Gita For Everyone in Ecuador!
The devotees from ISKCON Ecuador delivered their first training course for introducing the ‘Bhagavad Gita as it is’ using the Congregational Development Ministry outreach program called ‘Gita For Everyone’. This innovative program provides a gradual introduction to the concepts of the Bhagavad Gita making it very appealing to newcomers. The devotees from the Ecuador Yatra presented this course to a number of participants on the Gita Jayanti day, this 7th of December, to commemorate the appearance of the Bhagavad Gita. We encourage devotees to find out more about this innovative program on the following link iskconcongregation.com/programs/gita-for-everyone-program/?fbclid=IwAR2B2sFmentEy1FkWaAkzBroFJJyd...
Different devotees around the world have been applying this outreach program and are seeing the results of gradually cultivating new comers and guests into the process of Krsna Consciousness. The program offers six weeks presentations, added to eighteen weeks summarized sessions. The resources offered in this preaching tool include Power Points, videos, audios, etc. if you are interested in knowing more about this program you can write to us to iksvaku.dasa@gmail.com or gitaforeveryoneiskcon@gmail.com for further information or to discuss the opportunity to receive free online training. We invite you to view the following YouTube videos in our YouTube channel ‘ISKCON Congregation’ and visit us in our Facebook ‘ISKCON Congregation’. We are happy to serve you to distribute the knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita everywhere and to everyone.
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Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Miracle
On October 28th, 2006, Chakravarty Raj, the 14-year-old son of Radha Kanta Gopal das and Padma Radhika devi dasi was injured when a fire cracker burst in his face. He was immediately rushed to the hospital. The doctors said that he suffered from 2nd-degree burn injuries on his face and suggested (1) facial dressing immediately, (2) chemical crafting after a fortnight and then (3) plastic surgery after 6 months or 1 year.
The next morning, the parents requested Pankajanghri Prabhu to offer special offerings to Lord Nrsimhadev for the speedy recovery of Chakravarty Raj, which was duly performed.
For the next 2 days, he was just lying in bed without much movement. He could not even open his eyelids. He was then taken to Disha eye hospital at Barackpur, where they found that the carina (the white portions of the eyes) took the burn injury and the pupils were unharmed. Hence, there would be no problem with his sight and treatment of 15 days would cure the carina.
On 2nd November morning, Padma Radhika devi dasi approached her Guru Maharaja, His Holiness Jayapataka Swami, and told him of what had happened. He gestured that he will pray for him and applied Nrsimha oil on her forehead. The same morning, Chakra was taken to Kolkata for treatment of his facial injuries
After getting an opinion at the Apollo Hospital in the morning, Chakravarty was taken to the Railway Hospital at Howrah. One of the senior Doctors tested him and confirmed that it was a second-degree burn and sent him to the dressing room for initial facial dressing. But within 3 minutes one of the staff from the dressing room rushed out yelling and took the parents inside. Upon seeing Chakravarty the parents stood there motionless, struck with wonder and amazement. There was Chakra, standing and smiling, with no trace of any injury or mark on his face!! Nrsimhadev ki Jai.
When asked for clarification, the Doctor and others present in that place could not give any valid reason. One of them said, “You can go back to your temple and ask you Lord about it. “This is your Lord’s miracle.”
All glories to Lord Nrsimhadev and all glories to Sri Sri Radha Madhava.
Reference: Narasimhalila
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"In this age of Kali, the Supreme Lord in His incarnation of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu should be worshiped with His associates by performance of saṅkīrtana-yajña, the congregational chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. This process is accepted by intelligent men."
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The Lord Always Protects His Devotees
Speaker: H.H Badrinarayan Swami
Radhanath Swami Maharaja told me a very blissful story the other day and he said I could use it. So here goes! There was that Taj Hotel where the terrorists attacked. They were fighting in there for three days, complete carnage. The terrorists had arranged in such a way that they would always be up higher. They would shoot from a lower vantage point down. Radhanath Maharaja told me this. They had all these grenades and they would throw the grenades and the grenades would create so much smoke that if you were down looking up you couldn’t see anything.
Picture that you are one of these soldiers or police officers and you are in this cloud of smoke and up above you there is this hail of bullets from the terrorists shooting at you. One of those soldiers was one of our devotees. At one point, they were trying to chase these people through the hotel. They are trapped. The terrorist were throwing all these grenades, they are in a complete cloud of smoke. They cannot see one foot in front of their face. They can’t see left, right or anything and this hail of bullets is being fired at them. Just a wall of bullets coming at them.
This devotee police officer, with two other police officers on either side, he is in the middle, he actually was completely helpless. He couldn’t see left, right, he couldn’t see his colleagues. He remembered that he had on his ring tone on his phone Nrsimhadeva prayers. He began playing the Nrsimhadeva prayers and praying intently to Lord Nrsimhadeva, “Please I am absolutely helpless. I am going to die. Save me, in an absolutely hopeless state.”
When the shooting stopped, the smoke cleared, his friend to the right and his friend to the left were completely killed, riddled with bullets, and he was unscathed. In front of him, which he couldn’t see at the time, was a giant pillar. And because they were shooting at him the pillar protected him.
He thought, “Just as Lord Nrsimhadev came out of the pillar to save Prahlada He put a pillar here to save me!” So my point is, simple point, is if we have that faith, “Oh, how will I be taken care of?” Krsna will take care of you, don’t worry. Let me give my life to the sankirtana movement.”
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