Leaders make History with the Bhagavad Gita

MOTEL GITA Solace for the Travelling Soul              Bhagavad Gita and Leaders Wherever Lord Krishna & Arjun are present, Victory is there!   Influential Leaders have have time and again demonstrated their deep respect and support of the Bhagavad Gita openly as a means to spread the rich religion-agnostic pearls of wisdom.  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted the Bhagavad Gita to former US President Barack Obama during his maiden visit to USA. This year has been no exception. Leaders in US polictics elected to US Congress showed their deep appreciation by choosing to take the oath to office on the Bhagavad Gita. Leaders also gracefully accepted the gift of Bhagavad Gita from Motel Gita team on January 3, 2017 at the top diginitaries and media-filled 'Indiaspora' gala Event  CongresswomanTulsi Gabbard lighted the first candle at the gala, followed by all other dignitaries. Amongst others, Ms.Pramila Jayapal took oath on Bhagavad Gita on January 3, 2017 as she became the first Indian American woman in US House of Representatives representing 7th district of Wahington.Congressman Mr. Raja Krishnamoorthi won the election from Illinois also took the oath on Gita. Motelgita's presence at the Indiaspora Gala served as a reminder of the values and guiding principles found in the Bhagavad-gita that are at the root of Indian-American culture and that have helped shape many of the leaders now in top positions in the U.S. government. Nandini Kishori , Director at Motelgita gifted the 'Bhagavad Gita As It Is' to several political leaders and dignitaries including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Surgeon General Mr. Vivek Murthy, and His Excellency Navtej Sarna, the Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Read More Mr. Vivek Murthy Surgeon General gladly accepts the Gift Ms Pramila Jaypal First Indian American woman in Congress,took oath on Gita and accepted the Gift Raja(left) & Carolyn Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi took oath on the Gita and gladly accepted the gift A Special Mention Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Ms. Tulsi Gabbard is the first Hindu to be elected to the United States Congress and first person to take oath on Bhagvad Gita. Her appreciation for Bhagavad Gita is a very interesting topic across internet.Explore some videos here .    In her articulate speech at the International Gita Conference, she glorified Srila Prabhupada, the author of the most widely distributed edition of Bhagavad Gita. She also stressed that without Srila Prabhupada there is no clear understanding of this timeless message.  Watch her speech:   Tulsi's address from 3:22 minute - 18:07 minutes.   Ms. Gabbard gifted Indian PM Narendra Modi with her personal copy of Bhagavad Gita on his US in 2014. "I gave my personal copy of Bhagvad Gita that I had since childhood, took shelter of in Mid-east war zone duty, took Congressional Oath on,� she tweeted after her meeting with PM Modi. Show us your support ! We would like to GIFT YOU with Bhagavad Gitas, at 'NO COST TO YOU'  so that your guests have choice to READ and BENEFIT from their stay in your hotel rooms! Hundreds of Hotel Owners have been cherishing their gifts. Check many of the testimonials here and share us yours! Please reply back if you have any questions/feedback.   Request Your Gift Now! Sincerely, Nandini Kishori  Director, Motel Gita  Reach us: 510.962.2203 | contact@motelgita.org | .

Finding Help In Bhagavad Gita As It Is

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Nourishing Our Higher Tendencies

A Native American wisdom story tells of two dogs that live in every human heart: a bad dog and a good dog. The bad dog represents the lower tendencies of envy, anger, lust, greed, arrogance and illusion. The good dog represents the higher tendencies of compassion, integrity, generosity, humility and wisdom. These two dogs battle one another. Which dog will win? The one we chose to feed!

We "feed" the dogs through the choices we make. Using the intelligence for spiritual pursuits, to express compassion, and to love with integrity nourishes the good dog and keeps the bad dog at bay. Sometimes that's easier said than done. For many of us, the bad dog has become so entrenched in us that it's deafening howls drive our actions. Meanwhile, the good dog, weak and undernourished, is only a whimper in the corner of our conscience.

Practicing yoga strengthens the intelligence and empowers us to neglect our bad-dog qualities, however loudly they may howl. Then we're free to feed the good dog, or our own divine nature. At each moment, life hands us the choice to be cruel or kind, duplicitous or honest, arrogant or humble, greedy or charitable, vengeful or forgiving. We can choose between selfish passion and selfless devotion. There are many things in the world that are beyond our control, but how we choose to act isn't one of them. So we're free to elevate our consciousness  – feed the good dog – or degrade it. 

