S S K B K

Narada Bulletin May – June 2010

*Hebri/Udupi* Karnataka* *

Hare ! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and his Varnasrama Mission!

H I G H L I G H T S

v Seasonal Agriculture service was started with paddy fields.

v Gauri (Mother cow) gave a female calf birth.

v Narsimha caturdasi was celebrated with great enthusiasm.

v Go-ark production is started again.

v Go-shala opening ceremony along with Narsimhadeva abhishekam and Narsimha yagya.

v Experience of Traditional deity installation.

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MOTHER COW (GAURI)

A devotee having the service of taking care of cows, serves the cows with devotional mood that these cows belong to Lord Krsna and if I can please cows then automatically Lord Krsna will also be pleased. H.G. Laxminath prabhu came to know that Gauri may give birth calf within a few days. Generally all cows go outside for grazing in the morning at 6:30am and come back around 4:00pm to ashram. Cows are accompanied by H.G. Laxminath pr. Since Gauri was pregnant, he left Gauri under the care of ashram devotees and used to cut grass for her separately. Naturally when time arrived on May 25th 2010. 8:25 AM, she gave birth to female calf. Laximinath pr was very much overjoyed.

AGRICULTURAL

With summer season, fruits trees started giving lots of fruits and devotees of ashram especially H.G. Giriraj prabhu was very enthusiastic to collect them. He along with his wife Bhaktin Nagarani Mataji was busy to see that nothing got wasted. Devotees had a good feast of Jackfruit curry for many days.

All fruits were first offered to Sri Sri Gaura and . Unripe Jackfruits can also be harvested when required and made into curry. One can make also make jackfruit pickle and store it for the year. If left for a few more days, it ripens and becomes sweeter. Devotees loved to offer the aromatic fruit to Sri Sri Gaura and Nitai.

Mango is considered as king of fruits. We have many varieties of mango tree. During this season H.G. Giriraj pr, inspired by the words of H.G. Parasuram pr, started making mango pickle in large quantity for distribution. A little more than 50kgs of Mango pickle were sent to Hyderabad and another 20kgs mango pickle was sent to Bangalore and 5kgs pickle to Bellary.

Kokam was also harvested in great quantity. Cashew nuts were also harvested. We tried to make the maximum utility of the fruits we got as per our capacity.

Firewood collection was done also so that whole rainy season we can run our kitchen with firewood. All the paddy fields were manured and ploughing was completed. Two fields of paddy are growing nicely. Nursery for other three fields are growing under vigilant protection.

Other seed like corn, Towar dal were also sowed. Sugar cane is growing very nicely. All weeds were removed with very great effort by H.G.giriraj pr, Bhaktin Nagarani mataji, and Laxmi devi dasi mataji.

DIETIES SEVA

Kitchen extension work was continued in this month also. Narsimha caturdashi was celebrated at SSKBK with help of H.G. Kanai thakur pr, H.G. Krishna Chandra pr. From vrindavan H.G. Sitanath pr, and H.G. Giriraj pr and his family members joined us.

PANCHAGAVYA SEVA

Elbow joint was obtained after lot of effort and go ark production was restarted. Now we are able to make around 5lts in average of Go-ark every day. Cow dung cakes were also made and dried in the sun for making Tooth powder.

GUEST VISITORS

Few of our guests were H.G. Hrishekesh pr, H.G. Krsna prema pr, H.G. Kumudaksha pr, H.G. Parasuram pr, H.G. Kanai thakur pr, H.G Krsna Chandra pr, H.G. nath pr and Bhakta Sevatsya.

GO-SHALA OPENING CEREMONY WITH NARSIMHADEV ABHISHEKAM AND NARSIMHADEV YAGYA.

H.G. Hrishekesh Prabhu, disciple of His Holiness Lokanath swami Maharaj opening was present for out new Go- shala opening. In this occasion he requested devotees of SSKBK to participate in Narsimhadev Abhishekam and yagya. All the devotees participated very enthusiastically.

Devotees from SSKBK got invitation from local neighbor to participate in Dieties installation ceremony. When devotees visited that place they got nice experience of Vedic style worship in the Temple. That newly made Temple is located beside Sita-nadi river and is very far from Hebri town. It more of a forest area. Devotees did hari nama kirtan. They provided us with facility and we all chanted hare krsna maha mantra. Later we had feast prasadam cooked by Brahmanas without use of Onion, Garlic. H.G. Krsna Prema pr. was lead the Kirtan.

H.G. Hrishikesh prabhuji invited devotees from SSKBK for a house Program. H.G. Giriraj pr and his family attended this programme. H.G.Laxminath pr could not attend as he had to take care of cows and perform Gaura Arati. So, two of the devotees stayed back in the farm - father of H.G. Giriraj pr and H.G. Laxminath pr. Devotees started from ashram at 5:15pm and back around 9:30pm with caranamrtam and prasadam for the devotees. H.G Krsna Chandra prabhu from Vrindavan gave a nice lecture on Narsimha caturdashi.

Prepared by: HG Sundernandana Dasa Assistant Editors: HG Parasurama Dasa and HG Gaura Naraj Dasa Please visit the following websites for more information on varnasrama developments: www.varnasrama.org & www.sahyadriksetra.org