Homages from ISKCON Centers
Homages from ISKCON Centers
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<strong>Homages</strong> <strong>from</strong> <strong>ISKCON</strong> <strong>Centers</strong><br />
month an average of six thousand copies of the 16 Rounds magazine are distributed on racks throughout<br />
San Diego. Our book distributors and temple consistently rank high in the monthly North America<br />
Saìkértana Newsletter.<br />
The congregational preaching is in full swing. Every week there are three or four gatherings in<br />
homes around the city. Special membership seminars have been organized, as well as cooking classes.<br />
Congregational picnics and gatherings are highlights for our members, and a study program of your books<br />
just for members is being developed. Our priests take care of our congregation’s request for weddings,<br />
funerals, saàskäras, and püjäs.<br />
Every Thursday night our Kåñëa Lounge is packed with college students and other young guests.<br />
On Friday night there is a blissful mahä-harinäma through the busy streets of downtown San Diego. On<br />
Saturdays we have “Bhajans in the Park”—a few hours of chanting and book and prasädam distribution<br />
in the middle of Balboa Park, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country. On Saturday<br />
night we have our Satsang Program in the temple for the Indian community, and on Sunday night is our<br />
famous Kåñëa Fest. Our festivals of Janmäñöamé, Gaura Pürëimä, Räma-navamé, etc., are attended by<br />
capacity crowds. And every week between four hundred and five hundred plates of lunch prasädam are<br />
distributed to students and faculty at the local universities.<br />
The plans for the project in Escondido are moving ahead. The property is now hosting a few devotees<br />
who have started organic farming, and there is talk of adding a small goçälä. As the dedication and Kåñëa<br />
consciousness of our congregation increases, the project will grow until there is a beautiful temple on<br />
the property and hundreds of guests visiting daily.<br />
The temple here in Pacific Beach is being renovated in stages to better serve Their Lordships, the<br />
residents, and the guests.<br />
If you were to visit, I know you would thank the devotees for all their hard work and would praise<br />
them for their accomplishments. Then you would ask us to double it—to keep increasing the quality and<br />
quantity of our service to Kåñëa. You have full realization of the unlimited nature of devotional service.<br />
That is why you can be fully satisfied with our service and the next moment ask us to do more, to make<br />
our service to the devotees, to Kåñëa, and the more than three million conditioned souls in San Diego<br />
more perfect.<br />
Just as small children will ask their parents for money to buy the parents a gift, so we, on this most<br />
blessed day, beg you for your blessings and mercy so we can always be excited and sincere about<br />
increasing our service to you both externally and within our hearts. Please allow us to continue assisting<br />
you in your service to your spiritual master and Kåñëa.<br />
You taught us by your example that this is the most sublime meaning of Vyäsa-püjä.<br />
Your servants in New Govardhan, the <strong>ISKCON</strong> temple in San Diego, California, USA.<br />
(written by Dharmasetu Däsa)<br />
New Mäyäpur<br />
nama oà viñëu-pädäya kåñëa-preñöhäya bhü-tale<br />
çrémate bhaktivedänta-sväminn iti nämine<br />
namas te särasvate deve gaura-väëé-pracäriëe<br />
nirviçeña-çünyavädi-päçcätya-deça-täriëe<br />
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