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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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Bhaktin Sakshi from Delhi, India decides that the scholarship money she received from her college would best be spent on “higher education” by helping to build the TOVP to fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s desire to bring millions of people to Mayapur, and ultimately back to Godhead. This is truly the best use of intelligence in the
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Sesa prabhu expalins that, as the Minister of Education in ISKCON he sees the TOVP as an educational project and an integral part of our missionary work to educate the general public about Vedic knowledge. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity we are part of and he encourgaes us to give our “might” to
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His Holiness Indradyumna Swami expresses his appreciation for the progress of the TOVP and the hard work of the TOVP Team to fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s desire to establish the World Headquarters of ISKCON. It also takes the support of every member of the sankirtan movement to make this desire of our acharyas come true, and
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Mahatma prabhu talks about the importance of Mayapur and the TOVP, answering questions about its effect on the world, its place in ISKCON, etc.
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His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami expresses the importance and need of spreading Krishna consciousness as this Kali Yuga progresses and it is an integral part of ISKCON’s overall preaching program to develop the TOVP project.
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At the TOVP Tour visit to Los Angeles on the weekend of May 2 & 3, Ambarisa prabhu made this presentation on the evening of Nrsimgha Caturdasi.
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On Sunday, March 15th, 2015, the TOVP North American Tour rolled into Dallas, Texas for its second presentation. Bhakta Jason Starkey was amongst the devotees in the audience and was so inspired that he pledged a Silver Gratitude Coin for $11,000. In t…
The TOVP North American Tour with the Lords’ Padukas and Sitari, along with Jananivas prabhu, can be viewed live on many North American temples’ live broadcasts available through Krishna.com and mayapur.tv. Go to the link below to see the tour schedule, connect to the live broadcast, and travel with us across North America. See Schedule
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Today we received a visit from the Italian Consulate General, Cesare Bieller. He came from Kolkata to visit and meet with a few devotees and to see the TOVP. He has heard a lot about the Temple and immediately upon his arrival he was very eager to see the project. He was very inspired and impressed by
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A chatri is the roof section on top of a temple dome. On the TOVP there are 8 small domes with their chatris and they are yellow in color. As part of our preventive maintenance program to help the temple withstand the test of time and the onslaughts of nature we are waterproofing the chatris.
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As you enter the gates of Sridhama Mayapur’s ISKCON complex, you will see rising before your eyes the enormous structure of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium, built by the efforts of many devotees throughout the world who have contributed their hard-earned income for constructing this historic mandir. A new addition to the TOVP area
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Early Sunday morning, March 15th, the TOVP Team consisting of Jananivas prabhu, Radha Jivan prabhu, Vraja Vilas prabhu and Sunanda prabhu flew to the Lone Star State, Dallas, Texas. Arriving at Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji Dhama, the Lord’s Padukas and Sitari were greeted by a large kirtan and gave darshan to all the devotees. In
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On Monday, March 16th, while still in Dallas, Texas, the TOVP Team visited Mr. Vora’s home at his invitation, bringing the Lord’s Padukas and Sitari. The previous evening at the temple during the TOVP presentation Mr. Vora had pledged a Silver Gratitude Coin and he wanted to encourage some of his friends to do the
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On Saturday, March 14, the first TOVP program was inaugurated at New Raman Reti Dhama in Alachua, Florida, America’s largest devotee community. A packed temple room of 300+ devotees from all over Florida had come and were engaged in ecstatic kirtan while having darshan of Lord Nityananda’s Padukas and receiving Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Sitari on their
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GBC Chairman Anuttama das speaks about the importance of the TOVP project, and encourages all devotees to help in the completion of raising this incredible temple.
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On Friday, March 13, the Lord’s Padukas and Sitari were taken to Radha Jivana’s office where They were greeted with kirtan, and Jananivas prabhu spoke to all the devotee employees. From there they went to Ambarisa and Svaha prabhus’ home in Gainesville, Florida for a special reception. Arati was performed and prasadam distributed to all
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On Thursday, March 12 around 6:30pm the Lord in the form of His Padukas and Sitari arrived at Radha Jivana prabhu’s home to an ecstatic reception kirtan led by devotees from the Gainesville Krishna House. The Padukas and Sitari received an abhishek, and Jananivas prabhu received a foot washing and spoke about Mayapur and the
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Rajan Jani prabhu, an ISKCON devotee from Kenya Africa, donates for a Golden Gratitude Coin ($108,000 U.S.) and promises another $400,000 before the finish of the project. He has been a great supporter of many ISKCON projects and now feels the ISKCON Mayapur temple is a crown that will decorate the body of ISKCON for
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The second ring of the dome above Lord Nrsimhadeva’s wing is now underway and progressing steadily towards completion of the entire dome with four rings. Currently we are working on three domes simultaneously, the Exhibits wing dome, Lord Nrsinghadeva’s wing dome and the Main Temple dome. The Lord is undoubtedly empowering His devotees to work
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Since the start of the Gaura Purnima festival devotees have witnessed the rise of the eighth ring of the main dome. Presently, two segments have been installed. Once it is finished the ninth and last ring will get underway, completing what will become historically the largest dome on any building in the world. As we
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Recently an announcement by Pragosha das, the new GBC Chairman, celebrating 2015, the 50th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s arrival in the Western world, as The Year of the TOVP was posted. A list of suggestions as to how to actively facilitate this concept by all ISKCON Temples and devotees is forthcoming, but the first is
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Maharaja has been observing the progress in the construction of the TOVP over the last three years with great pleasure. It’s not surprising that, with the influence of Srila Prabhupada’s spiritual potency, this great temple is being built. No one wants to come hear a sadhu speak under a tree. Therefore, Srila Prabhupada wanted to
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Bhakti Vaibhava Maharaja talks about Srila Prabhupada’s vision about the scientific basis of Krishna consciousness and that once we are able to explain this properly, people from all over the world will come to Mayapur. And Mayapur would become a huge city with its own airport, etc. Srila Prabhupada has simply revived and expanded on
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