DISAPPEARANCE OF SRILA JAYANANDA PRABHU

Srila Jayananda Prabhu Disappearance Day

Srila Jayananda Prabhu joined Srila Prabhupada and the fledgling Hare Krsna movement in San Francisco in 1967. Jayananda Prabhu had been driving a cab, and, encouraged by Srila Prabhupada, he kept that job to help support the storefront Hare Krsna temple. He also gave Srila Prabhupada $5,000 to help print the first edition of Bhagavad-gita As It Is.

For many years Jayananda Prabhu was the backbone of the San Francisco Rathayatra (Festival of the Chariots). He would do everything from asking for donations of food, flowers, and money to advertising, building the chariots, arranging for permits, and organizing the cooking and distribution of prasadam, food offered to Krsna.

The last festival Jayananda was able to work on directly was the New York City Rathayatra in 1976. Attended by Srila Prabhupada, it was the first Rathayatra in New York, and it went down Fifth Avenue. Jayananda called it the most successful of all the festivals he had worked on.

Soon after that festival, Jayananda Prabhu was diagnosed as having cancer. He spent his last few months advising devotees in Los Angeles who were preparing to put on their first Rathayatra. He passed away in 1977 while devotees chanted Hare Krsna in his room.

In a letter to Jayananda shortly after his passing, Srila Prabhupada wrote, "As you were hearing Krsna-kirtana, I am sure that you were directly promoted to Krsna-loka. Krsna has done a great favor to you, not to continue your diseased body, and has given you a suitable place for your service."

Srila Prabhupada requested devotees all over the world to commemorate Jayananda Prabhu's passing every year as they would that of any great devotee of Krsna.

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Baptist church turned Krishna temple causes double-take in Coconut Grove

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Miami, USA – April 13, 2013 (VNN) By JONI B. HANNIGAN via Florida Baptist Witness (FBW)

ISKCON Temple Miami

It used to be a Baptist church, but now it’s a Hare Krishna Temple.

Perched near the western edge of Biscayne Bay, in sophisticated northeast Coconut Grove, one of Miami’s oldest, but eclectic neighborhoods—known for its artistic flare and individualism—a Hare Krishna Temple hardly stands out as unusual on the corner of Virginia Street and Day Avenue.

What does often cause a second glance is the beautiful, colonial Georgian style white front—with tall, round pillars—almost hidden by lush palms and shrubs that now nearly overpower unused steps leading to doors once wide-open to the community by Florida Baptists who worshipped there a quarter of a century ago.

Some of the neighbors vaguely remember it used to be a Baptist church, but residents in the area generally seem to have positively embraced the new “spiritual” presence.

Terry Sharp, IMB lead strategist for state and associational relations, visited the area as part of an exercise during “Etniciudad” March 1 (see related story on page 12). In a session after conference participants traveled to various parts of the city to observe people and learn about opportunities to connect with them, Sharp said, “sometimes when we see people who have different cultures from our own, we feel like we might offend someone.”

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This Amazing Temple Mixes Detroit History With Indian Culture

By Tina Valentine | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Wed, Apr 10, 2013

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In the mid-1920s, Lawrence Fisher of the Fisher Brothers Body firm, which supplied parts for General Motors, decided to build amagnificent mansion on the outskirts of Detroit to show off his wealth and good fortune. He hired C. Howard Crane, the man who also built the Fisher Theater, to design this elaborate home. The mansion was built in 1928 at 383 Lenox Ave. in Detroit and cost about $2 million.

Some of the floors and tiled walls have real gold and silver trim in them. There are intricately carved wood ceilings that took two years to build and some Mediterranean-style ceilings. African zebra wood designs are on the walls of one room, and silk fabric adorns the walls of another. The library has real hand-painted leather on the walls, and fossils are preserved in the stone fireplace. Ornate trim can be found throughout the mansion, and some of the original furniture is still there, just as Fisher left it. It's an incredible part of Detroit history, and it is now The Bhaktivedanta Cultural Center of the Hare Krishna.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Instant karma: A first-hand glimpse into Dallas’ Hare Krishna community

Rex C. Curry

Lewinna Merchant, left, and Hannah Lessinger dance with other Krishna devotees during Festival of Chariots at Dallas' Hare Krishna Temple on Saturday, April 13, 2013.

DALLAS — As the slamming of drums swells in volume, I try my best to push through the crowd. I make my way toward the stage, unsure of myself while an audience with a Woodstock-size fervor sways back and forth moaning a chant straight out of the psychedelic 60s.

A Time for Celebration

I’m at Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji Mandir – Dallas’s only Hare Krishna temple and home to the restaurant Kalachandji’s since 1986. That this festival commemorates the birth of the faith’s main deity Krishna means little to me as I watch grown men blow conch shells while the rest of the group dances.

On the morning of March 26, I didn’t expect that I would be huddled between masses of grinning monks before supper. However I wasn’t surprised, pulling into Gurley Avenue – where the temple stands tall among a suburb of lower income homes – to find throngs of white people in traditional Indian saris making their way to Kalachandji’s with ear-to-ear grins on their faces, like they’d just seen every member of The Grateful Dead at the same time.

THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE EKADASHI FAST

The science behind the Ekadashi fast
by Avadhut dasa
Ekadashi is the 11th day of the moon cycle, both from the full moon and from the new moon.
The Padma Puraana, describes the following relevance of Ekadashi:
Jaimini Rishi, a renowned sage, once became inquisitive about the Ekadashi vow, so he inquired from the great sage Vyaasa about the same. Vyaasa said that initially, when the world was manifested, Lord Vishnu created a demonic creature (Paapa-Purusha) that was the embodiment of all types of sins. This was done in order to punish all beings who would choose the path of evil. Subsequently, He also created the Yamaloka - the cosmic penitentiary, so that anyone who sinned (with symptoms of Paapa-Purusha in him) would be sent there.

Launch Of 40th Anniversary of Bhaktivedanta Manor at the House of Lords

By Radha Mohan Das for ISKCON News on 3 May 2013

Patti Boulaye, the Royal House's favorite singer sang the Hare Krishna mantra opera style.

Her Royal Highness Princess Katrina of Yugoslavia welcomed Radhanath Swami, other devotees and a host of dignitaries at the River Room of the House of Lords, part of London's Parliament, on Wednesday 17th April. After Her Royal Highness warmly congratulated Bhaktivedanta Manor on its 40th Anniversary she added that “the Manor facilitates so much education, culture and spirituality in the community. It is wonderful how it gives the opportunity for people to work closely with the land with its farming and horticultural activities. It is also noteworthy that during Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee, she visited The Krishna Avanti School”.

President of Bhaktivedanta Manor Srutidharma das said “we are standing on the shoulders of previous generations of devotees who with great determination and devotion have left a lasting legacy so that now many thousands can worship their Lordships Shri Shri Radha Gokulanda”.