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November 29th 2003

• Audio: Share an informal morning darshan by Srila Govinda Maharaj at the Sree Chaitanya Saraswata Krishnanushilana Sangha, Dum Dum Park, Kolkata, two days ago: "In Mahaprabhu's time, their world situation was completely different from this time. In Mahaprabhu's time there was no helicopter, no motor car, no train — nothing — only horse-car, bullock-cart, etc. and mostly people were going on pilgrimage by walking...." 21+ minutes mp3 audio file (2.6 MB).
• Sri Govinda Kunda entrance, pictures today on completion of painting of the details above the gateway.

November 28th

• Brazil: ploughing the land for Krishna with bull-power on the hillsides at our Krishna Shakti Ashram, near Sao Paulo.
• Tips for Pilgrims updated with a firsthand description by Prabhu Madhavananda of how to catch the Janasatabdi Express, the new and best daily train between Kolkata and Nabadwip.

November 27th

• Recent pictures of Srila Govinda Maharaj at the Sree Chaitanya Saraswata Krishnanushilana Sangha, Dum Dum Park, Kolkata.
• Village Preaching at Nasigram, West Bengal, last week by our devotee representation headed by Sripad B.N. Acharyya Maharaj.

November 26th

• Español: 'El Santo Nombre y Las diez ofensas que deben evitarse,' the booklet given out at the time of Harinama initiation, translated into Spanish and produced by Sripad Bhakti Pavan Janardan Maharaj. Available as sequential pages (310K pdf file) or paginated ready to print as a booklet (850K pdf file).
• New Spanish book: 'Srila Guru Maharaj — Un resumen de sus Pasatiempos y Preceptos Divinos,' translated under the chief editor, Prabhu Jai Balai, from the original English edition by Sripad Swarupananda Prabhu. Available from our Tijuana Centre.
• New Portuguese book: 'Sri Guru e Sua Graça,' published from Brazil by the 'Vaisnava Book Club' run by Prabhu Bhuvan Mohan and offered to the lotus hands of Srila Gurudev in Calcutta. Available from our Sao Paulo Ashrams.

November 25th

• Chinese language edition of 'Home Comfort' now available here in pdf format, in Traditional Chinese (380K) or in Simplified Chinese (320K).
• Russia and Odessa preaching tour by Sripad B.L. Akinchan Maharaj. Pictures from mid-October to 23 November 2003, as a visual glimpse of events described in the many recent entries in His Holiness' weblog.

November 24th

• Announcement of the Grand Inauguration of the new Bamunpara Temple and nat-mandir, at the Sri Chaitanya Sridhar Govinda Seva Ashram, Sripat Bamunpara, the Appearance Village of Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj. This event will take place on 11th December 2003 — the day after His Divine Grace's Sri Vyasa-Puja Day.
• Bengali Invitation to Sri Vyasa-Puja of Srila Govinda Maharaj.
• Bengali announcement of the Bamunpara Temple Inauguration.
• Karttik Pilgrimage pictures by Prabhu Madhavananda of USA— more special reflections of the recent pilgrimage from Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.

November 23rd

• Govardhan, pictures of the dome construction, for Srila Govinda Maharaj to see, and all to share.
• Vrindavan. With the recent safe return of this year's Sri Karttik Pilgrimage party, additional pictures sharing the devotees' experiences in the Holy Dhama.
• Karttik Pilgrimage programme, 2003, of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. Summary of web-pages of this year's events:

November 22nd

• Sripat Hapaniya and our rice fields, recent pictures sharing a beautiful day.
• Govardhan, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, pictures today.
• Nabadwip, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, a variety of pictures today, for Srila Govinda Maharaj to see, and all to share.

November 21st

• Sri Govinda Kunda, opposite Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math: pictures this afternoon.

November 19th

• Chinese 'Home comfort.' Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj viewing the new CD containing two Chinese editions of the booklet 'Home Comfort.' The translation was undertaken by devotees in Singapore under the guidance of Prabhu Yudhamanyu Seva Vikaram.

November 17th

• Eugene, Oregon, the newest of our USA Ashrams gets a full renovation. (Pictures.)
• Nabadwip: progress of the nat-mandir reconstruction project. Pictures for Srila Govinda Maharaj to see and all to share.

November 16th

• Audio: two new mp3 kirttan files chanted by Prabhu Bhudev, the pujari and regular kirttan leader here in Nabadwip Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, newly uploaded to the Sri Guru Vandana website.
• Bamunpara, pictures taken this morning of progress of the new Temple and Nat-Mandir in preparation for the inauguration next month.
• Brazil: "Brsendra" the the new-born calf named by Srila Govinda Maharaj, at our Campus do Jordao, Sri Chaitanya Sridhar Govinda Seva Ashram.

