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Gaura Purnima Initiations 2013

Dear devotees,

Please accept our humble obeisances!

All glories to Srila Guru Maharaja!

All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We would like to inform you that His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Guru Maharaja is planning to give Harinam and Brahminical Initiations on Gaura Purnima, 2013. Devotees wish to get initiation during this occasion are requested to go through the following guidelines.

Date of Initiation: 27 March 2013 (Wednesday)

Devotees willing to take initiation on Gaura Purnima have to register with JPS office, for which the last date is 12th March (Tuesday), by sending an email to: jpsoffice@pamho.net /or call on Phone: 03472-245277 during the office hours 10am -5pm.

For Harinam and Brahmin initiations; candidates need to write the philosophical test either under the supervision of the temple authorities under which they are practicing devotional service or they may write the test at the JPS Office Mayapur. The temple authority should conduct the test by taking all the measures to assess the individual philosophical knowledge or they may contact the JPS office for getting the details of conducting the philosophical exam for initiation.

Candidates who wish to take the exam at JPS office have to fix a convenient date for writing the exam. Usually the candidate has to write the exam a couple of days to enable the JPS office to supervise the test and evaluate the philosophical test followed by interview.

The last date of registration is 12th March for the 2013 Gaura Purnima initiations. The candidates or concerned ISKCON temple authorities are requested to be in touch with the JPS office before booking the tickets to Mayapur for initiation purpose.

All are requested to co-operate with the JPS Office to ensure a smooth initiation event.

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His Holiness Jayapataka Swami – 64th Vyasa Puja

Dear God-brothers / God-sisters,

 
Hare Krishna!
Please accept our humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Srila Gurudeva.
 
This is a gentle reminder for you to please send your Vyasa Puja Homages for 2013. Devotees are requested to submit their offerings to <JPS.VP@pamho.net> by 20th March 2013 so that the offerings can be collected and the book can be prepared in time.
 
This year, the Most Blessed Event “Sri Vyasa Puja ” of our dear Guru Maharaj falls on 22nd April 2013.
 
The following is the festival schedule:
 
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19 Apr 2013 Fri        Saptami                    Arrival of Devotees
20 Apr 2013 Sat       Rama Navami             Seminars
21 Apr 2013 Sun       Dasami                      Seminars, Adivas
22 Apr 2013 Mon      Ekadasi                      Vyasa Puja Day
23 Apr 2013 Tue       Dvadasi                     Seminars, Interactive Session, Feast
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Kindly follow these guidelines:
Please pay strict attention to the below details –
 
– Send your Homages to  <JPS.VP@pamho.net> only not to any other email address.

– Please do not send your Homages to Guru Maharaj, or his secretaries e-mail IDs or to any of the other Conferences. (Sending it to Guru Maharaj`s ID – will clog his mail box and he has to again forward it to us. He will read your homages from the conference anyway.)

– If you want to add shlokas etc please type them out. Do not copy from vedabase directly.

– In the homage Subject line please do not write your full address, tel no. etc. mention the Name of the person / s the homage is from, your Yatra, City & Country
For ex: Guru Kripa Das, Mayapur, India.

– Please send your Facebook and Twitter ID Links.

– Please send your postal address, and your present Tel.no, Mobile Numbers, to update Jps Office Database @ the end of your offering. 

– Please mention (Siksha Disciple) or (Diksha disciple) or (Aspiring)  or (Shelter) or  Well-wisher) as the case maybe.

– Please send only one homage per mail.

– Please ** do not ** send your homages as *** attachments ***.

– Please don`t type your homages in ALL CAPS.

– Please do not use the return (enter) key at the end of every line.
 
– You may include a recent picture of yours as an attachment to your e-mail. (A picture of yours with Guru Maharaj – would be great!). Please use ** your Name ** as the file-name for the picture file. Please send high resolution picture for printing in book
For ex: <guru kripa das Mayapur India.jpg>

-If you want to add a report of any specific service that you are performing to Guru Maharaj, you may please do so.

– Devotees should send their offerings *only once*

– Devotees should not compare Gurudev to his Godbrothers, Srila Prabhupada, previous acharyas to his advantage.

– If you are a local JSSS Co-ordinator, Area co-ordinator – kindly forward this message to everyone under your care or make an announcement of the same in the proper forum.
 
