Dear Friends and Patrons
Hope this meets you all well and experiencing Lord Krsna's love! Yesterday (April 23) marked the "World Book Day" by UNESCO to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone, and in particular young people, to discover the pleasure of reading and gain a renewed respect for the irreplaceable contributions of those, who have furthered the social and cultural progress of humanity. In order to honor this day, we at ISKCON of Silicon Valley have organized a special series of reading from a special book titled, "Brhad Bhagavatamrta". Sri Brihad-bhagavatamrita is an epic work composed in Sanskrit during the sixteenth century by Sanatana Goswami, one of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's leading disciples. It is one of the first books written by any of the Six Goswamis of Vrindavan. In three volumes, it gives an easily readable account of two great spiritual quests. In one, the Vedic sage Narada searches throughout the universe for Krishna's greatest devotee. In the other, the cowherd boy Gopa Kumar searches for Krishna Himself—the Supreme Person, the ultimate goal of life. The Bhagavatamrita is rooted in ancient history. It is the appendix to the sage Jaimini Rishi's version of the historical saga Mahabharata, and was spoken by the hero of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, King Pariksit, to his mother, just moments before the king's death. This edition of Sri Brihad-bhagavatamrita is the work of Gopiparanadhana Dasa, who was part of the team of Srila Prabhupada's scholarly disciples who completed the translation and commentary on Srila Prabhupada's life's work—the Srimad-Bhagavatam—after Srila Prabhupada's passing in 1977. Gopiparanadhana Dasa wrote several volumes of translation and commentary on the Goswamis' writings before his passing in 2011.
We hope you can join us for these readings!
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