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By Bhaktivinoda Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n More than 350 devotees gather at the Sacred town of Guruvayur, Kerala More than 350 devotees gather at the Sacred town of Guruvayur, Kerala to learn more about “who is a Vaishnava”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384","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=8384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n to learn more about “who is a Vaishnava”.
\n \tApril 10th and 11th were mometuous days for devotees from Kerala as
\n they congregated to hear , chant and associate at the 5th Annual Kerala
\n convention in Guruvayur. The festival was attended by many prominent
\n devotees and leaders of Kerala and was conducted in most famous tirtha in
\n Kerala under the lotus feet of Guruvayurappan where ISKCON has its head
\n quarters being developed for Kerala.
\n H.H. Bhanu Swami Maharaj kept the devotees spell bound with his
\n presentations on who is a sadhu and what is his belief and how one should
\n relate with each other while touching on Karma yoga and Guru tattva and
\n even astrology !.
\n H H Bhakti Vinoda swami urged the devotees to take full advantage of the
\n movement started by Lord Chaitanya and perpetrated in the modern world so
\n aptly by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He
\n explained the Sankirtan mission in terms of ones internal development from
\n the pages of Bhaktisiddhanta Thakurs poem Vaishnava ke , translated and
\n commented upon by H H Jayapataka Swami Maharaj.
\n Sananda Kumar das Prabhu, Jagatsakshi das pr, Satyamedha Pr, Lohidakshan
\n Pr, Sundar Nityananda das, Murali Govinda Pr Giri Goverdhan Pr and Ram
\n Narasimha Pr were other speakers who enlightened the audience on various
\n challenges facing the devotee in the modern age of Kali. Their session
\n included a group discussion of all present analysing the various aspects
\n of becoming a Vaishnava.
\n Sundar Nityananda das and Amala Gauranga dasa also performed humorous and
\n wisdom laden skits to illustrate some of the traps laid out for a devotee
\n by Krishna s formidable energy.
\n Reports of preaching from various quarters of Kerala were given by leaders
\n of the area.
\n H H Bhaktivinoda Swami gave a presentation on the Kerala BBT\u2019s activities
\n and urged everyone present to commit to distributing books of Srila
\n Prabhupada to expand the sankirtan movement in Kerala and keep the BBT
\n healthy.
\n Pavitra Krishna dasa from Bangladesh sang bhajans and led kirtans filling
\n the hearts of the devotees with bliss.
\n Devotees dedicated the festival to the memory of H H Holiness Jayapataka
\n Swami who wrote a wonderful commentary to the poem Vaishnava Ke out of
\n compassion for the devotees.
\n Sumptuous prasadam was served every day as devotees filled their ears and
\n hearts with Krishna katha and returned home on Sunday night vowing to make
\n changes in their lives and rededicating themselves to the cause of
\n spreading the holy name and chanting it purely in the positive association
\n of Vaishnavas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Bhaktivinoda Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n