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Dear Friends:

I recently returned from a small preaching tour to Nottingham, Leicester and Swindon and it's very enlivening to see many devotees practising Krishna consciousness at home. It's also very interesting to see how people focus on different aspects of Krishna consciousness.

For example, in the temple in Leicester every facility is for serving Krishna, but in our homes we focus on Krishna to many different degrees. One example is the plane flying to a destination, and it's always going off course by a few degrees but is pulled back by the computers; and we have a destination being Goloka Vrindavan in the spiritual world but we often go off course and need to keep pulling ourselves back.

If we don't make those changes in our lives, Krishna Consciousness just becomes like armchair philosophy and we wonder why we don't feel enthusiastic anymore and why Krishna Consciousness isn't lifting us out of our diseased suffering condition in this material world.

The advanced devotees in this world are always blissful and certainly never bored in Krishna Consciousness because there's always so much service to do and Krishna is constantly reciprocating with them. As I was travelling around I was showing a slide show of the festivals of ISKCON and was thinking that the spiritual world is an eternal festival that never stops and the festivals we have in the material world are just a glimpse of that nectar.

Srila Prabhupada says in one lecture "Everything is there but these rascals are not taking advantage of it so we have to give people Krishna Consciousness whenever we get the opportunity"

If we keep it to ourselves we are being miserly.

I decided while I was travelling that I would write something about Home deity worship/offering to Krishna and chanting (japa).

Your servant Minaketanarama dasa

Calendar

Weekly

Tuesday: Swindon Namma Hatta (contact Justin)

Wednesday: Bristol Shirehampton namma Hatta (contact Arjuna)

April

6th Sun Bristol Nama Hatta 3.0 Odd Fellows; Bhajans at 2.0 pm. Broadmead

11th Fri Ramanavami - Appearance of Lord Rama (fasting till sunset),
Penrhiwpal Nama Hatta. 7.0 pm

13th Sun Kamada Ekadasi . Fasting from Grains and Beans

16th Wed Hanuman Jayanti.(Appearance of Hanuman)

27th Sun Varuthini Ekadasi, Study Group, Bristol Odd Fellows. 11-3pm Bring prasadam to share

May

1st Thurs Appearance of Gadadhara pandit (of Panca Tattva)

4th Sun Exeter Nama Hatta, 2 - 5 pm. Friends meeting House

10th Sat Bristol AGM (3.00) & Nama Hatta (4.00) - 7 pm. Odd Fellows. Bhajans in Broadmead at 1.30

10th Sat Appearance of Sita devi. and Jahnava devi

11th Sun Penrhiwpal Nama Hatta, 3 pm

12th Mon Mohini Ekadasi

15th Thurs Lord Nrsimhadeva's Appearance day. (Fast till twilight)

23rd Fri - Mon 26th Weekend retreat in West Wales at Penrhiwpal

27th Tues Apara Ekadasi.

June

7th Sat Bristol Nama Hatta Odd Fellows 4 - 7 pm; Bhajans in Broadmead at 3 pm

8th Sun Snana Yatra. Bathing of Jagannatha,Baladeva and Subhadra at
Bhaktivedanta Manor

11th Wed Nirjal Ekadasi

12th Thurs Chipped Rice Festival at Panihatti

22nd Sun London Ratha Yatra. starting at Marble Arch at 12 noon to
Trafalgar Square

25th Wed Yogini Ekadasi

29th Sun Maha Regional in Bristol. Odd Fellows Hall. 2 - 6 pm

Disappearance of Gadadhara pandit and Bhaktivinoda Thakura (fast till Noon)

30th Mon Gundica Marjina (cleaning of Gundica temple by Lord Caitanya)