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Sridhama Mayapur, West Bengal
4 April 2003
Today, in a transcendental ceremony conducted by HH Bhaktividya Purna Maharaja, my dear disciple Gaura Bhagavan das graduated from his schooling in the Sri Rupanuga Vidyapitha. He is only the third devotee in ISKCON to have gone through this traditional Vedic graduation. This ceremony confirms that he has mastered the Vedic knowledge the Vidyapitha teaches and is now on the sanctified path to his next stage of life. He has decided to get married, so during the ceremony he received white cloth to wear. Gaura Bhagavan has been invited to go serve in the ISKCON yatra in Mauritius (which Srila Prabhupada said could become the first Krsna conscious country in the world). He is departing for there in a few days. I am so happy for him. I remember when he joined ISKCON at age 15, having come from Iceland to Germany. In those days he was considered quite an odd character. But now he is a bonafide brahmana graduate of a Vedic Vaishnava school whose priestly services are much desired in an important branch of our ISKCON movement.
Jai Nitai! Jaya Srila Prabhupada!