Dear devotees
dandavat pranams.
I’m sending few pictures with this article about the extraordinary arrival
of HH Jayapataka swami to Sridam Mayapur on teh 20th of february 2009.
I will elaborate one full report later on but wanted to share with you some
pictures about as per many says the biggest welcome ever to a devotee to our
ISKCON Mayapur, for the quantity of devotees and the gathering of many
devotees from all over the world. since more then 200 meters away from teh
main gate devotees, senior sanyassis and all GBC members were waiting since
almost 3:30 pm to receive Gurumaharaja, but it was till 6 pm as he had to go
to jagananath mandir to take darsan after taking bath,
The journey was great from Mumbai till Kolkatta, all the good attention was
given by airport adn airline staff, we came 19 devotees along with gm, total
20, many came from abroad to jon us at the airport. hundreds were waiting at
airport as well, GM gave them a short speech at airport then we came to
Mayapur, stoppoing at relliance petrol station in the aprkign to have
prasad, then in 2 places like Habibpur GM was stopped by devottes to offer
garlands. at 4;45 pm we were at Jagannath mandir, then at almost 6 pm we
were at Mayapur dham,
Hundreds of students from the Bhaktivedanta National School were waiting
with boars of welcome messages as well as with flags and lamps for the
auspicious welcome, then we saw thousands of devotees waiting for GM,
All the senior devotees were there and spoke to gm while he was in the car
until we reached with a lot of difficulties the main gate and then to the
courtyard of the temple,
We can’t say how many thousands were there but as many as you can imagine
would fit to pack the entire path and the temples hall.
GM gave a short speech after taking darsan from Srila Prabhupada, Panca
Tattva Bhagavan and Radha >Madhava, at then he took darsan from Narasimha
deva and then went to his room, many went to his room for some short talks
then gm took night Prasad then rest,
At 10 am Gurumaharaja is scheduled to go to the GBC room to be in the
meeting for short time.
We came from Kolkatta in a caravan of many cars and the bus; we were with GM
in the car, Mahavaraha, Ekanath gaura, Bhadra Balaram, rushi prabhu,
Ivesvara prabhu, dr, Acyutananda prabhu and myself. From Jagannath Mandir we
were all same joined by divyagopal das till the Mayapur temple courtyard.
More info will be added later.
The happiness in the faces of the devotees can’t be explained.
Srila Prabhupada ki jay
I am adding 2 links for some short videos
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Tustimohan Krsna das
These were done and sent by hg tirtathma prabhu.
URL to listen.
http://www.jayapatakaswami.com
URL to download in Winzip.
http://www.jayapatakaswami.com/gm_in_mayapur_20feb09.zip
these are from mayaypur official website.
http://mayapur.com/downloads