Sripad Damodara preaches more Hari Katha through Kwa-Zulu Natal

Hare Krsna All
All Glories to our Beloved Srila Gurudeva
Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja.

It has been such an ecstatic 2 weeks
with Sripad Damodara Maharaja.
Maharaja has preached in many
places in Kwa-Zulu Natal like
Pietermaritzburg,Phoenix,
Stanger,Rossburgh and the Bluff.
One of my Godbrothers Rohininanda
Prabhu also known as Pundit Roshan
who was formerely from Pietermaritzburg
and now has settles in Johannesburg but
still has his Vedic Astrology office in
Durban on the Bluff has been a devotee
practically all his life,prabhu is fluent
in Hindi and has now taken Diksha from
our Beloved Srila Gurudeva Bhaktivedanta
Narayana Maharaja.Rohininanda prabhu
is doing some excellent preaching through
his astrology,last saturday morning he
invited Sripad Damodara Maharaja to
his offices in the Bluff in Durban and
there was 70 people who came to
hear Hari Katha from Maharaja.

All present were engrossed in Maharaja`s
sweet Hari Katha and some promised to give
up eating meat.They all are now eager to meet
our Beloved Srila Gurudeva who will be setting
his Divine Lotus Feet on South African soil for
the first time.Our Beloved Srila Gurudeva will
arrive in South Africa on the 3rd January 2009
and leave on the 1oth and travel to Brazil for
Were the devotees are planning to celebrate our
Beloved Srila Gurudeva`s 89th Vyasa Puja and
then will return to South Africa on the 24th January
for the second leg of our Beloved Srila Gurudeva`s
visit.

We invite all to be present for this Divine and historic
event.Please email me for further details
acyuta.bvnm@gmail.com
This past Monday because of Rohininanda prabhu`s
preaching a very nice family Reuben and Nisha
who have become devotees recently had a programme
at their house in Rossburgh and Maharaja gave Hari
Katha and they invited some of their friends and relatives.
All were happy and enlivened to hear Hari Katha.

More Preaching by Sripad Damodar Maharaja in KWA-ZULU NATAL

Hare Krsna all
All Glories to our Beloved Srila Gurudeva
Please accept my dandavat pranams.

As householders it is not
everyday we get to spend time
with a Sanyassi and when
we do get the time i`ll talk about
myself and those that have been recently
hearing and associating with Sripad Damodara
Maharaja,it is such a difference as we are everday
hearing Hari Katha and my family and i are very
fortuanate that Maharaja is staying at our house
and i associate with Maharaja every day.


Sripad Damodara Maharaja is formerely
from Australia Sydney and has been with
our Beloved Srila Gurudeva for the last 15 years
that is a long time and has been hearing Srila
Gurudeva`s sweet Hari Katha and is now
being merciful to us here by speaking what
he has heard from our Beloved Srila Gurudeva.

The preaching so far we`ve had Nama Hatta
on Friday and all the devotees were engrossed in
Maharaj`s sweet Hari Katha.Then on Saturady morning
we went on Harinam Sankirtana to the local market
area for about 45 minutes,and Maharaja led us in sweet
Kirtana.

In the afternoon we travelled to Verulam Durban
We had a programme at Subhadra didi and the kids
Balrama,Krsna dasa and Krsna Priya didi.
We were welcomed to their home and they recently
constructed a temple for their deities Sri Sri Radha
Govinda,the deities were brought from India
Muradabad they were worshipped there for 16 years
and now due to unforseen circumstances they were
brought to South Africa Verulam.

Maharaja spoke on the pastime about
Sudama Brahman and also about introduction
to Krsna Consciousness for the new people.
Subhadra didi is doing preaching in that
area of Verulam.After the programme a
delicious sumptous prasadam was served
to all the guests and devotees.

The next day Sunday Murari Mohan
prabhu and his family of Stanger
on the North Coast of Durban hosted
Maharaja at their new Hare Krsna
Ashram and many devotees attended
to hear Hari Katha from Maharaja.
Murari Mohan prabhu has the mercy
from our Beloved Srila Gurudeva
as he is organising the preaching
very nicely there in Stanger.

All the devotees are now preparing for
our Beloved Srila Gurudeva`s historic
first visit to South Africa next year JANUARY
all is invited to come and take Darshan and hear
Hari Katha from our Beloved Srila Gurdeva.
Should you require any further info on this historic
event please contact me on cell:+27 827479669
or email me on acyuta.bvnm@gmail.com
or keep on visiting this blogspot or ouyr website
www.purebhakti.co.za.

