Published by Hare Krsna Center Surabaya May-June 2011

All glories to Lord Nrsimhadeva the half man half lion incarna-tion of Lord Krishna. He appeared to save the great saint Prahla-da Maharaja from his demonic father Hiranyakasipu.By performing the rigorous austerity of standing on the tips of his toes for one hundred and twenty five years Hiranyakasipu became so powerful that the demigods prayed to Lord Brahma to keep him from destroying the universe.

Due to his austerity Lord Brahma offered Hiranyakasipu his hearts desire. Hiranyakasipu requested that he should never die. Lord Brahma explained to him that even he must die that his life was only four million three hundred thousand times 1000 times 30 times 12 times 100 times 2 years. So Hiranyakasipu demand-ed that he should never be killed in the day or in the night and Lord Brahma agreed to this. Hiranyakasipu then requested that he should not die on land or in the air or in the water, to which Lord Brahma agreed.

Hiranyakasipu, having received this promise, became very bold and asked that he should not be killed by any man or beast. Lord Brahma again agreed. Hiranyakasipu still not satisfied with the benedictions he had received from Lord Brahma, then asked for the benediction that he could not be killed by any weapon. To which Lord Brahma also agreed to give Hiranyakasipu this benediction and then left.

After receiving these benedictions Hiranyakasipu became more demonic and began conquering the material universe. With each new victory and increase in his power the Demigods be-came more and more worried.

In time Hiranyakasipu had a son calle Prahlada. Prahlada was a great devotee of Lord Krishna even from birth. As a small boy

TRISPRSA MAHADVADASIFasting from grains, Saturday, May 14thBreakfast next day on 05:54 until 09:51

NRSIMHA CATURDASIAppearance of NRSIMHADEV AVATARFestival start on 6:30 PM, Monday, May 16th. Fasting until dusk

Hare Krishna Newsletter

Nrsimhadev Appearance Day

Lord Nrsimhadeva is Lord Krsna’s ferocious half-man, half-lion incarnation. He appeared to protect the saint Prahlada from Hiranyakasipu, Prahlada’s evil father. Although Nrsimhadeva is feared by the demoniac, He is worshiped with love by the faith-ful devotees. This year, devotees will celebrate the anniversary of Lord Nrsimhadeva’s appearance on May 16

APARA EKADASIFasting from grains. Saturday, May 28th. Breakfast next day 05:57 until 09:52

May 16, 2011

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PANDAVA NIRJALA EKADASIFasting from grains. Sunday, June 12nd. Breakfast next day 06:00 until 09:52

YOGINI EKADASIFasting from grains. Sunday, June 27th. Breakfast next day 06:03 until 09:58

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CONTENTS: Nrsimhadeva Appearance Day 1Bhagavad Gita 3Krishna Only Want Our Love 3Bhakta Prhlad Devotional Training 5Vaisnava Calendar & Event this Month 6Thank You Hare Krsna Donors! 7HK Center around Indonesia 8

EDITORIAL:Hare Krishna.

Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Center, Surabaya welcomes you all to this first edition of the center’s monthly newsletter. I hope you find something interesting and inspiring in this edition. One of the highlights is the story of Lord Narasimha (one of the avatars of Lord Sri Krishna) who killed the demon Hiranyakashipu who wanted to kill his own son Prahlad , who was a faithful and ardent devotee of Lord Sri Krishna.

The Center has made a small beginning and I am happy that it is growing and I am confident that it will develop further overtime.

Radha Gopinath Center made humble begining as a preaching center in the year 2001, initiated by H.H. Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami. The Center is currently located in west Surabaya at Wisma Lidah Kulon in one of the devotees house who volunteered to let a part of her premises be utilised for the center activities.

The center has plans to purchase land and build a ‘Hare Krishna Center’ at Surabaya. Through this letter, I make an earnest appeal to all devotees of Sri Krishna to make generous contribution in kind or in cash for the development of the center to serve the spiritually minded devotees of Surabaya and East Java Hindu community.

Chant Hare Krishna Maha Mantra:Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Sincerely,Sandya Avatar Dasa

Editor

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Devotees in a celebration at the Radha Gopinath center

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CHAPTER 4 TEXT 7

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yadä yadä hi dharmasyaglänir bhavati bhärata

abhyutthänam adharmasyatadätmänaà såjämy aham

Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise

of irreligion—at that time I descend Myself.

