Hare Krsna dear Hanumatpresaka Maharaja, please accept my respectful obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
A couple of days ago I read your question to write about my Sankirtana so I try to collect few things about it.
As Radhe wrote finally we moved from Manchester to Luton which is very near to Bhaktivedanta Manor. We can say that we are fortunate because we can attend the temple morning program and can hear from advanced devotees once a week. Sri Sri Radha Gokulananda are very very beautiful, so good to see Them and sing&dance before Them with the devotees! And we can chant japa in the presence of Tulasi devi as well.
In a smaller Sankirtana circle we are together with Radhe, daily we sing Mangala arati and chant japa. During last Kartik month we sang the Damodarastakam every day and we made a practice of doing it; nowadays we sing the Gaura arati song at evenings and it is a good experience.
In a point of view my wife is a guru for me, because she (or Krsna through her) teaches me how to be in a proper serving mood all the time continually.
Our common preaching is limited to the colleagues. We try to give them some prasadam and I think in this effort the upcoming festive season will help us.
And in the smallest Sankirtana circle there are two kind of activity. The first is to preach to the outside world. It means that I run a blog about chanting Japa and translate/managing the translating tasks of a book called 'When Good Fortune Arises' about Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja from His disciple Madhavananda prabhu.
The second is to preach to myself. Actually it means that I have to learn so many things about how to be a servant of Sri Krsna, study the sastra and learn how to chant properly. Sometimes I have to start from the very basics due to the forgetfulness, laziness, 'i do not know what else'-ness.
These were the small news from Luton with love! I hope your health is ok! Recently I have not read any bad news about it. And hope that your preaching plans are / will be successful!
Thank you for your valuable time, Jaya Sri Sri Guru Gauranga! your servant, Kadamba Kanana dasa
HpS - ASA -- Sooooooooooo nice to hear from you. We met just a little bit somewhere in Europe. I cannot remember where, but always hoping to get more of your association.
We moved the Temple from San Francisco across the Bay to Berkeley where the big university is. Then Jayatirtha Das wrote to Prabhupada that we had discovered that the preaching was good there.
Prabhupada responded, "You have discovered that the preaching is good there because you have made the endeavor there. Wherever you make the endeavor you will discover that the preaching is good."
It's a fact, just preach, get across the idea, "Well, I don't know, but my old Grand Daddy used to say...", and then more and more preaching will come as Krsna desires! I have to learn this.
Madhavananda is such a nice devotee!
