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August Highlights
Balaram Jayanti Janmastami Appearance Day of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Croome Court Festival Maha Counsellor/Counselle Picnic Youth Preaching Report Book Distribution 40th Anniversary DVD Now Available Chakram Outreach Govindas Restaurant
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Balaram Jayanti
The appearance day of Lord Balaram fell on August 13th. The day was packed with festivities. There were classes by Tribhangananda dasa and Ramanuja dasa, lively kirtans throughout the day, harinam, a feast and of course, not to forget Lord Balarams favourite, Varuni. The singing and dancing went on late into the night as devotees celebrated the appearance of Lord Balaram with great energy and love.
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Janmastami
The days leading up to Janmastami were filled with anticipation as devotees eagerly awaited the occasion of the appearance of The Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna. The evening before the big event an adivas ceremony was held to invoke auspiciousness. The next morning, with the temple room decorated brilliantly, devotees felt like they were in a forest of Vrindavan. Their Lordships were offered a magnificently beautiful new outfit. The temple was a hive of activity including kirtans, stalls with henna and gopi dots, flower arrangements which could be offered to the deities and a stall to promote Ahimsa milk. The festivities continued throughout the day and as it got the closure to midnight the crowds grew and grew. As thousands waited for midnight darshan the queue run out the building and up to Oxford Street. With the kirtan roaring volunteers did a fantastic job ushering so that everyone had the opportunity to take darshan of Sri Sri Radha Londonisvara. As always, devotees ecstatically sang and danced until the next morning, which happened to be another special day.
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We were permitted to put up enlarged BTG articles in one of the main rooms in the building for preaching purposes as well as having stalls around the grounds selling prasadam, clothing, jewellery, music and so forth. A large tent was erected for kirtans and a drama which was wonderfully enacted by devotees from various Temples all coming together. The approximate number of guests who came were over 1,000 on both days and the organisers have already booked us in for next year as they deemed it such a success. Suki Talwar who is the outreach officer for Croome said: The festival is all about celebrating the time that they were here as well as the movement itself - its an important part of Croomes history.
Counsellor System to interact together, make friends, create a family spirit and above all be happy. Each group had to present an item on the day. We had an appreciation session, a transcendental quiz, a drama on the glories of Facebook, and a pinata where a bucket of maha sweets was tied on a robe between two trees and we all had to take it in turns to knock it down with a stick ... while blind folded. The prasadam was made by various counsellees and the day ended with an ecstatic kirtan.
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Who is Krishna?
In honour of Janmastami, this month also dedicated one session to Lord Krishna. This event included a philosophical discourse on Godhead as a PERSON, and moreover what qualities such a Supreme Person would embody. The discussion further led to a glimpse of the character and pastimes of Krishna, along with some consideration of His attributes and potencies that establish Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The session also included clips from the popular DVD rendition of the childhood pastimes of Krishna, Little Krishna. This event proved very useful for some of the newer attendees of the programme.
Lila Kirtan
The increasing popularity of the lila kirtan events encouraged us to host another session this month, which was one of the most successful lila kirtan sessions yet, concluding with the guests ecstatically dancing and singing late into the evening.
VIP Guest
This month the Lounge was privileged to have the association of His Grace Kripamoya Prabhu, who held a captivating session on the Layers of Consciousness. This session attracted around 25 attendees, who enjoyed an evening of lively discussion and debate.
The event was facilitated through video footage of Srila Prabhupada. The group feedback testified that there was now a much greater appreciation of the person Srila Prabhupada and his great contribution, particularly on account of the video footage of his life and classes. It was particularly helpful for some new guests at the programme.
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Book Distribution
During the month of August we collected 7,835 and distributed 2,951 books! The scores are as follows:
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Bhakta Ravi Aditi DD Bhakta Vinesh Lavanga Latika dd Bhakta Elin Entchev From Russia with Love Russian Bhakti Vriksha Kashinath dasa Bhakta Karlis Bhakta Vince Bhaktin Louise Murli Manohara dasa Tattva Jnana Dasa Rupa Gosvami das Harinam Party Jhulan Yatra Bhakta Pasha
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1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 4 1.00 1.00 7.00 5.00 7.00 9.00 10.00 59.00 12.00 35.00 30.00 32.00 27.00 113.00 61.00 133.00 68.00
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0.25 0.50 1.00 1.00 1.25 1.75 4.00 6.00 6.00 7.50 9.75 10.00 12.00 18.00 18.25 20.00 23.25
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Sastra-dhan Sponsorship Bhaktin Julia Ananta Nitai das Bhakta Noy Bhakta Robert Revel WW& NPKTSP Sharada dd Janmasthami 2011 Virabhadra dasa
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1 2 3 10 4 1 1 1 8 3 10 18 9 9 14 2 17 84.00 90.00 76.00 204.00 86.00 191.00 262.00 410.00 248.00 372.00 273.00 305.00 329.00 704.00 670.00 978.00 1,943.00
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weekend warriors Uddhava Damodara Dasa Sachi Kumar Nimai das Bhakta Alexey Sundara Nitai das Bhakta Laurie NPKTSP Bhakta Eliott Reed
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Chakram
Radha Krishna Records has recently released Chakram a devotional album featuring Kripamoya Prabhu. It is currently available through various outlets including: HMV Oxford Street Mysteries in Covent Garden Radhas Boutique in Soho St
resource for the spiritual life. When played together at a quiet time, the songs on the album take the attentive listener on a journey through different colours of spirituality. The powerful Sanskrit mantras contained within the songs, and the ideas expressed within them, form a series of lessons that can help one advance along any chosen path. And the music is refreshingly different. Spiritually uplifting and filled with protective mantras, Chakram has something for the yoga practitioner, the meditator, and the world music enthusiast. I hope you will enjoy it and share it with your friends.
This album has taken around two years for it all to be completed, and it would not have been possible without my highly musical, expert and philanthropic friends who so generously gave their time, skills and resources for the project. In that sense, CHAKRAM is the product of a group and Im a firm believer in groups as the best human
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Outreach
During the month of August Jai Nitai dasa carried out the following activities. 4th - Attended the UK Management Council Meeting 5th - Attended the wedding of Gopi Bhava devi dasi and Shyam dasa 6th - Attended Maha Counsellor Training at Manor with members of Pandava Sena Mentorship System, Manor Mentorship System and London Counsellor System which included an interactive session and Q&A with His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrta Swami 12th - Took part in the Wimbledon Weekend Warriors follow up Programme with about 25 guests 14th - Jai Nitai dasas counsellee group cooked the Sunday Feast 20th - House Program at Bhaktin Shinys with about 20 guests to celebrate Rama and Shyamas birthday 21st - Janmastami Celebrations at Soho started and Launch of Kripamoya Prabhus new album Chakram 22nd - Celebrated Janmastami 23rd - Celebrated Srila Prabhupadas Vyasa Puja 27th to 28th - Attended Croome Court Festival 29th - Maha Counsellee Picnic Govindas Restaurant takings for August 2011: 55,860.82p from the above amount: Catering 407.00 and Books 124.00 *************************************************** Total for Govindas restaurant: 55,329.82p *************************************************** * 31 working days. * Average per day for restaurant: 1801.96p * Govindas restaurant made 2,956.01 more compared to August 2010.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Hare Rama Hare Rama Krishna Krishna Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Hare
International Society for Krishna Conciousness Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada