By Subhatma Guaranga Das
Thousands of pilgrims, guests and visitors chanted and danced to the sweet Holy Names of Krishna at the Krishna Balaram Mandir for 10 days. The chanting goes on anyway with our 24 hour kirtan department, the ladies group chanting in Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi and the devotees from the Youth Forum engaging everyone in chanting one complete round on beads, in Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi upstairs, everyday.
The festival expertly organized by the temple management had different groups participate in 3 shifts – 2 and 3 hour slots. On the first day, a beautiful and colorful pandal was set up at the main gate of our goshala and locals and pilgrims all happily chanted with our ISKCON Vrindavan Namahatta devotees. It was a wonderful sight.
The groups consisted of Srila Prabhupada’s lady disciples, students from the Bhaktivedanta Gurukula and International School, the bramachari’s from the goshalla, students from VIHE, mataji’s from the congregation, mataji’s from the International group, Iskcon Vrindavan Namahatta, Iskcon Vrindavan Youth Forum, devotees from our BBT and Srila Prabhupada’s male disciples.
Krishna’s Holy Names could be heard literally in every corner of Vrindavan. And we are hoping and praying that it will reach those fallen, suffering conditioned souls all over the world.
We enjoyed this so much that we can do this every day.
Hare Krishna!
More photos here: https://www.facebook.com/Iskcon-Vrindavan-Namahatta-587926797996015/timeline/