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Preaching and Bhoga Collection Programmes Malini Devi Dasi from Malta gains some insight to what goes on behind the scenes leading up to the celebration of Gaura Purnima festival, and shares the experience of travelling through Bengali villages on such preaching and collection programmes. Pg
01 Background
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Pg 04 Bajumelia The bus speeds towards Tisha, which is set amidst a bamboo forest – a particularly beautiful, wild-looking landscape with palms and other trees growing in the inhabited spaces. We take breakfast prasadam at Tulasi Didi's house. She is a disciple of Param-Gurudev, Srila Sridhar Maharaj, one of the first people to join the mission through preaching in this area. Yesterday I ate so many sweets that today I resolve not to accept so many, yet I find myself eating two of the four rasa-gulas served for breakfast.
We drive a short distance and begin our rounds. Most of the houses are very beautiful in their simplicity. The buildings themselves bear lots of embossed designs and interesting features, and are often painted in bright yellow, red, green and blue. I observe that practically all the houses we have been visiting have their own altar or deity room, which I find quite remarkable.
Begumpur
After an opulent prasadam served on banana-leaves, we take a short rest. I settle on a bed brought out into the sun, and drift into semi-consiousness, aware of the sounds of voices and deeply breathing the pure, countryside air. Janai Chikrand We travel for a while to arrive in an idyllic location. Bamboo forest has been replaced by a concentration of banana trees. We inevitably comment about what karma allows grhasta families to live in such a sattvic environment, performing personal bhajan.
On our way out, Nowl Kishor Prabhu, Kamala Nayan Didi and I find it hard to leave her association, and feel blessed for the little attention she gives us, cradling our hands in hers, until we are called to hurry up! |
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