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By Dhirabhakta Das<\/strong><\/p>\n So we think that holding festivals is solely the temple or preaching centre responsibility?<\/p>\n What if there is no local temple, or you live in a small village and travel 163 miles to the temple does this give you an exemption on holding festivals.<\/p>\n May be you see it as a senior devotee or temple devotee responsibility…<\/p>\n Well this year was the second Diwali Celebration in Bettws, Pan Y Bont, Wales and this year over 40 individuals from the local community attended, their was a lovely cake provided by Mena Mataji a congregation member at Bhaktivadanta Manor which was based around the theme of the Ramayana<\/p>\n Kirtan, the story surrounding Diwali, the offering of a candle, small arati whilst dancing for Krishna followed by Krishna prasadam made up the itinerary and many of those attended really got involved and enjoyed the day<\/p>\n This year I was supported by two remarkable devotees that made the 163 mile journey to assist being inspired to help which inspired myself having held it unassisted last year.<\/p>\n So go on, we all have the skill, we all live in communities that need to hear about Krishna and what better way than to invite them to a Diwali Celebration.<\/p>\n They so much enjoyed it were already making plans for next year which will be the communities third Diwali, and we are going to look for bigger premises<\/p>\n And don’t worry about the cost, the first year’s bill \u00a380 this years bill \u00a3160 it’s the greatest value for money ever<\/p>\n Hare Krishna<\/p>\n Yours Dhirabhakta Das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So we think that holding festivals is solely the temple or preaching centre responsibility? What if there is no local temple, or you live in a small village and travel 163 miles to the temple does this give you an exemption on holding festivals. May be you see it as a senior devotee or temple devotee responsibility… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/532013-11-02-10-4753.jpg\"\/)
By Dhirabhakta Das<\/strong><\/p>\n