FW: [Hare Krishna] Fw: Opportunity to assist Sarvabhavana Prabhu of the "Salted Bread" fame
Rammohan G
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Ram Mohan
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From: Anamika Pani [mailto:anami...@gmail.com]
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Subject: Fwd: [Hare Krishna] Fw: Opportunity to assist Sarvabhavana Prabhu of the "Salted Bread" fame
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:07:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Hare Krishna] Fw: Opportunity to assist Sarvabhavana Prabhu
of the "Salted Bread" fame
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Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2012 9:45 PM
Subject: Opportunity to assist Sarvabhavana Prabhu of the "Salted Bread" fame
Dear Prabhus
Please accept my respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada.
Can you pl forward to your egroups the below letter by
several of our senior leaders?
your servant
Chaitanya Charan das
www.thespiritualscientist.com
Dear Vaisnavas and Vaisnavis,
Please accept our obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
It's not often that we get
an opportunity to do deeply satisfying service for a devotee who directly
sacrificed his own body for the sankirtana movement. In the past few weeks, we
have raised the funds-thank you!-for medical treatment for his most
pressing difficulties. Please join us in donating to provide a very literal
shelter for him and his family-a simple home that will allow them the
peace for sadhana and preaching.
You are probably already
familiar with Sarvabhavana dasa, one of the heroes of the book "Salted
Bread." For the so-called "crime" of distributing books in
the former Soviet bloc, he was imprisoned and repeatedly beaten severely. The
results? KGB agents knocked out several teeth, and there was permanent damage
to the ones he kept, both due to being beaten and the poor diet in Soviet
prisons and labor camps. A prison guard deprived him of most of the sight in
one eye, and, by jumping on his back, gave him disability and pain that never
went away. He was put in psychiatric hospitals and administered drugs to disturb
his mind and harm his body. But he remained firm, like stone or iron. He never
gave the KGB information on who was printing Prabhupada's books in the
USSR, where the press was hidden, where the books were stored, or what other
persons were heading the spread of Prabhupada's teachings. He refused to
sign papers denouncing the movement of Krishna consciousness that could be used
to arrest other devotees. For his non-cooperation, he was imprisoned and
tortured for years. He followed all the devotional principles in prisons full
of rats and rat-like men, in cold Siberian labor camps where his fingers grew
numb while in forced sewing for the Soviet armies. Chanting 16 rounds a day at
the price of beatings when his chanting was heard, preaching to the
criminals there,
and tolerating hell for the sake of Mahaprabhu's mission.
Since being released from
prison, he has done much preaching and befriended many devotees. He kept
pushing his damaged body in service, with some kind devotees helping him here
and there along the way. He wrote a book about his experiences that has
inspired thousands. And now we have an opportunity to offer him some service in
return, as the combination of aging and the abuse he suffered from the KGB have
left him destitute.
Kindly donate to help us
purchase a simple, two-bedroom house in Armenia for him and his family that he
can use until the end of his life. At his passing, either the house or the
money from its sale will go to the Garuda Foundation for the use of other
devotees with similar needs. In this way, our care for Sarvabhavana dasa will
be the start of care for others. Houses in Armenia are relatively inexpensive.
The cost will be US$30,000-40,000. As of Februrary 23, we have received about
1/4 of that amount from many devotees, including some ISKCON leaders.
Kalidosa-pranasana dasa will find and purchase the house to give to
Saravabhavana dasa.
We need to receive donations by
March if possible-the need is great, and Kalidosa-pranasana has a small
window of time when he can be away from his own family to arrange for the
purchase of a house in Armenia. See the bottom of this letter for the ways you
can donate.
We hope this meets you in good
health and blissful Krishna consciousness.
Your servants,
Radhanatha Swami
Niranjana Maharaja
Bhaktivijnana Maharaja
Kavicandra Swami
Malati devi dasi
Urmila devi dasi
Acutya Priya dasa
The donations are being handled by
Padma, Inc. All donations are US tax deductable: Padma, Inc. tax ID# 56-1969986
Four ways to donate to Padma Inc.
* Donate through Paypal:
urm...@radharani.com
for donations of less than US$500,
please send the funds as personal/gift
for donations of more than US$500, if
you have a bank account in the US, UK, Australia, or Canada that is linked to
your Paypal account, then please use the echeck option rather than regular
Paypal. To do this you need to click on "funding options" before
you finalize the payment. Echecks have much smaller fees for the recipient
* Send a cheque in the mail:
Made out to: Padma, Inc.
Mail to: Keshava Best, 445 Corporate Dr., Suite B,
Escondido, CA, USA 92029
Please write on the cheque that the
donation is for Sarvabhavana
To send a donation this way, we have to
be able to deposit the cheque in a US account
* For wire transfers:
Bank Information:
Wells Fargo Bank
1510 W Valley Parkway,
Escondido, Ca 92029
Tel: +1 760-480-3300
Routing Number:
* Domestic (USA) wires:
121000248
* International wires: WFBIUS6S
Account Number:
Bank Account Number: 1992663698
Bank Account Name: Padma Inc.
(If you send a wire transfer, please email me to inform
me of the amount and when it was sent so that we know it was given for
Sarvabhavana urmilad...@gmail.com)
* For Western Union, Monneygram, etc.:
Send to Keshava Best, San Diego,
California, USA. Send an email to me informing me of the amount so I can ask
Keshava to pick it up and deposit it (urmilad...@gmail.com)
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Anamika...
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