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WORLD  Tour Update From GOKUL BY GOKUL  ENGLAND, Aug 1 (VNN) — Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah!Update on Pacific/US tour of HDG Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Gosvami Maharaj Tonight, 26 July 2002, HDG Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Gosvami Maharaj embarks for his summer preaching tour of the US and the Pacific. Several changes have been made to the scheduling since our last update. The tour will now include Malaysia (instead of Singapore), Hawaii, San Francisco, Eugene OR, Boston and New York. For complete up-to-date schedule details follow this link to the GOKUL News Page. New Books Available from GOKUL Many of you have already responded to the new titles by Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Maharaj that came out earlier this year, "A Taste of Transcendence" and "Sages of Ancient India". GOKUL also now has limited supplies of "Sri Chaitanya: His Life and Associates" by Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Maharaj, published by Mandala Media. An absolute classic of unsurpassed beauty and literary scope, this very special volume is the definitive chronicle of the holy lives of an entire lineage of Vaishnava spiritual leaders, from the tenth century to the present day. Utilizing a vast range of contemporaneous historical and biographical sources, this most important work brings the reader to a deeper understanding of the saintly personality of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, as well as other great contributors to the Vaishnava faith, such as Jayadeva, Nityananda Prabhu, Advaitacharya, Narottam das Thakur, Vishvanath Chakravarti Thakur, Haridas Thakur, Vamsi das Babaji and too many others to mention. The reader is also provided with esoteric insights into the intimate nature of the devotional relationships that exist between the generations of gurus and disciples throughout the centuries. Translated from the original Bengali, this book is a "must read" for all students of Vaishnava or Vedic traditions. Beautifully illustrated, this very substantial hardbound volume (12" X 8.5" X 1.25", nearly 2kg [5 lbs] in weight) includes a unique glossy poster on the inside dust jacket, chronicling the eternal identities of the Vaishnavas in both Gauda and Krishna lila. 295 pages, embossed cover, hardbound w/dust jacket. £25 UK/ $50 USD outside UK. Prices include postage paid worldwide. To order this item, or other books and CD's from GOKUL, kindly visit our website. Still available from GOKUL: "Suddha Bhakti" and CD's "Gaudiya Kirtan 1 & 2" plus many other small books of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur. You can read samples from several of these titles and hear audio clips from the CD's on the GOKUL site. http://www.gokul.org. Your servants at GOKUL, London bhakti@gokul.org Contact VNN about this story  Send this story to a friend
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