Bhakti Dhira Damodara Swami (formerly Pariksit dasa) - Africa
last updated 3rd March 2014

 

 
 
 

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27th January 2011

 

My dear Jaya Tirtha Charan prabhu,
PAMHO.AGTHDGSP.
IT was in Sridhama Mayapur 2005 that HH Bhaktisiddhanta swami talked to me about Sila but i didn't pay any interest as i was thinking not fit to worship the Lord in this form.  Days past and some how the Lord made it that we have to be together for the safari yatra for 3 weeks and nothing of such came up again.   After we have completed the tour and had actually seperated, then the Lord made it happened again that HH Jayapataka Maharaj's vyasa puja came up and we somehow returned to Mayapur for the festival and to my suprise, HH Bhaktisidhanta swami just called from where i was standing to inform me that he has asked my GBC if i should have a sila and has given me the permission to worship, so i thought that the Lord has personally wanted me to serve Him so i queitely prayed to Him that since He has come to me on His own, it is the sign that i should have to accept.   I thanked Him and also my sila guru HH Bhaktisidhanta maharaj who kindly begged on my behalf and prayed that they will tolerate my incompetency and bless me to do my best, so since then i am very happy that i am serving Them in my little way and i must say that i am glad to have Him in this form.   Because in Africa we need a lot of protection and since He also came in an angry way,  I am calling ugra-Nirsimhadeva.   I am now in Nigeria but i am covering the west African countries and other places later on as time goes.
Thanks,
ys,
bddswami.

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