HH RNS Italy

[Laksmipriya dd BLS]

Hare Krishna dear Devotees, brothers and sisters

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I have received an update for the upcoming visit of our Guru Maharaj to Italy. Dates are not written in stone yet, but the tentative itinerary is as follows:

March 27th    Arrival Prabhupadadesh

March 28th    Prabhupadadesh

March 29th    Prabhupadadesh, afternoon leaving for Villa Vrindavana , evening program in VV

March 30th    Initiations at Villa Vrindavana

March 31st    Wedding at Villa Vrindavana

April 1st         Evening program in Bologna

April 2-4th      Private programs in Bologna

At the moment there are renovations going on for the guesthouse in Prabhupadadesh, but they hope that they will be ready for the visit. 

You can contact the respected devotees there for your accommodation and get more details. 

Your aspiring servant

Laksmipriya dd

[jahnavalila.rns]

Dear Laksmi,

Pamhugs! 

Thank you so much for rather detailed itinerary. Is anyone going? :) 

What about UK, has anyone received anything? I would really like to fly in just for a day or two,.but Italy looks impossible just now..

Hugs to everyone! 

Ps. How did VP go, any pics?

Miss you all..

Yours

Jahnava

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[Droupadi Dasi]

Hare Krishna dear wonderful family, 

Pamho agtSP agtG.

This is Droupadi, from Ghana, I used to live in Radhadesh few years back and I was a part of this beautiful family. I follow discussions and informations on this forum every time from here on Ghana(West Africa), and it keeps me so connected to the HH RNS family, to Radhadesh and ultimately to Guru Maharaja. 

I am very much excited to hear that Maharaja is coming to Europe and also about all the activities that will be happening when He comes. I feel so unfortunate that I cannot be a part of any of this on the premises, but I believe that Guru Maharaja and this wonderful family has not forsaken me.

I also wish to kindly ask if it will be possible that I can be linked somehow to Maharaja so that I can communicate with him? He doesnt come to Africa but I still wish to surrender to Him and become His disciple, and I don't know how to communicate this through to him. Is it possible that I can get an email or something? That will be wonderful.

I humbly seek your prayers and blessings so that I can keep being connected to this family.

Thank you very much, Sending love to you all, from the West Coast of Africa.

Hare Krishna.

Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupad,

Droupadi.

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[Laksmipriya dd BLS]

Hare Krishna dear Devotees, brothers and sisters

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hope all of you are well . If you allow me, I would like to share a few thoughts from my recent visit to Italy. Also to fill in those who couldn't attend the programs, it might be nice to still feel connected as a family in this wicked world of distractions. 

I personally had the time of my life to meet all the godbrothers and godsisters, catch up with the old friends and meet new ones, distribute lots of books and be in the proximity of Guru Maharaj. Meeting Maharaj and the devotees in Italy has always enlivened me in the past and this time was no exception. Devotees showered Maharaj with messages, letters and loving concerns (and please know that he reads all of the letters with utmost care and attention) and Maharaj showered the devotees with lots of love. The sun, the warmth, the devotees, Maharaj, wonderful prasadam and italian mood was truly a soothing balm, a treat for me, a real holy-day, highlight of my life. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all of you who were there and helped to make this experience so special for me. 

There is one serious thing though, which is heavy on my heart. And that is Maharaj's health. He has not been feeling well physically, even though he tried his best to connect with each and very disciple/devotee. He loves the devotees.... but his health deteriorated severely after he gave initiations to many new disciples. His breathing was not good and he was in a lot of pain,even though he didn't express it to anyone. Everyone could see the discomfort he was going through.  He took a lot of rest afterwards which was good. But all this made me truly feel, how important it is for all of us, his initiated disciples, to stay very much committed and serious in our devotional practices. The Guru takes the karma of all his disciples at the time of initiations. And he sometimes has to suffer the consequences of that fact. Many times this comes out in the form of illnesses and diseases. 

So it is our utmost priority to stay vigilant in our fight with maya and stay very much connected to the purificatory process of devotional service. I am preaching here to myself, but I am sure every one of us goes sometimes through different circumstances where we are tested in our determination, our faith, our convictions and our dedication to our promises and vows that we have given to Guru Maharaj at the time of initiation. Those vows are not always easy to uphold and not always easy to follow, I totally understand that. Maya is very powerful and tricky. She is a total magician as she sometimes presents things in front of us seemingly as devotional service, but slowly she traps us in her coils and in no time we have been distanced from the association of devotees, stopped regularly chanting and hearing and you name it ....... you all know the story of Putana, how beautifully she looked when she came to the house of Nanda Maharaj and wanting to feed Krishna some milk, smeared with poison. 

We sometimes willingly drink that poisonous milk, but we are not strong enough to suck out her life-air as Krishna did. We don't even recognize that this milk is poisonous. Only by being truthful to our vows and commitments, which we gave to Guru Maharaj at the time of initiation, can we inch forward in our devotional lives. My dear friends, let's support each other to our best abilities and protect each other's vows and let's help our Guru Maharaj to stay around for many more years so that we can help him to do something truly wonderful in the mission of Srila Prabhupada. He has a lot more to offer to him and to each and everyone of us. 

Please forgive me for making it so long, and maybe emotional, but I felt the need to express this to you all. Hope you don't mind and can tolerate me for that. 

I remain your always aspiring servant

Laksmipriya dd

[Thilak]

Thank you for your letter mataji

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[Jahnava Lila devi dasi]

Dearest Lasmipriya,

Dandavats and hugs! 

Thank you so much for pouring your heart into this letter, I personally feel so much encouragement and love coming from it. I very much appreciate it, and have the same feeling in my heart when Raya Ramananda wrote and phoned around Vyasa Puja. Let us pray for each other and stay strong in our loving committments to Gurudev.

I am deeply saddened to hear the update on Gurudev's health and I simply pray and wish our love and devotion for him can keep him going for many more years, as you already so wonderfully said.

I love and miss you all so so much.

Ps. Do we know the names of devotees who got initiation? I saw on FB Jahnava Sundari got her second initiation, which is a really really great news! :)

With love,

Yours

Jahnava-lila

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