasting Memory of

Our Dearmost Spiritual Master

HIS DIVINE GRACE 108 SRI SRIMAD GOUR GOVINDA SWAMI GURUDEVA

with a grand and tumultuous

PURVASRAMA-PRAVESANAM MAHOTSAVA!

[PURVASRAMA-INAUGURATION FESTIVAL]

 

DATE:

It is significant to note that this Unique Festival will be held to coincide with

HIS DIVINE GRACE 108 SRI SRIMAD GOUR GOVINDA SWAMI GURUDEVA’s

Holy Disappearance Anniversary, on Wednesday, 11th February 2004.

 

PLACE:

Srila Gurudeva’s HOLY APPEARANCE HOME in a quaint little village named JAGANNATHPUR (about 20 km from ISKCON’s Sri Sri Radha-Gopaljiu Mandir in Gadeigiri in the same District JAGATSINGHPUR, ORISSA).

 

ACCOMMODATION:

FREE, at Sri Sri Radha-Gopaljiu Mandir.

 

TRANSPORT:

FREE Bus to-and-fro between Gadeigiri and Jagannathpur.

 

PURVASRAMA-PRAVESANAM FESTIVAL

PROGRAMME:

 

Wednesday, 11th February 2004:

1. Gurupuja of Srila Gurudeva at his Holy Birthplace

: 10.00 a.m.

2. Puspanjali : 10.30 a.m.

3. Yajna : 10.45 - 12.00 noon.

4. Glorification of Srila Gurudeva by Senior devotees and God-

brothers of Srila Gurudeva : 12.00 noon - 1.00 p.m.

5. Prasadam : 1.00 p.m.

6. Harinam (Nagar Sankirtan) with Srila Gurudeva’s portrait

: From 4.00 p.m.

7. Glorification of Srila Gurudeva : 5.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.

8. Video show of Srila Gurudeva’s preaching in different

countries of the world : 7.30 p.m.

9. Prasadam : 9.00 p.m.

 

 

OUR (four) HUMBLE APPEALS:

 

Appeal No [1]

Please make very serious efforts to spare the time, travel-fare and effort to come and be an important part of this most rare and memorable festival

JUST FOR THE SUPREME PLEASURE OF OUR MOST MUNIFICENT

WELL-WISHER AND ETERNAL BENEFACTOR,

HIS DIVINE GRACE 108 SRI SRIMAD GOUR GOVINDA SWAMI GURUDEVA!

It has been so long since his widespread spiritual family members, friends and well-wishers got together.

OH! HOW WE LOVE HIM. OH! HOW WE MISS HIM.

YET WE HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO MAKE HIM REALLY HAPPY.

In his prakata-lila, he was happiest when all his children, forgetting personal differences and joyfully associating with one another, huddled around his lotus feet for his endless nectarean Krsna-Katha. We heeded his repeated advice and admonishments to tolerate and cooperate. In his aprakata-lila, sadly, without realizing his eternal presence, we have polarized into umpteen factions. Forgetting to tolerate and cooperate, we are only interested in our own sadhana. Does that alone make him happy?

Surely there’s more to it than that.

Let’s all simply congregate and do kirtana. FOR HIS PLEASURE!

Closing his prakata-lila in Mayapur, Srila Gurudeva’s very last order was: “NAM KORO!”

The forthcoming PURVASRAMA-PRAVESANAM MAHOTSAVA will fall on the anniversary of that final order. Let’s show him we care. Let’s carry out that order…as one big reunited family! Let’s not miss the opportunity.

Let’s meet at his ‘birth-place’ which he has so kindly left for ALL of us.

 

Appeal No [2]

To facilitate our humble service to look after you during that Mahotsava, we beg you to kindly let us know if you will attend, via e-mail as soon as possible, before Wednesday 4th Feb 2004.

 

Appeal No [3]

As we do not have everyone’s address, please forward this invitation to all those whose names do not appear among our addressees.

 

Appeal No [4]

Donations*, if any, may be made in favour of

“Gour Govinda Swami Mahasaya Poorvashrama Trust”

and sent to its official address c/o Sri Sri Radha-Gopaljiu Mandir in Gadeigiri.

[ * HARIBOL!! Please note that we sincerely solicit your

presence and association

very much more than your donations! ]

 

SRI PURVASRAMA-PRAVESANAM MAHOTSAVA KI JAI!

SRILA GURUDEVA’S HOLY DISAPPEARANCE DAY MAHOTSAVA KI JAI!

LOOKING ANXIOUSLY FORWARD TO OUR RENEWED ASSOCIATION AND OUR SINCERE DESIRE TO SERVE YOU ALL TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY, THEREBY GIVING IMMENSE HAPPINESS, JOY AND PLEASURE TO OUR PRANADHANA GURUDEVA, WE REMAIN,

YOUR MOST HUMBLE SERVANTS,

[signed]

Caitanya Candra Dasa, Chairman,

For and on behalf of my fellow-trustees of

Sri Sri Gour Govinda Swami Mahasaya Purvasrama Trust.

Dated 28th November 2003.

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cc: Dear Editors of Magazines and Websites

You are also most cordially invited, please.

As it is the first event of its kind in ISKCON, it must be of journalistic on top of spiritualistic interest to you. So please come. You would find the story most novel and hence worthy of publication in your magazine/websites, for the benefit of your readers/surfers worldwide. For a start, we would appreciate it very much if, space permitting, you would kindly include this invitation in your publications/websites as soon as possible. Thank you. HARI-HARIBOL!!

Your humble servant

Caitanya Candra dasa--Ch’man, GGSMPT.