Report on Panca Tattva Deity Installation (23-2-040

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Dear Devotees:

 

Dandavat Pranams

 

With the mercy of the Panca Tattva Bhagavan we are able to send to you all

the reports possible about today historic Deity Installation ceremony in Sri

Mayapur Dham. we are also posting the pictures constatnly on the websites

Mayapur.info & mayapurnews.com

 

also it may be possible that also you can see them live broadcasted via

www.radhiokrishna.com (when technical problems would be solved)

 

for this service of the reports Brajasevaki dd is transcribing live from

the panca tattva temple and we are posting them to you via these conferences

 

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tmkd

 

 

 

Braja Sevaki (dd TKG) (Mayapur - IN)

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Hare Krishna...Good Morning, and welcome to the installation ceremony and

abhiseka for Sri Sri Panca-tattva!! I am on the stage at the front of Their

altar, it's 7am, and we're listening to kirtan and waiting for the opening

of the doors of the altar...

 

This place is electric -- there's no other word for it. Thousands of people

are crowding the entrances, but inside it is relatively calm. The organizers

have done an amazing job, and it's very well controlled. There is a moving

darshan area that allows everyone to see Sri Panca-tattva during the

ceremony. You can line up as many times as you like, and see Them as often

as you like, but it has to keep moving. In the front, we have Srila

Prabhupada's disciples seated on mats, and the donors and patrons also. In

the temple courtyard, there are television screens everywhere so no one

misses out. In Radha Madhava's temple, there are big screens up, and even

next to Sri Panca-tattva there are screens. But even if you're at the back,

you can see, because Sri Panca-tattva are so big that no one will miss Their

darshan. It's a wonderful festive atmosphere, and from where I'm standing I

can see Ramabhadra prabhu from New York on Radha Madhava's altar, offering a

camara to Their Lordships; behind me a row of sannyasis and Prabhupada's

disciples.

 

Once again we're about to be given darshan of these beautiful forms that

have come once again to Navadwip. Their mercy knows no limit: it's coming

from Them in waves. Everyone here is effected by the atmosphere...

 

Stay tuned...next instalment when the doors open!

 

A roar just went through the crowd-the pujaris have started the abhiseka!

Yoghurt has been rubbed into the bodies of Their Lordships, and Sridhara

Maharaja is pouring milk over Lord Caitanya as I write this; Adwaita Acharya

is being bathed in milk by Jayapataka Swami, the devotees are shouting and

roaring, the conch shells are blowing, the kirtan is going through the roof,

and everyone, everyone is chanting! It's the spiritual world here, there is

no doubt at all…I wish there were words to describe this vision: see the

photos attached! Aindra prabhu is leading the kirtan, it's my favorite

Vrindavan bhajans tune, and I wish also I could plug the audio in here so

you can hear this sound vibration, it's incredible!

 

Everyone in the temple is chanting, it's amazing -- the Deities are being

rubbed down with ghee…through the thin silk chaddars, we can see the most

exquisitely carved gamshas that the stapathis carved into Their forms. Each

one is different: Adwaita's is a circular pattern; Nityananda's is striped;

by far the most beautiful is Gadadhara's, a complicated, intricate paisley

pattern that defies description.

 

The altar is awash with pancamrita, which is being directed through a tunnel

out the side of the temple and collected in huge buckets. Anyone who wants

the mercy should get out there and get those splashes!! The liquids

trickling off the bodies of the Lords is absolute poetry in motion…..so

beautiful. Sridhara Maharaj is still up behind Nityananda, now he is taking

a silver kailash of milk, with the help of Devamrita Swami, and pouting it

over Nityananda's body...oh wow, this kirtan is incredible -- get a copy of

Aindra's Vrindavan Mellows, turn it on, and watch these images, and you'll

get a taste of what it's like being here….thousands of voices as backup

definitely altar the atmosphere, but with the mercy of Sri Panca-tattva

anything is possible...