Homages received would be offered to Guru Maharaj and the same posted on the website (www.victorflag.org) for everyone’s pleasure. They would be available for viewing on the website, from the Vyasa Puja day onwards.
 
The deadline for sending the homage is **20th March 2013 **.
 
Please send a separate mail to <sadasivananda.jps@pamho.net>, if you have any questions or suggestions and please don`t comment on this text.
 
We are looking forward to your participation and association in this year’s Vyasa Puja festival.
 
Further details on the program would be published shortly.
 
Hope this finds you in the best of health and bliss.

Thanking you.

Yours in the service of Guru Dev,
SadasivanandaDasa,
For JSSS.
 
PS: Homages received after the deadline may not be printed or available for viewing online on the Vyasa Puja day or immediately afterwards.
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Yadi Prabhupada Na Haita

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Gurudev Kripa Bindu Diya (November 2012)

 

GURUDEV KRIPA BINDU DIYA (November 2012)

CONTENTS

*Message to Disciples
– Srila Gurudeva’s personal letter to all his disciples

*Unless you become serious you will go nowhere
– Part-2 – continued from previous issue

* Your Questions Answered
– Srila Gurudeva answers queries reason for falldown, reincarnation, mood of a disciple, etc

* Transcendental Vibration from Guru and Krishna
– A disciple shares the importance of hearing from guru, sadhu and sastra

* The Glories of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

– Featured message – Srila Gurudeva’s Bengali poem as an offering to Srila Prabhupada on the occasion of his 2012 Vyasa Puja

*Nectarian Showers
– Excerpts of various spiritual topics taken from the lectures of Srila Gurudeva

* Gaura Katha
– Srila Gurudeva narrates the nectarian pastime of the sacrifive of Gadadhar Pandit for Lord Caitanya’s mission

* Godruma Kalpatavi
– A Serialized extract from Sri Godruma Kalpatavi, written by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and translated by Srila Gurudeva

Contact: Vaishnavananda Nitai Das – (gurudev.kbd@gmail.com)

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Rasa Purnima Initiations 2012

Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Guru Maharaja. All
glories to Srila Prabhupada and his sincere followers.

We would like to inform you that Guru Maharaja is planning to give
initiations on the last day of Bhisma Panchaka, 28th November, 2012  which
falls on Rasa Purnima. Devotees wishing to get initiated at that time are
requested to kindly go through the following guidelines:

Date of Initiation: 28th November 2012 (Wednesday)
Last date of registering your details with JPS Office (Email:
jpsoffice@pamho.net / Phone: 03472-245277): 10th November 2012 (Saturday).
Registration can be also done by coming to the office personally.

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Radhastami Message from HH Jayapataka Swami – Updated

My Dear Diksa, Siksa, Shelter, Aspiring disciples and other well wishers,
All Glories to His Divine Grace, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Please accept my blessings.

From Saturday,18th August 2012 to Sunday,16th September 2012, we observed
the Purusottama month,the month that has been personally adopted by Lord
Krishna. It is the month of pure bhakti, which is free from all karma and to
which the Lord has given His special mercy.

In the glories of Purusottama month, it says that if one observes this month
then one leads a fairly happy and comfortable life in this world, and at the
end of life goes back to Goloka Vrindavan. We hope that all the devotees
have had a transcendental and blissful time observing the Purusottama month.

A few days ago, we celebrated Radhastami. We are very thankful to Radharani
because She came and established Navadvipa dham. This beautiful dham of nine
islands, was not only created by Radharani, but She created it to attract
Krishna. Krishna was so blissful in Navadvipa dham that He decided to take
the form and mood of Srimati Radharani when He appeared. Therefore He
appeared as Lord Krsna in the combined form of Radharani, or Sri Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu. This holy dham is very special because it is constantly giving
out unlimited mercy. It is the audarya dham, or the holy place of mercy.
Vrindavan is the madhurya dham or the place of great sweetness.Jagannatha
Puri is the aishvarya dham, or the place of opulence.

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Radhastami Initiations 2012

Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Guru Maharaja. All
glories to Srila Prabhupada and his sincere followers.

Guru Maharaja is planning to give initiations at Mayapur on 23rd Sept 2012
which falls on the day of Radhastami.

If any of you are planning to take initiation at this time then kindly do
the following:

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JPS – Transcendental Blessings

Hare Krsna Dear Devotees!

