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Sri Rama,
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From Gaura-siromani Dasa Posted March 30, 2004 Dear Vaisnavis and Vaisnavas, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. On Wednesday evening, March 24, the head pujari of the German Radha-Madana-Mohana temple, Sriman Goloka Prabhu, left his body in a car accident, to proceed to an auspicious new life in the service of the lotus feet of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna. Goloka Prabhu was a disciple of His Holiness Bhakti-bhusana Maharaja. For many years he tirelessly served Sri Sri Radha-Madana-Mohana in an exemplary and unparalleled way, together with his dedicated wife Srimati Manjulali Dasi, a disciple of His Holiness Sacinandana Maharaja.
Remembering Gaura Purnima
Diary of a Traveling Preacher Posted March 29, 2004 January 31, 2004 "A Gift of Grace" This chapter consists entirely of letters written by, to, or about Lance Ackerman, a South African devotee. His first letter is to Sankarsan Prabhu, a dear Godbrother of mine based in Austin, Texas. December 1, 2003 Dear Sankarsan das, I am trying to locate a devotee who taught me a great deal many years ago. He headed up the Temple of Understanding in Durban, South Africa, in 1987. His name was Indradyumna Swami. He then went on a trip up the Amazon, and since then I have lost track of him. I would really love to talk to him again. He inspired my life at the time and started me on the road to higher consciousness.
New Vrindaban From Malati dasi Posted March 29, 2004 We are looking for experienced cooks to serve Radha Vrindaban-Chandra and the Vaishnavas during the Third Annual Festival of Inspiration, which will be held in New Vrindaban, W VA (nearest airport is Pittsburgh PA). Actual dates of Festival: May 7th, 8th, & 9th, 2004. Date of arrival for service: Wednesday May 6th. Posted March 29, 2004 Caretaker-assistant-apprentice. Opportunity to learn how to work with oxen, operate a small non-profit cow sanctuary, preserve foods from large organic garden, etc. Room, board, and stipend. Please inquire at: 304-843-1658 or iscowp@earthlink.net Visit us at: www.iscowp.org [Article complete on this page] From Hamsagati dasa Posted March 29, 2004 Did you ever consider going to prison? After reading Jivananda Das's plea inviting devotees to share kirtan, dancing, lecture, arotik, and conversation with the inmates of Oregon State Penitentiary, I requested ISKCON Portland Temple managers to please contact the chaplain to set up our first program. I would never have imagined how blissfully the guys behind the walls took to chanting and how intently they heard our reading and classes. Some of the men wore japa malas around their neck when they were not chanting rounds. Jivananda has 70+ books in his cell, and the chapel library has many also. Posted March 30, 2004 March 30, 2004, Sri Rama Navami, Appearance Day of Lord Ramacandra Dear Devotees and Friends, You are cordially invited to celebrate the Divine Appearance Day of Lord Ramachandra on Tuesday March 30, 2004, at Sri Sri Radha Govinda Mandir. This festival will be celebrating the transcendental pastimes of Lord Rama, especially as mentioned in Srimad Bhagavatam and the Ramayana of Valmiki. Appreciations From Tusti Mohan Krsna das Posted March 29, 2004 Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. April 1st, 2004, will be the Sri Vyasa Puja celebration of HH Jayapataka Swami. Jayapataka Swami will be 55 years old. He joined ISKCON in 1968 and was initiated the same year. He was awarded the sannyasa order in 1970 during Radhastami in Kolkata by His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Posted March 28, 2004 Dear Matajis, dear Prabhus, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. With great sadness and sorrow in my heart, I wish to announce that Goloka Prabhu— the head pujari at Goloka Dham, Abentheuer, Germany— passed away from this material world on Wednesday, March 24, 2004, around 9:00 PM (European Standard Time). On the way back from the doctor's, he had a terrible car accident very close to Goloka Dham and passed away right on the spot. A car coming from the opposite direction crashed into his car and demolished it completely. It was a frontal jolt.
