Desiring Transcendental Adventure and Ecstatic Purification?

[Guest guest]

Please come to the 2002 Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama

March 17th - 24th

 

In celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada's Gaura Purnima

Festival, the Festival Committee is expecting over 25 sannyasis, GBC's, and

other ISKCON leaders to participate in this year's parikrama. With the

number of ISKCON leaders planning to attend the parikrama and the number of

others already registered, this year's parikrama looks like it will be the

best attended and most ecstatic parikrama in recent years.

 

Bhakti Purusottama Swami, the Festival Coordinator, is therefore humbly

requesting devotees to register well in advance, so that the Festival

Committee has ample time to properly arrange for hosting the Vaisnavas and

Vaisnavis on parikrama. As a matter of fact, the Festival Committee is

offering a 10% discount on the $35 parikrama fee* for those registering

their names before February 25th. PLease register by sending an e-email to

Mayapur.Chandrodaya (AT) pamho (DOT) net

 

For those not wanting to camp out all six nights on the parikrama:

Every morning buses will leave ISKCON Mayapur taking devotees to the

parikrama starting place, and after the parikrama walk finishes for the day,

buses will return devotees to Mayapur. Therefore, devotees not wanting to

stay in tents can easily come back to the ISKCON guesthouses to take rest

and again join the parikrama the next day.

 

The parikrama will leave Mayapur on the morning of March 18th. It is the

system, however, that before beginning parikrama we first go to the Yogapith

to receive the blessings of Lord Gauranga and then continue on to Narasimha

palli. In order to reduce the long walk to Yogapith on the same day as the

walk to Narasimha palli, this year devotees will visit the birthplace of

Lord Gauranga on March 17th directly after mangala arotika, and then return

to the Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir for breakfast. The parikrama organizers

refer to this walk to the Yogapith on the 17th as the parikrama adhivas.

 

A booklet will be available in Mayapur for those who register for the

parikrama.

 

For more information on the Mapapur Festival please visit the Mayapur

website at www.mayapur.info or write Bhakti.Purusottama.Swami (AT) pamho (DOT) net.

 

For more information on the Mayapur Institute of Higher Education (MIHE),

please visit http://www.mayapur.org/mihe for more information or write

mihe (AT) pamho (DOT) net.

 

* Although this year, like last year, there will be no festival fee, there

will still be a parikrama fee to cover the substantial costs in organizing

the parikrama. Full Parikrama (7 days): US$35, which includes the parikrama,

the programs, prasadam and accommodations in tents at the parikrama site.