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Cordial hugs from the nice farm of Nandafalva. Here we have the heat of a good summer, and the mela is very nice. Today is the last day and tomorrow we have maha-istagosti to plan the preaching of Hungary for the next epoch.
Today we were meditating on the House of Wisdom and I gave an introduction for this service for the European devotees. Many devotees came from different parts of Europe, but as always in this world, those are not missing who prefer to stay on the beach instead of tapasya with an intense seminar. Of course, in certain form it is like being on summer holiday here, because the farm is very nice; there are lakes for swimming for the children and many houses of devotees to visit, inclusive the samadhi of the founder, Srila Bhakti Abhay Narayan Maharaja, beside which I am sitting in this moment to make the chat with you. I do not have the plan to be on the chat for long time today, because there are already many people who are going back to their different countries.
A true temple is a place of nectar. Seeing the difficult that it is to establish a temple, complete with all details that Srila Prabhupada gave us, my appreciation of my spiritual master increases very much each time; my spiritual master who in such little time established marvellous temples in almost all the world. Without any doubts there were difficult years and also temples in many difficult circumstances, but yet they were very nice - some small, some big and some giant. It was like a dream, and the kirtan had a unique energy also, and the temples of Srila Prabhupada increased to great velocity beginning very small and then grew to be very opulent.
If one is truthful with the principles of the preaching, this is possible. We are going to make a list here that means to be truthful to the basic principles of a temple, to grow, so that you who have a desire to make your project growing, can discover in what part it is failing.
1. The temples should have a nice altar, always with the desire to increase the adoration.
2. You must have a separate account that is of Krishna, and all the donations and collections of the devotees are disposed here.
3. the atmosphere should be filled with enthusiasm to preach.
4. There should be material of invitation, music and literature.
5. You should have a good Sunday feast where is distributed prasadam to please.
6. Srila Prabhupada started the reunions in New York and he said that in each temple there should be weekly reunions to talk about the things and assure that everyone is happy. Thus - weekly reunions, or at least monthly reunions, with all the friends who take responsibility.
7. The prasadam of the devotees should always be sufficient. All the world should accept a responsibility within the community, to not have bad economy.
Here at the mela it has been a time of intense seminaries about divine love and its importance in different fields of the preaching, love in administration, love at home, love in leadership, love in preaching, and divine love based on charity, etc.
When I meet with my spiritual brothers it is very nice, especially to see how we are entering the next generation and the children of the grihastas are already becoming adults. And soon we are great grandparents. Besides that, this obliges us to increase our maturity, urgent velocity. One of the parts of the very important maturity is, that we have to create sources of income and inspired occupations for the new generation.
I have to leave this chat for today because the connection of Internet is very bad. It fails all the time.
HARI BOLO!
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