Where

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall
845 Hudson Avenue
Stuyvesant Falls, New York 12173

[Plenty of parking near the Hall. The facility is just a few minutes’ walk from SDG’s home at 909 Albany Ave.]

Schedule

10:00 – 10:30 A.M.             Opening kirtana
10:30 – 11:00  A.M.             Lecture by SDG
11:00 – 12:00  P.M.             Opportunity to Purchase New Books
12:00 – 1:00   P.M.              Arati and kirtana
1:00 — 2:00   P.M.               Prasadam Feast

Contact

Baladeva Vidyabhusana at [email protected]  or (518) 754-1108
Krsna dasi at [email protected] or (518) 822-7636

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Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami: “I request as many devotees as possible to attend so we can feel the family spirit strongly.  I become very satisfied when we are all gathered together.”

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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.124–125: “O great learned devotee, although there are many faults in this material world, there is one good opportunity—the association with devotees. Such association brings about great happiness. . . . .”

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Srila Prabhupāda:  “Therefore, our Society is association.  If we keep good association, then we don’t touch the darkness.  What is the association?  There is a song, sat-saṅga chāḍi’ kainu asate vilāsa, te-kāraṇe lāgila mora karma-bandha-phāṅsa (Gaurā Pahū, verse 3).  Sat-saṅga.  Sat-saṅga means association with the devotees.  So the one poet, Vaiṣṇava poet, is regretting that, “I did not keep association with the devotees, and I wanted to enjoy life with the nondevotees.  Therefore I’m being entangled in the fruitive activities.”  Karma bandha phāṅsa.  Entanglement.”

[Conversation with David Wynne, July 9, 1973, London]