Santa Monica Sankirtan Party 1/6/2012

Last night's Sankirtan party was awesome. We had a blast. The kirtans were so ecstatic. I had a great time myself. Some of the people who watched us even joined in the dancing with us. My new friend Bhaktin Sue, took me by the arm and we spun in a circle while we were dancing. Whew that made me a bit dizzy lol. I hadn't done that in such a long time let alone trying to dance. I tried doing a bit of dancing last night but I still messed up. Maybe I should watch some lessons on dancing on youtube or something. Ganesh Prabhu made us all chant and dance enthusiastically. He's a great devotee always so positive. Then this elderly gentleman had joined us playing his violin. He had a great time with us. This elderly gentleman complimented me on my singing even though I still admit that Im lousey at singing but he liked it and I appreciated his comment. And this other lady was dancing with one of our matajis during the kirtan and she had a great time. It's nice to see people who are watching us join in on the dancing. It's one way to get inspired to dance more in my case. I think I am breaking out of that shell a bit now.

About three other devotees distributed books. I will try tonight if there are books for me to hand out. Maybe I might be able to distribute more than just two books. I will pray to Srila Prabhupada before I leave this evening for his mercy so that I may distribute his books without difficulty and do it for his pleasure and Krishna's.

I certainly am looking foward to this evening's sankirtan party. We're going to Hollywood again tonight. There won't be much room however to do a lot of dancing because it's a bit more crowded than Santa Monica.

Here are some pictures from last night's sankirtan in Santa Monica. I have a couple videos but I will upload those later.

Daily Darshan Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarakadish

Today's Darshan Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarakadish 1/7/2012
They have my favorite color on today. Purple!!! JAI.

Daily Darshan Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarakadish

Today's darshan of Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarakadish 1/6/2011

By Guru's Example

I just finished reading my guru Maharaj's blog. He sure does set a such a nice example for others to follow. Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita that if we set a good example in spiritual life, common men will follow it. And my guru Maharaj is the perfect example of that.

I was reading that he helped a lady on the stree that was carrying heavy bags. He said that she was Korean. Maharaj said that this lady was getting married and he was helping her carry her wedding dress. That's what I love about my guru Maharaj. He's so unique, and so humble. I think every devotee whether sannyasi or devotee should follow that because Srila Prabhupada was the one who taught my guru Maharaj be helpful to others like that. Maharaj said to me in an email "please remember we are servant of the servant of the servant of the gopis." So I loved Maharaj's example in his blog post about helping others. They don't even have to be devotees to help them. My guru Maharaj likes to help everyone. And I do too.

My guru Maharaj set many examples including cleaning the temple. He loves to help clean the temple and even cook for the Deities. Many people would think why is a spiritual leader like him doing these things? He is doing it because he loves it and also to set a good example for others to do service for Krishna. When I read things like this in my guru Maharaj's blogs it gives me so much inspiration, and makes me want to do more for Krishna myself. Sometimes one needs to actually see or read about one's guru's example in order to try to follow in his footsteps. We are all actually trying to follow in Srila Prabhupada's footsteps but with our living gurus if you have one can help us because we can actually see them present here setting Prabhupada's example.

So by reading the most recent blog post about my guru Maharaj helping others I will keep that in mind when im doing service or being at my family's house or even out on the street if someone is struggling but even before Maharaj's blog post I had helped other people. it makes one feel happy inside helping others.

Daily Darshan of Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarakadish

Today's Darshan Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarakadish 1-6-2011

It Was A Hot One Today

Whew talk about nice weather. It was a hot one today. I go outside after lunch and it must have been close to 80 degrees outside! It feels nice not having to wear a winter coat in Janurary lol!

The weather was comfortable enough to do my service. I helped in the pujari room for an hour this morning, then later in the morning I spent 3 and a half hours in the kitchen, and then I spent another hour this afternoon cleaning the pujari room. So I pretty much did a full 6 hour day like my guru Maharaj wanted me to do.

So now I am sitting outside Govinda's restaurant under an umbrella, watching Nirantara's Krisha book class and concert. He's supposed to give Bhagavad Gita class tonight but I doubt that somehow. But I will still attend the Bhagavad Gita class tonight anyways. I think I should attend it when I can. Friday is sankirtan so I will be going to that instead and maybe on Saturday too. But I never want to miss Nirantara's class. His classes are so inspiring and even help me to spiritually advance. So that is why I am sitting outside with my computer, enjoying the weather and enjoying his class. We are going over the chapter where the Gopis are feeling separation from Krishna. :) I like this chapter alot because the Gopis give such a detailed description of what Krishna looks like and what He does. It's so fascinating. At least we can know what God looks like. :)

Anyways now he is doing the concert on his webcam. His songs are always so cool. My guru Maharaj says that Nirantara's songs are happy songs and Nirantara Prabhu said that he is a happy man in Krishna Conciousness. Haribol to that!

I checked the weather for the rest of the week. It's going to be in the low 70's high 60's but still it beats 30 degree weather lol! Feels nice to sit outside in the beginning of Janurary without a coat on! :D Thank you Krishna for bringing me to warm weather. It actually helps me to focus more on my spiritul life because in India it gets really warm but I hear now in India even in Vrndavan temperatures dropped. It does get cold there but I am not sure how cold. I heard they had a frost.
But that's global warming for you. People STOP hurting the planet and STOP global warming! That is why we are having strange weather is because the earth is being polluted with intoxicants, and cutting down trees doesn't help any either. Save the Earth's resoruces and stop wasting! Then maybe we can have some normal weather on this planet.

Daily Darshan of Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarkadish

Today's Darshan Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarkadish 1-4-2012