Welcome,

You will be pleased to know that our temple fund is ever increasing, and that our new bhajan class is eager for more students. Remember to mark your calendars for this year’s Ratha Yatra festival. It will be even more spectacular than last year’s. The yoga schedule has been altered slightly so take note of the days and times. Learn to make delicious food from Premarnava das and continue to receive great insight from the Bhagavad-gita, Krsna’s pastimes and Srila Prabhupada. You can also download the newsletter from our website Krishna.ie.

Hare Krishna!

Ratha Yatra: This year the chariot festival will be held on Sunday September 1st. Come along and join in the festivities.

Events and Festivals Disappearance Day of Bhaktivinoda Thakura July 8th

Bhaktivinoda Thakura is a prominent acharya in our succession of spiritual masters and disciples coming from Lord Krishna. He was a pioneering spiritual leader, a householder, a magistrate working in colonial India; a prolific preacher, writer, and poet. He wrote volumes of books reintroducing the pure teachings of Lord Chaitanya at a time when those teachings had practically become lost. He composed hundreds of devotional songs glorifying Krishna to uplift the consciousness of the suffering people. He corresponded with philosophers, theologians, leaders, scholars, and professors of his time and sent books, including The Life and Precepts of Lord Chaitanya, to university libraries in foreign countries, planting the seeds for a worldwide movement of Krishna consciousness. Bhaktivinoda Thakura discovered and excavated the birthplace of Lord Chaitanya. Along with his devoted wife, Bhagavati Devi, he raised ten children, including Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura, who would become a great spiritual leader in his own time and the spiritual master of ISKCON's founder-acharya, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. Above all, he taught devotion to Krishna by his personal example. His life story demonstrates a tremendous amount of courage, character, and perseverance in the face of many difficulties and gives hope to those of us who may be wondering just how to find the time to serve Lord Krishna, His holy names, and His devotees in our ever so busy lives.

Śrī Śrī Panca-tattva Newsletter July 2013

H.H Dayananda Swami speaking at the Temple

Temple Schedule

Recipes

Simply Wonderfuls 1 ¼cups of sifted icing sugar 190g unsalted butter ½ cup of orange zest 2 tbl spoons of currants 1 ½ cups of sifted milk-powder

Cream the butter, sugar, and orange rind in a mixing bowl. Fold in the currants and powdered milk and knead until a firm fondant-like dough is formed. Pinch off walnut-sized portions and roll into smooth even-sized balls. Remember to offer to Lord Krsna. Then chill and serve. Delicious!

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Day Yoga Time

Tuesday Hatha (Nanda) 5.00pm

Wednesday Hatha (Justina) Hatha (Nanda)

10.00 am 7.00pm

Thursday Sivananda (Daphne)

Hatha (Justina)

10.00am 7.00pm

Friday Hatha (Justina) 5.30pm

Saturday Hatha (Nanda)

Sivananda (Daphne)

10.30am 5.00pm

Yoga Schedule

Suggested Yoga donation €5 - €15

Donations Please spread the news with your friends and fellow devotees that we have been fundraising to buy a new Temple over the next few years. This will be a stable and long-lasting foundation for our devotee community and for the spiritual culture of India in the heart of Dublin City Centre. To find out how you can be a part of this ex-citing project please visit: krishna.ie/new

Day Bhakti-Yoga Time

Monday Vedic Studies on Bhagavad-gītā

7.00pm

Tuesday Kīrtan (Chanting) 6.30pm

Wednesday Intro to Krishna 6.00pm

Thursday Intro to Krishna 6.00pm

Friday Śloka Class (Study Sanskrit verses)

7.00pm

Saturday Bhajan Class (Music, song and dance) 2.00pm

Sunday Sunday Feast 3.00pm

Temple Fund: Is now €4250 Thank you for all your support.

Bhajan Music Class:

Saturdays at 2pm. Drop-in attendance welcome.

Enquiries to sangha.sanyal@gmail.com

Harinam: Join the blissful street Kirtan and feel the benefit. Daily at 12.30pm - Saturday at 7pm. All are welcome!

Temple News

Śrī Krsna’s Pastimes

The Birth of Lord Krsna The Lord appears out of His own sweet pleasure. When the time was mature for the Lord to appear, the constellations became very auspicious. At that time there was peace and prosperity everywhere, in all the towns and villages, and in the minds of everyone. The rivers were fully flowing and the lakes were decorated with lotus flowers. The brahmanas, who were accustomed to offering sacrifices in the fire, became full of joy due to the transcendental vibrations they could hear from above.