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pariträëäya sädhünäàvinäçäya ca duñkåtäm

dharma-saàsthäpanärthäyasambhavämi yuge yuge

To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself ap-

pear, millennium after millennium.

Bhagavad-gétä

Dasa Avatar. Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Nrsimha, Vamana, Parasurama, Ramachan-dra, Krishna, Budha, and Kalki Avatar

KRIShNa ONLY WaNtS OUR LOvEhis divine grace a.C. BhaktivedantaSwami Prabhupada

A devotee’s business is to appreciate the value of other devotees and not criticize anyone, because everyone is engaged in the service of the Lord according to one’s capacity. Krishna wants to see how much one is sincere in rendering Him service.

Materially, we may think that one service is greater than another, but that is our material vision. On the spiritual platform, Krishna sees no difference between the service rendered Him by a calf and the service rendered by Radharani and Her associates. Krishna is so kind and liberal that He accepts everyone’s service when it is offered sincerely.

In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated that He accepts even a little flower, fruit, or water offered to Him in love and devotion. He only wants our love and devotion, otherwise, since he is the proprietor ofeverything, what can we give Him? We should always maintain this position of subordination and give respect to our pure devotees who are engaged in devotional service. That will help our progressive march in the devotional line.

— Letter to Tamala Krishna Goswami, 19 August, 1968.

of five he would preach about Krishna to his school friends any time the teachers left the room. Prahlada’s preaching infuri-ated his father, Hiranyakasipu. When his father demanded to know what this foolishness was, what was this Krishna. Prahla-da explained that because his father was too attached to his own sense gratification, he was determined to deny Krishna’s

existence. Due to this he could not understand even if he took lessons. To understand Krishna one must first give everything to Krishna then Krishna would reveal himself.

Hiranyakasipu became so angry that he ordered Prahla-da to be thrown in to a circle of cannibals. When he was thrown to the cannibals Prahlada began to chant Hare Krishna and the cannibals had no power to harm him. His father then ordered that Prahlada be thrown into boiling hot oil but because he was chanting Hare Krishna Prahlada was unharmed. Seeing that Prahlada was not harmed by the boiling oil his father ordered that he be taken to a small island to endure a huge hur-ricane. But Prahlada kept chanting Hare Krishna and he was protected by Krishna’s holy name. Hiranyakasipu, seeing that none of these things could kill Prahlada, threw him off a the top of a cliff, but due to his chant-ing Hare Krishna Krishna caught him and Prahlada was not harmed.

Infuriated Hiranyakasipu demanded that Prahlada be trampled under the feet of an elephant. When this also did not work Hiranyakasipu called for his guards to throw Prahlada into a snake pit. The pit was filled with venomous snakes but because Prahlada was steady in his faith and continued to chant Hare Krishna the snakes could not harm him.

Since through all this Prahlada was not harmed, Hi-ranyakasipu thought he must have some mystic power.

He pretended to be sorry for trying to harm Prahlada and invited him to lunch. In desperation, Hiranyaka-sipu poisoned Prahlada’s food, with enough poison to kill hundreds of full-grown men. Rather than eating his food Prahlada first offered it Krishna and it became prasadam and as pure as God and free from all poison-ous effects.

When the poisoned food had no effect on Prahlada Hiranyakasipu became so enraged he lifted Prahlada above his head and smashed him to the floor. When Prahlada still was not harmed Hiranyakasipu demanded to know where he got his super human powers from.

Prahlada replied that he got his strength from the same place as Hiranyakasipu did–from God. Hiranyakasipu demanded to know what was this God where was this God. Prahlada explained that God is everywhere that everything comes from God. Hiranyakasipu, despite all that had happened, could not believe in God and began pointing to things demanding if they were God. Hiran-yakasipu demand-ed if God was in a big pillar nearby in the palace. When Prahlada said, “Yes, my Lord is in that pillar,” Hi-ranyakasipu stated that he would kill Prahlada’s God by using his mace to smash the pillar. As he smashed the pillar Lord Nrsim-hadeva, the half man, half lion incarnation of Krishna appeared from the broken pillar and pounced on the shocked demon.