To have Darshan of a very class Vaishnava
is very very rare in this world and to meet and hear from a
Rasika Maha Uttama Bhagwat is extremely rare.

Sripad Damodara Maharaja arrives in Pietermaritzburg

Hare Krsna and dandavats to all.

By the Mercy of Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja
and Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,Sripad Damodara
Maharaja arrived in Pietermaritzburg yesterday afternoon.
Sripada Damodara Maharaja is a disciple of our Beloved
Srila Gurudeva Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja.

Yesterday evening we had a programme at my house.
Although we are in winter and many of our devotee children
are writing their mid term exams,the attendance was very good
and many new people atteneded and also devotees from other
Vaishnava groups also attended even as far from Durban.

So there was a mixture attending Maharaja`s Hari Katha.
So beautifully Maharaja catered for everyone from beginning
to those that have been devotees for many years.
Maharaja spoke on the importance of being vegetarian
for the first timers,then Maharaja spoke on Krsna
being the Supreme Lord and how one has to
have a High class living Vaishnava to hear
the scriptures from as we cannot ask questions
to Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam.

All present appreciated Maharaja`s lecture so much
that they want to come back and those that were
not vegetarian vowed to become vegetarian.
Then sumptous Prasadam was served to all.

I`ll keep you all posted with more Hari Katha
from our programmes.Jai Srila Bhaktivedanta
Narayana Maharaja.

Harinam Sankirtan in the streets of Raiesthorpe

Hare Krsna,Please accept my dandavat
pranams.

Today the devotees gathered on
a cold winters day to perform
the Yajna for this age the
chanting of Hare Krsna
Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna
Hare Hare Hare Rama
Hare Rama Rama Rama
Hare Hare.

By the mercy of our beloved
Srila Gurudeva Bhaktivedanta
Narayana Maharaja the Harinam
Sankirtana today was very successful.
Many vendors that sell their wares
on the streets and shoppers who
went to the shops heard the Holy
Names.Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
must have certainly looked on favourably
on these fortuanate souls who after many
many lives in this material world
have had the oppurtunity to hear
the Holy Names many for the first
time.Hari Nama Sankirtana Ki Jai!

Tomorrow By the Mercy of Sri
Guru and Lord Sri Caitanya
Sripad Damodara Maharaja
will arrive in South Africa
for the first time for a 6
week preaching in preparation
for our Beloved Srila Gurudeva`s
first Historic visit to South Africa
and the African continent.
Then in July Syamarani didi(Jadurani)
also comes to South Africa
for the first time(The famous
artist)We can only thank our
Beloved Srila Gurudeva for all
this very High class Vaishnava
association.Sadhu Sanga Ki Jai!

Srila Gurudeva Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja to visit South Africa in 2010

Haribol dear devotees
Please accept my dandavat pranams.
All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.

Our Beloved Srila Gurudeva
Bhaktivedanta Narayana
Maharaja is scheduled
to arrive in South Africa
next year January.
This will be Srila
Gurudeva`s first
ever visit to
the South Africa
and first to the
African continent.
We are extremely fortuanate
to have our Beloved Srila
Gurudeva here and we will
be celebrating Srila Gurudeva`s
89th Vyasa Puja here in Pietermaritzburg
the city of choice for this most
blessed celebration.

We are inviting everyone to
please come and celebrate this
most blessed occassion
and to hear Srila Gurudeva`s
Divine Hari Katha.
Srila Gurudeva said
many times we always
have to be in High Class
Vaishnava Association
and just hear Hari
Katha.Please join us
for this rare oppurtunity
to hear Hari Katha and
Glorify the Lord`s Pure
devotee.

Jai Srila Gurudeva

Haribol dear devotees
Please accept my dandavat
pranams.All Glories to Srila
Gurudeva Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta
Narayana Maharaja.

I came across this very beautiful
quote by Srila Gurdeva.
Hope you all enjoy as much
as i did.

"It is true that we are not seeing Krsna, but He sees us, and He may hear what we say to Him. We do not hear what He is telling us, and we do not hear His calling us by playing His flute, but our call is heard by Krsna who is very kind and causelessly merciful. He has sent all our guru-parampara acaryas, He has also sent Jesus, and sometimes He Himself descends with all His associates – only because He loves us."Srila Gurudeva

Shoba Ratha Yatra festival in Stanger

By the Mercy of our Beloved Gurudeva
Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami
Maharaja we had a successful Shoba
Ratha Yatra in Stanger which is about
40km north of Durban on the coast.

By the Mercy of our Srila Gurudeva
many devotees have taken shelter
at the dust of his Divine Lotus Feet
and are preaching to the people
of Stanger and Surrounding areas.

