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ADVENT OF HARIPAD
It is with great joy we would like to announce the wonderful event of birth of
first child at Sri Krishna Balaram Ksetra. Bhaktin Anita Mataji and child are both
doing fine. His Holiness Bhakti Raghava Maharaj has blessed the child with the
sweet name of "Haripad".
On the 21st day after the birth, Namasanskaran (Name Giving Ceremony)
ceremony was performed with devotees singing, dancing and honoring a good feast.
Haripad took 10 months to take birth but in good health and normal Delivery.
Sunderanand Prabhu and Anita Mataji request all Devotees to kindly shower their
blessings on this child.
Name giving ceremony
This is a tale of a bull whose leg was cut and was severely injured in the very
sleeping village where our ashram is located.
The most vulnerable to all these developments is mother cow and the father
bull. Kali in the form of "paper money" has made people merciless.
Dharma, as devotees in the farm started calling the bull, was found be devotees as
wandering in the village limping, severely wounded and bleeding. No one cared for it. They
preferred to just remain mere spectators. Devotees noticed him about a week after the
incident (in which somebody had cut the leg either for catching it for slaughter or for not
tolerating that he has coming to their land for eating the grains). Dharma was next moved
to the ashram and given treatment. Regular bandage is being applied to his injured leg and
fortunately the wound is healing although the damage cannot be cured completely.
Its monsoon and time for planting tree saplings. With frantic search for
helping hands for this important service to Gaura Nitai, we contacted devotees who
have been contributing and they readily agreed this time too.
NEEM OIL CAKE AND JEEVAMRTA AND WOOD ASH APPLIED TO THE
FIELDS
Three important organic manure were put to the fields like last year.
Traditionally used, Oil cakes are important manure. Neem oil cakes act as pesticide
as well as manure to the fields. Jeevamrta application continued for the fourth time
to the rice field since transplantation. Wood ash is another excellent manure as well
as pesticide used in the fields. Wood ash acts as the modern day Potash and much
more. In modern terms, it contains macro and micro nutrients.
PROTECTING SUGARCANE
With Janmastami around the corner panchagavya production in the the farm
saw its peak. Devotees led by Sunderanand Prabhu amidst other activities as
protecting crops engaged in making Goark, Massage oil, Toothpowder and
Ghanavati. A new product was added to the list - Bathing Soda Soap.
We are very thankful to all who received us with great hospitality, shared
their experience with love and affection.
Bharat Chandra Prabhu's mother visited the farm and stayed for around a
week. She taught matajis various arts and crafts. The week also saw learning to cook
various dishes. She also taught us how to stitch woolen sweater for Gaura Nitai and
cloth for covering the Bhoga plate. She also taught us making eggless cakes without
using an oven.
We all at Sri Krishna Balaram ksetra are very grateful, and pray the Sri Sri
Krishna Balaram shower their blessings on her.
VISITORS
With great enthusiasm many devotees visited SSKBK even during rains. We were
fortunate to get their association. We thank them very much for visiting the ashram
and request them to come again and again. Hope they had a wonderful experience.
Devotees who visited were - Gokuldham devotees, HG Sriram Das and Parasuram
Das, 5 devotees from Hyderabad, Bharat Chandra Pr's mother, Shyamsudar Prabhu
from Tirupathi, Devotees from Kerala, Shetty Prabhu from Dubai
All Members will receive every month various products which are naturally
produced by devotees at SSKBK. Free accommodation and Prasadam will also be
provided to them when they visit the Farm.
VARNASRAMA READING
(Krishna Book Ch 80 - The Meeting of Lord Kåñëa with Sudämä Brähmaëa)
Lord Krishna Says - “My dear friend, I am Paramätmä, the Supersoul present in
everyone’s heart, and it is My direct order that human society follow the principles
of varëa and äçrama. As I have stated in the Bhagavad-gétä, human society should be
divided into four varëas, according to quality and action. Similarly, everyone should
divide his life into four parts. One should utilize the first part of life in becoming a
bona fide student, receiving adequate knowledge and keeping oneself in the vow of
brahmacarya, so that one may completely devote his life for the service of the
spiritual master without indulging in sense gratification. A brahmacäré is meant to
lead a life of austerities and penance. The householder is meant to live a regulated
life of sense gratification, but no one should remain a householder for the third stage
of life. In that stage, one has to return to the austerities and penances formerly
practiced in brahmacäré life and thus relieve himself of the attachment to household
life. After being relieved of his attachments to the materialistic way of life, one may
accept the order of sannyäsa”.
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These instructions given by Lord Kåñëa while talking with His friend the
learned brähmaëa are very good for the guidance of human society. A system of
human civilization that does not promote varëa and äçrama is nothing but a polished
animal society. Indulgence in sex life by a man or woman living single is never
acceptable in human society. A man should strictly follow the principles of
brahmacäré life or, with the permission of the spiritual master, should get married.
Single life with illicit sex is animal life, for the animals have no such institution as
marriage.
Modern society does not aim at fulfilling the mission of human life, which is
to go back home, back to Godhead. To fulfill this mission, the system of varëa and
äçrama must be followed. When the system is followed rigidly and consciously, it
fulfills this mission, but when followed indirectly, without the guidance of superior
authority, it simply creates a disturbing condition in human society, and there is no
peace and prosperity.