Haribol wonderful devotees, Please Accept My Humble Obeisances.
All Glories To Srila Prabhupada! , All glories to HH Partha Sarathi Goswami!
We had an enlightening book club meeting yet again, it was ekadasi so the mood was already devotional and we sang Gurudev led by Sitala matajee and Gopi playing her mini mrdanga which enlightened the Vaikuntha mood even more. This month we read Encounters with a great soul by HH Partha Sarathi Goswami. Each and everyone completed the book because we found it very interesting. This book was brilliant because the pictures, letters, newspaper articles, Maharaj’s poems and offerings to Srila Prabhupada gave us a personal tour by his grace down memory lane to see encounters with a great soul through his fond memories we sincerely thank HH Partha Sarathi Goswami for his book and appreciated it very much; it increased our surrender to Srila Prabhupada. We are very fortunate indeed to be blessed with such loving and dedicated spiritual leaders in ISKCON who are oceans of mercy so we must take every opportunity to drown ourselves in this nectar.
All Glories To Srila Prabhupada! , All glories to HH Partha Sarathi Goswami!
We had an enlightening book club meeting yet again, it was ekadasi so the mood was already devotional and we sang Gurudev led by Sitala matajee and Gopi playing her mini mrdanga which enlightened the Vaikuntha mood even more. This month we read Encounters with a great soul by HH Partha Sarathi Goswami. Each and everyone completed the book because we found it very interesting. This book was brilliant because the pictures, letters, newspaper articles, Maharaj’s poems and offerings to Srila Prabhupada gave us a personal tour by his grace down memory lane to see encounters with a great soul through his fond memories we sincerely thank HH Partha Sarathi Goswami for his book and appreciated it very much; it increased our surrender to Srila Prabhupada. We are very fortunate indeed to be blessed with such loving and dedicated spiritual leaders in ISKCON who are oceans of mercy so we must take every opportunity to drown ourselves in this nectar.
We discussed how Maharaj made a garland for Srila Prabhupada and although it wilted and he did not get to offer it, his love and devotional was noted by Lord Krishna so the lesson we extracted was that our devotional service must be rendered with love and no aspiration for any recognition, Krishna knowsJ. Maharaj explained how potent Srila Prabhupada’s walking stick was just like any of Krishna’s paraphernalia and how he ensured it never touched the ground which made us realise that our gurus’ paraphernalia are just as potent and we must take care when serving them.
We shed tears when we read how Maharaj felt when he heard that Srila Prabhupada left his body. We learnt the importance of eating guru’s remnants because HH Partha Sarathi Goswami had eaten Srila Prabhupada’s chewed oranges and we can see how dedicated his grace is even after so many years all due to his guru’s mercy so we must also relish guru’s remnants so that we may also never stray from the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada. When we read Srila Prabhupada’s books we will take into consideration the 4 points that Maharaj has raised in his offering to Srila Prabhupada.
We all realised how much HH Partha Sarathi Goswami loves Srila Prabhupada and we can only aspire to eventually attain a similar love for Srila Prabhupada. By reading this book we encountered 2 great souls our hero Srila Prabhupada and his loving son HH Partha Sarathi Goswami.
Daksha matajee gave us each a little book so that we can make notes for book club, and we all appreciated this lovely gift. These loving exchanges between us creates a special relationship which helps us grow in our KC. We are each a single blue petal and as we contribute our favourite parts of the book we begin to weave a flower and together we form a unique blue lotus.
Thank you to Hemisha Matajee and her mother for hosting book club this month and also serving wonderful prasadam.
For & on behalf Blue Lotus Book Club
your servant
Hema
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