Radhadesh New Year's Edition 2023

D e d i c a t e d t o

This newsletter is dedicated to His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

We remain forever indebted to him, our eternal spiritual master, and pray for his blessings so that we may continue to establish Vrindavan here in Radhadesh.

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NEW YEAR'S AT RADHADESH

We celebrated the coming of the new year with the community and friends!

DEDICATION TO EKAYA PRABHU

A lifetime of service by a wonderful devotee. You will be missed!

WELCOMING KESHAVA SWAMI

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First of all, I would like to wish all of you a healthy, inspiring, and devotionally progressive 2023. May our dearmost Lord Sri Krsna be pleased with your endeavors to please Him and bless you by pulling you closer and closer to His lotus feet. Secondly, I express my deepest gratitude for your various services, sacrifices, and endeavors in 2022 to keep the Radhadesh community functioning and expanding for the pleasure of Sri Radha Gopinath, the center of our little spiritual village All of you have played a part in the Radhadesh mission, and this devotional service is to your eternal credit This insignificant soul feels hugely grateful to be in your association and feels the Lord is very merciful to me by allowing me to attempt to serve you and Their Lordships

I want to take the opportunity to beg forgiveness for any insults or offenses that I may have committed in the last year Due to my immature state of Krsna consciousness, in combination with time constraints, I might have hurt you or neglected you Please excuse me for that, in the same way a child is easily excused by the parents I pray that we can all continue to serve Krsna in 2023, by nicely and attentively hearing and chanting together and performing our various devotional services together, in good harmony and mutual respect, all for the pleasure of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Sri Sri Jagannath, Baladeva, and Srimati Subhadra devi, Sri Sri Radha Gopinath and of course, Srila Prabhupada, the cause of our good fortune Your insignificant temple servant, Ekacakragram das

A lifetime of service

Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I will miss Ekaya Prabhu, who joined the Belgian Yatra at the beginning of 1980 in the Sint Kathelijnevest in Antwerp. As a bhakta, he was there when I attempted my first participation in the Book distribution Marathon in the winter of 1980

Sometime later, Ekaya Prabhu came to live in Radhadesh in the ashram Ekaya Prabhu liked to give guided tours to the visitors; he enjoyed going out on Harinama, but he was always ready to do any menial service that needed to be done

Ekaya Prabhu was always attracted to bhajan and kirtan and regularly heard Bhagavatam class.

I was happy to hear from Vrindaranya Priya Prabhu that he was well taken care of during the last weeks of his life by his daughters and several devotees visited him, such as Purusottama Tirtha Prabhu, Jaya Gopala Prabhu, and others It was nice to hear that Krsna saved him from the pain, although he had severe liver cancer

Ekaya Prabhu is the first one in the Mestdach family, and several of them have taken to Krsna Consciousness and have even been initiated in ISKCON, following in his footsteps

He was sometimes, when needed, helping in the construction. In the winter of '84, Darius, one Polish worker, was rebuilding the roof of the round tower with the big golden chakra, and Ekaya and I assisted him

All glories to Ekaya Prabhu's lifetime of service to Srila Prabhupada and Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha, Sri Sri Jagannath, Baladeva, and Subhadra Maharani, and Sri Sri Gaura Nitai.

Your servant, Hrdaya Caitanya das

UPCOMING FESTIVALS

Radhadesh Mellows 2023

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02 February 03 February

27-30 January 10 February

Appearance day of Lord Varaha Celebration of the appearance of the boar incarnation of the Lord

Appearance day of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur

Nityananda Trayodashi

Appearance of Lord Nityananda, brother of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

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On the weekend of the 27th-29th of January 2023, we will be celebrating the 14th Annual Radhadesh Mellows. Due to the exceptional and complicated situation in the world with regard to Covid-19, we will finally be hosting onsite once again the thousands of kirtan lovers from around the globe. We will also be working very hard to create a most excellent and unique Kirtan experience which will allow each and every one of you to join in online on our YouTube channel to have another unique chanting experience.

The RM team is endeavoring more than ever so that the festival will be better than those of the previous years :). Therefore, do not hesitate to support the free festival by donating to our Paypal or Bank Account as we mainly cover the organizational costs of 50 000€ through the kindness of the many souls and their online wallets in this way sparing no expense in creating a unique historical Kirtan moment to experience for all :). Any extra donations will of course go to the RM24 event and those that follow Hoping to see all of you in January 2023 (hopefully in person) for a special worldchanging chanting weekend Register at radhadeshmellows.com

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