"Whoever constructs or HELP to construct a Vishnu Temple will protect 8 generations of Fathers, Grandfathers & forefathers from falling into hell" - Vamana Purana
HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami, Co-Director of ISKCON Mayapur will be making a preaching visit to Malaysia from April 16 to 23.
Appended below is proposed programme schedule for HH Bhakti Purushotam Swami. Maharaj is specially known for his classes on the pastimes of Lord Jagannatha.
April 16, Fri - Evening programme at BCC April 17, Sat - Morning - Bedong Ratha Yatra April 17, Sat - Evening - Sungei Petani Jagannatha Lila class April 18, Sun - Morning - Penang Waterfall programe April 18, Sun - Noon - Penang Gelugor programme April 18, Sun - Evening - Ipoh Ratha Yatra April 19,Mon - Evening - ISKCON Bukit Mertajam programme
April 20-23, Tue to Thurs - Morning and Evening programmes at SJMKL
When I joined the ISKCON Malaysia National Youth Council (IMNYC), I thought it is going to be a fun thing to do in your free time. We will be doing some events here and there. It’s just going to be a jolly ride. How badly could I have speculated? (No wonder they say mental speculation is bad)
Joining the Council is real tapasya, austerity * laughter*. It requires a lot of time, energy and also money. *No joke. I didn’t just put all the 3 in because it’s a nice combo. The Council does need all 3*
After a well deserved break from the Convention, the ISKCON Malaysia National Youth Council (IMNYC) or more popularly known as the VaishnavaMalayaCandan team set out with a roar to conquer the Southern region with the chandan like fragrance of Srila Prabhupada’s mission.
Weeks of preparation, anticipation and eagerness finally burst into fireworks as around 70 youths from Seremban, Bahau, Lukut , Port Dickson and as far as Melaka came together to rock Seremban with the Harinama!!
Hare Krishna. Pleased to update the progress on the Vimana construction. As of today the final portion of the Vimana structure will be concreted. Structure work will next be on the 15 smaller domes on the outer perimeter of the roof.
Ornamental work will begin around May-June 2010 on the Vimanas.
ISKCON Malaysia First National Youth Convention 2010
Written by Malini Priti DD
We are looking forward to participate in the next convention! Those were the words uttered by most youths, hearts filled with sweet memories, happiness and laughter but feeling sad in separation having to miss their friends, all the fun and joy that they have experienced during the ISKCON Malaysia FIRST National Youth Convention that was held at New Champgne Hotel, Taiping, from 12 to 14 March 2010. The Convention was truly a remarkable and magnificent event all by the blessings of Sri Sri Jagannatha Baladeva Subhadra, Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Srila Prabhupada and the merciful Vaishnavas who were present there to sanctify and giving us abundance of mercy, love and guidance.
Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada, Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga.
For the pleasure of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Krishna, Sri Sri Jagannatha Baladeva & Subadra Devi and Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Srila Prabhupada and Vaisnavas, we are pleased to report ISKCON Malaysia's Book Distribution scores for January & February 2010.
Total of 5,682 Books were distributed for January & February 2010 relating to 3105.75 Book Points.
Hare Krishna. You may be wondering what's happening to the building progress. No updates for a while. Yes!. With the 2009 year end, we have been a bit busy running around, our contractor's construction manager resigned, Chinese New Year came around and we have just come back from Navadvipa Mandal Parikram. So excuse us for missing out reports.
Construction work has lagged behind by a month. Fitting of the prefabricated parts of the ornamental lotus leaves which will decorate all sides of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor levels of the building which first seemed easy is now a little bit of a time consuming job for our contractors. Nevertheless work has started on this section and so have concreting of Vimanas (domes). And if you have not signed up for the Heaven-on-Earth sponsorship scheme, please consider helping us with some funds to fulfill the desire of Srila Prabhupada that a Sri Sri Radha Krishna temple be built in Malaysia. And our target is to inaugurate the temple in early 2012. Please sign up now - click on http://iskcon.com.my/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=596&Itemid=63
Appended below are pictures taken on 25 February 2010 by our Vice Chairman of the project HG Kalesa dasa.
South East panoramic view of the Bhaktivedanta Cultural Centre & work-in-progress Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple of Devotion & Understanding.
25Feb-Main Vimanas (domes) base is concreted. Vimanas are concreted in heights of about 1.8 metre at a time.Formwork for 1st 1.8M height is ready and concreting will be on 3 March 10.Total Height of Main Vimana from ground level will be 75 feet.
Gauranga Prema Tirtha Nama Hatta February Preaching Report
Written by Simheswara dasa
Hare Krishna. Appended below is Sri Gauranga Prema Tirtha February 2010 preaching report.
We are pleased to announce that the Sri Gauranga Prema Tirtha Nama Hatta is now a Nama Hatta directly under the KL-KLang Valley Regional council and so a member of the ISKCON Malaysia National. The Sri Gauranga Prema Tirtha Nama Hatta was directly nurtured by by Sri Jagannatha Mandir, ISKCON Kuala Lumpur for the past ten years.
Appended below is a preaching report from Sri Gauranga Prema Tirtha for February 2010.
Total of 142 Small Books Distributed, 1 Hard Bound Bhagavad Gita and 1 Ramayana
The Gauranga Prema Tirtha Nama Hatta also invites all to join the Sri Gaura Purnima in commemoration celebration on March 13
Venue: 22A, Jalan LintangDagang 6, Taman Sentosa, 41200 Klang, Selangor. (Contact: Sarva Tirtha Krishna dasa)
ISKCON Celebrates 30 Years of Congregational Development
Written by Bhakti Raghava Swami
Bhakti-Raghava Swami.
This year ISKCON proudly celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its Nama-hatta project, which sees to the spiritual development of congregational devotees.
References to the goal and spirit of Nama-hatta can be traced back to the time of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the fifteenth century saint revered by Vaishnavas as God, or Krishna, Himself. The Lord’s famous order to His pioneering associates Sri Nityananda Prabhu and Sri Haridas Thakura is recorded in the ancient book Chaitanya Bhagavata:
“O hear Me, hear Me Nityananda! Hear Me Haridasa! Simply disseminate My order everywhere. Go from house to house and beg [the residents as follows]: ‘Speak about Krishna, worship Krishna and teach [others] about Krishna.’ ”
Just a few hundred years after Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the great Vaishnava saint Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura continued his mission. “I am singing news of the greatest happiness!” he said in his book Vaisnava-siddhanta- mala, referring to his Nama-hatta work. “At the place known as Surabhi Kunja in Sri Navadvipa, the Marketplace of the Holy Name has now been opened and Lord Nityananda Himself is the Proprietor."
Today, Sri Chaitanya’s mission to inundate the world with Krishna’s name has been re-introduced—by His mercy and by the mercy of his devotee, ISKCON’s founder Srila Prabhupada—in the form of ISKCON Mayapur’s Nama-hatta program, run by devotees there under the guidance and inspiration of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami.
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