November 15th

• Vrindavan and a visit to Mathura during the recent Sri Karttik Pilgrimage. (Pictures.)
• Govardhan and a glimpse of a day on parikrama during the Karttik Pilgrimage. (Pictures.)

November 13th

• Sripat Bamunpara construction progress, with less than a month to go until the Grand Inauguration Festival of the Temple here in honour of Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj's Appearance. (Two pages of pictures.)

November 12th

• Tips for Pilgrims updated, especially in regard to the new train schedule between Kolkata and Nabadwip. The train timetable *from* Nabadwip is now included too.
• List of remaining Vaishnava festival dates from now until Sri Gaura-Purnima 2004, is available here in easy-to-print PDF format as a four-sided folding sheet. These dates are as referred to here at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Nabadwip.

November 11th

• Additional pictures of the Rishikesh and Haridwar section of this year's Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math Karttik Pilgrimage Programme from Govardhan.
• Electricity and phone lines have been reconnected after the recent local festival of "Rasa-Purnima." This is a non-Vaishnava festival of revelry during which many tall chariots are pulled through the streets of Nabadwip accompanied by drummers, musicians and dancers engaged in general merriment. The chariots are sometimes seen being steadied and helped along by someone on the top using the cables that normally supply electricity to the town.

November 7th

• Kandi Village Preaching, West Bengal: four days programme arranged from Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, returned this afternoon to Nabadwip along with pictures from their adventures.

November 6th

• Rishikesh and Haridwar visit, the additional legs on this year's Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math Karttik Pilgrimage Programme from Govardhan, 5th and 6th November 2003.
• Govardhan construction progress at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math and Mission.

November 5th

• Invitation to Sri Vyasa-Puja celebrations for His Divine Grace Om Visnupad Sri Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj, 9th to 13th December 2003.
• Sri Vyasa-Puja Book: A special request to please send any written offerings early (preferably as text in the body of an email) to scsmath_offerings2003@scsmath.com so they may be included and printed in the anthology being prepared again this year by Vrindavanesvari Devi Dasi. This will be presented to His Divine Grace on his holy Appearance Day. Srila Gurudev likes photos, so please contribute too with a picture or two of your good-self (as 'jpeg' files, not more than 80K each please).
• Tips for sending photos by email. As many of you know, our phone lines are often slow in Nabadwip, so please send reasonably small photos. As a general guideline, use a picture editing programme on your computer to make each photo a maximum of 500 pixels wide, then "Save As..." a jpeg file with a quality of 50 percent. This will generally give a reasonable compromise between picture quality and file size.
  If you are sending pictures of events locally, it is helpful to send them already prepared in a web-page ready for posting on our site and/or on Srila Gurudev's computer. If you haven't made web-pages before, then try saving one of our picture pages to your hard-drive, then simply use that to substitute in your own pictures, captions and headers. Still, if you are unable to send web-pages, please do continue to send photos. Srila Gurudev is the number one fan of pictures, and your news via pictures is a substantial source of His Divine Grace's satisfaction.

November 4th

• Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math's Karttik Pilgrimage to Govardhan, told in pictures sent by Damayanti Devi Dasi of UK:
  • Sri Govardhan Parikrama the day after Sri Govardhan Puja;
  • Pilgrimage to Nandagram and,
  • Pilgrimage to Varsana.

November 3rd

• Brazil: picture story with Portuguese captions of Sri Vyasa-Puja 2003 of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj held at the Sri Chaitanya Govinda Seva Ashram - Brazil (Krishna Shakti Ashram de Campos de Jordão -SP).
• Govardhan: Mass Prasad distribution on the parikrama path around Sri Govardhan Hill on the day of Sri Govardhan Puja. This programme was chiefly arranged by Prabhus Mathuranath, Nitya Hari and Devananda.

November 2nd

• The first pictures to arrive of our Pilgrimage party to Govardhan, and the worship of Sri Giriraj there at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math on the day of Sri Govardhan Puja.

November 1st 2003

• Russia, St. Petersburg observance of Sri Govardhan Puja, followed by nagar-sankirttan in the first snow of the winter. (Pictures.)
• Mexico City write-up of Sri Govardhan Puja by Prabhu Gauranidhi, complementing their pictures posted yesterday.
• Audio: Sripad Krishnadas Babaji Maharaj singing part of 'Sri Sri Prema Dhama Deva Stotram' composed by Srila Sridhar Maharaj; newly posted at the Sri Guru Vandana web-site.

Latest Updates: 'What's New?'

Earlier Updates this year, 2003:

• Updates for October 2003
• Updates for September 2003
• Updates for August 2003
• Updates for July 2003
• Updates for June 2003
• Updates for May 2003
• Updates for April 2003
• Updates for March 2003
• Updates for February 2003
• Updates for January 2003

Earlier Updates 2002:

• Updates for December 2002
• Updates for October and November 2002
• Updates for August and September 2002
• Updates for June and July 2002
• Updates for earlier in 2002

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