Hare Krsna,
Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
This is the report of the Monthly Sankirtan Festival (MSF) in San Jose CA USA started by Vaisesika Prabhu. As you can see they set goals and went well over the goals they wanted to reach. There is also a highlight portion of the report that gives an idea of the many activities that occurred during the (MSF). This report will give devotees around the world an idea of what they can do in their own temple in regard to the MSF.
As I travel around the world I'm seeing that more and more temples are getting involved in the MSF. It's a practical way to distribute books for devotees that are working or for some other reason don't have much time to distribute books.
Your servant,
Vijaya dasa
www.iskconbookdistribution.com
Dear Srila Prabhupada
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
The Monthly Sankirtana Festival (MSF) of MSF of Nectarian Rain which was conducted over the last 4 weekends to honor
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, was concluded Today (March 5th) on Gaura Purnima, and the final MSF results were offered on this auspicious occasion to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Srila Prabhupada and their Lordships at the ISV temple in Mountain View
caitanya-caritamrta — nitya-nutana sunite sunite judaya hrdaya-sravana
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta is ever-increasingly fresh. For one who hears it again and again, the heart and ear become pacified.
CC Antya 19.111
caitanya-caritamrta nitya kara pana
yaha haite ‘premananda’, ‘bhakti-tattva-jnana’
CC Antya 5.89
Translation: O devotees, relish daily the nectar of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta and the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, for by doing so one can merge in transcendental bliss and attain full knowledge of devotional service.
From Srila Prabhupada’s Jaladutta Dairy
I feel today better. But I am feeling separation from Sri Vrindaban and my Lords Sri Govinda, Gopinath, Radha Damodar. The only solace is Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita in which I am tasting the nectarine of Lord Chaitanya’s Leela
10 FRIDAY, September 1965
Our Sankirtan festivals owe a lot to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who started this movement with his associates, the Panca Tattva, going from town-to- town and door-to-door to distribute the Holy name.
To continue following in the footsteps of Mahaprabhu, Team ISV organized a Sankirtana yagna of ‘ MSF of Nectarian Rain’ to spread the Holy name and Krishna Consciousness throughout the Bay Area.
Goals
The goals of this MSF were:
To distribute at least 25 Caitanya Caritamrta (CC) sets To collect at least $6001 in Laxmi points To read a certain section of the CC Language of the month [ Spanish] To learn few lines Spanish which is useful for Sankirtan Finnish comprehensive planning for the Sankirtan seminar
To realize these goals, ISV devotees held two Hari-Nama Sankirtana performances in Palo Alto, chanting the holy names and spreading the sound vibration, and they conducted massive book distribution over four weekends, going out door to door to distribute Caitanya Caritamrta sets and Srila Prabhupada’s books. CC sets.
Highlights
Both adults from various teams (Team ISV, Motel Gita and other ISV departments) as well as kids from Sunday school participated in door-to-door book distribution. Books also distributed in Stanford university campus. For the First of in the history of ISV devotees distributed a CC Set to West Indies and California Origin persons. Team ISV Organized Conference call for training toronto devotee’s for Set’s distribution door to door Team ISV also Organized Conference call for reading of Caitanya Caritamrta lead by Gandharvika Mataj and other devotees Team ISV also Organized Conference calls to learn spanish lines. Team ISV devotees also distributed many books at howrah station India. Motel Gita team is also received anonymous donation $5000 from a devotee The Sunday-School kids lead by Kameswari Mataji had pledged to do 15% of the books goal (i.e. S3 CC Sets books) and succeeded in distributing 16 Sets raising more than $4152 total Laxmi. In addition, books were also distributed by the Smart-box team through smart boxes placed in various establishments in the Bay Area. Harinam Sankirtan Team lead by Syamlangi Mataji did an excellent job by organizing two continuous harinama Sankirtan parties. In other efforts, Motel Gita associates at Sacramento communicated that they had dispatched several hundred Gitas to motels
As we made this offering of the MSF results, we were pleased to report that the Books and Laxmi goals had been met and surpassed.
Summary of Scores
Here are the book distribution results.
In all:
More than 71 devotees participated in book distribution Team ISV distributed 2799 books, including 49 CC sets and raised 82 Sponsored sets Team ISV also distributed 6 SB Sets They raised $21914.42 total Laxmi (including donations)
Acknowledgements We thank all participating devotees, donors and Sankirtana leaders who contributed to this MSF, and last but not least we owe our gratitude to HG Vaisesika Prabhu for inspiring everyone to go out on Sankirtana!
Gaura Purnima MSF of Nectarian Rain Ki Jaya!
Yours in service,
Sri Krishna Purusottama das
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