Dear Sadhus,Hare Krsna. Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.As Sadhu Sanga turned 10 this year, we have been contemplating on how to increase our services to the North American devotee community beyond the Memorial Day Weekend kirtan retreat.There are three specific opportunities we have identified. All of them involve strengthening the collaboration amongst devotees and leveraging the power of our devotee network to help one another. Here is the first of those.Sadhu Sanga’s largest donor and well-wisher His Grace Sarvajaya Madhava Prabhu has graciously offered land to build our own retreat center where we can potentially host the future Sadhu Sanga retreats. This land is part of the beautiful 7,500 acre property in the most fertile Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. Their Holinesses Jayapataka Maharaja and Indradyumna Maharaja have together given the name New Navadvip Dhamfor the property. This project has also been blessed by Their Holinesses Radhanath Swami and Giriraja Swami.
 The key goals of New Navadvip Dham are to build an all-inclusive devotee community centered around the principles of simple living and high thinking, farming, cow protection, prasadam distribution, sharing Krsna consciousness with the local Hispanic population, creating employment opportunities for devotees through the development of a world-class retreat center and other businesses, providing a platform for devotee entrepreneurship, investment opportunities for devotees, and last but not least, devotee care.As a divine confirmation of these goals, we were also pleasantly surprised to hear that His Holiness Tamal Krsna Goswami Maharaja had given a very detailed lecture some 30 years ago on how he wanted the Rio Grande Valley to be developed. He had envisioned an Arjuna Krishna Temple which is dedicated to the daily recitation and sharing of the timeless teachings of the Bhagavad Gita.As a first step in fulfilling Goswami Maharaja’s prophecy, we are inaugurating the New Navadvip Dham project on Gita Jayanti day – the day the Bhagavad Gita was spoken by Krishna to Arjuna 5000 years ago.We have a weekend full of activities from Friday Dec 22 to Monday, Dec 25 at McAllen, Texas, featuring:* Recitation of the entire Bhagavad Gita on Gita Jayanti Ekadasi, Dec 22.* Kirtans and classes by His Holiness Guruprasada Swami, His Grace Caru Prabhu, His Grace Nityananda Prabhu, His Grace Sri Prahlad Prabhu, His Grace Radhika Ramana prabhu* Harinam at the famous South Padre beach, Tour of the New Navadvip Dham property including pony rides, fruit harvesting, goshala, etc.* Tons of Prasadam* All Free of Cost! Please join us and learn more about this project. Register here by Dec 10..Your servant,
Govinda caran das. |
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