The people of all the heavenly planets began to sing and dance. The great sages and demigods became pleased by this and began to shower flowers. At this point Lord Visnu appeared in the darkness as the Supreme Personality of Godhead before Devaki. The appearance of the Lord could be compared to the rising of the full moon over the eastern horizon. Vasudeva saw the wonderful birth of the Lord with four hands, holding a conch-shell, disc, lotus flower, decorated with the mark of Srivatsa, wearing the jewel necklace of Kaustubha, dressed in yellow silk, appearing dazzling like a bright, blackish cloud. Vasudeva was struck with wonder. He became overpowered by the occasion. He bowed down and began to offer prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, thus becoming free from fear of Kamsa. “My dear Lord, I can understand who You are. You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul of all living entities and the Absolute Truth. You have appeared in Your own eternal form, which is directly perceived by us. I understand that because I am afraid of Kamsa You have appeared just to deliver me from that fear. You do not belong to this material world; You are the same person who brings about the cosmic manifestation simply by glancing over material nature.” He and Devaki continued to offer many prayers to the Lord.

Devaki became very afraid for the baby, Krsna, and requested that He assumes the appearance of an ordinary child. Upon hearing both Vasudeva’s and Devaki’s prayers, the Lord replied, “My dear mother, in the millennium of Svayambhuva Manu, My father Vasudeva was living as one of the Prajapatis. His name was Sutapa, and you were his wife, Prsni. Lord Brahma was desiring to increase the population. He requested you to generate offspring. You controlled your senses and performed austerities, and executed religious principles. You absorbed your mind in me for 12,000 years. When you were executing devotional service and always thinking of Me within your heart, I was very pleased with you. At this time I appeared before you in this form, and I asked you to ask what ever you desired. You wished to have me born as your son.”

The Supreme Lord continued to tell them about their past lives as Aditi and Kasyapa, and that he became their son for the second time, as the dwarf form of Vamanadeva. He had given the benediction that He would take birth as their son three times. Now He had come as the Supreme Personality, Krsna. He requested that they take Him immediately to Gokula and exchange Him for the daughter of King Nanda and Yasoda. Having spoken this, the Lord transformed Himself into an ordinary child and remained silent. By the influence of Yogamaya, Vasudeva was easily able to release himself from the prison and take Lord Krsna to the home of Nanda and Yasoda. He exchanged Krsna for the child of Nanda and Yasoda, and returned to the prison, leaving Krsna with them.

Bhagavad-gītā (BG 2.12) The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: While speaking

learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those

who are wise neither lament for the living nor for the dead.

PURPORT: The Lord at once took the position of the teacher and chastised

the student, calling him, indirectly, a fool. The Lord said, “You are talking

like a learned man, but you do not know that one who is learned - one who

knows what is body and what is soul - does not lament for any stage of the

body, neither in the living nor in the dead condition.” As explained in later

chapters, it will be clear that knowledge means to know matter and spirit and

the controller of both. Arjuna argued that religious principles should be given

more importance than politics or sociology, but he did not know that knowl-

edge of matter, soul and the Supreme is even more important than religious

formularies. And because he was lacking in that knowledge, he should not

have posed himself as a very learned man. As he did not happen to be a very

learned man, he was consequently lamenting for something which was unwor-

thy of lamentation. The body is born and is destined to be vanquished today

or tomorrow; therefore the body is not as important as the soul. One who

knows this is actually learned, and for him there is no cause for lamentation,

regardless of the condition of the material body.

Sunday Feast 3pm-6pm

Philosophy, chanting

and great prasadam!

“The Personality of Godhead may not be pre-sent before one’s eyes, but if one is sincere in wanting such guidance, the Lord will send a bona fide person who can guide him prop-erly back home, back to Godhead.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda

Govinda’s Vegetarian Restaurant

83 Middle Abbey Street 4 Aungier Street

Dublin 1 Dublin 2 www.govindas.ie

The Food Tastes Devine!

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

Offering Food To Krishna While preparing food, do not taste it; remember you are cooking the meal for the pleasure of Krsna. Arrange portions of the food on dinner-ware kept for Krsna; No one but Krsna should eat from those dishes. The easiest way is simply to pray “My dear Lord Krsna, please accept this humble offering,” and to chant each of the fol-lowing prayers 3 times while ringing a bell - Prayer to the Spiritual Master, Prayer to Lord Caitanya, and Prayer to Lord Krsna.