Monday, April 30, 2012
Seminar on "Clearing Unwanted Things from Your Heart" on Wed , Sri Nrsimha Chaturthi on Friday
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
"Forbidden Archaeology" Seminar at Stanford this Friday, His Grace Vaisesika Prabhu back in ISV
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Fwd: Earth Day ISKCON SV Community Planting Festival on April 22nd, 2012
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From: Hansapriya <h.rawson@yahoo.com>
Date: April 21, 2012 8:43:36 AM PDT
To: "announcements@iskconsv.org" <announcements@iskconsv.org>, Deepak Prabhu <deepakc108@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Earth Day ISKCON SV Community Planting Festival on April 22nd, 2012
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Begin forwarded message:From: Hiral Rawson <h.rawson@yahoo.com>
Date: April 20, 2012 3:44:33 PM PDT
To: ISV_General <IskconSV_General@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Earth Day ISKCON SV Community Planting Festival on April 22nd, 2012=
Earth Day ISKCON SV Community Planting Festival on April 22nd, 2012
On Sunday, April 22nd, ISKCON SV will be celebrating the "Earth Day ISKCON Community Planting Festival", from 2 pm to 6 pm, at 3913 Woodford Drive, San Jose, CA-95124.
As part of this festival not only will we sow new plants, but we will also hold a Planting Workshop which will be the first step towards converting your own backyard into a beautiful garden for Lord Krsna.
Jay Tidwell (aka Janardana prabhu), an acclaimed landscaper, has kindly agreed to conduct the workshop. Don't miss this opportunity to ask questions and get the expert give answer to your questions like how to get the soil ready, what flowers to choose, when to sow and how, and general plant care.
Raxit Jariwalla Prabhu has kindly agreed to let us use the backyard in his home to conduct this workshop and grow flowers to be used in the service of the Lordships Radha Madana Mohana.
Sunday Feast Prasadam will be provided in the park across from Raxit Prabhu's house.
We cordially invite you, your family & friends to the "Earth Day ISKCON Community Planting Festival." We need your support. Please come and join us!
NOTE: Sunday Feast
All members are requested to join us at the planting festival. At the Temple new comers will be taken care by Ramananda Sakha Pr, Shraddha & Ruby Matajis.
Team ISV
Friday, April 20, 2012
Entering a New Phase of ISV History
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
We are pleased to announce that for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada and Their Lordships Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Sri Radha-Madanamohana and Sri Sri Laksmi-Nrsimhadeva, ISKCON of Silicon Valley has now become the title owner of 1965 Latham Street, Mountain View. HARIBOL!
We now enter a new phase in the history of the ISV Sankirtan program, and I am sure the entire ISV community is excited by this news.
There are many new challenges that lie ahead. For one thing, we will now embark on a large project of repairs and renovation including building an adequate kitchen, installing new bathrooms in another location, repairing part of the roof and replacing another part, soundproofing the temple room as far as possible, building the altar (possibly with new altarpieces), installing a large vyasasana for a full sized murti of Srila Prabhupada, and much more. It will take an estimated four months or possibly more before we will be ready to welcome Srila Prabhupada and Their Lordships into their new home.
Another challenge will be to maintain good relations with the neighbors in the new location after we move in, which means being very conscious of how loud we are being and the parking situation and maintaining a generally nice and neat appearance of the facilities at all times. We plan to do some landscaping and make a nicely tended garden in front of the building.
Also, in keeping with our mood of "Ananda Vardhana", expanding the bliss, we hope to welcome and integrate many new members of the congregation in our new and expanded home base facility, and we will be counting on our existing core members to meet this new challenge of mentoring and training new people. All of us will have to try to dig deep and "step up our games" to continue improving our own standards and setting good examples for others.
Thank all of you for having brought us this far in our collective mission. We look forward to continuing to sweeter and better things, in spite of the challenges that come from this new phase and the growth that lies ahead. We will be growing together in maturity and responsibility as we grow in size of facilities and membership.
The temple for the first time has now taken on a large debt in the form of a $575,800, 15-year mortgage, and while the monthly payments will be slightly less than our current rent at 951 S. Bascom Avenue, we will have additional expenses of insurance, separate living facilities for our pujaris, substantially higher utilities payments, probably some property tax, the cost of carefully and nicely maintaining a first-class facility, and the additional cost of anticipated larger thrice-weekly programs and festivals. We are grateful to Sri Sri Radha-Madanamohana for bestowing upon us this opportunity to increase our service, increase the size of our congregation, increase the quality of our hearing and chanting, and "increase the bliss!"
Your servants,
Jagarini dd and Akruranatha dasa
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Bhaktiful week at ISV: Harinama this Friday, Final Mahabharata Seminar on Sat
"Forbidden Archaeology" by HG Drutakarma prabhu (Michael Cremo) @ Stanford, April 27th, 7PM
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Read Bhagavad Gita during Brahma Muhurta + CHAD Reminder & Dial-in Info - Gandharvika Mataji
Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad!
In this regard, we came across a following story. Once there lived a king, who presented a diamond necklace for his daughter. One day the necklace was lost and the king made an announcement that he will reward the person who finds it. One of the king's minister while passing along a dirty lake, saw something shimmering and when he bent further down, he found that it was the necklace. Inspite of the fact that the lake was very dirty, the minsiter put his hands inside the filthy water and tried to grab the necklace. But to his disappointment he was not able to get it. A sage was passing by. The sage compassionately inquired him what the problem was. After great hesitation, the minister confided that however hard he tried, he was not able to get the necklace. The sage smiled and replied that he should stop looking into the filthy water and should start looking upwards. The minister looked up and true enough the necklace was dangling on the branch of a tree. He had been trying to capture the mere reflection of the necklace all this time.
