Srila Prabhupada's Disappearance Day

It is ironical, in the first place, to say that Prabhupada is absent. The event, namely the disappearance of Srila Prabhupada in 1977, bewildered quite a number of people.

This is due to the fact that Srila Prabhupada is a spiritual, transcendental personality. His disappearance and appearance is the same.

Many, many times Srila Prabhupada, while delivering lectures, in private conversations and in his books, has stressed the importance of association of the vani (words or instruction) of the spiritual master, not the vapuh (body). A spiritual master is to be heard, not to be seen.

The reign of Srila Prabhupada will continue through his books for 10,000 years as he himself prophetized.

"Everyone is sleeping in the darkness of Kali-yuga (Iron Age of Quarrel), but when there is a great acarya, by his calling only, everyone takes to the study of the Vedas to acquire actual knowledge."

----------Chapter 20, "Description of Autumn", Krsna book

Srila Prabhupada is undoubtedly such a powerful acarya who freely distributed the Holy Name all around the world.

We celebrated the 110th Disappearance Day of Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of the Hare Krishna Movement, today on the 26th of October 2006.

The special thing about the festival was that the neem twigs and a flower used personally by Srila Prabhupada were available for darshan. We also read some of the pastimes of Srila Prabhupada from the book, "Prabhupada Nectar". Everyone felt fortunate to hear of the special activities of our beloved spiritual master.

Jaya Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!!

2007 Calendar on the shelf!!

It cannot get better than this! What an auspicious way to start the new year?! The Sri Krishna Mandir Calendar for the year 2007 is on the shelf. It is more exciting due to the "Prabhupada Quote of The Month". Grab a copy yourself and distribute it to others too.

Boat Festival - A huge preaching success

The advertisement has done it for us again! From the very beginning of the day, people began to call up the temple for further details about the festival. The Strait Times has the largest readership in Singapore. Atleast half a million people would have seen our advertisement. Just by once chanting the maha-mantra which was featured in the advertisement, their lives became successful.



Many tens of newcomers turned up for the festival. The swan boat arrived at the venue at about 6pm. Everyone was awaiting the arrival of Their Lordships. As soon as They arrived on the scene at about 6:15pm, everyone jubilantly accompanied Them to the boat with ecstatic kirtan. Then they were seated on the beautiful swan boat decorated with flowers and ornaments. People were just gazing at the beautiful vehicle of Their Lordships.



This was followed by a 3-hour boat ride. As soon as the boat began to move, many devotees jumped into the water and those who were outside were performing the kirtan. In this way the whole crowd enjoyed the 3 hours to the fullest.



After a tiring kirtan, everyone was rejuvenated by the sumptuous prasadam and the many numbers of guests were thankful to us for providing them the opportunity to attend such a wonderful festival.



Many scores of books were distributedon that day. Srila Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual master, must surely have been pleased at the effort.



The way the Hare Krishna festivals are gaining popularity in Singapore, it looks like the Hare Krishnas are going to conquer the whole of Singapore in the very near future.