![]() ![]() Prabhupada said he used to watch the Deity for hours at a time and was fascinated by Their slanty eyes.ĭaivisakti doesn’t merely confine herself to reading from SPL. It was about Abhay’s childhood and contained inside information about how young Abhay used to daily visit the Radha-Govinda temple in his pram, and later walked there with a servant. I watched her lead the class yesterday and it was very good. She reads from the Prabhupada-lilamrta and explains sympathetically how it was a team effort and was accurate. She has so much knowledge of India, and Vraja, and Srila Prabhupada. For two weeks she let other devotees give the class, but now she has taken it back. My disciple Narayana Jvara told me that Daivisakti was taking back the giving the Sunday classes on Srila Prabhupada-lilamrta. Become closer to Prabhupada, Krsna and me. Please accept the invitation and enrich your life. These books are a follow-up to the Prabhupada-lilamrta written when I was on high energy for writing about His Divine Grace. Just as long ago they accepted the Prabhupada-lilamrta. Now it’s up to my disciples and friends to take the invitation, and take it to heart. We’ve been able to do it with the new technology and a dedicated staff of congenial workers. I have been waiting to do this for thirty years, bring all the books back into print in an excellent presentation. This festival is an invitation for the devotees to come closer to Prabhupada. They have their whole lifetime to read them in. Why shouldn’t they read them? And I don’t demand they have to read them in a week or a month (or a year). These books are all one hundred percent about Prabhupada. But this set is special! I want to go out as a Prabhupada man. I know they’re not natural readers, yet I’m imposing on them with so many books to read. Still, I’m nervous about making my presentation to the devotees. The books are considerable improvements over the first editions, which were done thirty years ago and are now completely out of print. For this summer meeting we have eight new reprints. The whole festival is about the reprinting achievement our book production staff has accomplished with the new technology available. I’ve picked out the excerpts I’m going to read on the festival day. ![]() Everyone is working hard, and there is a nice feeling of camaraderie. The helpers took prasadam at the ashram and then went down to the hall with a cooler full of cold water to keep from getting dehydrated in the mid-90s (F) temperatures. They expect to have everything ready by 8:00 or 9:00 tonight in order to move in tomorrow morning for the festival, which begins at 10:00 A.M. A few devotees have arrived today, Friday, to do this work, and more are expected to be here by the evening. The smaller garlands and flowers are required for the backdrop. ![]() The big garlands are for the large Gaura-Nitai Deities and for Prabhupada. Four devotees are making garlands while waiting for the men to come and turn the water on for the power-washing. Once it’s clean then they can move in all the paraphernalia, various equipment for serving out the feast. And all the ceiling beams are being cleaned and clearing out all the birds. They’re moving all the tables, turning them over and power-washing them top and bottom. We are power-washing the hall and getting it ready in all respects. It’s Friday, and the VFW has allowed us to enter their hall and work on getting ready for tomorrow’s festival. There is so much organization and helpers needed to put on a major festival! Marigolds are growing profusely, so they can be used in flower garlands. The kitchen area and refrigerator has to be scrubbed. On Friday the whole place has to be powerwashed, and Krishna Kumari and friends will start building the flower backdrop for our big Gaura-Nitai Deities. Krsna dasi is constantly on the phone making sure devotees are doing their duties, ordering cups and plates, seeing that the stainless steel chafing utensils are washed and clean. John Endler came here and picked out 200 books to display on the book table, and Baladeva has to go back this afternoon and choose the rest. Silavati is packing them up in groups of eight, with a ribbon tied around them so they don’t slide, and placing them in sturdy, waterproof shopping bags so devotees can safely and conveniently take them away. The last shipment of newly printed books arrived on Monday. Anuradha has picked out fifty paintings to display. We’re in a summer marathon preparing for the July 2 nd festival. Free Write Journal #202 JFree Writes Summer Marathon ![]()
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