Dear Devotees, Supporters and Friends ...

Welcome to the August edition of our Multimedia Newsletter. This time we have wonderful contributions from other devotees authors as well as some interesting links. This issue is packed with all sorts of things, ranging from scholarly articles by Aniha Prabhu to delicious recipes from Bhaktin Shradha to some nice realisations from Pavitra mataji from Detroit. There are also some new bhajans on our Real Audio Page.

Sunday 9 September His Holiness Sivarama Swami will be coming to Leicester. He is specially flying in from Hungary to give Diksa initiation to Bhaktin Shradha and to preside over a Siksa Blessing Giving Ceremony for several of our congregational members who are prepared to make a serious commitment in devotional service by publicly stating their vows at various levels such as Sraddhavan, Krishna Sevaka, Krishna Sadhaka, Srila Prabhupada Asraya and Sri Guru Caran Asraya. We are expecting a huge turnout. Don't miss this great opportunity. This is an open invitation for all to take advantage of Maharaja's association and to witness the serious commitment of some of our devotees on this most auspicious day.

Another important news is perhaps that we are in close consultation with some devotees from Eastern Europe who are interested in coming to Leicester and serving with us at the temple. Our advert in various forums and conferences has produced a tangible result it seems. More and more devotees are inquiring about the opportunity to serve in Leicester. For more information click here.

Leicester is a pioneering field with so many opportunities due to the largest Indian community in the U.K. Please get in touch with us if you are interested in staying for some time or just to take a break from every day's hassle and stress. Full training will be given in the techniques of spiritual life and in a variety of fields of Krishna consciousness. The temple, with its beautiful surroundings, is truly a spiritual oasis, which is able to quench the thirst of any sincere traveler. For more information about the various activities and opportunities click here.

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But the reason I do not immediately reciprocate the affection of living beings even when they worship Me, O gopis, is that I want to intensify their loving devotion. They then become like a poor man who has gained some wealth and then lost it, and who thus becomes so anxious about it that he can think of nothing else. (SB 10.32.20)

• Shradha's Cooking Corner with New Recipes
• The Real Audio Page has New Music
• Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Online
• Krishna Book - Online
• Vrinda Devi
• Food for Life
• Cow Protection
• Hare Krishna World - former ISKCON World Review
• Music from Vaiyasaki das
• Windows to the Spiritual World
• Leicester Temple Brochure
• Leicester Temple Banner
• Make it Short, Sweet and to the Point
• Why Do You Worship Idols?
• The Story of Sakshi Gopala
• Nectar From The Other Side
• A Glorious History
• One Summer Sunday Afternoon
• Grandfather is more Merciful than Father
• Beg, Borrow or Steal
• New Recipe in the Cooking Corner
• Ram Tulsi
• The Children's Picture Gallery
• Service Opportunity

• Gauranga Screen Saver (Save the File and copy it to your Windows System Folder, 342KB)

• H.H. Sivarama Swami comes to Leicester on 9 September

• Initiation of Bhaktin Shradha on 9 September

• Siksa Blessing Ceremony on 9 September

• The New Abhisheka Platform is in Progress

• Save the Temple Fundraising Campaign is still on

• Weekly Bhakti-vriksa (Cell Group) Meetings on Friday

• Wales Retreat from 5 - 7 October

• The next monthly yajna is on 14th October

• Govardhana Puja is on 15 November

• Srila Prabhupada's Disappearance Day is on 18 November

Grandfather is more Merciful than Father

... The whole time I was cooking, I was thinking how pleased Srila Prabhupada would be with this wheat germ halava. This was my whole meditation, how Srila Prabhupada would be so pleased.

Then I offered it and brought it to Srila Prabhupada in his room. I was waiting to see how he would like it. He looked up with a very sour look on his face and said, "Halava means suji (cream of wheat)." With his left hand he motioned saying, "Take this away." When someone rejects something with his left hand, it is very heavy. So broken heartedly, I took the bowl of halava out of the room. [More]

Make it Short, Sweet and to the Point!

... As I stepped forward, I laughed to myself remembering how when I first joined the Krsna consciousness movement 31 years ago I was nervous to speak before a group of 10 devotees. Now here I was about to address 200,000 young people who would be listening attentively to my every word. I thought to myself, "Make it short, sweet and to the point." [More]


Why Do You Worship Idols?

... “Because the material elements are the Lord’s own energy and because there is no difference between the energy and the energetic, the Lord can appear through any element. Just as the Sun can act through the sunshine and thus distribute its heat and light, so Krishna, by His inconceivable power, can appear in His original spiritual form in any material element, including stone, wood, paint, gold, silver and jewels, because the material elements are all His energy. The scriptures warn that one should never think of the Deity within the temple as stone, wood or any other material element.” [More]


Nectar From The Other Side

It has always been considered allowable for parents to tell children, “Do as I say, not as I do”. If we were to hear such an instruction from a preacher of religion however, the tendency for the vast majority would be to ignore whatever was said, especially so nowadays when the public no longer finds it acceptable for those in authority to sweep wrong doings under the carpet. [More]


A Glorious History

... “Delivery from the fire of suffering in the world of change is not the highest goal,” said my companion. “That delivery is only the first step on the infinite path that leads into God’s forgotten world, the path on which the guru who loves God leads his disciple.”
“What kind of a path is that? What is the goal?” I asked expectantly.
“The path is love, the goal is love, ever greater, ever more heart-felt love of God. Just as it is the nature of fire to burn, so it is the nature of the human soul to love God. Just as a spark is evidence of a fire, because it is burning, the soul is evidence of God, because it loves. The spark is the single soul, the great fire of love is God…” [More]


Beg, Borrow or Steal

... “Pure devotional service in Krishna consciousness cannot be had even by pious activity in hundreds and thousands of lives. It can be attained only by paying one price – that is intense greed to obtain it. If it is available somewhere, one must purchase it without delay.” [More]

We hope you will enjoy this Newsletter.

Gauranga Sundara das
(President & Web Servant of ISKCON Leicester)

     website: http://www.gauranga.org

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