WELCOMES YOU TO THE BLISSLETTER Hare Krsna, dear friends! This is the March newsletter of THE BLISS society. Thank you for watching and suporting our activities. THE BLISS preaching would not be possible without the kind help of all of you. Here, we are sending off some original materials produced by the dedicated devotees of our association. In other words, besides our exclusive focus on the teachings of our spiritual master Srila Prabhupada, we side by side encourage creativity, innovation and personal realizations in the service to our spiritual master Srila Prabhupada. We are always looking for interaction with devotees or friends. There is so much to discuss if the heart opens up to the beauty of Krsna consciosness. It is wonderful -finally devotees are building a solid preaching in the Western countries based on Srila Prabhupada's instructions. Why not be part of this? We need as many people as possible to know about THE BLISS. People should know that there is a society, where one can practise Krsna consciousness and develop his relationship with Srila Prabhupada, so please tell your friends! Why not ask more people to join our email newsletter, put likes on our Youtube videos, subscribe to our channels, join our FB groups, join the morning and evening TV BLISS programs and write comments or questions? There is so much service you can do just from your chair having access to the internet, so please help us out to spread the good word. Let's make THE BLISS a huge success. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Hare Krsna! your servant Purujit dasa (officiating acarya) QUESTIONS, COMMENTS,SUGGESTIONS, FEEDBACK? please let us know:
[email protected] THE BLISS FUENGIROLA ACTIVITIES PHOTO GALLERY Here's just a few snapshots from the ecstatic activities of the devotees in the newly opened THE BLISS Fuengirola temple in Spain. Please have a look here SURRENDER MEANS SATISFACTION OF INTELLIGENCE by Purujit Dasa The greatest book of knowledge covering topics such as reincarnation, karma, God, soul, material nature and time is the Srimad Bhagavad-gita and the summum bonum of this great book is that one should give up all other duties and simply surrender to Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: "Give up all varieties of religion, and simply surrender unto Me. I shall protect you from all sinful reactions, you have nothing to fear." (Bg. 18.66) This surrender however is not blind. Quite the opposite, the true surrender is the surrender by everything: the body, mind and soul. It is not that I show surrender to Krsna by my body, but in my mind I do not surrender. Such so-called surrender only leads to hypocrisy and deviation of the true religion. Read the article here THE SIGNIFICANCE AND PERFORMANCE OF ARATI CEREMONY by Makhancora Dasa The Lord ´s name is Adhoksaja - imperceptible to the senses of a conditioned soul covered by matter, but still, out of His causeless mercy He appears in the realm governed by His external energy, maya, just to facilitate service of His devotes, those who have understood, accepted and realized their posistion as eternal spirit souls, who´s dharma - eternal occupation is to serve the Lord in transcendental love. Thus one of the nine items of devotional service is arcana - Deity worship. The Deity of the Lord IS the Lord present in a form seemingly made of material elements a.k.a. earth, water, fire, air, ether and even in the mind. Because God, Krsna, is absolute, there is no difference between His form, His name, His paraphernalia etc. and Himself. In this way the conditioned souls have an opportunity to serve the Lord even in their present status in which they are unable to see Krsna in His original spiritual form, just as they are unable to see anyone else including themselves as spiritual sparks, parts and parcels of Krsna. Read the article here CUTTING ATTACHMENT TO NON-DEVOTEE ASSOCIATION (a lecture video) THE BLISS TV has been putting up videos of our daily programs in Fuengirola for some time. This is a class on the Bhagavadgita As It Is by Purujit dasa Watch here A NEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SECTION We regularly answer questions of our friends from all around the world. This is a new section on the website where you have an opportunity to read these exchanges. Also, please do not hesitate to contact us if you yourself have a question on the process of Krsna consciousness. All e-mails will be answered. Click here COOKING VIDEO: CHAPATI, SUBJI, RICE Paramahamsa Prabhu interviews Purujit who cooks a simple offering for Lord Jagganatha in THE BLISS Fuengirola. Please have a look here Part 1 Part 2 WHY NOT SUPPORT THIS BLISS SOCIETY? A short audio recording by our friend Monika explaining why it is important to support the preaching THE BLISS is doing. Please listen here RAMA NAVAMI INVITATION Hare Krishna dear friends! Very soon we are going to celebrate another big festival - Sri Rama Navami. It is the appearance day of Lord Sri Ramachandra. On this day the pastimes of Ramachandra are read. Do not miss this nice hearing of Lord Ramachandra´s pastimes of how He killed, by the help of Hanuman, the demon Ravana, who kidnapped His wife Sita. What is the background of this pastime? Come and hear, and celebrate with us! The festival will take place on the 25th of March 2018 in THE BLISS Fuengirola at 5.00pm. Please contact us for more details. Let's be buddies