Remembering Gaura Purnima
Posted March 27, 2004 REMINDER North American Managerial Meetings Wednesday, May 5th & Thursday, May 6th
Festival of
Spiritual Strength Fri. May 7th – Sat. May 8th & Sun. May 9th Posted March 27, 2004 On Saturday June 19th, ISKCON Cleveland Hare Krishna members will hold their second annual Ratha Yatra Festival of India. This event will be held in Lincoln Park (2409 W. 14th St. in Cleveland, Ohio) in the beautiful historical neighborhood of Tremont.
Remembering Gaura Purnima
by Praveen Jamunar Posted March 25, 2004 Haribol all Devotees! Please accept our humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! On Sunday May 2nd, the Minneapolis, Minnesota, Yatra will be celebrating the Second Annual Ratha Yatra, to be held during the May Day Parade. This day is especially auspicious because it is Jayananda Prabhu's Disappearance Day. From Joshua Hawley Posted March 25, 2004 Its funny. I only met Maharaja one time. I was staying at the ISKCON Vancouver temple. He had come and was there trying to recoup. He had been traveling for some time, and his hepatitis was giving him some trouble. I remember him giving Bhagavatam class in the morning, and he was looking at Prabhupada's Murti as if Prabhupada were right there. I knew, "This is a Prabhupada man!"
Sridhara Was Fearless
by Radhanath Swami, Radha Gopinath Mandir, ISKCON Chowpatty Posted March 25, 2004 Today [14/03/2004], Sridhara Swami Maharaja departed this mortal world to enter into the eternal pastimes of Srila Prabhupada. Actually he is always involved in those eternal pastimes, but we can know that Srila Prabhupada has called him to assist on another level. Sridhara Maharaja is noted by all as one of the most faithful, dedicated associates of Prabhupada. He came to our movement in the 1960s, and from that time without break or hesitation he was immersed in service of Guru and Krishna. At Radha Kunda, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur told Prabhupada to print books and distribute them. Prabhupada took that order as his life and soul. Sridhara Maharaja, because of his love and great enthusiasm to serve and please his Guru Maharaja, was on the first traveling book-distribution party in the history of ISKCON. Posted March 25, 2004 It is very difficult to express our feelings for a departed Vaishnava. I have had the opportunity of once witnessing such an event. It is sobering. His Holiness Sridhara Swami has left us here, in this world of strife and discord. But his exemplary life, his love for Srila Prabhupada, his love for his Godbrothers and sisters, his dedication to the mission of our Acarya, cannot but give us immense joy. The attributes and essence of this joy goes beyond the words used to describe the pleasures of this insipid world because it stems from Sri Krishna and it touches the soul. By Bhakta Wallace Dorian Posted March 25, 2004 I have been an aspiring devotee for 24 years, and although I did not know Sridhara Swami intimately, I had the good fortune to meet him on several occasions spread out over that period of those many years. Reading the remembrances of him by his Godbrothers and sisters and his disciples made me very emotional and teary-eyed, I must admit. I first met Sridhara Swami briefly in New York City at the old 55th Street temple in 1979. I was immediately attracted to his demeanor and loved his sense of humor. I found him to be very pure, loyal, sincere, and honest.
What's Inside the
Posted March 24, 2004 In our last issue, we ran the story of a group of Hare Krishna youths touring North America by bus. This time we present a Hare Krishna couple traversing America at a much slower pace—on a horse-drawn wagon. So far they’ve covered twelve hundred miles on their way to Mexico and beyond, giving out the teachings of Lord Krishna in hundreds of towns along the way. On the other side of the world, Adbhuta Hari Dasa reports on a place where Krishna spoke His teachings fifty centuries ago just before leaving this world. In "The Song Goes Ever On," Satyaraja Dasa gives us a summary of those teachings and tells us about Uddhava, the intimate devotee to whom Lord Krishna spoke them.
