Chandan Yatra in Mayapur begins (04-05-2003) Attached pics

May 4, 2003

Dear Devotees.

Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisance's. All glories to Srila

Prabhupada.

Today 04-05-2003 one of the most auspicious events begins, The Chandan Yatra

(festival) at the Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir. Hundreds of devotees are

present to see daily the transcendental form of Lord Madhava & Lord

Nrishimhadeva totally covered by Chandan. This morning the class was given

earlier at 6:45 am. HH Bhaktividyapurna Swami delivered Bhagavatam lecture

about the devotional service which was very ecstatic and comprehensive and

many doubts were cleared during the sessions of Questions and answers. At

8:15 am (usually opens at 7:15 am) the Altar of Lord Nrishimhadeva was

opened and devotees were astonished by the amazing form of the Lord and

Bhakta Prahlad completely covered with candan (please see pics attached), 10

minutes later the Sri Panca Tattva Bhagavan's altar was opened and Sri

Gauranga Mahaprabhu's transcendental body was covered by Candan and the

other members of The Panca Tattva had candan on Their foreheads. At 9:00 am

the main altar with Sri Sri Radha Madhava & Astasakhis was open and all

devotees was loudly shouting the names of the Lord in ecstasy after seeing

the Transcendental and beautiful body of Madhava in Candan, Srimati

Radharani along with the gopis had candan on Their forehead, Govardhan Sila

and small deities of Radha Madhava and Sri Mayapur Candra were also covered

with candan.

For this festival devotees come from many places to see the beauty of this

event and today at 5:00 pm we will have the procession of the Deities to

Srila Prabhupada Pushpa Samadhi for the boat festival, one of the most

attractive and for devotees and pilgrims.

We will be posting daily pictures about this very auspicious event in our

websites and basically in www.mayapur.info

Note: due to technical problems we are uploading for today the pics to

we are sending as an attached file one poster with few pics of this event

YS

Tusti Mohan krsna das

Sri Dham Mayapur

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