Teaching from Bhagavad Gita

MotelGita would like to thank everyone, who has helped place Bhagavad Gita's in the motel rooms.

Here is the teaching from Bhagavad-Gita:

Do everything you have to do, but not with greed, not with ego, not with lust, not with envy; but with love, compassion, humility and devotion. 

Las Vegas Vantage Convention

Last week MotelGita participated in Las Vegas Vantage convention. Many corporate people including CEO appreciated MotelGita services.  Several motel owners including western owners gave thousands of orders for Bhagavad Gita to put it in their motel rooms. 

How to analyze our actions?

Whenever right or wrong action a man/woman performs by body, mind or speech is due to following five factors.

1> The Place of action (Body)
2> The Performer (Soul)
3> The various senses
4> Different kinds of endeavor
5> The Supersoul (Lord)

There are the five causes for the accomplishment of all actions. (BG 18.13-15)

These details can only be found in Bhagavad Gita and no where else.

Qualification of Civilized Person

Vedic scriptures like Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam teaches us how to be self-realized. Self-realization is distinguished from the life of the lower animals engaged in eating, sleeping, fearing and mating. For e.g. in Srimad Bhagavatam verse 1.9.26 Bhismadev advises all the human beings to have following nine qualifications to be called civilized person.

(1) Not to become angry, (2) Not to lie, (3) To equally distribute wealth, (4) To forgive, (5) To beget children only by one's legitimate wife, (6) To be pure in mind and hygienic in body, (7) Not to be inimical toward anyone, (8) To be simple, and (9) To support servants or subordinates.

You can see how our scriptures are full with knowledge and that's the reason MotelGita is driven to keep Bhagavad Gita in all the hotels and motels across the United States. Everyone can become self-realized.

MotelGita Report

MotelGita has distributed ten thousands of Bhagavad Gita's in hundreds of motels and hotels across United States of America in last couple of months.

With the help of call center, MotelGita is making sure that all the hotel/motel owner's gets new or replacement books in timely manner and books are in the rooms.

Several ISKCON temples like Baltimore, Dallas, Austin, Boston etc...helped attend the regional conventions and participated in fulfilling orders.

Special thanks to donations from all the devotees of North America.

Upcoming AAHOA North Pacific Town Hall Meeting in Elk Grove, CA

Bhagavad Gita Mahatmya (Glories)

Why one should read Bhagavad Gita?

 

TEXT 1

gita-shastram idam punyam, yah pathet prayatah puman
vishnoh padam avapnoti, bhaya-shokadi-varjitah.

 

One who, with a regulated mind, recites with devotion this Bhagavad-gita scripture which is the bestower of all virtue, will attain to a holy abode such as Vaikuntha, the residence of Lord Vishnu, which is always free from the mundane qualities based on fear and lamentation.

 

 

TEXT 2

 

gitadhyayana-shilasya, pranayama-parasya ca
naiva santi hi papani, purva-janma-kritani ca

 

If one reads Bhagavad-gita very sincerely and with all seriousness, then by the grace of the Lord the reactions of his past misdeeds will not act upon him.

 

 

TEXT 3

 

maline mocanam pumsam, jala-snanam dine dine
sakrid gitamrita-snanam, samsara-mala-nashanam

 

One may cleanse himself daily by taking a bath in water, but if one takes a bath even once in the sacred Ganges water of Bhagavad-gita, for him the dirt of material life is altogether vanquished.

 

 

TEXT 4

 

gita su-gita kartavya, kim anyaih shastra-vistaraih
ya svayam padmanabhasya, mukha-padmad vinihsrita

 

Because Bhagavad-gita is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one need not read any other Vedic literature. One need only attentively and regularly hear and read Bhagavad-gita. In the present age, people are so absorbed in mundane activities that it is not possible for them to read all the Vedic literatures. But this is not necessary. This one book, Bhagavad-gita, will suffice, because it is the essence of all Vedic literatures and especially because it is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

 

 

TEXT 5

 

bharatamrita-sarvasvam, vishnu-vaktrad vinihsritam
gita-gangodakam pitva, punar janma na vidyate

 

By drinking the Ganges waters of the Gita, the divine quintessence of the Mahabharat emanating from the holy lotus mouth of Lord Vishnu, one will never take rebirth in the material world again. In other words, by devotionally reciting the Gita, the cycle of birth and death is terminated.