All the devotees of Darnall,Stanger
arranged a Ratha Yatra festival
which co-incided with Murari Mohan
prabhu and his good family opening
a preaching centre in Darnall,Stanger
called the Hare Krsna Ashram.
Murari prabhu together with his
5 children who are all iniatiated
by our Beloved Srila Guurdeva
Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana
Maharaja and with other devotees
in that area,organised a very transcendental
programme beginning with Guru Puja
to our Beloved Gurudeva and then
Tulasi Puja and then the Main event that
everybody was anxiously waiting for
the Ratha Yatra procession through
the streets of Darnall.All the devotees
were immersed in the Kirtana
and also all were taking in
the Darshana of their Lordships
Sri Sri Jagganatha,Baladeva and Lady
Subhadra who were decorated in their
finest jewellery and clothing.

The procession took us about just
over an hour and although we had
many hills to go through, the Kirtana
and the presence of their Lordships
the devotees were lost in the festival
and even forgot about the road conditions
and time.Many onlookers had an oppurtunity
to hear the Holy names and have Darshan
of their Lordships on the chariot.We even
went pass a church and they greeted us
favourably.

After the procession the devotees
sang some Bhajans and Subhadra didi
gave a lecture to the attendees.
Then a vote of thanks by Murari Mohan
Prabhu and sumptous Prasadam was
prepared for all.Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu wanted this Holy Name
to spread all over the world to every
town and Village and Darnall Stanger
has just been added to that list as
one of the villages by our Beloved
Srila Gurudeva`s Mercy and the foremost
preacher in the western world His Divine
Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja
Prabhupada.Hari Nama Sankirtana Ki Jai!
Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja
Ki Jai!

Hare Krsna to everyone.
Please accept my dandavat
pranams.All Glories to
Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana
Maharaja.

My Srila Gurudeva through
his Divine Mercy and inspiration
only we are able to preach
here in this part of
the world South Africa.

