http:\/\/www.worldholyname.com\/profiles\/blogs\/lord-caitanyas-500th-sannyasa<\/a><\/p>\nDATES OF CELEBRATIONS:-
\nCelebrations are to be conducted from now till Gaura Purnima (28th Feb 2010)<\/p>\n
MAIN FESTIVITIES:
\n14th Jan (Thursday) – 19th Jan (Tuesday) 2010<\/p>\n
14th Jan was the eclipse, at which time Mahaprabhu entered into the mood of renunciation.<\/p>\n
18th Jan (Monday) is the date of the sannyasa initiation.<\/p>\n
FESTIVALS CURENTLY IN PREPARATION:-<\/p>\n
Sankirtan Yatra from Mayapur to Katwa to Jagannathapuri.
\nBegins 14\/15th Jan 2010, Ends 02\/04th Feb 2010.<\/p>\n
Haridwara Kumbha Mela (Feb-Mar-Apr 2010)<\/p>\n
ISKCON Visakhapatanam Festival<\/p>\n
Caitanya Bhagavat Katha in Pune<\/p>\n
Padayatra India Festival<\/p>\n
We would especially like to encourage festivals to be held at the towns and
\ncities Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally travelled to.<\/p>\n
CELEBRATION OPTIONS:<\/p>\n
” Conduct public harinams.
\n” Reading and recitation of the sannyasa lila of Caitanya Mahaprabhu from
\nCaitanya Caritamrta, Caitanya Bhagavata, etc.
\n” Nimai sannyasa dramas.
\n” Distribution of related books like Caitanya Caritamrta, Teachings of
\nLord Caitanya etc.
\n” Organize Padayatra in your region.
\n” Make Lord Caitanya’s 500th Anniversary of Sannyasa the theme of
\nfestivals until Gaurapurnima festival 2010
\n” Education on the themes of “Who is Lord Caitanya?” and “Why is Harinama
\nSankirtan Considered the Yuga Dharma?”<\/p>\n
Wishing you all a glorious observance of Lord Caitanya’s 500th Anniversary of Sannyasa.<\/p>\n
Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
your servant,
\nLokanath Swami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Lokanath Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n I would like to invite and encourage all ISKCON Leaders to promote the observance of festivals to commemorate Lord Caitanya’s 500th Anniversary of Sannyasa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067","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=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}