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Please spread the news with your friends and fel-low devotees that we have been fundraising to buy a new Temple over the next few years. This will be a stable and long-lasting foundation for our devotee community and for the spiritual culture of India in the heart of Dublin City Centre. To find out how you can be a part of this exciting project please visit: krishna.ie/new
83 Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1
Tel: 01 8729975
Web: www.krishna.ie
Email: [email protected]
Dublin Krishna Temple
Temple Fund: is now €5500 Thank you for all your support. Krishna Island: We took a trip to see Radha-Govinda in our temple in Fermanagh for the Govardhana Puja festival. We thank everyone who joined us and hope to see you all at the next one. New Class: A new class will take place every Friday at 7pm. We will be reading about the life of Caitanya Mahaprabhu—the Golden Avatar. See temple schedule.
Temple News
Śrī Śrī Panca-tattva Newsletter November 2013
Yoga Schedule Recipes Temple Schedule Suggested Yoga donation €5-€15
Donations Contact
Welcome,
The Lifting of Govardhana Hill is a very important pastime, where Lord Krishna lifted the hill up on his baby-finger for seven days, to save the people of Vrndavana from Indra’s destruction. Discover Krishna from His glorious pastimes, recite the teachings of Bhagavad-gita and Prabhupada, and discover how to make delicious prasdam from our recipes. Stay informed with all of our temple news and schedules.
Hare Krishna.
Monday: Vedic Studies on 7:00pm Bhagavad-Gita
Tuesday: Kirtan (Chanting) 6:30pm
Wednesday: Introduction to Krsna 6:00pm
Thursday: Introduction to Krsna 6:00pm
Friday: The Golden Avatar 7:00pm
Sunday: Sunday Feast 3:00pm
Sunday: Bhajan Class 6:00pm (Music, Dance, Drama) Schedule available on krishna.ie/schedule
Tuesday: Hatha (Magda) 5.00pm
Wednesday: Hatha (Justyna) 7:00pm
Thursday: Mai Ram (Rita) 7:00pm
Friday: Sivananda (Daphne) 5:30pm
Saturday: Mai Ram (Rita) 10.30am
Schedule available on krishna.ie/yoga/schedule
Email: [email protected]
The Lifting of Govardhana Hill The Govardhana Puja is celebrated the day after Diwali. It is the day Lord Krishna defeated Indra, the deity of thun-
der and rain. The term "Govardhana' has two meanings. The word "Go' means cows, and "vardhana' means nour-
ishment. The other meaning, "Go' stands for senses and "vardhana' means to increase the diversion of the senses
towards Sri Krishna. In this connection, it is believed that the personality of Govardhana blesses the devotee by in-
creasing his devotion. 'Govardhana', a small hillock situated at 'Braj', holds special significance for the devotees of Krishna. According to ancient Vaishnava texts Indra was feared by human beings because he would either give the people no rain or flood them if he was not satisfied with their worship. When Krishna found out, he opposed the performance of sacrificial worship for Indra. He emphasized the importance of karma and doing ones duty. Then people started worshipping the mountain, infuriated Indra showered heavy rains upon Gokul. To save the lives of people from the consequent flood, Krishna lifted the great Govardhana Parvat (hillock) on his little finger and offered shel-ter to the people of Gokul until the rains abated. Ultimately, seeing the supremacy of lord Krishna, Indra accepted defeat. He offered his prayers and left to his heavenly kingdom. It gives us a message that we must love, adopt and conserve natural elements and natu-ral resources that make our life comfortable, and they are most essential.
Walnut & Chickpea—Flour Fudge Balls (Laddu)
3/4 cup unsalted butter 2 cups sifted chickpea flour 2 tbl spns chopped walnuts 1/4 teaspn ground nutmeg 1 cup sifted icing sugar
Melt the butter over a low heat. Add the chickpea flour, walnut pieces, and nutmeg. Cook, stirring constantly for about 15 to 20 mins or until the mixture becomes deep golden brown and loose in consistency. Remove the pan from the heat and add the icing sugar until it is well com-bined. Spoon mixture into a dish and spread. When cool roll the mixture into balls. Re-frigerate until the laddu be-comes firm. Offer to Krishna and serve cool or at room tem-perature.