Remembering Gaura Purnima
Unto His Holiness Sridhara
By Prabhupada dasa Adhikari Posted March 24, 2004 We first met in July 1969 in Vancouver in front of the Hudson Bay Company at Georgia and Granville. The Hari Nama Party had just finished chanting, and he stood before a crowd of perhaps 50 people. Just then I walked past and heard his talk about the nature of the soul. He was the first devotee I ever heard speak, my first contact. He is my vartmapradarsaka guru, eternally. We last met in July 2003 in the Vancouver Temple on South West Marine Drive. The aratika had just ended and he sat before a group of perhaps 50 devotees and spoke of the nature of the soul. My shiksa guru. Appreciations of Sridhar Maharaja A talk by Niranjana Swami on the Appearance Day of Srivasa Thakur Posted March 23, 2004 Today happens to be the appearance day of Srivasa Thakur. So we hope to have an opportunity to speak a little bit about that. But today also happens to be another day, which I haven't been able to fully digest, and therefore I beg your forgiveness if I become emotional, because at 6:15 AM my Godbrother H.H. Sridhar Maharaja left this world. So it is also his disappearance day, and he was a very dedicated servant of Srila Prabhupada. He gave his life to serving Srila Prabhupada's mission. From Nrsimhananda dasa Posted March 23, 2004 Dear Sridhar Swami, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Yesterday, before you left your body, my son and I were discussing his "favorite" friends in Krishna consciousness. First from his lips were, "I really like Sridhar Swami." How many voices have said the same words? Who amongst those that have had the good fortune of knowing you has not said the same thing? "I really like Sridhar Swami." Practically, that phrase has become a traditional ISKCON mantra. In or out of the ISKCON camp, "I really like Sridhar Swami" is a commonly held opinion. Somehow you transcended all designations that separate the conditioned souls; in fact, you remained a unifying figure in a variegated universe of diversity. Everyone can agree on at least one point: "We really like Sridhar Swami." From Subhadra-mayi dasi Posted March 23, 2004 Sridhar Maharaja, you are a person who has meant a lot to me, from the moment I first met you. You are a real devotee— practical, down to earth, objective, and so normal, which is a rare thing nowadays. I really cared about you so I never let a chance pass by where I could ask you, "Anything I can do for you?" Sometimes there was something; other times there wasn't. But it always felt so nice that you knew you could count on me when you needed some help. Because of the kind of person you are, I did it with so much pleasure. You never had this trip of "I'm a senior devotee, and you are so fortunate to serve me..."
"We Are Pals" By Hari-sauri dasa Posted March 23, 2004 A day or two after the departure of our beloved Godbrother Srila Sridhar Swami, I was asked if I might write something about him for the Mayapur website. I was happy to have been asked, and happy to have the chance to glorify a dear friend and servant of Srila Prabhupada. But I couldn't get to it immediately. I mulled it over for a few days, thinking what I might say. Then I got a message from our Godbrother Brahmananda prabhu in Vrindavana: <I very much miss Sridhar Maharaj. Why is it that I only appreciate someone when I can never again be with them? I understand you were attending him in Mayapur. I think you must have benefited from that.> It seems like a good starting point, and so I am glad now to be able to add a little something to the tributes and praises of a wonderful Vaisnava who was universally liked among the community of devotees.
From Braja Sevaki Devi Dasi Posted March 23, 2004 There is no doubt HH Tamal Krishna Maharaja was waiting for HH Sridhara Maharaja, because he said himself that he would be there to do that. I've just finished editing the first Nectar Book that the disciples of Tamal Krishna Goswami are publishing in Dallas. The books are produced in the exact same style as the Prabhupada Nectar books, those little red ones Satsvarupa Maharaja did all those years ago. Same format, little stories by disciples, Godbrothers and sisters, just nectar. There is one story told by Bhakti Caitanya Swami: From Kesava Bharati Dasa Goswami Posted March 22, 2004 Dear Sridhar Maharaja, Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I'll miss you, Maharaja. When we embraced that last time in Mayapura, you said, "Any longer and it will mean good-bye." We both knew it did. I'll especially miss your charming sense of humor, you know, the one that prompted you to say, with your impish grin, to the doctor as he looked at your swollen tummy, "It's a boy!" In the face of the pain you went through in the last part of your life with us, that jolly spirit told us a lot about your spiritual position.
Homage to a Soldier Servant So
much poorer are we who stay behind All your life you sowed the Sannyasi
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Sridhar Swami Posted March 15, 2004 His Holiness Sridhar Swami left his body yesterday, March 14, at about 6:00 AM in Mayapur. More details may be available on the Mayapur websites listed on the links page. © dipika.org March 15, 2004
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