Hare Krishna Dear Friends,
Hope you are doing well. We have a very special visiting guest with us this week, who will be speaking at our temple today. The topic will be "Magical Lessons from Hanuman's Life". The speaker is none other than Dr. Shubha Vilas, author of the bestselling series Ramayana - The Game of Life. Please do make sure to join us at ISKCON of Silicon Valley (at 3:30 pm) for a thrilling spiritual experience 😊
Dr. Shubha Vilas (reverently addressed as "Shubha Vilas Prabhu" by his students and by devotees in ISKCON in general) is a Ram Katha and a Krishna Katha expert. He is expert at taking his readers and listeners on a mystical journey into the land of Lord Ram's and Lord Krishna's wonderful divine activities. And at the same time, he dexterously derives practical lessons from the Vedic Scriptures for our day-to-day application.
He was born in a Vaishnava family in South India, and has been studying Ramayana and topics about Lord Krishna since his childhood. Having read multiple authentic renditions of Ramayana and Krishna Leela, heard from great saints, travelled to places of Lord Ram's and Lord Krishna's Leelas and absorbed the holy vibes there, his books and his talks are outpourings of his deep spiritual realizations.
To give you a glimpse into his style of presenting Ramayana and the mesmerizing effect it has on listeners, attaching 2 samples in this email:
1) a small audio clipping from one Ramayana deep-dive course he had taught during COVID (16 minutes in length)
2) excerpts from Sundar Kaand notes I had made during this course (roughly 3-minute read)
Please join us if at all possible, and I am sure you will walk away with a highly uplifting spiritual experience.
Privileged to serve you,
Swapnil