| | | Denver Temple Weekly Bulletin
Vol 3: Issue 02 January 14, 2010 Our Dearly Departed Vaisnavas | |
Radha and Krishna enjoy a lovely day on the banks of the river Yamuna, while the eight main Gopis play musical instruments.
| Pleaseforward this newsletter to a friend. To subscribe to this weekly email, please click here Update Profile/Email Address Please do not reply directly to this newsletter, please reply to this email address: | Upcoming Holy Days, Temple Events and Notices for the week of January 07 to January 13: Jan. 20, Wednesday-Appearance day of Srimati Visnupriya Devi, one of the wives of Lord Caitanya.
Disappearance day of Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, one great Acarya of our Gaudiya Vaisnava sampradaya and great writer of Vaisnava commentary.
Appearance day of Sri Pundarika Vidyanidhi, devotee of Lord Caitanya who became the guru of Srila Gadadhara Pandita; father of Srimati Radharani in Lord Krsna's pastimes.
Appearance day of Sri Raghunandana Thakura, son of Mukunda dasa in Lord Caitanya's pastimes; great devotee of the Lord who worshipped ( as a young boy) the Deity with topmost devotion.
Appearance day of Sri Raghunatha Dasa Goswami, one of the Six Goswamis of Vrndavana, known for his intense renunciation and devotion for Lord Caitanya.
Sarasvati Puja-worship of the goddess of learning and music
Vasanta Pancami-many temple in India, especially in Vrndavana worship the Lord in the Vasanta season with flowers and devotion.
Up-coming Events for January:
January 27, Wednesday-Appearance of Lord Varahadeva, Varaha Dvadasi (fasting is done yesterday). Puspanjali at 12 noon in templeroom.
 January 28, Thursday- Appearance day of Lord Nityananda, who is Lord Balarama Himself; fasting until noon; puspanjali at 12 noon in templeroom and prasada afterwards.
 | HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE | | Bhagavadgita Verse of the Week: Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Bhagavad-gita As It Is 2.69 ya nisa sarva-bhutanam´ tasyam´ jagarti sam´yami yasyam´ jagrati bhutani sa nisa pasyato muneh SYNONYMS ya - what; nisa - is night; sarva - all; bhutanam - of living entities; tasyam - in that; jagarti - is wakeful; sam´yami - the self-controlled; yasyam - in which; jagrati - are awake; bhutani - all beings; sa - that is; nisa - night; pasyatah - for the introspective; muneh - sage. TRANSLATION What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage. PURPORT There are two classes of intelligent men. One is intelligent in material activities for sense gratification, and the other is introspective and awake to the cultivation of self-realization. Activities of the introspective sage, or thoughtful man, are night for persons materially absorbed. Materialistic persons remain asleep in such a night due to their ignorance of self-realization. The introspective sage remains alert in the "night" of the materialistic men. The sage feels transcendental pleasure in the gradual advancement of spiritual culture, whereas the man in materialistic activities, being asleep to self-realization, dreams of varieties of sense pleasure, feeling sometimes happy and sometimes distressed in his sleeping condition. The introspective man is always indifferent to materialistic happiness and distress. He goes on with his self-realization activities undisturbed by material reactions.
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Srila Prabhupada - taking a walk with new devotees in the early days
Srila Prabhupada - "So I can see that there is very good potency at the present moment for spreading this movement as was desired by my Guru Maharaja, and I am simply my best to carry out His desire. And if some of my students adopt this attitude, without any other motivation, surely Krishna wii fullfill our desire. So push on with book distribution, and I am very glad that you are now distributing to schools and libraries" Letter to Bhagavan, 22 September 1970 This week the Denver Devotees distributed over 363 of Srila Prabhupada's books to the public.
| OM AJNANA-TIMIRANDHASYA JNANANAJANA-SALAKAYA CAKSUR UNMILITAM YENA TASMAI SRI-GURAVE NAMAH "I was born in the darkest of ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances to him. " | You are invited......: We would like to invite you, your family and your friends to attend this coming Sunday Feast at the Denver Hare Krsna Temple. Starting at 5:00 pm, be prepared for an ecstatic Krishna Kirtan, Transcendental Srimad Bhagavadgita lecture and free sumptuous vegetarian feast. We are located at 1400 Cherry Street in Denver, CO 80220. Map to the Temple Temple Daily Schedule | JAI-SRI-KRSNA-CAITANYA PRABHU-NITYANANDA SRI-ADVAITA GADADHARA SRIVASADI-GAUR-BHAKTA-VRINDA | | Thanks to our Sponsors: Thanks to our Sunday aFeast Sponsors for Jan. 10, 2010: 1. Krishna dasa and family
2. Sujit K. Pattanaik
3. Venkat Devraj in memory of his mother Rukmini Devrajan Our special memorial service for departed Vaisnavas included memories of Jayo Prabhu, Lalitananda Prabhu and Jagannatha John Reynolds. These three departed Vaisnavas all served Radha-Govinda and were honored by homages and a special feast that was sponsored by devotees who have all served here for many years and are now living elsewhere. We thank Naikatma Prabhu and Jagajjanani Prabhu for sponsoring on behalf of Lalitananda Prabhu, who very nicely distributed Srila Prabhupada's books for ISKCON Denver for several years. Naikatma and Jagajjanani Prabhus are serving our ISKCON community, New Dvaraka, in Los Angeles. Jagajjanani Prabhu is very lovingly taking care of her mother at this time. We send our greetings to them all. Our thanks and appreciation always go out to Naikatma and Jagajjanani Prabhus for the many years of service here in Denver. Hari Mohan Prabhu and Radharani Prabhu also sponsored this feast on behalf of Jayo Prabhu, who was also a distributor of Srila Prabhupada's books and served with Bhaktivedanta Institute. Recently they have moved to Calgary, Canada . We thank them for many years of service here as well and very much appreciate all that they did over the years for Jayo Prabhu and this community. Jagannatha John Reynolds served in our Boulder center back in the early 1990's and later washed many of Krsna's pots during the last several years when Govinda's was open. He also did other varied services in Govinda's and we appreciate all of that. These three Vaisnavas are greatly missed as well as their sponsors. If you would like to become a Sunday Feast Sponsor click here for more information.
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