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Dear Srila Prabhupada,

Lord Gauranga declared that the holy name will be spread to every town and village.

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura had a vision of Mayapur as the place where people from all over the world would come to sing Hare Krishna and dance together.

World Holy Name Festival 2010 is from September 17 - October 2, 2010.
Please read through for the full message from H.G Ekalavya prabhu.

Fourth Annual BBT Art Seminar now open for registration

The BBT will be holding its fourth annual art seminar in Vrindavana, India,
from November 5 25, 2010. Once again, the seminar will led by veteran ISKCON
artists Dhriti Dasi and Ramdas Abhirama Dasa, teaching both new and repeat
students practical techniques as well as the mood essential in producing
devotional art.

Global warming..... green-house gas emission..... jargons that we all are hearing very frequently.
what is the primary cause of global warming? is it industrial pollution? or, is it transportation?

The answer is No..........

Recently, Food and Agriculture organisation(FAO), an important wing of the United Nations, estimated that meat production accounts for 18% of green-house gas emissions, which all the more reiterates the importance of promoting vegetarianism.

Here is an interesting article on how, by becoming a veggie, one can help combat the climate change.

Read on...
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/08/16/how-to-feed-the-world-by-going-veggie

By Vijaya das

World Sankirtan newsletter for the month of June 2010 has been published for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada

The devotees of ISKCON of Silicon Valley (ISV) in San Jose are still glowing after recently completing the annual Bhaktivinoda Thakur Monthly Sankirtan Festival. They set for themselves the daunting goal of mobilizing 300 book distributors, but when the dust settled a record 556 people had gone out, with a net result of over 10,000 books distributed and over $18,000 collected in donations!

On July 17th I interviewed His Grace Vaisesika Das Adhikari, the architect and mastermind of this innovative approach of facilitating broad, congregational participation in book distribution by holding various Monthly Sankirtan Festivals (MSFs) throughout the year.

courtesy - dandavats.com

Srila Prabhupada taught that each of us should cultivate a mood of service
rather than finding faults in others. If someone acts wrongly, and we become
disturbed by it, that discloses our own flaw. We should instead think in
what way we can positively contribute to the situation and to the community,
so that these wonderful timeless teachings of the Lord are exemplified for
the benefit of all.

The same point has been stressed by His Holiness Romapada Swami Maharaja
to a devotee, when the devotee tells maharaj the difficulties that he had
been facing while associating with other devotees. H.H Romapada swami
maharaja very nicely explains the whole point of cultivating a mood of
service rather than finding faults in others.

Read on....

-Kaunteya das

On 16 May 2010, Aksaya Tritiya (traditionally considered a very auspicious
day to begin something - it is said that whatever one starts on this day
will have inexhaustible results), I was asked to hand over the Siksa Program
certificates to the congregational members of Sri Sri Radha Rasa-bihari
Temple, ISKCON Juhu, Mumbai.

-kaunteya das

A quiz for you:

In 1972 Srila Prabhupada wrote the local GBC: "I have just received one
letter from the black devotees in Cleveland who wish start their own ISKCON
Center independently of the white devotees there."

What Srila Prabhupada wrote the local GBC? What instruction Srila Prabhupada
gave him?