Festival Season

01-10-2007, 05:20 AM

Now that the Holiday Season is over, the real Festival Season begins. And this
year many exciting festivals are coming up.

First of all Ardha Kumbha Mela is going on in Prayaga. ISKCON has a bigger and
better camp than even the Maha Kumbha Mela, including a corner plot on a major
intersection with lots of preaching facilities. The Padayatra Maharastra Deity
cart has arrived with those wonderful Gujarati bulls with the long horns.
Radhadyuti from Mayapur, who cooks for Braja Mandal Parikrama, has sent his
crew of Nama Hatta devotees to cook, so prasadam is cooked by devotees. Food
for Life is going on every day. Free accommodation for devotees who want to do
service, such as Harer Nama, prasada distribution, or if your still fired up
from the Prabhupada Marathon, there's plenty of book distribution to do, to
millions of receptive pilgrims!

The main bathing days are 15, 19, and 23 January. For information contact
Shrestha Prabhu Mb: +91-9249415977 or email

In Bombay the opening of the Heaven on Earth Phase II will be on 14th January.
There will be a wonderful festival with Ratha Yatra and the new opening. For
more information contact

Then there is the opening of the magnificent new ISKCON temple in Tirupati on
Nityananda Trayodasi on 31st January. The festival will start on the 29th up to
the 1st February, including special darshan at the famed Balaji Temple for
ISKCON devotees on the 1st. Please contact
or Guesthouse Manager Sanatan Gaura at ++91-9393607046.

>From Feb 5th to Feb 15th there will be the Fourth Anniversary of Vrinda Devi
Temple at Vrinda Kunda. There will be parikramas going out almost every day
from Krishna Balaram Mandir to the different holy places of Krishna's divine
pastimes. Then on 11th there will be the annual Kalash Yatra, a Sankirtan
Procession with the ladies carrying water pots on their heads all around
Nandagram to Vrinda Kunda where there will be a wonderful feast. Everyone who
has attended before has never forgotten the experience. For more information
about the festival contact or for booking travel
and accommodation contact or Sanjay at ++91 565
2540343.

Then of course is the Mayapura Festival starting from 16 February till Gaura
Purnima on the 3rd March. For more information one can visit
. This of course is followed by the Vrindavan Festival from
6th March to 16th.

So there are so many ecstatic festivals for you to take part in, so start
making your plans now!

In service of Srimati Vrinda Devi,
Deena Bandhu dasa