HH Bhakti Charu Swami

Saturday, 22 February 2014

HH Bhakti Bhringa Govinda Swami Maharaja on HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaja and Ujjain yatra

Just before I go I would like to say a couple of words expressing my thanks to His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaja for inviting me to come to Ujjain. It has certainly been for my purification to come here and have the association of my godbrothers and all of your association in chanting the Hare Krsna Maha mantra.
I travel the world quite a bit. It seems that sometimes they think that I live in an air-plane. And I have seen many, many temples in ISKCON and I would like to give special thanks to Bhakti Charu Maharaja and all of the devotees here in Ujjain, all of the congregation members for having just about one of the most beautiful temples in the international society for Krsna Consciousness. It's a really a... I travel a lot and I have favourite places like- my home is Vrindavan and I love Vrindavan and I love the temple there, but your temple here is so beautiful, your deities are absolutely beautiful, all of the seva that goes on for the deities here is absolutely beautiful.
My caste is that I am a cook in Vrindavan. All of the professional cooks know me as Govinda Halwai and I have to admit that in the whole world wide ISKCON, I have never tasted Prasadam as tasty as in this temple. We always used to say that 'Oh if we go to Mayapur, we will have tasty Prasadam there.' And back when I was cooking in Vrindavan people would say 'Oh in Vrindavan we will have tasty Prasadam.' But here the Prasadam is just so wonderful. Everything is cooked to perfection with excellent flavours. I just can't describe how nice your temple is and we can try to find causes for that. Why is it wonderful? If we trace all of the causes right back, we will come to Srila Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaja.
So I really like to express my appreciation to Maharaja. We have been friends since 1977 in Vrindavan and he's always been the most loving and most courteous, gentlemanly vaishnava that I ever met. Srila Prabhupada said that the characteristic of a vaishnava is that he is a perfect gentleman. So that we have in our Srila Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaja. So thank you once again Maharaja for inviting me here. And in front of all the devotees here, I promise you that I will come back when you call. 

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