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| Dear Members
We have started another year with new committee, who have very high hopes and aspiration to provide you all with a fun filled year of events.
Sadly, their desire to organise events, is however quickly dashed due to non-support from the community.
Our organisation in the early days flourished as a result of the whole hearted support and backing received from the community members.
I have to commend these individuals who join the working committee, for having the optimism and desire to maintain the momentum.However as experienced in the previous years, these members have sad faces as time progresses, due to lacklustre support and attendance, and for some not to stay on the working committee the following year.
Apologies for my pessimism, if we as a samaj do not wake up and revive Bardai Brahmin Samaj London, the outlook is very bleak, therefore my request to you all, is provide your support and make 2019 a year to remember when this dying samaj was brought back to life by your support.
Best wishes
Jai Shri Krishna! Jai Shri Trikamjibapu!
Bhasker Dave |
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Our Celebrations
After last years very successful event, this years celebrations will be held jointly with with UK Valam and BSNL under the banner of "Brahm Samaj". Please click here for further details about the Brahm Samaj celebrations. For details about BBSL's own celebrations click here
History & Spiritual Significance
On this night, Lord Krishna invited his faithful devotees, the Gopis of Vrundavan, to play the Maha Raas (traditional folk-dance) with him. They had earned his grace by overlooking society's disdain on them (`loklaaj'), to offer him unalloyed devotion.
When they left their homes in Vraj and arrived in Vrundavan, Shri Krishna welcomed them. Yet to further test their love for him, he averred: 'Women of character such as you, should not leave home to meet another man in the middle of the night!'
These words seared the Gopis' hearts. In extreme grief, they uttered:
'Our feet will not budge the slightest from your lotus-feet. So how can we return to Vraj?'
Pleased with such immutable love for him, Shri Krishna initiated the Maha Raas, by assuming as many forms as there were Gopis.
At this point, they beamed with pride that, 'Nobody's devotion can excel ours, by which the Lord favored us.' Instead of accepting the Maha Raas as the Lord's grace, ego marred their devotion. Therefore he instantly vanished from the Raas mandal!
Now filled with remorse, the Gopis repented. Recalling Shri Krishna's divine episodes - 'lila', they lamented their pangs of separation, and sang kirtans known as 'viraha geet'.
Describing the 'lila' in the Bhagvat, Shukdevji narrates to king Parikshit:
'O Parikshit! Of all nights, that night of Sharad Punam became the most resplendent. With the Gopis, Shri Krishna roamed the banks of the Yamuna, as if imprisoning everyone in his lila!'
We are all Gopi's! To be more precise, our Atman is the Gopi, but with worldy pleasures we have forgotten our true nature and have become lost in pride and in the sentiment that "I am something". Hence, the Lord disappears and we do not see him.
When you perform Raas Garba, do it with pure, untainted devotion. Should the Almighty bestow upon you His grace, you will play the Rass with Him forever!
"Jai Jai Shri Shri Radhe Krishna"
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