{"id":95400,"date":"2021-05-16T05:35:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=95400"},"modified":"2021-05-16T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T07:31:03","slug":"iskcons-pyramid-house-temple-in-risk-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=95400","title":{"rendered":"Iskcon&#8217;s Pyramid House Temple in risk of fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/n5og3a7.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/HeS89r2.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/rQfbyq8.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/l2T1Ohg.jpg\"  width=\"100%\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Topanga Canyon is on fire and the home of Nrsimhananda (currently chairman of the SABHA and co-chair of the NA Devotee Care committee) and his wife Nitya Manjari is in the mandatory evacuation zone. His home, the Pyramid House, is less than one mile from a raging fire. Due to the steep incline of the terrain, it is very difficult to get fire trucks and equipment to the area. <\/p>\n<p>The Pyramid House has been a landmark home and Temple in ISKCON for several decades. The Deities have been continually worshiped there and thousands of devotees have visited.<br \/>\nNrsimhananda and his family were returning from out of state when the fire broke out. They are still a good distance away by car. <\/p>\n<p>The future of the Pyramid House is entirely in the hands of Lord Krishna. Please join me in earnestly praying for the safety of the Deities and the Temple. <\/p>\n<p>Your prayers do make a huge difference. Thank you prabhus!<\/p>\n<p>More info here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2021\/05\/15\/brush-fire-burns-more-than-100-acres-in-pacific-palisades\/\">https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2021\/05\/15\/brush-fire-burns-more-than-100-acres-in-pacific-palisades\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<br \/>\n Let&#8217;s see if the house is standing in the next eight hours.  I&#8217;m not even on my way to California. I won&#8217;t be driving down from Oregon for a few days.  I hope that I don&#8217;t have to. &#x1f629;<br \/>\nYS, Nrsimhananda das<\/p>\n<p><!--<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.businessyab.com\/assets\/uploads\/657c57d59b1979b29cc7023cefa7d20b__united_states_california_los_angeles_county_topanga_sylvia_park_callon_drive_20395_pyramid_house_of_bhakti_yogahtml.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in; \">Nrsimhananda dasa, had first noticed the Topanga plot of land in 1976 and, with his mother's help, had purchased it. Srila Prabhupada, the founder and spiritual master of the Hare Krsna movement, had said that there should be ten centers for&nbsp;<i>bhakti-yoga<\/i>&nbsp;in the Los Angeles area. By 1976 the large New Dvaraka complex on Watseka Avenue in Los Angeles was well established, so the time seemed right to begin another center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in; \">\n    Nrsimhananda chose the pyramid shape for the Topanga center, and in 1978, long before all the finished work had been done on the first of their three pyramids, Nrsimhananda, his wife, Mohana, and their son, Jivananda, moved in. For their house-warming ceremony they posted large signs along the six-mile route from the Pacific Coast Highway to the Pyramid Center and spent several days at nearby Santa Monica Beach performing&nbsp;<i>kirtana<\/i>&nbsp;(singing the Hare Krsna&nbsp;<i>mantra<\/i>&nbsp;and dancing) and distributing invitations. The following Sunday they received fifty guests. And about that many have been coming every Sunday since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backtogodhead.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/1986\/12\/Back-To-Godhead-Sunday-Lecture-by-Nrshimhananda-Dasa.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday Lecture by Nrshimhananda Dasa\" title=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.backtogodhead.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/1986\/12\/Back-To-Godhead-Sunday-Lecture-by-Nrshimhananda-Dasa.jpg 414w, http:\/\/www.backtogodhead.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/1986\/12\/Back-To-Godhead-Sunday-Lecture-by-Nrshimhananda-Dasa-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.backtogodhead.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/1986\/12\/Back-To-Godhead-Sunday-Lecture-by-Nrshimhananda-Dasa-150x116.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.backtogodhead.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/1986\/12\/Back-To-Godhead-Sunday-Lecture-by-Nrshimhananda-Dasa-400x310.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" style=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in; \">\n    Nrsimhananda divides his days between maintaining and expanding the Pyramid Center and managing and directing ITV (ISKCON Television), the video arm of the Hare Krsna movement. In the morning, after the regular temple services, he may be found tending fruit trees in the gardens, cleaning the temple floors, or supervising construction of additional living quarters for the devotees. Later he's usually editing scripts or shooting video productions in the Culver City ITV office, just a block from ISKCON's New Dvaraka community. Nrsimhananda's wife, Mohana, is as energetic and enthusiastic as he is. She hosts numerous visitors to the Pyramid Center and also serves as principal of the New Dvaraka Elementary School. She recently gave birth to another son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in; \">\n    Since Nrsimhananda and Mohana began the center eight years ago, a number of devotees and aspiring devotees have lived with them. At present three husband-and-wife teams and three single men stay there. They are a harmonious crew, dedicated to assimilating and presenting Krsna consciousness as it is, and dedicated to following Srila Prabhupada's teachings by making their home into a temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in; \">\n    As Nrsimhananda explained, \"By keeping an open house for Krsna I've realized that I've also begun to keep an open heart for Krsna.\" Last year Mohana's brother visited the Pyramid Center and, inspired by its success and potential, helped purchase an adjacent acre for the center's gardens and for future development. Now a narrow path winds through the two-acre property, and one who walks that path for the first time is repeatedly startled by magnificent sculptures of the incarnations of Krsna that all but emerge from the bushes along the way Buddha, Kalki, Nrsimhadeva, Krsna and Balarama, and Sita-Rama. The sculptures were cast on site and finished by the devotees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in; \">\n    It was under and around these sculptures that Jivananda and his friends found their treasures while playing their Krsna conscious game a search around the feet of the divine King Rama rewarded one boy with a&nbsp;<i>ruler<\/i>&nbsp;that had a&nbsp;<i>calculator<\/i>&nbsp;built into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in; \">\n    The devotees at the Pyramid Center surrender their activities, assets, and thoughts to Krsna. As a result their lives are becoming anxiety-free and sublime. This process and its result is expressed in a Bengali song by a great nineteenth-century pioneer of the Krsna consciousness movement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"margin-left: 0.25in; font-style: italic; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt; \">\n    <strong>manasa deho geho jo kichu mor<br \/>\n        arpilu tuwa pade nanda-kisor<br \/>\n        sampade vipade jivane-marane<br \/>\n        <i>day mama gela tuwa o-pada barane<\/i><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n<strong>\n<\/strong>\n\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent: 0.25in; \">\n    \"Mind, body, and family, whatever may be mine, I have surrendered at Your lotus feet, O youthful son of Nanda [Krsna]! In good fortune or in bad, in life or at death, all my difficulties have disappeared by choosing those feet of Yours as my only shelter.\"<\/p>\n\n<!-- --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/n5og3a7.jpg\" width=\"100%\"  alt=\"\" \/><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/n5og3a7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Topanga Canyon is on fire and the home of Nrsimhananda and his wife Nitya Manjari is in the mandatory evacuation zone. His home, the Pyramid House, is less than one mile from a raging fire. Due to the steep incline of the terrain, it is very difficult to get fire trucks and equipment to the area.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95400","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=95400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95412,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95400\/revisions\/95412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}