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Vol 3: Issue 05 February 04, 2010 Gaur Purnima Festival - Feb 28th | 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 Feruary 05 to February 11: Please note: any of these events are open to the public - please join us if you can. Feb 9, Tuesday-Vijaya Ekadasi, fasting from grains and beans and increased hearing and chanting.
Feb 10, Wednesday-Disappearance day of Sri Isvara Puri, the spiritual master of Lord Caitanya
Up-coming Major Event for February:
Gaura Purnima, the Appearance Day of Lord Caitanya, Sunday Feb 28 5pm; fasting until moonrise, celebration and feast at the Temple.
Special Notice to All Congregation Members: Please be advised that there will be no Deity Darshan during the follow dates/times: Friday Feb 5 - after 12:30pm The Deities are being painted and we apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you! | 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 2.72 esa brahmi sthitih partha nainam´ prapya vimuhyati sthitvasyam anta-kale 'pi esa - this; brahmi - spiritual; sthitih - situation; partha - O son of Prtha; na - never; enam - this; prapya - achieving; vimuhyati - one is bewildered; sthitva - being situated; asyam - in this; anta-kale - at the end of life; api - also; brahma-nirvanam - the spiritual kingdom of God; rcchati - one attains. That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. If one is thus situated even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God. One can attain Krsna consciousness or divine life at once, within a second - or one may not attain such a state of life even after millions of births. It is only a matter of understanding and accepting the fact. Khatvanga Maharaja attained this state of life just a few minutes before his death, by surrendering unto Krsna. Nirvana means ending the process of materialistic life. According to Buddhist philosophy, there is only void after the completion of this material life, but Bhagavad-gita teaches differently. Actual life begins after the completion of this material life. For the gross materialist it is sufficient to know that one has to end this materialistic way of life, but for persons who are spiritually advanced, there is another life after this materialistic life. Before ending this life, if one fortunately becomes Krsna conscious, he at once attains the stage of brahma-nirvana. There is no difference between the kingdom of God and the devotional service of the Lord. Since both of them are on the absolute plane, to be engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord is to have attained the spiritual kingdom. In the material world there are activities of sense gratification, whereas in the spiritual world there are activities of Krsna consciousness. Attainment of Krsna consciousness even during this life is immediate attainment of Brahman, and one who is situated in Krsna consciousness has certainly already entered into the kingdom of God. Brahman is just the opposite of matter. Therefore brahmi sthiti means "not on the platform of material activities." Devotional service of the Lord is accepted in the Bhagavad-gita as the liberated stage (sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate). Therefore, brahmi sthiti is liberation from material bondage. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has summarized this Second Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita as being the contents for the whole text. In the Bhagavad-gita, the subject matters are karma-yoga, jñana-yoga, and bhakti-yoga. In the Second Chapter karma-yoga and jñana-yoga have been clearly discussed, and a glimpse of bhakti-yoga has also been given, as the contents for the complete text. Thus end the Bhaktivedanta Purports to the Second Chapter of the Srimad Bhagavad-gita in the matter of its Contents.
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Srila Prabhupada - performing a fire yajna in the early days - New York
Srila Prabhupada - "Yes, we are fighting impersonalism and voidism with pure devotional service. Impersonalism and vodism kills the natural aptitude of devotion which is lying dormant in everyone's heart. Therefore we are printing books like our Krsna book so that people may know it that the Supreme Absolute Truth is a Person. The perfection of every living creature is to render transcendental loving service to that Supreme Person and thereby go back home, back to Godhead. Krishna has said in Bhagavad-gita that "whoever explains my transcendental glories to others is most dear to me in this world and never will there be one more dear to me than he." Letter to Bhagavan, 24 November 1970 Denver Weekly Preaching Report: This week the Denver Devotees distributed over 382 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 Feast Sponsors for Jan 31, 2010:
1. Krishna dasa and family
2. Anil and Rajrani Khanna for their daughter Anu's birthday
3. Sree Visakh Madhavan Nair
4. Greg and Elana Khabner for his birthday
5. Sujatha Nallapareddy
6. Rita and Raju Thapa in memory of Tap Kumari Thapa
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