iskcon london community news january 2012

January 2012 Highlights

C O M M U N I T Y

news Youth Preaching

2012 Olympic Games

Book Distribution

Govindas Restaurant

Radhas Boutique

Outreach

National Sankirtan Festival

Sivarama Swami Visits London

Yamuna devi dasi

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National Sankirtan Festival Bhaktivedanta Manor hosted this years national sankirtan festival to celebrate the wonderful selfless efforts of devotees who took part in the Srila Prabhupada Book Distribution Marathon

during December. Devotees from all over the UK gathered for an ecstatic morning of celebration and appreciation.

Thanks to the intense endeavor of the devotees of ISKCON London we took second position in the national scores, trailing Bhaktivedanta Manor by a small number of books.



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Sivarama Swami Visits London ISKCON London started the new year in grand fashion with an afternoon of ecstatic kirtan.

We were extremely fortunate to have the association of His Holiness Sivarama Swami, Madhava prabhu and devotees from far and wide.

The temple room was vibrating with the sounds of the Lords holy name and devotees swayed in deep emotional bliss.



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Yamuna devi dasiIn December the devotee community received the very sad news of the passing of Yamuna devi dasi.

A memorial service was held for Mother Yamuna at Bhaktivedanta Manor.

Mother Yamuna was one of Srila Prabhupadas earliest and very dear disciples and was one of the pioneers who established ISKCON London, giving

us Their most beautiful Lordships Sri Sri Radha-Londonisvara.

Known for her beautiful voice, Mother Yamunas Govindam prayers are played in every ISKCON centre during deity greeting.

Mother Yamuna was well known for her caring, compassionate and unpretentious nature and she holds a special place in the hearts of many, many devotees.



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Youth PreachingThe youth preaching activities of ISKCON London continued with undiminished vigour into the new year. The main highlights are outlined below.

University Preaching

The university oriented activities focus on the two streams of Gita Sutras discussion events and vegetarian cooking workshops. The Gita Sutras events this month explored topics such as Happiness, Dreams & Illusions and The Modes of Material Nature.

These sessions are being facilitated at both the School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS) and Imperial University, and continue to draw in a varied and vibrant crowd of students.

The vegetarian cooking workshops remain a healthy attraction at SOAS, and have also now been officially launched at Imperial University, where they are proving to be similarly successful.

The recipes enjoyed this month include for example healthy and quick tofu stir fry, chilli paneer and fancy rice.

KC Lounge

This month the KC Lounge sessions discussed a range of topics. These included Happiness from the Gita Sutras sessions, Doomsday 2012, Doubts in spiritual life and discussions from the Bhagavad Gita.

In addition, we also held another of the increasing popular open Q&A sessions.

In addition, some of the boys were also invited to join the brahmacaris in preparing the Sunday feast as a means to further inspire the attendees and strengthen relationships outside of the KC Lounge confines.



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2012 Olympic GamesThis coming summer the Olympic games will be held in London and ISKCON Londons very own Sachi Kishore dasa will also be getting involved.

He has be appointment to the illustrious post of official Hindu co-chaplain for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.

In this capacity Sachi Kishore dasa will provide spiritual and emotional support and counsel to Olympic athletes on the international stage.



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Book DistributionDuring January we collected 6,800, distributed 3,131 books for a total of 2,745.95 book points.

The scores were as follows:

Name Days LakshmiBook

PointsBig

Maha Big Hard

MediumMedium

HardSet Small

Bhakta Prasad 1 2.00 0.50 2

Rangadevi Dasi 1 12.00 2.50 3 4

Gaura Kishora counselle group 1 7.00 4.00 2

Bhakta Aryan 1 10.00 4.00 2

Bhava Bhakti Counselle smart box

2 27.00 4.75 3 13

Bhaktin Louise 2 23.00 7.50 2 14

Narottamananda Dasa 1 19.00 7.50 5 20

Bhn Hetal smart box 1 20.00 7.75 8 15

Virabhadra dasa 1 18.00 10.00 5

Maidenhead Nama Hatta 1 20.00 10.00 5

Bhakta Dipal 1 38.00 12.75 2 35

Bhava Bhakti Counsellee group 2 37.00 20.25 8 8 1

Weekend Warriors 1 40.00 23.00 9 4 12

Kashinath dasa 1 175.00 36.00 1

WW South 2 137.00 38.75 1 9 13 53



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Name Days LakshmiBook

PointsBig

Maha Big Hard

MediumMedium

HardSet Small

Bhakta Shiv 3 114.00 42.00 20 8

Bhakta Ben 4 99.00 49.25 24 1 3

Bhakta Pasha 2 101.00 51.00 21 12 12

Sastra-dhan Sponsorship 2 193.00 67.25 4 12 49 59

WW West (Ealing) 1 209.00 72.00 1 18 24 1 90

Russian Bhakti Vriksha 1 106.00 76.00 38

Uddhava Damodara Dasa 11 205.00 81.25 26 29 59

Bhakta Alexey 12 328.00 142.50 1 67 30

Sharada dd 2 620.00 176.70 6 34 5 4 90

Bhakta Laurie 9 400.00 179.75 89 2 3

Sachi Kumar Nimai das 15 710.00 268.00 1072

HDG AC Bhaktivendanta Swami Prabhupada

3 829.00 277.25 12 104 40 149

Manchester Travel Sankirtan 1 971.00 493.75 238 13 45

Sundara Nitai das 8 1,330.00 580.00 290

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Govindas RestaurantGovindas collected 51,591.07 for January, of this amount: catering 3,341.00 and books 87.75.

*********************************************************Govindas January takings: 48,162.32

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31 working days Average per day for restaurant: 1,664.23 4,461.44 more compared to January 2011

Radhas Boutique Radhas Boutique collected 7,636.05 in January.

OutreachDuring the month of January Jai Nitai dasa carried out the following outreach activities:

1st: Gave the Sunday Feast Lecture

7th: Annual General and UK Meeting Council meetings at Bhaktivedanta Manor

8th: Attended the National Sankirtana festival at Bhaktivedanta Manor

13th: Conducted a house program with the Dattani family. There were 30 guests in attendance.

20th: Attended a program and gave a talk organised by Dr. Joy Phillipou to celebrate Dr. Phillipou being awarded an OBE.

27th: Attended UK Management Council meetings in Leicester.

30th: Conducted a program for trainee religious studies teachers from Kings College. This has been a regular event over the last year and is organised by Alexis Stones, a tutor at Kings College.

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Sunday Programme3.30pm Bhajans4.15pm Dhoop Arati4.30pm Introductory Talk5.30pm Sunday Feast6.00pm Questions & Answers7.00pm Gaura Arati

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