{"id":19687,"date":"2015-09-09T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T13:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=19687"},"modified":"2015-09-09T13:16:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T13:16:06","slug":"madhudesha-commemorates-jaladuta-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=19687","title":{"rendered":"Madhudesha commemorates Jaladuta anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-1ZfNU4JZvUw\/VfAvlCdKtDI\/AAAAAAAATjc\/4dOKGq0IF_c\/s0\/2015-09-09_15-09-35.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-D5R-hewe8Gk\/VfAvdB-xzyI\/AAAAAAAATjU\/1_LO2iALG18\/s0\/2015-09-09_15-09-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-TAXfiuxTLPY\/VfAu0NrxFjI\/AAAAAAAATi8\/s5p_83mmiKs\/s0\/2015-09-09_15-06-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-GvcT9-A-zLw\/VfAvVsAoHPI\/AAAAAAAATjM\/UePZU4pFOB8\/s0\/2015-09-09_15-08-32.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-9MJWFpPvhkY\/VfAvsdQqSvI\/AAAAAAAATjk\/qb1VmVM44ac\/s0\/2015-09-09_15-10-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-gRkK9zDWBmo\/VfAv1UkyOZI\/AAAAAAAATjs\/ek34gZtzBF0\/s0\/2015-09-09_15-10-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <strong>By Romapada das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Madhudesh Yatra, celebrated the 50th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s visit to the country with a programme in a port city in the country on 3rd September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>After Srila Prabhupada departed Kolkata in August 1965 on board the Jaladuta, the ship docked in Colombo, Cochin and a port city in Madhudesha on 3rd September, before arriving in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The special program was celebrated in a factory on the banks of an international canal,&#8221; explained Govardhandhari Das. &#8220;Several hundred people attended the celebration which featured kirtan, aratik, a lecture on Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s life, and how he stopped in Madhudesha on his way to Boston. Madhudesha is the only Arabic country that Prabhupada visited, and therefore this is a very important place for ISKCON.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After visiting the port city in Madhudesha, Srila Prabhupada made several positive comments about the country.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year I went to Madhudesha, spending twenty five days,&#8221; said Magudi Subramaniam, who preaches here. &#8220;During this period, I visited several Indian families, who got together to establish a yatra in this country exactly a year ago. Thus, the 50th anniversary celebrations coincided with the first anniversary of the Madhudesha Yatra.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ISKCON congregation in Madhudesha caters to both Indian and Arabic speaking devotees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-5wCABdiuGZQ\/VfAwCYkcZQI\/AAAAAAAATj0\/SbOByo0cA-I\/s0\/2015-09-09_15-11-38.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Romapada das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The special program was celebrated in a factory on the banks of an international canal,&#8221; explained Govardhandhari Das. &#8220;Several hundred people attended the celebration which featured kirtan, aratik, a lecture on Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s life, and how he stopped in Madhudesha on his way to Boston. Madhudesha is the only Arabic country that Prabhupada visited, and therefore this is a very important place for ISKCON.&#8221;  After visiting the port city in Madhudesha, Srila Prabhupada made several positive comments about the country.  &#8220;Last year I went to Madhudesha, spending twenty five days,&#8221; said Magudi Subramaniam, who preaches here. &#8220;During this period, I visited several Indian families, who got together to establish a yatra in this country exactly a year ago. Thus, the 50th anniversary celebrations coincided with the first anniversary of the Madhudesha Yatra.&#8221;  The ISKCON congregation in Madhudesha caters to both Indian and Arabic speaking devotees.  <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687","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=19687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19692,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19687\/revisions\/19692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}