Jagannatha snana yatra celebration in Mayapur, June 2009

Lord of Universe, Jagannatha, along with His brother Balarama and sister Subhadra are bathed by devotees 2 weeks before Ratha-yatra parade. On this ocasion not only priests, but lituraly EVERYONE is allowed to bathe and touch the Lord. It is once a year ocasion.
Snana yatra - bathing of Lord Jagannatha. The story is that the deity is bathed (on this ocasion everyone is allowed to come and bathe, touch the deity, normally only priests can do it).
Then Lord "catches cold" after so much bathing and goes to bed for 2 weks, when He is given a special medicine to get better, it made of mixed curd, cream, candy and butter with cinamon.
After He gets better we will have even a bigger festival, Ratha-yatra, Lord Jagannatha will go out of His temple (once a year ocasion) in a big cart with large wooden wheels pulled by people. He goes around streets and everyone can come and offer service to the Lord, even people who normally don't go to the temple, animals, etc - all are given darsan and mercy of the Lord on that day.

Radha-Madhava water pastimes 2009

Water pastimes of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha-Madhava is one of the summer festivals - Small Radha-Madhava deities are placed in a lotus fauntain - it is in the shape of a lotus and also filled with pink lotus flowers, infront of Radha-Madhava is a small fauntain and Their altar is surrounded by water.
Devotees come and offer flowers to Their Lordships chanting Their names, Jananivasa Prabhu and Ramaniya Mataji giving out flowers along with one of 1000 names of Radha-Krishna to chant.

Chandan yatra in Mayaur - lila darsans, 2009

Chandan YAtra is a time of a year when Deities covered with Sandal wood paste (chandan) to keep cool in summer's heat. For 21 days of Chandan yatra devotees were offering a different lila-outfit every day to Sri Sri Radha-Madhava.

Happy Nrisimha Chaturdasi

Nrisimha Deva abhishekha:

H.H. Jayapataka Swami could not come this year, he was in a medical facility in
South India, H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami was present, H.H. Umapati Swami (his vyasa puja is on the same day as Nrisimha Deva's appearance), abhishek was conducted by seniour devotees and pujaris under guidence of H.H. Bhaktividyapurna Swami.

this video shows flower shower of Nrisimha Deva, the final part of abhishekha:


photos are posted HERE

Nrisimha Deva adhivas

Video of Nrisimha Deva adhivas ceremony (welcome the night before Appearance Day)
H.H. Umapati Swami and H.H.Gopal Krishna Goswami were conducting the adhivas, offering auspicious items to the Lord.

Hare Krishna!
Today we have partialy published a new Darsan photo book, Mayapur Chandrodaya Darsan.
I had uploaded a small sample book of 40 pages, 7x7" to my book store on Blurb.com
Preview first 15 pages + 2 covers HERE
order it HERE
Please note that the price on website is set by the publishers (Blurb.com), not by me, postage is a seperate cost.
This is a small sample of what's coming, an "utsav" Darsan book. We hope to print the main book in India, size would be 11x11", 120 pages, with full color hard cover.
50% of the profit would go to the Deity Department of ISKCON Mayapur, printing cost returns would be used for publishing more photo books of Mayapur.
Please kindly contribute for the printing of this Darsan book.
Please pass around this request among your friends.
Thank you. Hare Krishna.

Mayapur on the Earth (Google map)

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Video clips taken during parikrama 2009, Mayapur

Festival cooking arrangements at Gada Prasadam Hall

Vaishnav-seva

by Ramadevi Devi dasi

Dear Friends of Braja Sevaki and Jahnudvipa,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Hare Krishna.

For now the general news about Braja and Jahnu is good. As you may well know, Braja is back in Mayapur and, for the time being, recuperating at my house. She’s still very sore all over but her face is improving every day.
And today she wanted cheese and tomato toast for breakfast so things are looking up :0)

Jahnu was moved to a private room yesterday and will have a 24 hour attendant with him as Braja is not able to be there. He still has one chest drain in and was sedated again because of agitation. The doctors say this is normal in these situations. But hopefully, being in a private room will be more peaceful for him and he can make speedy progress. He still needs many of your prayers.

The cost of the medical treatment so far has been upwards of $20,000 and Jahnu is not out of there yet. So it could be as much as $30,000 by the end. Many of you have enquired as to how you may offer some financial assistance for the medical expenses.
After discussing it here and understanding that some of you may be concerned as to where the money might go, we decided it would be best for donors to send the money for Braja and Jahnu directly to Braja’s personal account.

