“O all-auspicious Krsna! May you be victorious! You perform all kinds of sweet pastimes. Let my name also be there when you count Sri Radha’s associates. This is my prayer. Although I am covered by material consciousness I can still aspire for this. O Lord! May my prayer be fillfilled! [ Srila Visvanath Cakravarti, Sri [...]
Festivals
Glories of Lord BalaramaLord Balaram is also original Spiritual Master. So duty of Spiritual Master is also to purify the heart of the disciple…We can think of Spiritual Master as Balaram’s representative, Lord Nityananda’s representative or Radharani’s representative. |
Ratha Yatra at Woodstock [HD]Here is a short clip of one of our Ratha Yatra’s at Woodstock. Check out the number of people on the street! We went up and down that street for hours. This video clip and others that will follow can be viewed in HD by clicking the ‘high quality’ option available. |
Woodstock Ratha YatraJust finished a 3 hour Ratha Yatra up and down and all around the Woodstock field. No doubt all the 400,000 people here saw it and heard the holy names. So many were dancing with us. Such bliss!! |
Intimate GlimpseSrila Prabhupada’s frist disciple, Acarya Prabhakar Misra, was a respectable Sanskrit scholar and teacher, who held an MA and PhD title. In an interview for the Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita in the 1970′s, conducted by Bahushiras das, Acarya Prabhakar stated in 1954 that he was with Srila Prabhupada on Krsna Janmastami in Jhansi. He related how [...] |
Special TimesOn my way to the LA airport to catch a long flight back to Warsaw and then onto the Polish Festival Tour. Hopefully my efforts to provide for the festivals over the past few months will bear fruit as many conditioned souls taste the nectar of Krsna consciousness through chanting, dancing and feasting. These are [...] |
Rekindling the Dying Spark Through Festivals“One must make a constant effort to drive these (bad) thoughts away from the mind and diligently follow the rules of Vaisnava etiquette. This endeavor will bring back his good fortune. He must begin by observing ekadasi vows, appearance days of the Lord and other important festival days. He should spend the entire festival day [...] |
Hold Such Festivals Daily!“Regarding Festivals in Boston, you may hold as many as possible. If you can hold such festivals daily, that is also nice. Our movement is for ananda, simply bliss, and the method of pushing this movement is chanting, dancing, feasting and philosophizing.” [Letter to Jadurani, July 15, 1969] |
Festival MeditationsThe Polish Festival Tour starts in 8 days. In my service to Srila Prabhupada I meditate on his words: “It is very nice that you are holding festivals in San Diego center. We are finding these festivals very successful for attracting the citizens to our activities. More and more these festivals may be held, at [...] |
12 days and Counting!Our Polish summer festival tour begins on June 28. It will be the biggest and longest festival tour we have ever held; 48 festivals in all, throughout July and August. Three hundred devotees from around the world will be arriving in Warsaw over the next fews days to begin preparations. My greatest joy in life [...] |
