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After the ecstatic Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama, devotees have returned to Mayapur. Today is Amalaki Ekadasi Vrata Mahotsav. We had a packed Mangla arthi and Darshan Arthi. There was special book distribution awards ceremony at 8 am where HH Jayapataka Swami encouraged our Sankirtan devotees and handed over the awards. Golden Jubilee Mela has been inaugurated […]

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Dear devotees, this morning with a heavy heart we left the temple of Madana Gopal in Belpukur. The beautiful Madan Gopal was worshipped by Sachimata’s father. The worship has been going on for about 1.700 years. From there we entered Simantadvipa which corresponds to the process of hearing sravanam. Soon enough the first katha of […]

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Early in the morning we left the beautiful Pratapnagar towards the Ganges shore (only 2 km walk).  We boarded the boats and ship to Sankarpur. You can’t imagine how it is to get all these boats on the right time and cross the Ganga with more than one thousand people. How much managerial work is […]

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Dear devotees today Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama moved from the wonderful island of Jahnudvipa to Modadrumadvipa which corresponds to the process of dasyam, servitorship. Before introducing today’s events we’d like to share how last evening H.G. Rajendranandana Prabhu enlightened everybody. The topic of the lecture was: Lord Caitanya gives his mercy to the most fallen. He […]

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Maha Vishnu Swami joined the Parikrama Party on the 4th day. He is the ‘kirtan man’ .The devotees love him. He doesn’t stop kirtan for anything. Despite of the walking, so much energy is coming from the kirtan. The mrdangas vibrating very far in the fields attracting the mind of the villagers that come with […]

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Before sunrise the International Party moved slowly from Svarupa Ganj (Godrumadvipa) to Hamsa Vahana (Madhyadvipa) . Lord Shiva appeared in this place just to hear Gauranga Lila, so this is very auspicious island. From there we went to the manifestation of Kuruksetra in Navadvipa dhama where the devotees heard about the glorious of the Bhagavad […]

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In a very nice and beautiful morning the devotees left the campsite at Hari Hara Ksetra and headed to Gauradaha. Gauradaha is a very special place and the pastime which took place there is described by Jagadananda Pandita in his book Prema Vivarta. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Nityananda prabhu, Jagadananda Pandita and other associates of the […]

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After 4 days of wonderful Sravana Utsava festival, blissful and an amazing 5 days of Kirtan Mela, the devotees finally left the temple room and the boundaries of ISKCON Mayapur campus. For what? To make connections with the old Kalpa Vrikshas trees, the birds, the land, the dhamvasis, having prasada in a open air and […]

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Sri Jiva Goswami started from his residence at Candradvipa to Navadvipa & throughout this journey, streams of tears were flowing from his eyes. While crying he called out with a loud voice, “O life of the living entities, O Sri Gauranga, O Nityananda Prabhu, when will You bestow Your mercy upon me and give me […]

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Hare Krishna, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. As the waves of devotees raise their hands , with closed eyes and gently swaying their bodies, in ecstatic love loudly calling out the names, Gauranga! Gauranga, bestowing auspiciousness to the entire planet, I pray at the divine lotus feet of Sri Gauranga […]

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Today being the last day of Kirtan Mela in Mayapur, I thought I should write something to share with everyone. I just came back from the temple were the Pandav Sena (Mayapur kirtan group) just finished leading their Kirtan.  “Oh Thank you Krsna…that was some real amazing Kirtan” Although it was lunch time for most […]

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Today being the last day of Kirtan Mela in Mayapur, I thought I should write something to share with everyone. I just came back from the temple were the Pandav Sena (Mayapur kirtan group) just finished leading their Kirtan. “Oh Thank you Krsna…that was some real amazing Kirtan” Although it was lunch time for most […]

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The number of devotees arriving for the festival is increasing! Panca Tattva hall was packed and everyone were trying to get into the hall to take part of this eternal Sankirtan lila of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates! HH Lokanath Swami gave today’s lecture on the famous verse: Krishna varnam tvisa krsnam  – where […]

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After the ectastic Sri Radha-Madhava Elephant Procession & Adhivas ceremony of Kirtan mela on the first day of the festival , the day 2 of the Gaura Purnima began with packed Mangala arthi & Srngar arti darshan and HH Sivaram Swami ‘s lecture on glories on Holy name-a topic in line with Kirtan Mela! Maharaj […]

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  This morning in Sri Mayapur Dham devotees celebrated the flat lifting for the start of Gaura Purnima festival month. As a special offering to Srila Prabhupada to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of ISKCON, 50 National flags were put up in the park and 50 lamps were offered. Then as the flags reached the top […]

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Dear devotees, dandavats pranam! AGTSP! Hare Krsna!   We are very happy to invite devotees world wide to join the most merciful Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 2016.   We kindly request you to publish our invitation and Promotional Movie. Please Click Here   thank you very much, Your servant,   Sri Gaura Sundara das   […]

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