By Deena Bandhu dasa
Now that the Holiday Season is over, the real Festival Season begins. And this year many exciting festivals are coming up.
First of all Ardha Kumbha Mela is going on in Prayaga. ISKCON has a bigger and better camp than even the Maha Kumbha Mela, including a corner plot on a major intersection with lots of preaching facilities. The Padayatra Maharastra Deity cart has arrived with those wonderful Gujarati bulls with the long horns. Radhadyuti from Mayapur, who cooks for Braja Mandal Parikrama, has sent his crew of Nama Hatta devotees to cook, so prasadam is cooked by devotees. Food for Life is going on every day. Free accommodation for devotees who want to do service, such as Harer Nama, prasada distribution, or if your still fired up from the Prabhupada Marathon, there’s plenty of book distribution to do, to millions of receptive pilgrims!
The main bathing days are 15, 19, and 23 January. For information contact Shrestha Prabhu Mb: +91-9249415977 or email
In Bombay the opening of the Heaven on Earth Phase II will be on 14th January. There will be a wonderful festival with Ratha Yatra and the new opening. For more information contact
Then there is the opening of the magnificent new ISKCON temple in Tirupati on Nityananda Trayodasi on 31st January. The festival will start on the 29th up to the 1st February, including special darshan at the famed Balaji Temple for ISKCON devotees on the 1st. Please contact
>From Feb 5th to Feb 15th there will be the Fourth Anniversary of Vrinda Devi Temple at Vrinda Kunda. There will be parikramas going out almost every day from Krishna Balaram Mandir to the different holy places of Krishna’s divine pastimes. Then on 11th there will be the annual Kalash Yatra, a Sankirtan Procession with the ladies carrying water pots on their heads all around Nandagram to Vrinda Kunda where there will be a wonderful feast. Everyone who has attended before has never forgotten the experience. For more information about the festival contact
2540343.
Then of course is the Mayapura Festival starting from 16 February till Gaura Purnima on the 3rd March. For more information one can visit
6th March to 16th.
So there are so many ecstatic festivals for you to take part in, so start making your plans now!
In service of Srimati Vrinda Devi, Deena Bandhu dasa
This is just to add that there is the “World Vedic Conference” being
organized at Ujjain from January 13-17, 2007.
Several hundred vedic scholars will attend from both India and abroad.
Basu Ghosh (das) ACBSP
> In Bombay the opening of the Heaven on Earth Phase II will be on 14th
> January. There will be a wonderful festival with Ratha Yatra and the new
> opening. For more information contact braja .hari.jps@pamho.net
Correction the Bombay opening of Phase II will not be on Jan. 14th. However,
the Rath Yatra will be on Jan. 12 and pandal program on Jan. 13 and 14.
Please do come and give us your association.
ys
Bhima das
> This is just to add that there is the “World Vedic Conference” being
> organized at Ujjain from January 13-17, 2007.
>
> Several hundred vedic scholars will attend from both India and abroad.
In response to the above posting, I have been requested to inform the
readers whom to contact in case anyone is interested to participate.
That person would be Bimal Krishna Prabhu, Co-President of ISKCON Ujjain.
Here are his contact details:
Bimal Krishna das
Co-President
Shri Shri Radha Madan Mohan Mandir
ISKCON Ujjain
Tel: + 91 (0) 734-2536000 (Voice)
Tel: + 91 (0) 9329666400 (Mobile)
> Then of course is the Mayapura Festival starting from 16 February till. This of course is followed by the Vrindavan Festival
> Gaura Purnima on the 3rd March. For more information one can visit
>
> from 6th March to 16th.
www.mayapur.com is the one that functions.
Hare Krishna.
ys, bbd