February 2012 ISKCON-London Community Newsletter

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February 2012 Highlights

• Russian Bhakti-Vriksha Event • Book Distribution • Govinda’s Restaurant

Nityananda Trayodasi • Radha’s Boutique Youth Preaching Report • Outreach

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Nityananda Trayodasi The auspicious occasion of Nityananda Trayodasi, the appearance day of Lord Nityananda, fell on Sunday 5th of Februrary.

Despite inches of snow the night before, devotees flocked to the temple and participated in the day long festivities.

Ramcharan dasa gave long discourse on the glorious pastimes of Lord Nityananda in the morning and in afternoon Sachi Kishore dasa gave another wonderful class which included a very entertaining drama from the temple brahmacaris.

Other highlights included abhisek of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, a sumptuous feast cooked by Shyam dasa and Gopi Bhava devi dasi and, as always, devotees danced long into the night to the wonderful kirtan of Radha Londonisvara dasa.

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Youth Preaching February was another eventful month for youth preaching activities. The main highlights are outlined below.

University Preaching Mantra Jam! This month the Krishna Conscious Society at SOAS came together to launch a new project to introduce kirtan on a massive scale at SOAS.

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Some of the students were able to attend this festival, enjoying the feast and becoming completely absorbed in the evening kirtan in the temple room, which for some was completely mesmerising as it was their first real exposure to the power of congregational kirtan on a large scale.

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Imperial Hindu Society The Imperial Hindu Society invited us to participate in a religious ceremony which was attended by over 25 students.

We also explored various topics like the ‘Modes of Material Nature’ as well as some of the topics explored for the university Gita Sutras programmes.

This month the KC Lounge was privileged to have the association of Tribhangananda dasa, who hosted a hugely entertaining and lengthy Q&A session for the benefit of the attendees.

We are planning to participate in a major culture show at SOAS scheduled for March, with the aim of enhancing awareness of our Society and the thrills of kirtan which they have been experiencing.

To this end, the team visited the temple to make sweets which were then sold at SOAS to raise funds to finance the event.

This project has instilled a stronger sense of togetherness and belonging within our KC Society, encouraging the students to take on responsibilities and at the same time increasing their association and familiarity at the temple.

This event allowed us to build stronger relationships with the students at Imperial, and gave us to opportunity to introduce to a new base of students the fundamental principles of devotional service.

Alongside the above highlights, the usual Gita Sutras and Cooking Workshops were maintained. The Gita Sutras topics covered this month were ‘Love Defined’ (for Valentine’s Day), ‘Facebook & the False Ego’, and the ‘Inner Voice’.

Nityananda Trayodasi Another major event this month has been the celebration of Nityananda Trayodasi at the temple.

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Russian BhaktiVriksha Event The Russian Bhakti-Vriksha group of ISKCON London made a special effort to distribute Srila Prabhuapada’s

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books on Trafalgar Square during the annual Russian ‘Maslenitsa’ festival.

Book Distribution

Even though the team were not very experienced in book distribution they managed to distribute almost 150 of Srila Prabhupada’s books collecting just above £350.

During the month February we collected £5,287, distributed 2,853 books for 1,760.95 book points.

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The scores were as follows:

Name

Days Lakshmi

Book Points

Bhaktin Reda

1

4.00

0.75

Aditi DD

1

17.00

4.00

2

Bhaktin Louise

1

14.00

4.75

1

Gaura Kishore & Sital Conselle Smart Box

1

42.00

Narottamananda Dasa

1

Virabhadra Dasa

Big

Maha Big Medium Hard

Medium Hard

Set

Small 3

3

5

6.25

5

15

35.00

9.00

6

24

1

30.00

10.00

Bhn Hetal smart box

1

31.00

10.00

10

20

Maidenhead Nama Hatta

1

40.00

10.00

Hittesh & Jyotsna

1

40.00

12.50

Bhakta Ben

2

30.00

14.00

Bhava Bhakti Counselle Smart Box

4

62.00

17.75

Bhakta Kalpesh

1

40.00

22.00

Anonymous

4

55.00

25.25

Bhakta Shiv

1

67.00

25.25

Sastra-dhan Sponsorship

1

113.00

35.00

Sharada DD

1

278.00

37.00

Bhava Bhakti Conselle Cans

1

171.00

60.00

WW South

4

253.00

63.50

Sachi Kumar Nimai das

9

182.00

66.25

Bhakta Alexey

5

142.00

69.00

33

2

8

Uddhava Damodara Dasa

9

166.00

69.75

26

17

37

Bhakta Laurie

12

523.00

219.00

87

90

HDG AC Bhaktivendanta Swami Prabhupada

2

706.00

236.20

87

44

Bhakta Pasha

15

569.00

254.75

105

46

Sundara Nitai das

16

1,677.00

479.00

103

78

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4

2 50

7 20

31

20

61

11 12

5 35

1 1

14 15

70 1

30

95

50

27

76 265

22

1

2

1

39 87

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926

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Govinda’s Restaurant Govinda’s collected £ 47,354.60 for February, of this amount: catering £ 150.00 and books £ 100.50. ********************************************************* Govinda’s February takings: £ 47,104.10 ********************************************************* • • •

29 working days £ 1,632.92 per day average £ 3,166.62 more compared to February 2011

Radha’s Boutique Radha’s Boutique collected £5,657.23 in February.

Outreach During the month of February Jai Nitai dasa carried out the following outreach activities: 2nd: Travelled to India to attend the ISKCON Leadership Sanga and GBC meetings in Sridham Mayapura, India.

19th: Started teaching a devotional practice course for six students.

29th: Attended a Westminster Faith Exchange meeting with Bhava Bhakti devi dasi.

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Daily Programme Times Arati Times 4.30am – Mangala Arati 5.00am – Tulasi Arati 7.00am – Deity Greeting 8.00am – Dhoop Arati 12.30pm – Raj Bhoga Arati 4.15pm – Dhoop Arati 7.00pm – Sundara Arati 9.00pm – Dhoop Arati

Darshan Times 4.30am to 5.00am 7.00am to 7.30am 8.00am to 11.45am 12.30pm to 1.00pm 4.15pm to 6.30pm 7.00pm to 7.30pm 9.00pm to 9.30pm Lunch Programme Monday to Saturday 1.00pm to 2.15pm

Classes 7.30am – Bhagavatam or Caitanya Caritamrta 1.00pm – Introductory Talk 6.00pm – Bhagavad Gita (except Sunday) Sunday Programme 3.30pm – Bhajans 4.15pm – Dhoop Arati 4.30pm – Introductory Talk 5.30pm – Sunday Feast 6.00pm – Questions & Answers 7.00pm – Gaura Arati

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