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WORLD  Comment on this story Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti On WWW BY ATUL KRISHNA DASA  USA, Apr 26 (VNN) — Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti on WWW"I have a very close connection with Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti. Yourself, and particularly Sripad Vaman Maharaja, are well aware of the fact that I am one of the three persons who founded Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti. We had conceived of the idea of the formation of Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti at Bosapada Lane, Calcutta, even before Srila (Kesava) Maharaja accepted sannyasa." (An excerpt from a letter by Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja to Srila Trivikrama Maharaja, Oct. 22, 1968 http://www.gaudiya.net) On the auspicious day of the anniversary of Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti's inauguration in 1941, exactly 60 years later, 26.4.2001, we are happy to announce that Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti has now taken a firm foothold on the World Wide Web, at two different web-sites, http://www.gaudiya.com and http://www.gaudiya.net, under the kind inspiration of Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja. Being aware of the fact that there is a need to provide inspiration to the devotees and to the public alike, we have divided their contents accordingly. http://www.gaudiya.com is a web-site aimed at the larger public, and it contains all the basic information about Gaudiya Vaishnavism, condensed on its ten main pages. This is most likely the address you'd like to add to the introductory flyer you pass out to people. http://www.gaudiya.net is the online resource of Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti. As its most important feature, it contains an extensive library of Srila Narayana Maharaja's works. The Gaudiya Vedanta Library was conceived at a publication meeting with Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja, in order to fulfill his desire for easy and inexpensive access to his publications. At present it serves the devotees with over 20 titles for downloading. We hope to include all of Srila Maharaja's works there by summer. In addition, the site includes 108 lectures of Srila Maharaja, both as text and in audio, and a vast collection of articles from both the predecessor acaryas and contemporary devotees, as well as a collection of 50 bhajanas for downloading. On this day, in addition to visiting the site, we invite the assembled devotees to pay special attention to an article about the foundation of Sri Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti at www.gaudiya.net/samiti.htm as well as the biographies of some of the great personalities who were involved in its founding, namely Srila Bhaktiprajnana Kesava Maharaja, Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Sripad Bhaktivedanta Vamana Maharaja. In concluding, we offer our hearfelt gratitude to paramaradhyatama gurupadapadma Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja, and all the countless devotees without whose dedicated efforts the publication of these sites would not have been possible. If there would be any comments on the sites, the feedback may be sent to info@gaudiya.com or info@gaudiya.net. In the service of Hari, Guru and Vaishnavas, some fallen and wretched servants of Sri Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja Related VNN Stories Comment on this storyContact VNN about this storySend this story to a friend
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