Conference Passcode: 1008
Tomorrow is the all-auspicious Ekadashi day, per our CHAD plan, we will be reading Bhagavad Gita verses from 18.1 to 18.38 for the next one month until 15 May 2012.
With Gratitude,
Your servants,
Malini, Manish & Gandharvika
On Behalf of ISV CHAD Team,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chapter_a_day/join Start Date | End Date | Chapter No. |
20 Dec 2011 Tu Saphala Ekadasi | 18 Jan 2012 We | 13 |
19 Jan 2012 Th Sat-tila Ekadasi | 16 Feb 2012 Th | 1 |
17 Feb 2012 Fr Vijaya Ekadasi | 17 Mar 2012 Sa | 11.1 to 11.27 |
18 Mar 2012 Su Papamocani Ekadasi | 15 Apr 2012 Su | 11.28 to 11.55 |
16 Apr 2012 Mo Varuthini Ekadasi | 15 May 2012 Tu | 18.1 to 18.38 |
16 May 2012 We Vijaya Ekadasi | 13 Jun 2012 We | 18.39 to 18.78 |
With Gratitude,
Your servants,
The CHAD staff
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chapter_a_day/joinDear Devotees,
Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad! Tomorrow is the all-auspicious Ekadashi day, per our 3 month CHAD plan, we will be reading Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14 for the next one month! Srila Prabhuad writes.."...The word ekadashi (literally, "the eleventh day") refers to two days a month: the eleventh day after the new moon and the eleventh day after the full moon.On these days, devotees strive to deepen their attitude of loving service to Krishna by using even more of their time to chant Hare Krishna, read books like Bhagavad-gitä and Srimad-Bhägavatam, and discuss topics of devotional service.
To observe ekadashi, devotees also simplify their diet by fasting from grains and beans...People today follow all sorts of harsh or complicated diets to improve their health or enhance their spirituality, but simply by observing this ekadashi diet twice a month one can easily improve one's health and enrich one's spiritual life.You can easily observe ekadashi to advance in Krishna consciousness, even at home, and this is recommended in Vedic literature...." - Back To Godhead Magazine#16-10,1981
We wish you a Happy CHAD & Krishna conscious 2011!
30 Dec 2010 Th Fasting for Saphala Ekadasi (For San Jose California)
31 Dec 2010 Fr Break fast 08:22 - 10:35 (am).
With Gratitude,
Your servants,
The CHAD staff
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chapter_a_day/join
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:32 PM, ISV CHAD <chad.isv@gmail.com> wrote:
Hare Krishna Dear Devotees,
Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad!Testimonials from our sincere Kartik CHAD performers indicate that CHAD has left them with lingering transcendental aftertaste & a desire to chant more. It is very rare to get this taste and we should try all our best to maintain this enthusiasm. Srila Prabhupada mentions that "So, everything begins with faith (Shraddha). For example, the people here have come with a little faith. That faith is like a spark. Now you have to fan it so that it becomes a blazing fire... Just like there is small fire in the charcoal. You fan it, and it will gradually become a big fire. So this Krishna consciousness movement is fanning that spiritual spark to come into full consciousness. Go on fanning like that. That is the rules and regulation, attending this class, hearing this Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita. Twenty-four hours be engaged. That is real business." -Srimad-Bhägavatam 1.15.44 - Los Angeles, December 22, 1973.
With the mercy & blessings of HG Vaisheshika Prabhu blended with your enthusiasm, ISV is determined to keep the CHAD wheels running. In order to assist the business of every CHAD performer to do their bit so that the wheels never stop, CHAD team has come up with the following 3 month plan. If you are inspired to do some other chapter you may do so. Main goal is to chant one chapter of Bhagavad-Gita every day. Attached is the 12th chapter of Bhagavad-Gita in CHAD format.
From
To
BG Chapter
Wed Dec 01, 2010 (Utpanna Ekadasi)
Wed Dec 29, 2010
12
Thu Dec 30, 2010 (Saphala Ekadasi)
Fri Jan 28, 2010
14
Sat Jan 29, 2011 (Sat-tila Ekadasi)
Sat Feb 26, 2010
16
With Gratitude,
Your servants,
The CHAD staff
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Fwd: Nectar call tonight! Nrsimha Lila!
From: Vaisesika Dasa <vaisesika.dasa@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:58 PM
Subject: Nectar call tonight! Nrsimha Lila!
To: DEEPAK CHANDANI <deepakc108@gmail.com>
Dear Devotees,
Ami pranam kori. Jaya Srila Prabhupada!
Please join us for a Srimad-Bhagavatam Reading tonight:
Mon Apr 9, 2012
8pm-9pm
call in #
1-605-475-6006
Access code
463-465
Mute: *6 (Be conscious that every little noise in your environment gets amplified on the conference call. Just to be safe, mute your phone, unless you need to speak. Thank you!)
With gratitude,
Vaisesika Dasa
Please accept my respectful obesisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Damodara Vamsidhari Das (Deepak Chandani)
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Invitation: ISV Bhakti Shastri - First Convocation Ceremony - Sunday April 8, 2012- From HG Shraddha Mataji
Hare Krsns Dear Devotees,
- To be steadily and firmly fixed in chanting Hare Krishna and devotional service by understanding the siddhanta, the correct philosophical conclusions of the scriptures
- To improve our preaching and book distribution skills
- To obtain a Bhakti Shastri certificate and title as per Srila Prabhupada's instruction,
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