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Dublin 1 4 Aungier Street
Dublin 2
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Shree Krishna’s Pastimes The Salvation of Trnavarta
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krsna, is always full with six opulences—namely complete wealth, strength, fame, knowledge, beauty and renunciation. The lord appears in different complete, eternal forms of incarnation. The conditioned soul has immense opportunity to hear about the transcendental activities of the Lord in these different incarnations. If someone takes advantage of hearing the pastimes of the Lord, the material contamination of dust, accumulated in the heart due to long association with material nature, can be immediately cleansed. When Krsna grew up a little more, He began to turn himself backside up; He did not merely lie down on his back. And another function was observed by mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja: Krsna’s first birthday. They arranged for Krsna’s birthday ceremony, which is still observed by all followers of Vedic principles. All the cowherd men and women were invited to participate in the jubilant celebrations. All the learned brahmanas were invited, and they chanted Vedic hymns for the good fortune of Krsna. During the chanting of Vedic hymns and playing of the bands, Krsna was bathed by mother Yasoda. This bathing ceremony is technically called abhiseka, and even today it is observed in all temples of Vrndavana on Janmastami Day, or the birthday anniversary of Lord Krsna. One day, shortly after the ceremony, when mother Yasoda was patting her baby on her lap, the baby felt too heavy, and being unable to carry Him, she unwillingly placed Him on the ground. After a while, she became engaged in household affairs. At that time, a servant of Kamsa’s known as Trnavarta, as instructed by Kamsa, appeared there in the shape of a whirlwind. He picked the child up on his shoulders and raised a great dust-storm all over Vrndavana, covering everyone’s eyes. Within a few moments the whole area of Vrndavana became so densely dark that no one could see himself or anyone else. During this great catastrophe, mother Yasoda could not see her baby, who had been taken away by the whirlwind, and she began to cry very piteously. The Trnavarta demon went high into the sky with baby Krsna on his shoulders, but the baby assumed such a weight that suddenly he could not go any further, and he had to stop his whirlwind activities. Baby Krsna mad Himself heavy and began to weigh down the demon, catching hold of his neck. Trnavarta felt the baby to be as heavy as a mountain and he tried to get out of His clutches, but he was unable to do so, and his eyes popped out from their sockets. Crying very fiercely, he fell down to the ground of Vrndavana and died. The demon fell exactly like Tripurasura, who was pierced by the arrow of Lord Siva. Trnavarta hit a stone slab and his limbs were smashed. His body became visible to all the inhabitants of Vrndavana.
Bhagavad-Gītā
(BG 2.16) Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent
there is no endurance, and of the existent there is no cessation. This seers have con-
cluded by studying the nature of both.
PURPORT: There is no endurance of the changing body. That the body is changing at every
moment by the actions and reactions of the different cells is admitted by modern medical sci-
ence; and thus growth and old age are taking place in the body. But the spirit soul exists per-
manently, remaining the same despite all changes of the body and the mind. That is the differ-
ence between matter and spirit. By nature, the body is ever changing, and the soul is eternal.
This conclusion is established by all classes of seers of the truth, both impersonalist and per-
sonalist. In the Visnu Purana it is stated the Visnu and His abodes all have self-illuminated
spiritual existence. “Jyotimsi visnur bhavanani visnuh.” The word existent and non-existent
refer only to spirit and matter. That is the version of all seers of the truth. This is the beginning
of the instruction of the Lord to the living entities who are bewildered by the influence of igno-
rance. Removal of ignorance involves the re-establishment of the eternal relationship between
the worshiper and the worshipable and the consequent understanding of the difference between
the part and the parcel living entities and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One can under-
stand the nature of the Supreme by thorough study of oneself, the difference between oneself
and the Supreme being understood as the relationship between the part and the whole. In the
Vedanta-sutras, as well as in the Srimad Bhagavatam, the Supreme has been accepted as the
origin of all emanations. Such emanations are experienced by superior and inferior natural
sequences. The living entities belong to the superior nature, as it will be revealed in the Sev-
enth Chapter. Although there is no difference between the energy and the energetic, the ener-
getic is accepted as the Supreme, and the energy or nature is accepted as the subordinate to the
Supreme Lord, as in the case of the master and servant, or the teacher and the taught. Such
clear knowledge is impossible to understand under the spell of ignorance, and to drive away
such ignorance the Lord teaches the Bhagavad-gita for the enlightenment of all living entities
Events Calendar
Hare Krishna
Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
Hare Hare
Hare Rama
Hare Rama
Rama Rama
Hare Hare
Chant and be Happy!
Sunday Feast Your Invited! 3 - 6 pm
November 3rd: Diwali 4th: Govardhana Puja 6th: Disappearnece of Srila Prabhupada 13th: Utthana Ekadasi 18th: Month of Magasirsa begins 29th: Utpanna Ekadasi
“These two things are always side-by-side—Maya and Krishna. Kirshna is service and Maya is sense gratifi-cation. Our duty is therefore to be very careful. The poison is personal ambition.” Śrīla Prabhupāda
Temple Songs Panca-tattva Maha-mantra
Jaya Sri Krsna Caitanya Prabhu Nityananda
Sri Advaita Gadadhara Srivasadi Gaura bhakta-vrnda
To derive the full benefit of chanting the maha-mantra, we must first take shelter of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,
learn the Panca-tattva mantra, and then chant the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra.
Learn Bhagavad-gītā (The Song of God)
Krishna’s instructions for the battle-field of life
Mondays - 7pm Above Govinda’s
