Final Results of MSF of Heart to Heart Connections: Lord Nityananda Appearance Day Offering
Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
The Monthly Sankirtana Festival (MSF) of Heart to Heart connections was officially conducted during the second weekend of February, was concluded today on the Nityananda Trayodashi and the final results offered on this auspicious day to Srila Prabhupada and their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, Sri Lakshmi Narsimhadev and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu at the ISV temple in San Jose.
nitai-pada-kamala,koti-candra-
je chayay jagata juray
The lotus feet of Lord Nityananda are a shelter where one will get the soothing moonlight not only of one, but of millions of moons. If the world wants to have real peace, it should take shelter of Lord Nityananda.
Lord Balarama appeared as Lord Nityananda. Just as Lord Balarama expanded Himself as various paraphernalia to serve Krishna, Lord Nityananda has expanded Himself in to various paraphernalia for Sankirtan like kartals and mridamgam to serve Lord Chaitanya in propagating the chanting of Krishna’s holy names, which is the Yuga Dharma. In this MSF, we wanted to serve Lord Nityananda by expanding our paraphernalia and infrastructure to distribute more and more Srila prabhupada books, the “Brhad mrdanga”.
The Team ISV goals of this MSF were:
1. To publish the ISV Online calendar of Weekly schedule.
2. Launch contact follow up mobile app for Motel Gita
3. Complete book distribution calendar for 2013
4. SENCO team to launch conscious contact initiative
We are pleased to report that these goals have been met.
Highlights
· Dimitri prabhu, Damodar prabhu and team have published online calendars for weekly events and MSFs at ISV. Govindacharan prabhu and team has published Bay area festival calendar for Sankirtan.
· Hitendra Prabhu and Nilesh Prabhu has successfully launched Phase 1 of the mobile app for Motel gita order management. Srivas Pandit Prabhu and team has launched SENCO contact initiative.
· To facilitate improvement of devotional skills, special workshops were held during the Wednesday night Gita classes and Sunday feast programs, conducted by HG Vaisesika prabhu that focused on ‘overcoming procrastination’, ‘transcendental devotional service’, ‘clear communication’ and ‘symptoms of advanced devotee’.
· Balimardan prabhu and team has organized an inspiring seminar by Radhika Ramana prabhu and his mother Aruddha Mataji on home schooling kids based on Krishna Conscious Principles.
· Keeping the theme of heart of heart connections in mind, on the weekend of Feb 9 and 10th, we greeted our donors in Cupertino with Books and Prasadam.
·Team ISV held an ecstatic Hari Nama Sankirtana performance in Palo Alto on Feb 15, participating in singing and dancing, broadcasting the holy name and distributing books and prasadam. During the same weekend, devotees also went out to distribute books at different spots in Cupertino, Sunnyvale and Stanford. Along with Caitanya Caritamrita sets, we also distributed Srimad Bhagavatam sets shipped from India. Also, Bhagavad Gita books in Telugu and Hindi were distributed.
Summary of Scores
In this book distribution effort:
In all, 2912 books were distributed and[ Including Motel gita books+ 7 Śrī Caitanya Caritamṛta Sets + 6 Śrīmad Bhagavatam Sets
· $_$3595 Laxmi points were collected
We are grateful to all participating devotees including kids for their contributions in book distribution at ISV. Thanks to Shilesh Prabhu for ISV bookkeeping and special thanks to HG Balimardan prabhu for taking initiative to publish ISV Monthly Sankirtan Newsletter.
We are very grateful to HG Vaisesika prabhu for his continuous inspiring leadership and guidance.
Sri Nityananda Trayodashi MSF of Heart to Heart connections ki Jaya!
Your humble servant,
-Sri Krishna Purusottama das
