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Sannyasa Annual Reports 2014 Sannyasa Annual Reports 2014 BADRINARAYAN SWAMI 1. Your name: Badrinarayan Swami 2. Your address: 1238 1/2 Hornblend Street San Diego, CA USA / 92109 3. Your email addresses. [email protected] 4. Your telephone numbers. 858-272-7711 5. Your websites. None 6. Please list the countries and cities that you have visited this year. India, Singapore, USA, Burma, Bangladesh (the cities are too many to list) 7. If you like you can make some comments about the temples or countries that you have visited. Great potential to expand everywhere I went. Sincere devotees and ripe fields 8. Please let us know what were the services you rendered as a sannyasa this year. I am a GBC member with a zone, I am a member of Organizational Development committee, and the coordinator for the "Lines" committee. Where I traveled outside my area of responsibility (zone) I did my duty as a traveling sannyasi--morning program, preaching engagements, counseling devotees. 9. What were your realizations about the sannyasa ashrama, preaching, or ISKCON this year? Sannyasa ashram is Krishna's mercy on me. Other comments but too much or inappropriate to write here. 10. Anything else you would like to include in your report in relationship your role as a sannyasi. No 11. What preaching projects are you planning to do in the future? Same as above with maybe visiting Turkey and some places in the middle east (having been invited several times--let's see if time allows). Your servant, Badrinarayan Swami BHAKTI ANANTA KRISHNA GOSWAMI 1. Your name Bhakti Ananta Krishna Goswami 2. Your physical address Russia, Moscow Selskohozyastvennaya 36 3. Your email address(es) [email protected] 4. Your telephone number(s) +79262301811 5. Your website ananta-krishna.ru 6. Please list the countries and cities you visited in 2014. Belarus Minsk Lithuania Vilnius Russia Barnaul, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, N. Novgorod, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Yaroslav, Rybinsk, Vologda, Kostroma 7. If you like you can make some comments about the temples or countries you visited. Russia: sankirtana and bhakti-vriksha 8. Please let us know the services you rendered as a sannyasi in 2014. Preacher 9. Future preaching projects? Goloka Fest festivals and new temple — new brahmachari ashram BHAKTI ANUGRAHA JANARDANA SWAMI 1. Your name Bhakti Anugraha Janardana Swami 2. Your physical address Sri Krsna Balarama Mandir Bhaktivedanta Swami Marg Ramanreti, Vrindavana Mathura, UP India 28112 3. Your email address(es) [email protected] [email protected] 4. Your telephone number(s) +91-9897906111 5. Please list the countries and cities you visited in 2014. India Delhi, Chandigarh, Luddhiana, Panchkula Russia Moscow USA New Jersey, New York City, Atlanta, Boise, Seattle, Berkeley, San Jose, Detroit, Milwaukee Canada Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal Philippines Makati City, Manila, Olongapo, Vigan, Longos, Iligan, Pangasinan, Urdaneta, Cebu, Iloilo 6. If you like you can make some comments about the temples or countries you visited. All temples are very anxious to have our association and to hear our classes and kirtan. We need to spend more time with them to further cultivate their growth in their bhakti. Very sincere devotees wherever we go, especially in Russia. 7. Please let us know the services you rendered as a sannyasi in 2014. In Vrindavana I did a lot of regular classes both in Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. I did a few youth preaching programs in both Vrindavan and Delhi. In Vrindavan I did a seminar during Kartika on “Teachings of Lord Chaitanya to Rupa Goswami,” from the Caitanya-caritamrita. I led lots of kirtans in at least 6 Ratha-yatras in Delhi and the surrounding area, and at Ratha-yatras in Chandigarh, Panchkula, Luddhiana, and Toronto. I did a lot of university preaching in the Philippines, both to graduates and undergraduates. I had a radio interview in Olongapo, Philippines, and also met the mayor there. I did lots and lots of harinam every day during my travels in the Philippines, for almost a month. I gave classes on Krsna consciousness wherever I went. 8a. What were your realizations about the sannyasa asrama, preaching, or ISKCON this year? There is a huge potential for devotees to be trained and develop their Krsna consciousness, if somehow I could spend more time with them. The problem is that due to time constraints I am not able to stay in one place for a long time to focus on the devotees' progress, as I have to tend to my duties in Vrindavan. I am bogged down with management at the moment, and am not able to do as much traveling and preaching as I would prefer. Hopefully, by the Lord's grace and mercy some of the management burden may be lifted in the near future. Since my service and presence is very much needed in Vrindavana at the moment, I hope that I'll learn a lot and will have more experience for my future engagements in preaching. I need to intensively study our scriptures so I can present Krsna consciousness convincingly to whomever I meet and thus help them make their lives perfect. 