Wednesday, August 27, 2008

All glories, all glories to the assembled devotees

After every kirtan and before every class the prem devani prayers are spoken, each line ending in "ki jai!" then right at the end, 3 times, it is mentioned "All glories to the assembled devotees! All glories to the assembled devotees! All glories to the assembled devotees!"

All of you are glorious! What makes you glorious is your association with Krishna, your dedicated service to Him and Srila Prabhupada. Thank you dear youth group members for your selfless service attitude these past few weeks. Everyone assisted as they could juggling work, exams, family commitments, etc.
Special mention goes:

To Reena for bringing her funky drawing apparatus which made it easy and speedy to get the cut outs done;
The painters: Aarti, Kandarpa, Sunaina, Hemisha, Syamarani, Dini;
To Raji for the tricky work of cutting polystyrene,
Veemal for painting an incredible sun;
To all the girls for cutting what felt like a million birds;
To Vishaka M, Srivas Pr, Gita Govinda M, Hemisha, Hemisha’s mum, Aarti, Aarti’s mum, Sunaina, Reena, Mohini, Kandarpa for assisting with the cooking.;
To Srivas Pr, Veemal, Nanda Kisore and Vraja Vallabha for assisting with putting up everything around Srila Prabhupada;
To Gita Govinda M for helping me arrange everything and for buying everything and doing the local vyasapuja book;
To Gita Govinda M, Hemisha, Aarti, Veemal, Srivas Pr and Kandarpa for manning the book table and also to Abhiram for doing some running around for us.;
To Kandarpa for helping me get the actors ready;
And finally to the actors for their sweet performance – well done! check out the pics below!

I’m sure I’ve missed out some people – please forgive me.


All your efforts and service no matter how small or big is truly valuable. Let’s continue serving together at the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada!

Your servant and friend,
Sitala dd

Friday, August 1, 2008

See where you'd like to help out

Hare Krishna you all,

Hope you are all feeling blissful, if not well the flood of festivals coming up will definitely lift your spirits!

This Saturday, as well as practicing for the play, we will also be starting to prepare for the various services coming up for the various festivals. So those who are not taking part in the play, please attend to assist us with cutting, pulling, folding, etc, etc in fact be sure to bring a long a pair of scissors if you can.
To give a brief view of our planed activities, see below and see where you'd like to help out.

09 Aug: Pre-Janmastamini Festival
- Hosting book table

16 Aug: Balarama's app day
- doing the temple décor
- coordinating offering of candles to Lord Nityananda
- hosting Balarama's café
- hosting book table
- hosting youth group table
- handing out welcome pamphlets

18 Aug: Blue Lotus book Club
- be sure to keep reading your books!

24 Aug: Janmastami
- performing youth group play
- doing major temple décor (assisting Nandakumar Prabhu)
- cooking dhal of the feast
- hosting book table
- hosting youth group table

25 Aug: Srila Prabhupada's appearance day
- preparing the vyasapuja book
- adding additional décor (assisting Nandakumar Prabhu)

20 - 21 Sep: Lenasia Ratha Yatra
- lots and lots and lots of décor service for Lord Jagannatha's tent and chariot

It doesn't stop here actually , what with the month of kartik thereafter and the December book marathon it’s going to be a rollercoaster ride right through to the end of this year!
Youth group this Saturday, 2 August 08, will be at the temple at 2PM.
See you all there