Monday, June 30, 2008

Doctor, help me! I don’t know who I am!


Last Saturday’s youth group topic was “Expanding consciousness” the idea is that as you evolve spiritually you become more aware of things, people, actions, etc around you. Where before you may have quite easily have been rude to someone, now you know they are a spirit soul, a part of Krishna and so should be respected. Like this our every action becomes a conscious activity.

We played a game where we elected Mehul as a psychiatrist. Between the rest of us we agreed that we would all pretend we were the person to our left. So Mehul had to determine what our mental illness was. He could only ask yes/no questions. It was quite funny as we’d tried to sneak looks at the person to our left to answer accordingly. In the end with the help of the latecomers, Sunaina and sisters, they managed to crack the pattern.

The point is that we are all suffering due to this illness of not knowing who we are. Its pure craziness (as Mehul would confirm!) to think that you are this body existing for only a short while. When you realise you are spirit soul, very easily your consciousness can be expanded, because then you are seeing or seeking to see the bigger picture.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

What a weekend!

What a weekend, huh?!!

I must say I wasn’t sure how play practice on nirjal ekadasi would go, but with everyone fasting we still managed a good practice run! Thank you, guys, for performing the play for the Randburg Ratha Yatra. It was well done and well received by the audience. Time to start working on another one :o)

And I also want to thank the devotees for assisting with the book table.
The books were flying of the tables with absolutely no effort from our side! It was totally amazing!

We sold R3000 worth of books - Jai Prabhupada!!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Blue lotuses desiring the lotus feet of the Lord

We, the Blue Lotus people, are happy to announce another book completed!

KRSNA Book is amazing! It's like Reena said, her favorite part about it was how every reading makes us more Krishna conscious. - Isn't that the whole point of us being part of this Hare Krishna movement??

Sirla Prabhupada describes this transcendental reading:

"To hear about Krishna from Vedic literatures, or to hear from Him directly through the Bhagavad-Gita, is itself righteous activity. And for one who hears about Krishna, Lord Krishna, who is dwelling in everyone's heart, acts as a best-wishing friend and purifies the devotee who constantly engages in hearing of Him. In this way, a devotee naturally develops his dormant transcendental knowledge. As he hears more about Krishna from the Bhāgavatam and from the devotees, he becomes fixed in the devotional service of the Lord. By development of devotional service one becomes freed from the modes of passion and ignorance, and thus material lusts and avarice are diminished. When these impurities are wiped away, the candidate remains steady in his position of pure goodness, becomes enlivened by devotional service and understands the science of God perfectly. Thus bhakti-yoga severs the hard knot of material affection and enables one to come at once to the stage of asamìśayamì-samagram, understanding of the Supreme Absolute Truth Personality of Godhead." (Bhāg. 1.2.17-21)

On this auspicious note we begin reading our next book: Sri Isopanisad.

Why this book? Well, because none of us have actually read it! I'm looking forward to seeing what amazing nectar Srila Prabhupada has spilt in to this book. Whatever it is I'm sure the experience is going to be fabulous.

Next book club is at

Hemisha's place: 33 Quail Str, Ext 1 Lenz
Monday, 30 June 2008 at 7PM

See you all there!

:o)

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

the best calming medication

Last youth group was dedicated to all the diligent students in our youth group. It is exam time and the pressures of studying and cramming is HUGE! So this youth group we had a total de-stress session with the best calming medication.

We invited the temple devotees to join us in leading kirtan. A special thank you to Adrih Prabhu, Panca Janya Prabhu and Shyamarani Matajee (the temple devotees) Panca Janya Prabhu led really nice and soothing melodies of the Maha Mantra and everyone became really absorbed in Krishna’s sweet holy names.

We will definitely be calling them again

:o)