Unfortunately not all of the Kirtan was recorded (recorder battery had to be changed).
Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupad’s Appearance Day is a very special day for all ISKCON devotees as they joyfully glorify their eternal saviour Srila Prabhupada on His appearance day.Srila Prabhupada was sent by the Lord to fulfill Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s prediction- Prtvithe ache yata nagaradi grama,sarvatra pracara haibe more nama In every town and village of the world, My name will be heard.Srila Bhakti Vinoda Thakura wrote in his Sajjona-tosani, “Soon there will be a time when the chanting of Krishna’s name will be heard in England, France, Russia, Germany and America.”Srila Prabhupada appeared on Nanadotsava. Nandotsava means: Nanda Maharaja’s huge festival celebrating Krishna’s birth. Nanda Maharaja dressed in luxurious garments and distributed profuse charity to everyone in his kingdom. He gave away opulent cloth and ornaments and two million richly decorated cows to the brahmanas. Vraja was alive with vibrations of Vedic hymns and beautiful decorations and everyone was experiencing unending happiness. Bursting with bliss, the Vrajavasis expressed their joy by throwing butter, yogurt and ghee all around.One hundred years ago, on that most auspicious spiritual occasion, Srila Prabhupada appeared to fulfill the mission of Lord Krishna. Srila Prabhupada grew up as a pure devotee of the Lord and distributed Krishna Consciousness everywhere.Srila Prabhupada made a perfect appearance, led a perfect life and had a perfect departure. Srila Prabhupada lives forever through his books. This legacy will always provide the devotees with Lord Caitanya katha and teach everyone to chant the Maha mantra. Vyasa-puja is an annual celebration by devotees of Lord Krishna to offer homage to their guru, or spiritual teacher. Krishna Himself admits that what He likes most is when someone likes His devotee.Each year, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust publishes a limited number of copies of a Vyasa-puja book—a collection of homages to Srila Prabhupada from devotees and temples all over the world.These books are available below, as .pdf documents for free download. When available, the books are divided into chapters to help you find the section you want faster. Please see the link (For Vyasa Puja Offerings)
ISKCON Canberra welcomed Srila Prabhupada in the form of His life size murti on the 21st of August 7am Saturday 2010 with Abhishek and Kirtan. His Holiness Vedavyasapriya Swami led the installation of Srila Prabhupada.
London
15 August, 1971
My Dear Indira,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your
letter. So far your son leaving you, his parents, at 5 years, that is
not necessary. Especially our Krishna Conscious children; they are
already living in a asrama. The children of our devotees may live with
their parents perpetually because you are all living in the temple and
already engaged in devotional service. Other instructions are for
those not engaged in Krishna Consciousness. Any family engaged in
Krishna’s service is living not in this material world. Such a home is
considered as Vaikuntha. That is the verdict of Bhaktivinode Thakura.
So if you are afraid of your husband’s taking sannyasa, I shall not
give him sannyasa order at any time. Be rest assured. Your husband is
already a householder sannyasi because he has no other business than
to serve Krishna. You can be living peacefully with husband and
children and always engaged in Krishna Consciousness. One should
become sannyasa by action, not by dress. In Bhagavad-gita it is said
that any person who doesn’t work for himself but for Krishna only is a
perfect sannyasa and perfect yogi, never mind what order he lives in.
That is the opinion of Lord Caitanya also.
I have seen the picture clipping enclosed by you and it is very very
nice. Please offer my blessings to your good husband Vamanadeva. I can
see that our St. Louis center is doing very nicely. Thank you very
much.
Srila Prabhupad - Founder Acarya of ISKCON
Hoping this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Indira — London 15 August, 1971
London
14 August, 1971
My Dear Satsvarupa,
Please accept my blessings. Enclosed please find tape no. 14; S.B. 4th
canto, 11th chapter continued. This is the third tape sent from
London. Also please find one poetry enclosed for publication.
I have just now received your presentation of slippers as an offering
for Vyasa puja day. They are certainly very attractive. Thank you very
much for them and offer my thanks and blessings to all the nice boys
and girls there in Boston.
There is a story about one man, a cook, who bought a nice new pair of
shoes. But all morning long he was in the kitchen cooking and so he
couldn’t wear his shoes. Similarly, all afternoon he was cooking. So
what did he do? At night, when he went to sleep he wore the shoes. So
these shoes are so nice, but I don’t know when I shall be able to wear
them. So when taking rest at night I shall wear them.
Hoping this will meet you all in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Satsvarupa — London 14 August, 1971
London
13 August, 1971
My Dear Atreya Rsi,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your
letter dated 9th August, 1971 and have noted the contents carefully.
So far your service is concerned, you should understand that Krishna’s
service is absolute. Anything you do for Krishna in the standard of
Krishna’s service is Krishna also. So cleansing Krishna’s temple and
working on the altar of Krishna, etc. there is no difference. So don’t
consider in Krishna’s service that something is higher and something
is lower. Neither Krishna’s servants are materially superior or
inferior. So you should stick to your present service. That will be
very nice.
Now immediately we have got a very big project to construct a temple
at Mayapur, the birth site of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So you can
contribute the sums for our Mayapur construction scheme. Sannyasis
should not be given any money. They should manage themselves and
maintain themselves by taking small alms from different persons — not
a lump sum from one person.
It is very much pleasing to me that you are so much sacrificing
everything for Krishna. Krishna will surely bless you. You can open
better a Mayapur construction scheme fund and deposit as much money as
possible there and in due course we shall withdraw it. The estimate
for the project is Rupees 40 lakhs (Rs. 4,000,000) which in ordinary
exchange comes to $500,000. So you can deposit in this fund as much as
possible. That will be very nice.
Hoping this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Srila Prabhupad - Founder Acarya of ISKCON
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Atreya Rsi — London 13 August, 1971