 

 

TEXT 6

 

sarvopanishado gavo, dogdha gopala-nandanah
partho vatsah su-dhir bhokta, dugdham gitamritam mahat

 

All the Upanisads are like a cow, and the milker of the cow is Lord Shri Krishna, the son of Nanda. Arjuna is the calf, the beautiful nectar of the Gita is the milk, and the fortunate devotees of fine theistic intellect are the drinkers and enjoyers of that milk.

 

 

TEXT 7

 

ekam shastram devaki-putra-gitam
eko devo devaki-putra eva
eko mantras tasya namani yani
karmapy ekam tasya devasya seva

 

There need be only one holy scripture-the divine Gita sung by Lord Shri Krishna: only one worshipable Lord-Lord Shri Krishna: only one mantra-His holy names: and only one duty-devotional service unto that Supreme Worshipable Lord, Shri Krishna.

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Fwd: [motelgitaisv] MotelGita Laguna Temple Scores for January 2013

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From: Vedavit Krishna Das(JPS) <vedavit_jps@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:59 PM
Subject: [motelgitaisv] MotelGita Laguna Temple Scores for January 2013
To: Global Motel Gita Group <motelgitaisv@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: Manish Gandhi <mistermanish17@yahoo.com>

 

Dear MotelGita Devotees !

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Last month we've started MotelGita distribution for this year and we had a good success of

on-the-spot motel-motel Sankirtan.

 

We've visited around 10 Motels and 4 Motels got the books on the spot and 2 motel owners donated instantly.

One of the American Motel owner of Best Western was very much insterested after watching video clip of CBS interview

with H.G.Vaisesika Prabhu and asked us to send us more info and video links in email.

 

Here are our small and simple scores:

 

Total MotelGitas - 130

Total Laxmi       -  $400 (from Motel owners)

 

Ramada Seaworld,     CA -  72

 

Cabrillo Inn&Suites,    CA - 30

 

Quality Inn Seaworld, CA - 15 (15 for reception and still need to get confirmation for order)'

 

Sleep Inn Seaworld,   CA -  7 (small motel with 10 rooms)

 

For other 6 motels we've given a sample of each Gita to get the order from the owner - 6

 

Your humble servants
Laguna Temple MotelGita Team

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2071 Gita's Placed

 

Hare Krishna Dear Devotees,
Dandvat Pranam. Srila Prabhupada ki Jay!

I take this opportunity to express our gratitude for the wonderful 'Travelling MotelGita Sankirtana' trip that Dilipbhai and Damodar Vamsidhari Prabhu undertook  2 weekends ago. Jaya! Al glories to thier wonderful service.Dilipbhai briefly discussed they both  put 30 boxes in the car and went (Motel) Door to (Motel) Door placing book. In fact DIlipbhai mentioned he ran out of books.... Thank you Prabhujis. I know this is a festive season and with so much going on in Karthik and the busy home / office schedule, it is so difficult to go on a weekend trip like this. My humble obeisances to you.

For the pleasure of devotees, the score of MotelGita including part of the above sankirtana is as follows :

Sr No	Motel Name	State	Books
1	Super 8	VA	24
2	Econo Lodge	NJ	72
3	Heritage Inn	CA	48
4	Days Inn and Suites	MI	72
5	Old West Inn	CA	24
6	Horseshoe Motel	NV	24
7	Coach Inn	NV	48
8	Easy 8	NV	24
9	Fireside Inn	NV	48
10	Red Carpet Inn	PA	360
11	Days Inn	FL	144
12	America Best Inn	FL	72
13	Cadillac Motel	FL	24
14	Super 8 Fort Myers	FL	120
1	HMB Mgmt Inc.	PA	10
2	EconoLodge	NJ	24
3	Clarion Hotel Palmer Inn	NJ	72
4	Royal Hotel	NJ	12
5	Days Inn Berlin	NJ	24
6	Quality Inn	MA	24
7	Best Western	PA	24
8	Super 8 Motel	OH	24
9	Shilpa Patel	NJ	24
10	Minu Desai	PA	24
11	Vimal Patel	DE	24
12	Westwood Motor Lodge	NJ	24
13	Quality Inn	PA	24
14	Days Inn	NJ	24
15	Mihir Patel	NJ	24
16	Passport Inn	NJ	24
17	Subhash B Patel	NJ	24
18	La Quinta Inn	NJ	24
19	Rainbow Motel	NJ	15
20	Redlion Motel	NJ	15
21	Mike O' Niel	NJ	24
22	Super 8 Motel	PA	24
23	Slumberland Motel	NJ	15
24	Travelling Sankirtana Party	CA	300	(Details and final figures awaited )
25	Sacramento Orders (Shipped to RV prabhu)	CA	120
	T O T A L		2071

