March 19, 2012

For many years Vidura Krishna Prabhu led a popular weekly youth class. Now he has resumed leading one of the evening programs; however, the new class it is not only for young people. It has a new theme. Every week he covers a chapter of Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam, which is a very special book full of scriptural quotations about the six limbs of surrender. Everyone in the class is memorizing the six limbs of surrender (acceptance of the favorable, rejection of the unfavorable, full confidence in the Lord’s protection, embracing the Lord’s guardianship, full self-surrender and surrender in humility) and takes turns reading some verses. Vidura Krishna Prabhu shares insightful comments that he has heard from our guru varga about the verses and their themes.  After this book is finished he says the class will read Sri Sikshastakam (Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s eight prayers) and then the ten offenses to the Holy Name. His goal is to review the basics of Krishna Consciousness philosophy so that we can apply them in our daily practicing lives.

Scroll to the bottom of the photos to view or download a pdf of the whole book Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamritam.

[Show as slideshow]

Bilwamangal Prabhu kindly poses with Sri Sri Prapanna Jivanamrita and one of the nice photocopies Vidura prepares each week of one chapter at a time

Devaki, Vaidehi, and Vaishnavi Didis contemplate the beautiful verses contained in this special book

Bilwamangal Prabhu again, who extended his stay at the Ashram by two days just so that he could attend this class

Sakhi and Vidura Krishna Prabhus

Devaki and Priya Didis follow the class in the temple room

while Naveen Prabhu washes all the dishes from the evening offering

Vaidehi Didi prepares to serve the delicious prasadam which Ratan Krishna Prabhu cooked

Neelamani Prabhu comes every Monday night to serve as Their Lordship's pujari. Jatindra Mohan Prabhu was sweeping the floors as he always does in the evening. They were happy to pose for this picture so that I could document just how many people participate in in the Monday evening class in behind the scenes capacities

Priya and Devaki Didis participate in Vidura Prabhu's class every week.

[gview file=”http://sevaashram.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Sri-Sri-Prapanna-Jivanamritam1.pdf”]