Nrsimhadeva stretched Hiranyakasipu across his lap and with his long nails, he ripped apart the demon. Hiranyakasipu died instantly on Nrsimhadeva’s blood drenched lap. He was killed neither on the land, sea nor in the air but on the lap of the Supreme Lord. He was killed neither during the day or the night but in the twilight. He was killed by neither beast nor man, but by the lord’s lotus hands and was kill with no weap-ons but with the nails of Lord Nrsimhadeva. Thus Hi-ranyakasipu’s benediction from Lord Brahma remained intact and he was killed by the personification of fear, Krishna Himself in His half-man, half-lion form, Lord Nrsimhadeva.

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Hiranyakasipu ordered that Prahlada be thrown into boiling

hot oil but because he was chant-ing Hare Krishna Prahlada was

unharmed.

Nrsimhadev killing Hiranyakasipu on His Lap

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VAISNAVA CALENDAR - MAY 2011Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

25 26 27 28 29 30 1

2 3Sri Gadadhara Pandit Appearance

4 5 6Candana Yatra Start.

7 8Sri Sankaracarya Appearance

9 10 11 12 Sita Devi AppMadhu Pandit AppJahnava Devi App

13 14 Trisprsa Mahad-vadasi. Fasting for Mohini Ekadasi

15 Break fast 05:54-09:51

16 Nrsimha Caturdasi Fasting till dusk

17Buddha Purnima

18 19 20 21 22 Ramananda Ray Disapp.

23 24 25 26 27 28 Fasting for Apara Ekadasi

29Break fast 05:57-09:52

30 31 1 2 3 4 5

VAISNAVA CALENDAR - JUNE 2011Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

30 31 1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11Gangga Puja

12Pandava Nir-jala Ekadasifull fasting

13Breakfast 5:54-9:51 WIB

14 15Snana Yatra

16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27Yogini Ekadasifasting

28Breakfast 5:42-9:44 WIB

29 30 1 2 3

Thank You Hare Krsna Donors!Dear Friends of Lord Krishna:

Surabaya Hare Krishna Center extends our deepest thanks for your generous contributions towards Lord Sri Krishna’s daily worship and our Surabaya Krishna Center construction project. You have enabled the temple to perform worship and preaching in the best possible way. So you are all agents of Sri Krishna’s mercy. In fact it is only because of your support that Surabaya Hare Krishna Temple is able to distribute Sri Radha-Gopinath’s prasadam to all-comers who come to our center. It is you who allow us to reach out, to share His transcendental blessings with every devotee, and to please them.

Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the perfect example of a grateful person. He never forgets even the smallest favorable service rendered to Him. May that Supreme Lord bless you and your family in the coming year and throughout your journey back to the shelter of His lotus feet.

*** Contribution in kind or in cash may kindly be made directly to the center or our representative: Prabhu Shankar (081934656883)

On behalf of the Member Services committee, your servant Srivatsa Krsna Dasa.

TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTBalance Brought Forward Rp. 13.076.000,00

JANUARY 20111 Prabhu Hari Kishin Rp 100.000,002 Prabhu Maharathi Rp 100.000,00

3 Prabhu Sandya Rp 50.000,004 Prabhu Surya Rp 200.000,005 Prabhu Teguh Rp 100.000,006 Mtj Bhavani Rp 50.000,00

Total Rp 600.000,00 Rp 13.676.000,00FEBRUARY 2011

1 Buy Mrdanga Rp -500.000,002 Pb. Surya Rp 150.000,003 Pb. Rasa Sindhu Rp 20.000,004 Pb. Srivatsa Rp 100.000,00

Total Rp -230.000,00 Rp 13.446.000,00MARCH 2011

1 Pb. Rasa Sindhu Rp 50.000,002 Pb Srivatsa Rp 100.000,003 Mtj Sari Rp 10.000,00

Total Rp 160.000,00 Rp 13.606.000,00APRIL 2011

1 Pb./Mtj. Shankar & from donation box Rp. 3.427.300,002 Banyuwangi devotee Rp. 200.000,003 Mtj. Sacimata Rp. 100.000,00

Total Rp. 3.727.300,00 Rp 17.333.300,00Last Balance Rp 17.333.300,00

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