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On the morning of Wednesday, April 21st, before departing from Saranagati, we stopped at their Govardhana Academy where Jananivas prabhu spoke about how he became a devotee and what he likes about being a devotee. Upon returning to Vancouver we went for lunch prasadam to the home of Tulsi das and Chaitanya Priya dasi. Chaitanya

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On Tuesday, April 21st we made a one-day excursion to Saranagati Dhama, a devotee farm community in Ashcroft, British Columbia (Canada) and Lord Nityananda arranged for us to meet a special disciple of Srila Prabhupada along the way. Adi Yajna owns and operates a Tour Bus company called Chaitanya Coachways out of Calgary, Canada. Due

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Concreting for the Main and Nrshimha Dev domes has begun.
Layers of cement will be added to the now present stainless steel structure to reinforce the grand cupola.
With a total of 34 layers, each of 1.2 M tall, the concrete work should be completed by…

Work on the final ring, which is number 9, has commenced! Today the first of the 24 sections was put into place without any problem. We will be adding more pieces in few days. Within a months time, the 9th ring will be completed! With this, the main part of the temple dome structural frame

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Departing from Calgary on the morning of Sunday, April 19th we flew to Vancouver, Canada, one of the country’s largest devotee congregations, and had lunch at the home of Harirani dasi. We quickly made our way to the temple, home of beautiful Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan, Gaur Nitai and Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra. We

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On Monday, April 20th the TOVP Team and the Lord’s Padukas visited the home of Kalarupini dasi who, along with Bhaktin Katelin, prepared and served us prasadam. In the evening we were invited to the home of Virendra Sharma where many devotees came to hear Jananivas speak. The Padukas were worshiped along with kirtan and

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We departed from Edmonton on the morning of Saturday, April 18th, driving to Calgary for our TOVP presentation the same day. We arrived in Calgary for lunch at the home of Veda Vyasa das and Rasalila dasi and made our way to the temple, home of Sri Sri Radha Madhava of Canada. During the Gaura

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On the evening of Friday, April 17th we did our TOVP presentation along with kirtan and abhisheka of the Padukas during the Gaura arati. Bala Krishna prabhu, the temple president, introduced the TOVP Team and Radha Jivana spoke in Hindi to the large gathering of Indian guests and devotees. $60,000 in pledges was raised and

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On Wednesday, April 15th we departed from Montreal, flying into Edmonton on the Western side of Canada. We spent the next day, Thusday, April 16th resting and catching up on office and other backup work, and in the evening Jananivas prabhu spoke to a gathering of 15-20 devotees.

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Monday and Tuesday, April 13 & 14 in Montreal were spent visiting devotees in their homes, giving darshan of the Padukas and association with Jananivas prabhu. The following devotees and their families opened their homes for our visit and TOVP programs: Monday mid-day: Yashomati Sundai and family Monday evening: Kirti Patel and family Tuesday mid-day:

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Montreal is the North American city where Srila Prabhupada opened the third ISKCON temple. At one point in time he even wanted to make it the Headquarters for his North American centers due to the historic fact that it was to McGill University in Montreal that Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur sent his first English book, The

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On the evening of Saturday, March 11th we went to the small Ottawa temple and restaurant in the heart of the city, the Nation’s capital, for the main TOVP presentation. After arati and abhisheka of the Padukas Shankar das, the Temple President, enthusiastically welcomed and introduced the TOVP Team to the temple. Radha Jivan prabhu

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On Friday, April 10th we paid a visit with the Padukas to the home of Kamalalochana and Kundalata prabhus for kirtan and lunch prasadam. In the evening a program was arranged by Surendra and Sukshma, our hosts in Ottawa, in their home. 50 devotees attended for kirtan, darshan and abhisheka of the Padukas, a lecture

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On Thursday, April 9th Jananivas, Vraja Vilas and Sunanda prabhus brought the Padukas to the home of Vanamali prabhu and his family where they also had prasadam. In the evening the Temple President, Shankar prabhu, arranged a program in his home for darshan of the Padukas and a lecture by Jananivas prabhu attended by about

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On Wednesday, March 8th Jananivas and Sunanda prabhus visited the home of Shyamakund and Ananda Rupa prabhus for prasadam and darshan of their Deities, after which they departed from New Jersey with the Lord’s Padukas for the first stop in Canada, Ottawa, the Nation’s capital. They were greeted by Guru Prasad prabhu and joined by

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After the New Jersey weekend TOVP presentations, on Monday and Tuesday, April 6 and 7, Radha Jivan and Vraja Vilas prabhus left New Jersey ahead of the others and Jananivas and Sunanda prabhus visited various devotees’ homes at their request for prasadam and sanga. Visits included the homes of Madhupati prabhu (the Temple President of