Thanks and regards,
Your servant,
Mayapur Vihari Das
510-962-2203

www.motelgita.org

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405 Bhagavad Gita's Placed

 Hare Krishna Dear Sudeep prabhu, Asit Prabhu, Radha Venkat prabhu, Pranaya Prabhu,

Dandvat Pranam. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you for this wonderful news! Sudeep Prabhu had called me and conveyed the wonderful teamwork with which Team Sacramento planned and executed this nice Sankirtana at odd hours.

Total Bhagavad Gitas Books Distributed (Or to be dispatched ) : 405 Books.

CA	20	Ranch Motel / Mr. Bharatbhai
CA	25	Surf Motel / Mr. Bharatbhai
CA	25	Deville / Aruna Patel
CA	20	Gateway Inn / Manubhai
CA	80	America's Best Value Inn/Kalaben and Pravin Patel
CA	20	Westwood Motel / Amrutbhai Patel
CA	50	Comfort Inn / Raj Maria
NV	26	Horseshoe Motel / Chaturbhai Patel
NV	45	Coach Inn / Sejal Patel
NV	32	Hwy 40 / Kiritbhai Patel
NV	22	Easy 8 / Pannaben Patel
NV	40	Fireside / Mukeshbhai Patel

T O T A L 405

On behalf of Team MotelGita and ISV Sankirtana , we would like to thank :

Asit prabhu : For tactfully presenting the philosophy and convincing the Moteliers in Gujarati. According to Sudeep prabhu, you were amazing !

Radha Venkat prabhu : Thank you being the backbone of this. You provided the books and cards. Sudeep Prabhu was so appreciative of the fact that even though you had landed from Asia just hours ago and were in Jet Lag, you continued the Sankirtana! Thank you.

Pranaya Prabhu : What a way to celebrate your birthday! Thank you prabhuji for helping Team MotelGita to distribute books to so many Motels.

Sudeep Prabhu : Thank you prabhu for initiating the book distribution at the Garba Night program the previous night  and arranging one more book distribution program  next weekend!!! Jay! Your help is truly appreciated. 

Can one of you also send a report to our book groups please ?

Further, Please advice how would you like to execute the Orders ? Would you like us to send books to someone's home in Sacramento so that you can hand deliver it or send it directly or maybe a combination of both ? Would you like more books for the program next Saturday as well ? Please reply asap .

TulasiLata Mataji : Kindly add all the devotees in this email chain in the  MotelGita email group. Please also send Sudeep Prabhu our excel sheet so that he can fill it up and give it you for dispatch / record purposes.

Your servant,
Mayapur Vihari Das

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From: Sudeep Sabnis <ssabnis@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: Motel Gita BG distribution at Garba night in West Sac on 10/20/12
To: motelgitaisv@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Asit Dani <adani99@yahoo.com>, Radhav <radhav@yahoo.com>, Milan Doshi <milan.doshi@gmail.com>


Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis:

Please accept my most respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I am attaching the excel sheet for the book distribution for Motel Gita project at a couple of Garba events in Sacramento. The first one was in West Sacramento on 10/20/12 and the second one was on 10/27/12. We received quite a good response on the first one where we were able to meet and interact with quite a few motel owners. We were able to hand cases of BGs to some motel owners on that day itself (see the report in the email below). The second one was a more popular Garba night event where we could not meet many people but by Lord Caitanya's mercy we still were able to distribute cards and take down information from some people who seemed interested. One gentleman by the name Chaturbhai Patel handed information on a few motels in Reno, NV. Asit Prabhu then followed up by making calls to the contacts we took down and spoke in his native Gujarati language. People such as Chaturbhai Patel provided the addresses of motel owners in Reno whereas we're still waiting on some others to get back to us. All the information has been recorded in the attached spreadsheet for the confirmed ones. 

