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By Prafulla Seelam<\/strong><\/p>\n Om Sri Surabhyai Namah. Many of the devotees inquired about the upcoming seminars\/conferences about Mother Surabhi. Maharaja mentioned that a few devotees are getting trained for the same under IDVM-India and that soon more details will be made available. Also, Maharaja made a point saying that the practical connection and involvement of the devotees to the campaign will become more clear once the second campaign pamphlet \u2018Sustainable Eco Alliance\u2019 is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916","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=16916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16918,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions\/16918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAs a part of promoting the OM Sri Surabhi Campaign, His Holiness RP Bhakti Raghava Swami Maharaja, Minister for ISKCON Daiva Varnasrama Ministry (IDVM-India), made a two-day visit to Bangalore city on 11th\u00a0and 12th\u00a0of April.
\nOn the first day, Saturday, with a small group of devotees, Maharaja conducted a Yatra to the Devarayana Durga temple. Devarayana Durga (Karigiri Kshetra) is a famous Dham, some 70 kms from Bangalore where Lord Narasimha Dev is the presiding deity.
\nMaharaja and the devotees reached the top of the hill in the early noon and took darshan of Lord Yoga Narasimha while performing Harinam Sankrtan in the temple premises. On the way down (some 250 steps), His Holiness and the devotees had a pleasant experience while observing the Dravidian style temple architecture. There were many mantapas (resting places) constructed with Vedic architecture that captured the attention of the devotees. By mid-day the devotees reached downhill and took darshan of Lord Bhoga Narasimha. Afterwards, with a group of 10 devotees Maharaja proceeded to a place called \u2018Namada Chilume\u2019\u00a0where Lord Ramacandra, during His exile, performed his transcendental pastime of piercing solid rock with his arrow to make water appear for mother Sita to apply tilak. That same water flows from that rock to this day and all the devotees honored some of the water.
\nAfter visiting the above three places, His Holiness\u2019s keen interest to see a cow taken care of by a nearby devotee, HG Abhiram Das, brought him to Tumkur. Maharaja performed Go-puja to Mother Cow (named Subhadra) and then graced a house program and shed light on\u00a0the Sri Surabhi Campaign.
\nLater in the evening on arrival to Bengaluru His Holiness gave a short lecture on Practical participation\/involvement for city people in the Sri Surabhi Campaign at the host\u2019s house, HG Narahari Thakura Das.
\nOn the second two, Sunday morning, Maharaja attended the Sunday program at the ISKCON Sri Gandharvika Giridhari temple. Maharaja is extremely happy upon knowing that the temple is having a goshala and spent a good amount of the time feeding the Cows at the Goshala and inquiring about the Gomata past times there.
\nLater His Holiness delivered the Srimad Bhagavatam class and presented the topics related to the Sri Surabhi Campaign. Maharaja then gifted the Sri Surabhi Campaign pamphlets and DVD to the temple authorities for reference. Around 100+ devotees were present. After the lecture Maharaja interacted with many devotees and inspired them to get connected with the Sri Surabhi Campaign. A lot of demand was there for the Sri Surabhi Campaign pamphlets and many devotees personally inquired from Maharaja how they could become connected with the campaign.
\nAfter this His Holiness attended his second Sunday program at the ISKCON Sri Jagannatha Mandir and delivered the Srimad Bhagavatam class. At the end of the class, he presented the topics related to Mother Surabhi and the Sri Surabhi Campaign. Over 100 devotees were present. After the lecture Maharaja again interacted with many devotees and inspired them to get involved with the Sri Surabhi Campaign. A good number of devotees purchased Maharaja\u2019s books related to the Varnasrama Mission and received His Holiness\u2019s signature. Over 100 books such as \u2018Make Vrindavana Villages\u2019, \u2018 Village life\u2019, \u2018Foundational Pillars of Education\u2019 etc. were distributed, some of the stock becoming exhausted.
\nMany of the devotees inquired about the upcoming seminars\/conferences about Mother Surabhi. Maharaja mentioned that a few devotees are getting trained for the same under IDVM-India and that soon more details will be made available. Also, Maharaja made a point saying that the practical connection and involvement of the devotees to the campaign will become more clear once the second campaign pamphlet \u2018Sustainable Eco Alliance\u2019 is released.
\nLater in the evening His Holiness addressed and inspired a team of devotees at the host\u2019s house program, discussed the immediate next steps for the Sri Surabhi Campaign and concluded his agenda for the 2 day visit to Bangalore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Hare](\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-yUOQ5m5qc2w\/VTfuO-Z8I1I\/AAAAAAAAOQs\/2rmgcplTnwE\/s0\/2015-04-22_20-53-46.jpg\")
By Prafulla Seelam<\/strong><\/p>\n