Arequipa Mandir Report
These days we received an exciting report fro Arequipa Mandir, made by Radhanath prabhu, temple president there. Here for you...
"Arequipa Mandir is a family above all, composed by the brahmacaris, brahmacarinis, devotees living in their homes who carry out their services from there and also they conduct programs from there, grihastas that support the programs each one of them to the best of their possibilities and of course the kids, whom have turned the monthly kids programs’ inspiration, with puppets show, hindu dancing, gifts, competitions and games.
Many devotees are projects’ leaders, for e.g. P Radhesyam and his partner M. Prahlada are in charge of conducting the preaching at the Spoon Revolution, which has had many events (ECO-VEG-FEST), at the temple’s site as well as at the universities, demonstrations around the city with Spoon Revolution sankirtan, costumes, our cow let which has turned into the Soon Revolution icon here. And also every Friday all the preaching is meant for the Spoon Revolution. Doing a monthly schedule for each Friday, be it Vegetarian Cooking Classes, vegetarianism, diet, conscious movie conferences, etc.
The grihastas devotees are also in charge of the programs, for e.g. P. Krsihna Dham is in charge of conducting the temple’s company. M. Vraja Kelly, M. Kalindi, M. Govinda, P. Gopi, P. Paramatma are the coordinators for the Kid’s programs.
M. Karuni is with the House of Wisdom as well as P. Krishna Bhandu. And so may devotees take each other’s inspiration to perform better programs.
There is also the mothers’ program conducted by M. Dhira, whom were able to preach and inspire many mothers, and on Gurumaharaj last visit 4 mothers have taken initiation, becoming a great shelter and support for the mothers in here. They perform programs on Mondays, they organize festivals, go out to harinam, etc.
The Vaisnava Academy is managed by M. Prahlada and there’re being dictated Vegetarian Cooking, Hindu Dancing and Yoga classes.
The temple also has a restaurant managed by P. Sri Gopal and P. Nitay, which turned into a great source of service and preaching, since many people get to know the devotees and the programs through the restaurant.
Your Lordships Sri Sri Goura Nitay are also assisted at the temple.
The Srimad Bhagavatam classes are dictated at 6:00 am, following the inspiration of Maharaj Paramartik it was decided that besides the Srimad Bhagavatam’s reading, to study a different book each day by different devotees, for e.g. Mondays is The Upadesamrita, Tuesdays Istagosthi, Wednesdays GM’s chat, Thursdays Temple President’s Book, Fridays Postman’s Words by Gurudeva Atulananda, Saturdays Gurumaharaj’s Video Conferences and on Sundays the Srimad Bhagavatam.
At 7:00 pm artik and Bhagavad-Gita class is carried out and prasadam is handed out among the guests. Many institutes and college students have come to visit us lately because they are given hindu philosophy or vegetarianism assignments. And the Festivals are on Saturdays, a billboard is made for that month with the Hindu Dance, Yoga, Acting, Kids Program’s presentation, etc.
The last Gurumaharaj’s visit left us all very excited; a conference took place at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustin’s PARANINFO where more than 300 people attended. And Gurudeva displayed his love and mercy all the time towards all his disciples and friends.
Well many devotees get involved in the temple and thanks to them the preaching can take place. Of course, there is always stuff that fails and there’re difficulties, troubles and flaws, but with enthusiasm and with the thought in mind as how to better satisfy our Masters and vaisnavas they can be surmounted. We wish we may be experts in the execution of all these services and that they become stronger. To be able to preach a lot and so this way the program is going to grow much more."
Radhanath das b.