8b. Anything else you would like to include in your report in relationship to your role as a sannyasi? I pray to the disciplic succession and Their Lordships to be able to keep my vow for the rest of my life and to represent Srila Prabhupada to the best of my ability. Thus whatever contribution I can give will enhance the reputation of our family more and more, and in this way many will come and join our movement for their ultimate well- being. 9. Future preaching projects? To continue what I am doing now, i.e., going to the Philippines, North America, and Russia once a year. This takes around 4 months a year. I spend the remaining 8 months in Vrindavan, trying to help in management as the Vice President. Krsna willing, I hope that in the future I may be relieved from management in Vrindavana so I can visit other places, wherever Krsna will take me. BHAKTI ASHRAYA VAISNAVA SWAMI 1. Your name Bhakti Ashraya Vaisnava Swami 2. Your physical address Krishna Balarama Mandir ISKCON Vrindavan 3. Your email address(es) [email protected] 4. Your telephone number(s) +919897903111 5. Your website None 6. Please list the countries and cities you visited in 2014. India Delhi (NCR), Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Ludhiyana, Ambala, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur, Bhilwara, Ajmer, Sikar, Kota, Bharatpur, Ahemdabad, Surat, Baroda, Dwarka, Rajkot, Bangalore, Karwar, Belgam, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, Mayapur, Jagannath Puri, etc. South Africa Durban, Johannesburg, Ladysmith, Pietermaritzburg, etc. 7. If you like you can make some comments about the temples or countries you visited. The Durban temple is very nice, especially the Ratha-yatra festival. The Food for Life program is really nice there, distributing prasadam to around 25,000 people every day during the seven-day festival. Most of the temples in Delhi and other parts of India are doing very well through congregation preaching, youth preaching, etc. At most centers devotees are enthusiastic in hearing and preaching. 8. Please let us know the services you rendered as a sannyasi in 2014. The whole the year I traveled to the above-mentioned places, encouraging people in their advancement in Krishna consciousness. I attended many Ratha-yatras, conducted various seminars and courses, and led many spiritual tours and camps. I guided youth preaching at many cities of Rajasthan—Jodhpur, Udaipur, Bhilwada, Ajmer, Kota, etc. 8a. What were your realizations about the sannyasa asrama, preaching, or ISKCON this year? Sannyasa is helping me very much in preaching Krishna consciousness, and I want to use my sannyasa ashram for preaching for the rest of my life. 8b. Anything else you would like to include in your report in relationship to your role as a sannyasi? I want to dedicate my whole life for Srila Prabhupada's preaching movement, as much as I can do. 8c. Health issues? [none] 9. Future preaching projects? I will try my best to continue the same preaching activities in the future. BHAKTI BHAGAVATAMRITA KESHAVA SWAMI 1. Your name Bhakti Bhagavatamrita Keshava Swami 2. Your physical address 26, Belorusskaya str. Bataysk city Russia, 346888 3. Your email address(es) [email protected], [email protected] 4. Your telephone number(s) +79034361784 +919634073329 5. Your website None 6. Please list the countries and cities you visited in 2014. Russia Rostov, Novorossiysk, Sochi, St. Petersburg, Zelenokumsk, Volgodonsk, Krinnitsa, Moscow, Taganrog, Obninsk, Makhachkala Community, Astrakhan Community, Volgograd, Voljskiy, Vladikavkaz, Nalchik, Essentuki, Tomsk, Anapa, Orekhovo-Zuyevo India Puri, Mayapur, Vrindavan, Govardhan Turkey Antalya Kazakhstan Almaty, Astana Georgia Tbilisi Azerbaijan Baku Uzbekistan Tashkent Dahab United Arab Emirates 7. If you like you can make some comments about the temples or countries you visited. [none] 8. Please let us know the services you rendered as a sannyasi in 2014. Active preaching in various cities; the development of a farm project in the region; conducting training sessions for leaders in different regions; participation in several ISKCON festivals; education for the devotees; helping to mediate conflicts between devotees; assistance in the development of communities in various cities in the region; inspiring devotees to preach; going on pilgrimage with a group of 220 devotees in the spring of 2014 to Puri, Mayapur, and Vrindavan; participation in preaching programs for the general public in the Enlightenment Festival. 8a. What were your realizations about the sannyasa asrama, preaching, or ISKCON this year? Having taken sannyasa initiation, I feel that there are more opportunities to preach. At the same time, sannyas requires that I be more responsibile for every word I say. This prompts me to more deeply study Srila Prabhupada books.
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