Srila Guru Maharaj’s summer tour Europe 2010

After the Mela in Nandafalva (Hungary) and the 7^th WVA meeting in Pula (Croatia) at the beginning of August, Srila Guru Maharaj continued his journey through Europe to bless the devotees of Slovenia, Austria and Spain with his delighting presence. Follow the footsteps of our dear Gurudeva through these events and check out the pictures and comments below!

Slovenia

 Ljublijana

 

Gurudeva inspired the Slovenian devotees and friends of the GOKUL community (Sri Caitanya Gaudia Math - founder Acharya Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Maharaj) with his sweet music and enthusiastic class honoring Lokanath Goswami ´s disappearance day.

Austria

Kapfenberg

Hospitable prabhu Prabhupadakrpa & mataji Chandrika warmly received Srila Guru Maharaj and all the visiting devotees and friends in their house between the green Kapfenberg hills.

A meditative chair in the garden     

                                  
   A mini truly in the kitchen 

 And of course sankirtan with the low tones of prabhu Prabhupadakrpa´s saxophone and the heavenly voice & guitar of Gandarvika.

Vienna

Srila Guru Maharaj also visited the temple in Vienna of the Sri Krsna Caitanya Mission from Bhakti Vaibhav Puri Maharaj.

Spain

Costitx – Mallorca

The brand new Vrinda farm (Yoga Asram Sanket) in the rustic heart of the island got its blessings from Gurudeva. Congratulations to Yogashakti devi das, Anadhir das and the other beautiful devotees who completely transformed an old house with overgrown farmland into a cozy and spacious temple-farm with swimming pool & open air yoga area in less than 3 months!

                                                             The farm in between quiet fields, hills and mountains

                                                                        Black berry abundance around the farm

                                                                                          Preaching on a rock

                                                                          In Mallorca the sea is never far away…

                                                                  A refreshing plunge to escape the island´s heat    

                                                      A nice gift from the Indian neighbors for the eco-garden to-be

                                                                                            Singing on a rock

(On the left Sidanti Maharaj from Spain, in the middle Sridhar Maharaj from Poland. Also Srouti Maharaj from Germany/Portugal was present in the Mallorca Mela.)

                                    Sujok alternative medicine course given by Russian Dr. Lidia Gavrilovna

                                                                    Daily morning jappa walk with Gurudeva

                                                Moving Kirtan Harinam in beautiful view point Cabo Formentor

                                                                                        Without words…  :-)

Barcelona

After Mallorca, Srila Guru Maharaj and Sidanti Maharaj stayed for a few days in the Vrinda temple (and herbalist shop) in the historical centre of Barcelona, receiving devotees and friends from all over Spain, especially its islands (Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Tenerife,...).

                                                               A warm welcome bhajan for Gurudeva in the airport     

                                                                 Fire ceremony for (second) initiation of devotees

                                         Harinam through the little streets and on the famous and crowdy ‘Ramblas’

                  And harinam on the beach!

Europe Yatra ki jay!!

Srila Guru Maharaj ki jay!!

Gaura Haribol!!

Krsna has his plans.....

Dear friends ,Paramadvaiti Swami will not come on 15 and 16 of august,becouse of a longer preaching in Spain.....So Let´s follow his advice to make Krsna´s plan our plan but not to desire to make our plan Krsna´s plan...:) Good luck :)Hari bol.....So you can come and be happy with us and our beloved Paramadvaiti Swami from 20 of august....See you....:)

Monthly plan for august....

Hello,dear friends :) Special quest in this month of august is our beloved teacher Paramadvaiti Swami.He will be here 15(sunday fest),16,20,21(Brahma Mahotsav fest),22(sunday fest),23,24,25,26 august.Programs will start in the morning at 08,00,in the evening at 19,00.Sunday festival programs starts 16,00.Brahma Mahotsava fest will take place in our other center in Reinickendorf...Don´t miss the nectar....

7 European WVA Meeting

The 7th  European WVA Meeting took place in Pula, Croatia under the shelter of Sri Sri Radha Gopinath. 

Our dear host Srila Bhakti Aloka Tapasvi Maharaj welcomed all of us with Kirtan and Prasadam. Everybody felt very happy accommodated in this meeting.BR Swami Maharaj atend also the meeting,he is doing a big service for Guru Maharaj in Mexico yatra as a temple president.We could have his darshan in his shortly visit to Europe.

         Also special guest Mother Urmila d.d. from Iskcon attended the meeting. 

After the senior members gave as small introduction the following points were discussed:

-          The Vaisnava responsibility in front of the environmental crisis

-          How we can help the Yamuna cleaning and restoration of the sacred Vrindavan

-          Helping to increase Vaisnava cooperation and understanding

-          Caring for the image of Vaisnavism in Europe

-          Children education – presentation of new materials

Representative Devotees of not less than 10 different Vaisnava groups took part in the discussions about how to serve together the many common causes of our great Vaisnava family.

And after all ecstatic Harinam Sankirtan.

And after of course Prasadam Seva was revealed to us in his beautiful form of Pizza….  
On the back you can see Balabhadra prabhu,who was so mercyful to share with us this report and to countinue serving all the vaishnavas with a big smile.

The next day we finished the topics on the Adrian coast

Everybody was very happy and enjoyed the association of so many wonderful preachers of the Lord.

To share new ideas of preaching, to exchange new material and to get a bigger picture of the Vaisnava family was the idea of this meeting and it was a full success.
On the picture you can also see Bhakti Abhay Sridhar Maharaj,who recently took shelter and sanyasi vesa from Guru Deva in the 16 mela in Nanda falva,Hungary.His name was Uttama Bhakti prabhu, initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada and first pioneer preaching person in Poland.

Sanyasis Vrinda Ki Jay!

Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu Ki Jay

Visva Vaisnava Raj Sabha Ki Jay

Vaisnava Vrinda Ki jay  

Haribol

Atma jnana-knowledge about the soul

Welcome to learn more about the soul -our real self.Our beloved Paramadvaiti Maharaj will visit Berlin and you can have the mercy to meet him on 15 august-for the sunday festival-16,00h,and from 20-27 august-08,00&19,00h

.A special event will be the Brahma Mahotsava,the birthday of Gandharvika Govinda Sundaram.The festival will take place in our second ashram -Vrinda Kunja,Berlin,Rreinickendorf on 21 august.

.Welcome!!!Hari bol!