Mar
19

Navadvipa Dhama Parikrama photos

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Mar
19

Navadvipa Dhama Parikrama

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Dear devotees and friends,

Please accept my best wishes. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I’m sorry to take so long to get back to you, but I’ve been extremely busy since Mayapur.

Now I would like to describe the Navadvipa Dhama Parikrama to you. It’s a wonderful programme, and I took part in about the first 10 of them, up until about the time of Srila Prabhupada’s Centenary in 1996, or thereabouts. Since then I’ve been too busy to do it, but this year I made up my mind to take part, partly because we wanted to video it to make a DVD set about Mayapur. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mar
10

Lord Nityananda’s childhood

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Dear devotees and friends,

Please accept my best wishes. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The GBC meetings finished on the 23rd, and I had a couple of days “free” before the Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama began on the 28th. One day I went with some disciples to Lord Caitanya’s birthplace up the road from our Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, and then to Srivasa Angan, where Lord Caitanya would have kirtanas for the whole night when He began the sankirtana movement.

On the 26th we went with a group of Russian devotees to Ekacakra, the birthplace of Lord Nityananda. Caitanya Bhagavata describes how an old man told Mother Jahnava, Lord Nityananda’s main wife, about the Lord’s childhood: Read the rest of this entry »

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