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Deity Dressing and Cooking classes at Mayapur Academy
The students are learning how to make dress design ornamentation directly from Mayapur’s finest who work daily on new dresses for Radha-Madhava and Panca Tattva! View photo gallery on Facebook here >
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Rathyatra and Bhumi Puja at ISKCON Lucknow (India)
By Vrajendranandan Das Originally posted at www.dandavats.com Dear Maharaj’s and Prabhu’s, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. On 15th May, ISKCON Lucknow celebrated a colorful Rathayatra. The city of Lucknow is the capital of the Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in the country. This city is also known as ‘Laxmanpuri’. H. G. Devkinandan Prabhu, (ZS of UP and Rajasthan), H. G. Surapati Prabhu and H. G. Radha Ranjan Prabhu (Co-TP’s of ISKCON Lucknow) and ...
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Nrsimha Caturdasi
By Bhaktisiddhanta Swami Originally posted at www.dandavats.com Dear Devotees Pamho AgtSP This year another abhisek of Lord Nrsimha took place over a two day period, oils on one day and milk products and sweet fruit juice liquids on the next. Buckets of offerings were poured onto the Lord, marking another year of protection for the work in Mayapur, what to speak of the Iskcon collective. One can not help but appreciate the satisfaction that Lord has had ...
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Lord Jagannatha’s 16th Century History
By Pankajanghri das Originally posted at www.dandavats.com At the time of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, a devotee named Jagadisha Ganguli lived in a small village near the present-day Mayapur. Jagadisha was a highly elevated Vaishnava and even though he was very old, still every year he would make the 900km journey on foot to Jagannatha Puri on the Bay of Bengal. He would travel with other devotees from Bengal to meet their most dear Lord Caitanya, have ...
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Sri Sri Krishna Balarama Installation Alachua
By Ranjit das Originally posted at www.dandavats.com In 1975 Srila Prabhupada installed the Deities of Sri Sri Krishna Balarama in the ISKCON temple in Raman Reti in Vrindaban. Looking at the film footage and slides of this momentous event some 35 years later, we can now begin to put this event into historical perspective. These images show Srila Prabhupada in the center, meeting with the Governor, hearing the speeches of various dignitaries, in procession with an ...
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Lord Nrisimhadeva’s mercy even on non-devotees
By Lakshman (das) Vrindavan (IN) Originally posted at www.dandavats.com The mercy of Lord Nrisimhadeva at Mayapur is famous and I have an interesting story in brief. I know a couple Ashok Ghosh and his wife Shila Ghosh from Kolkata, who married twelve years ago. Four years before when I met them, they shared their worries with me. Like other childless couples, who undertake treatments or throw faith in magical amulets, this young couple too were attracted to ...
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Nirjala Ekadasi
By Dravida Dasa Originally posted at www.dandavats.com Every year the North American office of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust publishes an “Art Calendar” with all the most important Vaisnava dates for North America. This year, as in past years, we noted under Pandava-nirjala Ekadasi (coming up on June 22) that one should observe a “total fast, even from water, if you have broken Ekadasi.” It has been pointed out to us that the only instruction Srila Prabhupada ...
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More Nirjala Ekadasi
By Dravida Dasa Originally posted at www.dandavats.com With some further research and help from His Holiness Bhanu Swami, we have concluded that there is really no basis in either 1) the scripture, specifically the Hari-bhakti-vilasa, the guidebook for devotional practices compiled by Sanatana Gosvami, or 2) Srila Prabhupada’s instructions, for the idea that if one performs a full nirjala fast on Pandava Nirjala Ekadasi, that will negate any ill effects from having broken Ekadasi over the ...
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Pandava Nirjala Ekadashi
By Lakshman das, Vrindavan, India Originally posted at www.dandavats.com Ekadashi means eleventh day of waxing or waning moon. Therefore, two Ekadashis fall in every month. Usually on Ekadashis, the devotees undertake fasting. Pandava Nirjala Ekadashi observed on the eleventh day of the bright fortnight of Moon (shukla-paksha) in the month of Jyeshtha (May-June) is called Nirjala Ekadashi because on that day the observer of the vrata should not drink even water. Since the vrata observed is ...
