Newsletter
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Seva Opportunities
Many opportunities available to render some service to Their Lordships
Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai and Shrila Prabhupada. You may like to make
garlands for Their Lordships, assist in preparation of a feast for
the devotees, help in cleaning of the temple after Saturday programme,
or plant flowers for the Lord's worship in the temple gardens. Some
congregational members are now coming and regularly dressing Shrila
Prabhupada, which is a very intimate service (for this service devotees
must be chanting 16 rounds and following the four pronciples of
spiritual life).
There is one nice story where Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur
was being asked some very high philosophical questions by a scholar.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta told him to go and ask the pujari because
he was busy. The man thought that only Bhaktisiddhanta could answer
his question because it was very difficult, but he went anyway to
the pujari room. When he arrived the pujari was washing a plate
from the Lord's offering, and he asked the scholar to please help
him and he would answer the scholar's question after they had finished.
Miraculously, the scholar found that as soon as he started to wash
the plate in a humble mood of service to the Lord, all the answers
to his questions came immediately into his mind and he did not even
need to ask the pujari anything.
This is the wonderful potency of performing devotional service to
Krishna, that we immediately make so much advancement towards spirtual
perfection, just by rendering some simple service to the Lord. Shrila
Prabhupada explained that we can also render devotional service
in our own homes, and that is very good, but just as the stock exchange
is permeated with the mood of business, and therefore businessmen
can easily do business there, in the same way the temple is surcharged
with a mood of devotion from all the devotional service going on
there. Therefore it is especially recommended to regularly perform
some devotional service at the temple. For more details just write
to brisbane@iskcon.org.au and we can
discuss how you can render some seva to the Lord.
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