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad!

 

Under the instruction of Guru Maharaj and by his causeless mercy we have developed a new Facebook page by name Transcendental Blessings and a new Facebook app also by name Transcendental Blessings. Please visit the following links and ‘Like’ the page and install the app.

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/transcendentalblessings

Facebook app: https://apps.facebook.com/transblessings

 

Please read the following message of Srila Gurudev regarding this project.

 

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

 

His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupad one time asked me to expand the propaganda of Krsna Consciousness unlimitedly. So after hearing the potential of social networking sites like Facebook, I thought I would try to see if I could make something grow viral. So I trying that by promoting a Facebook page called Transcendental Blessings and a Facebook app also called as Transcendental Blessings. Although there are many quotes from the Vedas if we find any appropriate and harmonious quotes from other scriptures we also may include that. So the idea is to attract many people and then from there later we will have a Bhakti Yoga page or some other suitable page. So we hope to offer the blessings of all the vaisnavas. Haribol.

 

Yours in the service of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupad,

Jayapataka Swami

 

This facebook page and app were developed to attract new people and guide them on the path of Krsna Consciousness. This project can succeed only with your help. Please share this page and app with as many people as possible and help them achieve ajnata sukriti. Please keep hitting the ‘Like’ buttoneveryday on the posts in the Transcendental Blessings page so that the mercy of Lord Gauranga reaches as many fallen conditioned souls as possible.

 

We would like to thank the following devotees for their contribution in Facebook development – Sri Sakti devi dasi, Ghanashyam Govinda das, Gauranga Prasada das, Cooper Ladnier and Sonu Kumar.

 

Hare Krsna!

 

Yours in the service of Srila Gurudev,

JPS Office Team

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Message from HH Jayapataka Swami

My dear Diksha, Siksa, Shelter, Aspiring disciples and well wishers,

Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

In the month of July 2012, after staying in Mayapur, I went to Serbia for the national festival. This was my first visit to Serbia in about four years.Devotees from Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, and other places came to see me. It was a very wonderful experience and the devotees gave me a very good reception.
My stay there was exceptionally ecstatic especially in the association of Sacinandana Maharaja, Bhakti VaibhavaMaharaja, Bir Krishna Maharaja, Prahladananda Maharaja, Kadamba Kanana Maharaja and others. After Serbia, I went to the

Russian Summer Bhakti Vrksa Festival in Moscow. There were about two or three thousand devotees in attendance. It was a very nice festival with Rathayatra, kirtans and dramas. All the devotees had brought their Deities.
They were put on display and worshiped there. There were hundreds of
Deities: Gaura-Nitai, Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra, and Radha-Krsna. I delivered some lectures. Naru Gopal Das and the ‘Mayapur Chandras’ were there leading kirtan. They also sang the song which I wrote as an offering to Srila Prabhupada for his Vyasa Puja this year. The translations of this song were read thereafter. It was a very nice experience to be unitedwith the devotees in Russia, CIS, and various other places nearby. Then after that I went to Birmingham, U.K. for the Rathayatra. There we had Rathayatra and the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, with his good wife, also attended the Rathayatra. In my speech I mentioned that Birmingham was the largest city in the U.K. Some people wanted to correct me saying that London was the largest. I said “No,Birmingham.” The Lord Mayor, he grinned and was very happy. He said, “Yes,Birmingham is the largest. London is divided into many boroughs like Greenwich borough, Westminster borough, this borough that borough, so as a result London is not such a big city because of the boroughs”. The crowd for the Rathayatra festival was large. The Bhakti Vrksa Festival for all of U.K. was also very well attended. I was fortunate that I had no leg infection this time, so I could attend all the programs. It was ecstatic to participate in these festivals.

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How to observe Purushottama Month

PURUSHOTTAM MONTH  / ADHIKA MASA
18th August 2012– 17th September 2012
Why is it Called Purushottam Month?
a) Lord Sri Krishna is Purusottama, and it is the Lord’s favorite month.
b) As Krsna is the supreme among all incarnations, Purusottama is the
supreme among all months.
c) It is the holiest month, far superior to the pious months of Magha,
Vaisakha and Karttika.
d) Purusottama month is worshiped all over the universe by devotees, sages,
demigods and even Laksmi Devi Herself.