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Sunday, April 5th was another busy day for us. In the morning we visited Nimai’s Bliss Kitchen run by Mayapur Chandra prabhu and his family in Newburgh, New York. We presented the TOVP project to a small group of devotees, receiving pledges for more than $25,000. From there we drove back to Towaco, New Jersey

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On Sunday, March 29th, we made our way by car to the newly purchased temple building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A crowd of almost 100 Indian devotees had gathered, including some devotees from Gita Nagari, for the evening celebration of Rama-navami. The Padukas received an abhisheka to lively kirtan as Jananivas prabhu placed the Sitari on

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On Monday, March 30th, we drove to Towaco New Jersey for an entire week of evening programs with Jananivas prabhu at both the Towaco and Plainfield, New Jersey temples (March 30 – April 3). Every evening he spoke on subjects such as Deity worship, Mayapur Dhama, the TOVP, etc. We also visited the homes of

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On the morning of Saturday, April 4th after a short stop to the home of Devakinandana prabhu and his family for breakfast prasadam, we made our way to attend a celebration of Jayapataka Maharaja’s Vyas Puja at the home of Sukhada das and his family in Feastieville, Pennsylvania. Many devotees came including Sikhi Mahiti and

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On Saturday, March 28th, we celebrated Rama-navami at the Philadelphia temple in great bliss with over 125 devotees attending. The festival included an elaborate abhisheka of Sita Rama organized by Jananivas prabhu, kirtans by Visnu Gada prabhu and others and a lecture by Jananivas. Sikhi Mahiti then introduced the TOVP Team and handed the program

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On Friday, March 27th we took a day off. In the evening devotees came to the temple for sanga of Mayapur katha with Jananivas prabhu.

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On Thursday, March 26th, we went to South Philadelphia to visit the temple/restaurant run by Haryasva prabhu for the last 20+ years. He has been worshiping Gaur Nitai Deities made in Ekachakra made by the same devotee who made Aindra prabhu’s Deities. After enjoying his special veggie wraps we went on Harinama and then returned

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On Wednesday, March 25th, we brought the Padukas, Sitari and Jananivas prabhu to visit the historic Gita Nagari farm established by Srila Prabhupada and home of Sri Sri Radha Damodar, the beloved Deities of Visnujana Swami during the Radha Damodar Traveling Sankirtan Party days. After being greeted by the devotees with kirtan, the Padukas and

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Padmanabha Balakrsna Acharya is the Governor of Assam, Nagalnd and Tripura. He has come to Mayapur during his visit to West Bengal. Padmanabha Acharya has been very fortunate to be able to serve Prabhupada by welcoming Him in is his home for 40 days, during the opening of the Iskcon Temple in Mumbai. He is

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On the morning of Tuesday, March 24th we set out by car on a 7 hour drive to our next destination, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although not the original temple in Philadelphia, the Hare Krishna movement has been present there since Srila Prabhupada’s time. We arrived around 7pm in the evening greeted by kirtan and discussed our

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On the evening of Monday, March 23rd, the temple filled up again to hear Jananivas prabhu speak on Deity worship. For almost two hours he spoke, bringing great happiness to all the devotees present.

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On the morning of Sunday, March 22nd, the Lord’s Padukas and Sitari were greeted at the temple with kirtan and an abhishek and arati, and placed on the altar. In the evening we made our TOVP presentation to the Hillsborough community. This temple was built and started by His Holiness Bir Krishna Goswami in the

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Saturday, March 21st was a day of traveling, flying to North Carolina to the community of devotees in Hillsborough, North Carolina. We arrived too late in the evening for any temple greeting and went straight to our accommodations at the house of Aditya Narayana prabhu and his wife.

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On Friday, March 20th, the TOVP presentation took place to an audience of about 75 devotees. The Padukas received an abhisheka during an ecstatic kirtan while Jananivas placed Lord Nrsinghadeva’s Sitari on everyone’s head. Temple President Tusta Krishna prabhu introduced the TOVP Team consisting of Jananivas prabhu, Radha Jivan prabhu, Vraja Vilas prabhu and Sunanda

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From Dallas, our next stop is Denver, Colorado, home of Sri Sri Radha Govinda, Gaur Nitai and Jagannath, Baladeva and Subhadra. Like Dallas, this is one of the original 108 temples established by Srila Prabhupada which he personally visited and installed the Deities. We arrived on Wednesday, March 18th greeted by an ecstatic group of

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On Thursday, March 19th the Denver devotees congregated to observe the 71st birthday of Jananivas prabhu (and Pankajanghri prabhu). Just as Srila Prabhupada came to America at the advanced age of 70 to bring the message of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta and the parampara, Jananivas left India for the first time in 43 years to do “whatever

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While traveling with us, Jananivas prabhu is giving Deity Seva Seminars and other talks at the temples in-between traveling. On the evening of Tuesday, March 17th he gave his first Deity Seminar at the Dallas temple to another packed temple room of devotees eager to learn from him.

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