Hare Krishna, Dear Guru Maharaja,
At the Hare Krishna Fair, sponsored by Municipalidad de Quilicura, we distributed more than 300 USD in books, Guru Maharaja! They gave us 18 stands to sell prasadam and books. Chandramukha Swami was our guest.
HpS/ASA 🐵
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🐒 🐒 Super!!! All respects to Maharaja and all the Sankirtaneros.
All the video: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/p/DPjKJutDQuk/
And pictures here: The Embassy of India in Chile https://web.facebook.com/IndiaInChile/posts/pfbid0XEhkC7HnaNrgfDwjVRkikdBJ1SQcLQkw48vCzSFxGcttq5A7TrKWx7QXutjozL6Cl
We had a spiritual retreat with 16 people in Puerto Varas, south of Chile (12 hours in bus, 1,5 h. plane). Most of them are complete newcomers. There, the preaching is led by Bhaktin Monica Ramirez and her husband, Matias Valiente are doing a very good job preaching and cultivating new people. They are inspired by Kamalanandini, our senior preacher in Coyaique, because this young couple adopt el bhakti there in Coyaique. They invited me to their first retreat to introduce everyone to mangala arati and Bhagavatam. The main topic was Upadesamrta. I talked for 6 hours in two days. I was exhausted, but it seems that everyone was happy, according to their final feedback. But eveyrhing is good seeing the Llanquihue lake there, the second largest of Chile.
ASA - It must be a reflection of a lake in Vaikuntha. Ayodhya. Lanka[?].
The Ratha Yatra was organised by Dina Dayal and his team. It was just two days ago, so there are no details yet about how many books and everything, but it was a very successful effort.
HpS - Here they had their second Rathayatra in the neighborhood park. Very intense!
Here are some pictures. Mahavisnu Swami Maharaja is here with us. He came because of this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQytgzNETVS/?img_index=1
What's next
Also, the Indian Embassy invested more than 2000 USD in buying 200 Bhagavad Gitas to distribute in an event next Friday here in the temple. We are inviting mayors, congressmen, dignitaries and leaders of society to this event:
- We have had this invitation to a school this 21st November where children since 7 to 17 years old will be there. We visited several times because they organised this event about different religions. We used to do kirtana and distribute and give for free some books. We also have a conversatorio with the teacher and students, and a general presentation on the stage with most of the students there.
Finally, the November 23rd, we are participating in a program called Yoga para Todos led by a friend of devotees Fran Kirtidev in San Miguel. We went once and we distributed a lot of books, but now more people will attend.
I have two more reports waiting. They are about the Spiritual Intelligence project and 3rd Latin American Congress on Education with ISKCON - Santiago, Chile.
HpS - Thank you! For us we kind of feel like Nashville was our office, Lima our Home and Santiago our Sankirtan spot.
All the pictures of Rama lila were there on the windows.
The picture of Hanumatpresaka Hanuman was right by the door, go out to preach!!
Govinda carana Das is sending Blog Posts about fixing dates for our ASA visit to Lima:
https://monkeywarrior.com/detail/15926/
Yadu Swami is pushing his travel agent for good tickets from Marid to Stg. for the two (or more) of us.
You also have Radhika-ramana Das's dates now, too, no?
Seems like we can fix some dates and buy the tickets pretty soon, no?
Try to keep ourselves pure, then KRSNA will send innocent people, and they must remain patient to hear the situation of this material world and its contrast with the spiritual world. One, Two, Three.
We really hope we can fit into this movement and these events.
- Why are you (me [readers]) personally involved in The Congress etc.
- Who are our partners, who have answered 1 above.
- Base upon 1 and 2 then... making plans.
- Based up 3 acquire resources eg. venue.
Given 'em a book! Straight to the heart!!!!!
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