We will be setting up a paypal account which will be accessible from Braja's blogsite http://lostandfoundinindia.blogspot.com

Anybody sending a donation should let me know by email as to when and how much you have sent so we can keep track of it.

There will be separate information for donations to help the driver but I haven’t been given them yet. I’ll send them out as soon as I can.

Braja and Jahnu are so grateful for all the love being sent their way. They feel that their recoveries have been expedited by all your love and prayers. Thank you on their behalf.

"And big licks from the cow shed!" said Braja!!

Your servant
Ramadevi dasi

Pancha-tattva maha-abhishek video

Prananatha Prabhu from New Zealand has produced a wonderful video-presentation of Pancha-tattva maha-abhishek. He wishes to distribute this video and requesting everyone:

Please consider making a generous donation (minimum $1.00 US) to Sri Pancha Tattva at PayPal account: paul@videoguys.co.nz

Here we post this video:



Prananatha Prabhu made a new version of this video now that includes kirtan, we will post that as soon as it become available in web-format.

An update on Jahnudvipa and Braja Sevaki prabhus

by Hari Sauri Prabhu:

This is a brief update on the condition of Jahnudvipa and Braja Sevaki prabhus.
Braja Sevaki is doing well and will be discharged today.
She is going to return to Mayapur to complete her recuperation.
Jahnudvipa prabhu is also progressing.
After a brief relapse which required him to be sedated for the last two days, he is now fully conscious and can hold brief conversations. He still has a fair way to go due to multiple fractures but the concerns about his internal damage is now over and doctors are pleased with his progress.

I wish to also correct a miscommunication wherein I previously reported that the Mayapur temple was going to cover the medical expenses for these two devotees and the driver. This was incorrectly conveyed to me, and the actual situation is that the Mayapur temple has guaranteed to the hospital the payments for all care so that there would be no delays in getting any operations done and medicines administered.
However, this is only meant as a bridging loan, and will have to be repaid to the temple.

This will be the last bulletin from myself, and any further inquiries may be directed to Braja Sevaki directly.

Your humble servant,
Hari-sauri dasa
www.harisauri.com

Gaura Purnima darsan 2009 in Mayapur

Vraja Sevaki Mataji and Jahnu Dvipa Prabhu had a car accident

this report is based on reports from Hari Sauri and Tusti Mohan Prabhus:

We humbly request all the devotees to please pray for Jahnudwipa Prabhu and his good wife Brajasevaki devi dasi as both are in the Apollo hospital in Calcutta after having a very dangerous accident.
Jahnudvipa prabhu from Denmark, and his wife Brajasevaki dasi from Australia, were badly injured in a car crash at Madhyamgram just near the Kolkata airport.
They suffered a head-on crash with a truck in the early hours of this morning on the way in to Kolkata, at Madhyamgram just before the airport.

Pancha-tattva mangala aroti

After maha-abhisek Pancha-tattva altar finally has a different backdrop (it is still to be compleated)

Pancha-tattva maha abhishekha in Mayapur

In celebration of 5-th anniversary since installation of large Pancha-tattva deities in Mayapur, devotees performed a maha-abhishek this year.

Mayapur Chandrodaya Darsan book

by Vrindavan Lila Dasi

Darsan book of Mayapur Deities is nearly ready for publishing.
We are looking for donors contributing financial support towards the publishing.

50% of the profits from sales of the book would go to the Deities - so by supporting this book you will be also donating to Mayapur Deity department.
The initial printing cost would be used for printing more Mayapur photo-books.

Please contribute if you can, any amount is appreciated. We can receive contributions via PayPal.

Thank you.
Hare Krishna.

Historical footage from 2004 - bringing Pancha-tattva deities to the altar at ISKCON Mayapur temple

On the eve of 5-th anniversary of Instalation of Pancha-tattva in ISKCON Mayapur, we remembered how Pancha-tattva dieties came to Mayapur and were brought onto the altar in 2004, year of Their Instalatoin. They were installed on 23 February 2004.
In this film you can see historical footage of how these very large deities were put on the altar (Chaitanya, Nityananda and Advaita are shown) - each one weigh more than 3 tonns.

H.H. Jayapataka Swami came to Mayapur

On 20th February, devotees brought Srila Jayapataka Maharaja to Mayapur.

Srila Prabhupada Gurupuja, offerd by Ambarisa Prabhu, 14 February 2009