{"id":11909,"date":"2013-09-16T12:23:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T11:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11909"},"modified":"2013-09-16T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T11:23:33","slug":"final-results-from-janmastami-msf-2013-msf-of-birth-of-perfectly-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11909","title":{"rendered":"FINAL RESULTS from Janmastami MSF 2013 – MSF of birth of perfectly complete"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Malini devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Srila Prabhupada,<\/p>\n

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you!! All glories to transcendental books!<\/p>\n

We are gathered here on the most auspicious occasion, which is your appearance day, to offer the results of our Monthly Sankirtana Festival (MSF) of \u201cThe birth of perfectly complete\u201d, which was held last month here at ISV.<\/p>\n

o\u1e3f p\u016br\u1e47am ada\u1e25 p\u016br\u1e47am ida\u1e3f
\np\u016br\u1e47\u0101t p\u016br\u1e47am udacyate
\np\u016br\u1e47asya p\u016br\u1e47am \u0101d\u0101ya
\np\u016br\u1e47am ev\u0101va\u015bi\u1e63yate<\/p>\n

The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.
\nAccording to Lord Chaitanya:<\/p>\n

aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas tad-dhama vrndavanam
\nramya kacid upasana vraja-vadhu-vargena va kalpita
\nsrimad bhagavatam pramanam amalam prema pum-artho mahan
\nsri-caitanya mahaprabhor matam idam tatradarah na parah
\nThe Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is worshipped along with His transcendental abode Vrndavana. The most pleasing form of worship for the Lord is that which was performed by the gopis of Vrndavana. Srimad Bhagavatam is the spotless authority on everything and pure love of Godhead is the ultimate goal of life for all men. These statements, for
\nwhich we have the highest regard, are the opinion of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. (Caitanya-matta-manjusa by Srila Viswanatha Cakravarti Thakura)<\/p>\n

Following the instructions of Lord Chaitanya, you came to America with spotless Srimad Bhagavatam to give pure love of God for all the people. You have spent days and nights translating transcendental books and your disciples have carefully edited and published them for our benefit. You have now left the task of distributing this literature to us.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to fulfill the task, team ISV distributed Srimad bhagavatm sets, Bhagavad Gita\u2019s, Krishna books, perfectly complete library sets and many more books.<\/p>\n

Goals of this MSF were:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 read pastimes about Lord Krsna leading up to Janmastami
\n\u00b7 distribute at least 2,500 Bhagavad Gita’s
\n\u00b7 distribute at least 25 Srimad Bhagavatam sets
\n\u00b7 distribute at least 5 Perfectly complete library sets (PCL)<\/p>\n

To realize these goals, Team ISV distributed books at different venues and publically chanted the holy names in Harinaam at Palo Alto<\/p>\n

Highlights of this MSF are:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 We distributed huge number of books at the Ratha Yatra festival in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
\n\u00b7 Many teams including the kids Sankirtan team and smart box team participated in this book distribution.
\n\u00b7 Srimad Bhagavatam sets were distributed in a new location, which turned out to be a potential for hundreds of sets.
\n\u00b7 Devotee Connect program headed by Sri Gopal Prabhu and Vrindavan Priya Prabhu was launched at ISV with the additions of welcome booth and temple phone answering system.<\/p>\n

As we make this offering of the MSF results, we are pleased to report that all the goals had been successfully met and surpassed<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Reading of Srimad Bhagavatam led by HG Vaisesika Prabhu was held on phone conferences.<\/p>\n

With respect to the books:<\/p>\n

In all:<\/p>\n

\u2022 More than 70 devotees participated in book distribution
\n\u2022 Team ISV distributed 14,429 in book points which includes
\n\u00b7 6 Chaitanya Caritamrta sets
\n\u00b7 6 \u201cPerfectly Complete library (PCL)\u201d sets were distributed.
\n\u00b7 2,769 Bhagavad Gita\u2019s surpassing the goal of 2,500.
\n\u00b7 Total of 38 Srimad Bhagavavatam sets were distributed surpassing the goal of 25.
\n\u2022 Team ISV raised $26,880 in Laxmi surpassing the previous year\u2019s total of $20,521<\/p>\n

Acknowledgements<\/p>\n

We thank all participating devotees, donors and our Sankirtana leaders who contributed to this MSF. We express our deepest gratitude to our beloved leader HG Vaisesika Prabhu for encouraging and guiding us at every step.<\/p>\n

Today, we pray at your lotus feet to continue to shower your blessings on team ISV.<\/p>\n

With gratitude,
\nYour servant,
\nMalini devi dasi
\n(ISV Sankirtan team, Mountain View)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Malini devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are gathered here on the most auspicious occasion, which is your appearance day, to offer the results of our Monthly Sankirtana Festival (MSF) of \u201cThe birth of perfectly complete\u201d, which was held last month here at ISV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}