Govardhana Puja U.K.

Prabhupāda: Today Govardhanadhārī, Giridhārī, Lord Kṛṣṇa, today lifted the mountain. According to Vedic literature there are different demigods. Sometimes you will find in Greek mythology the gods of the water, gods of the thunderbolt. These are not imagination. Actually they are facts. But due to our insufficient knowledge we do not know how the material nature is being controlled. So when Kṛṣṇa was on this planet and He was playing the part of a cowherd boy, and it was known to all over the universe that “God has come, taken incarnation, and He is on the earth planet, and He is at Vṛndāvana playing the part of a cowherd boy…” So as if somebody, if there is incarnation of God, somebody believes and somebody does not believe, when Kṛṣṇa was actually present on this earth, it is not that everybody understood that Kṛṣṇa was the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not even up to date. Only few persons, the five brothers of the Pāṇḍavas and the damsels of Vṛndāvana, only in the fingers’ count, say, out of the whole population, say, hundred or two hundred men knew Him that He was the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Otherwise everyone thought that “He is an ordinary man just like one of us, but most powerful. That’s all.” Similarly, the demigods in other planets, they also thought, “Oh, he’s a foolish person. They are thinking of a cowherd boy as God,” sophisticated, like that. And especially Indra, the heavenly kingdom…, king of heaven. He was… He’s very powerful, so he thought, “What god he has come? My God, He cannot come.” This was some speculation. Even Brahmā also speculated. But Kṛṣṇa wanted to show Indra that “Yes, actually I have come.” So that incidence is today, Govardhana-pūjā.

Since 1988 our team have been celebrating Goverdana Puja at Varsana, in Vraj. After the feast we would load up the bullock cart with a sweet hill of halava and the feast and feed the residents of Varsana and Prem Sarova.

As a poor substitute, we are sitting in rainy England but the Goverdan Puja can be enjoyed anywhere within the 3 worlds, under any circumstances.

We are celebrating Dipawali and Goverdana puja together this Saturday from 11.30am till 2pm.

450 Prasad feasts need to be boxed up and distributed.
All done according to government regulations, stay safe.
We are meeting at the new Jagannath Kitchen in Watford at 11.30am, plenty of car parking facilities.
Location:
The Jagannath Kitchen, Unit S, Penfold Trading Estate, Imperial Way, Watford WD24 4YY
Please come and collect the feast and distribute to your friends and neighbors,
If you know someone not on the list please contact us.
We also need devotees new with cars or bicycles doing the home deliveries.
Your servants
Food for All team