Please note that I have highlighted the ones yet to be delivered. Once we receive more info / feedback, we will send out another report.

We will send out more information as and when we receive it. 

Param Vijayate Sri Krishna Sankirtanam!

Humbly in service,

Team Sacramento

(Asit Pr, Radhakrishnan Pr, Dharmesh Pr, Pranay Pr, Sudeep Pr)

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Sudeep Sabnis <ssabnis@gmail.com> wrote:

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From: Sudeep Sabnis <ssabnis@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:50 PM
Subject: Book distribution at Garba night in West Sacramento on 10/20/12... GNAB
To: book distribution <iskconsv_books@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: Milan Doshi <milan.doshi@gmail.com>, Radhav <radhav@yahoo.com>, Asit Dani <adani99@yahoo.com>, Pranaya Tandon <pranayatandon@yahoo.com>

Hare Krishna Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We had a successful Motel Gita presentation last weekend (Saturday, 10/20/12) at a Garba/Dandiya event in West Sacramento. We were able to meet with quite a few motel owners and by Lord Gauranga's mercy, were able to convince them in placing Bhagavad Gita in their motel rooms. Here are the details followed by my G.N.A.B

Devotees participated: Radhakrishnan, Asit Dani, Pranay Tandon, Sudeep Sabnis

Bhagavad Gita (BG) dispatched:  70 (placed in Motel Owner's cars)

Bhagavad Gita (BG) to be delivered: 170 

Total BG: 240

Number of Motels: 7 (Comfort Inn, Gateway Inn, America's Best Value Inn, etc)

(We had to give away some 7-10 BGs to the public because of an announcement from the organizers, those are not included in the above count)

G.N.A.B.:People were receptive:

We reached there a little after 8p (the event was from 8p-midnight) and got our table setup behind the reception desk. Asit Prabhu had brought along some Bhagavad Gita and Krsna books in Gujarati (a regional language spoken by people from the state of Gujarat), which helped greatly. We found people to be very appreciative. Matajis were stopping by our table with a smile on their faces as if they were acknowledging the transcendental work we were doing. That helped us carry out our task with minimal effort. 

Interaction with Motel owners:

We had decided among ourselves that we would let Asit Prabhu do most of the talking in Gujarati while our task would be to get people to swing by our table. One of the common concerns motel owners had was "Will I incur sin if the Bhagavad Gita is not handled properly"....which resulted from their experience of seeing how the Bible was being defiled in their motel rooms. Our response was "No, you will not....we will restock the books if that happens, and are willing to take the risk. We would like the message of Lord Krishna to be reached out to everyone". We then showed them the verse from BG 18.68 and 18.69 and that was it, we didn't have to convince anymore. While distributing flyers and Motel Gita cards we were getting responses like "I don't own any motels". Our response was "Okay, you still maybe knowing someone who does. Nope, okay, then you may meet someone who does" and they were happily accepting the cards.

The Team: 

It was great to see Asit Prabhu make that 1-1 connection with the motel owners by speaking in his native language (Gujarati). I have always admired his simplicity and it is one of his many Vaishnava qualities which enabled him to bond with the people he talked. Radhakrishnan Prabhu was a happy man delivering cases of Bhagavad Gita by walking down with the Motel owners to their cars. He didn't appear to be jet-lagged even though he had gotten back just a day from Japan (and guess who he ran into there?) Pranay Tandon Prabhu was the birthday boy and what a way to celebrate it by being out there on Sankirtan. He is a jolly person to be around.

It was a great experience, the effect of which lasted for a couple more days simply when I kept thinking about it. That's the beauty of transcendental service (pratyakshavagamam dharmyam su-sukham kartum avyayam)...... that one simply relishes more as one gets engaged more and more into it. Thank you to Motel Gita Team for engaging us in this service. All glories to you. All glories to the devotees who sponsored the cases for book distribution. Jaya!

Your servant,

Sudeep Sabnis

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Milan Doshi

www.motelgita.org

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510-962-2203

www.motelgita.org

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