Gaurpurnima Festival 2003 in Mayapur with Deities Pics

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Dear Devotees

 

Dandavat Pranams, All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

Today 18-3-2003 in this most auspicious occasion of Sri Gaurpurnima (The

appearance of the Golden Avatar Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu) we would like to

share some nectars and pics about our activities in Sri Mayapur Dham.

 

Thousands of devotees attended this important festival and the halls of our

temple are fully packed with devotees from many countries and thousands of

pilgrims from west Bengal and specially most of them came to see the new

outfits of their lordships as it is tradition. Sri Sri Radha Madhava

Astasakhis in Mayapur are considered one of the most beautiful in the world

as well one of the best decorated, the dresses that every occasion the

Deities use, is part of common comments and attraction to all the devotees.

After Nrishimhadeva arati and Panca Tattva arati everyone was eager to see

how would be the new outfit of Radha Madhava and Astasakhis, and time was

running while kirtan was going on, but as usual takes time every Gaurpurnima

,Radhastami, Janmasthami since many things has to be done inside the altar

and finally when the altar was opened devotees started shouting loudly !!..

Haribolllllll..!!! When they saw how beautiful are their Lordships and their

dresses that this time are very colorful and decorated with flowers in a

very elegant way. I personally was eager to run and take pictures of all the

deities and send them to you as early as possible thinking that devotees in

western countries would wake up and login so they can see this beautiful

form of the supreme Lord.

 

After Govinda prayers, HH Sacinandan Swami lead the kirtan and Srila

Prabhupada procession that this time is divided in different halls so ladies

can do SP puja in one hall and Prabhus in Sri Panca Tattva temple.

 

Tens of devotees including myself jumped to the platform before the altar to

start taking pictures to the Deities. It happens like with journalist or

photographers when they are covering an important world event, but this time

was the transcendental beauty of their Lordships that was the centre of

attraction of everyone. Definitely Sri Sri Radha Madhava captivates the

hearts and minds of devotees more and more day by day.

 

We will be posting today in our websites all the activities that are going

to happen in Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir. Please visit www.mayapur.info

to be updated on Mayapur festival.

 

We are attaching a zipped file of pics of our deities in Mayapur.

 

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TMKD

 

note: in case you cannot open the zipp file these same pics will be in

www.mayapur.info and other related websites