Sri Godruma Kalpatavi - The Desire-tree Grove of Godruma

By Jayapataka Swami The Godruma Kalpāṭavī (The Desire-tree Groves of Godruma) was a newsletter produced by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda ṭhākura to guide the leaders and members of his new preaching movement. I was able to secure five issues of this newsletter. I do not know if any more are extant. I obtained these five issues when, at the beginning of our preaching in West Bengal, His Holiness Bhakti Cāru Swami gave me a copy of the GauḍīyaPatrikā, a magazine that had been edited by “Abhaya Carana Bhaktivedanta.” The magazine contained an article that cited five issues of the Godruma Kalpāṭavī. I translated those issues into English and, in 1979, presented the work as a small book. Coincidentally, at the time I had been considering to call our congregational preaching movement the “ISKCON Saṅkīrtana Organization,” but when I discovered that the name “Nāma Haṭṭa” derived from Bhaktivinoda ṭhākura and Lord Nityānanda, I realized that this same traditional name was applicable also to our initiative