If you are meditating on improving your spiritual life, increasing your contribution to Srila Prabhupada's movement, or are unsure how to pass the tests Krishna is giving you, then please consider taking Srila Prabhupada's powerful darshan in Sridham Mayapur. Srila Prabhupada's darshan that we are referring to here is in his books and more specifically in his "personal ecstasies" within his Bhaktivedanta purports. The power of this darshan will be fully experienced in the sanga of advanced Vaisnavas this coming November when the Mayapur Institute for Higher Education and Training will launch newly re-designed VTE Bhakti-sastri and VTE Bhaktivaibhava Courses. Senior ISKCON educators predict these courses will revolutionize sastric study in our movement. A team of senior devotees will facilitate these courses sharing their realizations in an interactive format designed to empower devotees as preachers, leaders, and lifetime servants of ISKCON. These courses begin on Bhisma Pancaka (November 9, 2008), enabling devotees, during the last five days of Kartika, to get credit for their austerities as if they had performed them for the entire caturmasya. Most Saturdays, while these courses are in session, our sannyasi facilitators will lead out parikramas throughout Navadvipa Dhama. Due to the unprecedented stature of our teachers and the launch of very student friendly curriculum this year, the Mayapur Institute expects many devotees will enroll in these courses and thus encourages devotees to apply online as soon as possible to begin the registration process and secure seats on the course.. These courses will end (February 11, 2009) before the Mayapur Festival begins (February 24, 2009). During the Festival period the Mayapur Institute will offer the Gaura Purnmia Courses, which will provide many opportunities for our sastric students and others to increase their devotional and life skills. We hope to be able to serve you in Mayapur in the months ahead.

-------- ### VTE Bhakti-sastri Course Men's section: - Bhakti Charu Swami - Jayadvaita Swami - Lokanath Swami - B.V.V. Narasimha Maharaja - Purnacandra Goswami - Atul Krishna dasa - Brhat Mrdanga dasa - Sankarshan Nitai dasa Women's section: - Laxmimoni devi dasi - Shyamala Sakhi devi dasi - Nanda devi dasi - Su-gita Vani devi dasi ### VTE Bhaktivaibhava Course, Module 1* Srimad-Bhagavatam, Cantos 1-3 - Bhakti Charu Swami - Bhanu Swami - Jayadvaita Swami - Lokanath Swami - B.V.V. Narasimha Maharaja - Hari Sauri dasa - Atul Krishna dasa - Brhat Mrdanga dasa - Janmastami dasa - Krsna Balarama dasa - Madhavananda Dasa ### VTE Bhaktivaibhava Course, Module 2* Srimad-Bhagavatam, Cantos 4-6 - Bhakti Charu Swami - Jayadvaita Swami - Lokanath Swami - B.V.V. Narasimha Maharaja - Atul Krishna dasa - Madhavananda Dasa - Sankirtana dasa - Sri Gauranga dasa - Praneshwar dasa > \* Before entering one of these modules, students will complete a 13-week Preliminary Home Self-study Unit available on [www.mihet.org/purva](http://www.mihet.org/purva) -------- ### 2009 Gaura Purnima Courses

Feb 12 - 23	GBC Meetings
Feb 15 - 20	VTE Teacher Training Course 1	Atul Krishna Dasa Vamsi Vadana Dasa
Feb 22 - Mar 2	VTE Teacher Training Course 2*	Atul Krishna Dasa Vamsi Vadana Dasa
Feb 24	Gaura Purnima Festival Begins
Feb 25	Sri Panca-tattva Maha-Abhiseka (5th Installation Anniversary)
Feb 24 - 27	Varnasrama Mission - Make Vrndavana Villages**	Bhakti Raghava Swami Bhakti Dhira Damodara Swami Varnasrama Research Team
Feb 24 - 27	Yoga Therapy Introduction: Being Fit to Serve Krishna Better (This course is for men only)**	Prananatha Dasa
Feb 26 - Mar 3	VTE Leadership/Management Course	Anuttama Dasa
Feb 28 - Mar 6	Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama
Feb 28 - Mar 10	Yoga Therapy Practices: Being Fit to Serve Krishna Better (This course is for men only)***	Prananatha Dasa
Mar 7 - 10	VTE Sastric Study Teacher Training Course	Atul Krishna Dasa
Mar 7 - 10	Ayurvedic Self-healing	Dr.Liladhar Gupta
Mar 7 - 10	Tools for Mending Broken Relationships	Vrajalila Devi Dasi
Mar 11	Gaura Purnima

> \* Feb 25 & 26 will be a day off for this course. > ** No Classes on Feb 25 morning due to Sri Panca-tattva Maha-Abhiseka. No service charges, but the Mayapur Institute encourages students to give facilitators daksina. > *** No service charges, but the Mayapur Institute encourages students to give facilitators daksina.