I therefore wanted to introduce
my Beloved Srila Gurudeva
to the world


Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja












A Short Biography"About the Author"(From Venu-gita, The Song of Krsna's Flute)His Divine Grace Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja is the disciple of Om Visnupada Sri Srimad Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja, who was one of the foremost leading disciples of Om Visnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada.Srila Narayana Maharaja was born in a village named Tewaripur located near the bank of the sacred Ganges river in Bihar, India. The area was renowned for being the place where Lord Ramacandra and Visvamitra Muni came and killed the Taraka demon. He was born on the Amavasya (new moon) day of February 16th, 1921, into a very religious Trivedi brahmana family. Throughout his childhood he had many opportunities to regularly accompany his father when he would go to attend kirtana and pravachan assemblies.In February of 1947 he had his first meeting with his Gurudeva in Sri Navadvipa Dhama, West Bengal. He had travelled there from his village after meeting a disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura named Srila Narottamananda Brahmacari, who was touring and preaching the message of Sri Caitanyadeva in the area. After initial discussions with this devotee, he was convinced of the paramount position of the philosophy given by the acaryas in the line of Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada, and within days he left home to join the mission of his spiritual master and surrender his life. When he arrived in Sri Navadvipa Dhama, the annual parikrama was under way and he joined with the group. Upon its completion on Gaura-purnima, he was given both harinama and gayatri initiations by Srila Kesava Maharaja and received the name Sri Gaura Narayana. Very soon afterward, his Gurudeva also awarded him the title of Bhakta-bandhava, which means "friend of the devotees," because he was always serving all of the Vaisnavas in a very pleasing manner. He travelled extensively along with Srila Kesava Maharaja on preaching tours throughout India over the next five years, and in 1952, on Gaura-purnima, his beloved Gurudeva awarded him initiation into the sacred order of sannyasa. In 1954 Srila Kesava Maharaja posted him in charge of the newly opened temple in Mathura named Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Matha. Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja began to spend part of the year in Mathura and the other part in Bengal, carrying on extensive services in both areas. This went on over the period of the next fourteen years. He was also appointed by Srila Kesava Maharaja as Vice-President of his institution, the Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, and Editor-in-Chief of its Hindi publications and the monthly magazine Sri Bhagavat Patrika. In 1968 Srila Kesava Maharaja passed from this world, and Srila Narayan Maharaja performed all the necessary ceremonial rituals for his samadhi burial.During this time period, as a humble servitor of the Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti, Srila Narayana Maharaja began to organize the annual Karttika Vraja Mandala Parikrama, which he continues to carry on up to the present day. Srila Narayan Maharaja was requested by his Gurudeva to translate the books of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura from Bengali into his native language, Hindi. He has carried out this request by translating some of the Thakura's most prominent books, such as Jaiva Dharma, Caitanya-siksamrta, Bhakti-tattva-viveka, Vaisnava-siddhanta-mala, to name only a few. All these books are also presently being translated into English by his followers. He also continues to lecture in Hindi, Bengali and English throughout India. All of his discourses are tape-recorded and are gradually being transcribed as well as translated into English for publication.A significant relationship in the life of Srila Narayana Maharaja was his association with His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja Prabhupada, the world-famous preacher of Gaudiya Vaisnavism and Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness. They first met in Calcutta in 1948 on the occasion of the inauguration of a new branch of the Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti (co-founded by Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja) on Ghosh Para Lane, where they had both come to render their services. Their association continued a few years later when Srila Narayana Maharaja accompanied Srila Kesava Maharaja to Jhansi where Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja had been attempting to start a Vaisnava society named The League of Devotees. A few years later in the early 50's, Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja came to reside at Mathura in Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Matha, by invitation of his godbrother, Srila Kesava Maharaja, where he stayed for some months. By having regular devotional exchanges with him and deep discussions of Vaisnava siddhanta, Srila Narayana Maharaja developed a very intimate relationship with him during this time period, regarding him both as his senior and superior, as well as his friend.In 1959 Srila Kesava Gosvami Maharaja initiated him into the sacred sannyasa order, giving him the sannyasi name and title Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja. The ceremony of Vedic fire yajna and all the rituals were performed by Srila Narayana Maharaja.Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja was already residing in Vrndavana during this period, first at the Vamsi Gopala Mandira and a few years later at the Sri Sri Radha Damodara Mandira. Srila Narayana Maharaja would often go there to visit with him. He would cook for him, honor the prasada with him, and have intimate discussions on Vaisnava philosophy.When Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja went to preach in the West, and succeeded in starting the first Radha Krsna temple in America, Srila Narayana Maharaja sent the first mrdanga drums and karatalas to him to be used for sankirtana. Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja maintained regular correspondence every month or two with Srila Kesava Maharaja and Srila Narayana Maharaja up until 1968 when Srila Kesava Maharaja entered nitya-lila. And after that, he continued to write Srila Narayana Maharaja until his own divine departure. Toward the end of his life, he personally requested Srila Narayana Maharaja several times to kindly give his association to his Western disciples and help them to understand the deep truths of the Vaisnava philosophy in the line of Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada. Srila Narayana Maharaja humbly agreed to honor his request, considering him to be one of his worshipable siksa gurus. He also requested Srila Narayana Maharaja to take complete charge of performing all the rituals for his samadhi burial after his departure. Both of these requests by Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja clearly demonstrated the firm and utter confidence that he held in Srila Narayana Maharaja.For a period spanning over three decades since his departure in November 1977, Srila Narayana Maharaja has unwaveringly been carrying out this final request by providing insightful guidance and loving shelter to all who come to him seeking such, and through the medium of his English books he is now giving his purifying association and divine realizations to sincere searchers of truth all over the globe.For more than a half century Srila Narayana Maharaja has demonstrated and exemplified the pure, unadulterated life of utter dedication and loving service to his Gurudeva, Sriman Mahaprabhu, and the Divine Couple, Yugala-kisora, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. Srila Narayana Maharaja, as Their intimate servitor, continues to illuminate the path for those who wish to discover and dive deep into the ecstatic ocean of radha-dasyam, service to the radiantly beautiful lotus feet of Sri Krsna's dearly beloved, Srimati Radhika.

THEIR LORDSHIPS SRI SRI GAURANGA RADHA GOVINDA DEVA

Hare Krsna
Please accept my dandavat pranams
All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.

Last week Thursday the 28th May 2009
was Nama Hatta and we discussed the
verse from Bhakti Rasamrta Sindu Bindu
ANYABILASITA SUNYAM.Then
we had Guru Puja and prasadam.
I`ve enclosed a picture of our presiding
Deities Sri Sri Gauranga Radha Govinda
Deva ,these Deities were personally installed
by our Beloved Srila Gurudeva Srila Bhaktivedanta
Narayana Goswami Maharaja last year Kartikka
at Sri Govardhana Temple.

Due to our Srila Gurudeva`s Mercy by installing
these Beautiful Deities we have seen so many
successful preaching activities being successful.

This coming weekend the Stanger devotees are
arranging to have their first Shoba Ratha Yatra
ad the opening of their first preaching centre.

I`ll keep you all posted on the events that wil
take place.