We wish all our viewers a very happy Janmastami.Sri Sri Radha-Madhava were offered new bright yellow embroidered outfits with gorgeous flower decorations. The temple decoration is very artistic with qualities of Sri Krishna from Nectar of Devotion written on it. Special class on Sri Krishna’s appearance was given by HG Jananivasa prabhu & HG Hari Sauri prabhu. Bengali classes were given by HH Jayapataka Swami & HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami.

Happy Janmastami. Today in the evening, there will be Adhivas of Sri Krishna Janmastami- a ceremony to prepare our consciousness to receive Lord on His appearance day. All the festivities will be available at Mayapur Live. We thank all the donors and wellwishers for supporting Janmastami festival in Mayapur. If you are yet to submit your offering, you can do it now!

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On 30th August,Students of Bhakti Vedanta National School offered glorification to Srila Prabhupada, performed bhajans, drama and kirtan for the pleasure of His Divine Grace. All the children were blessed with the opportunity to perform abhisheka to Srila Prabhupada. HH Jayapataka Swami, HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami, HG Jananivasa pr, HG Pankajanghri pr, HG Sankarshan Nitai Pr, HG Naru gopal prabhu blessed the occasion. In the evening, they did a big harinam around the campus.

Padmapurana states that, “Of all types of worship, worship of Supreme Lord Hari is the best, but better than that is the worship of His devotee”. On 29th August, a grand four days of Srila Prabhupada Vyasapuja Celebrations began with bullock cart procession and Adhivas ceremony. Srila Prabhupada was pleased with the Padayatra report and in Vrindavan he once expressed his desire to go around the holy tirthas in the bullock cart.

As Janmastami is nearing by, special lectures on Sri Krishna Lila has started in Mayapur. For the past three days, verses from “Prayers of Queen Kunti” are being discussed. Today HG Sankarshan Nitai prabhu beautifully described the reasons for appearance of Lord Krishna as stated in Caitanya Caritamrita and how Krishna appears in the life of a devotee with vivid analogies. These special classes are uploaded now.

HH Jayapataka Swami Maharaja has expressed his blessings to the Mayapur Online Education team for their endeavour to teach Bhagavad Gita and other books translated by Srila Prabhupada through the Internet. In a video interview, he said: “I am very happy to learn that here in Mayapur they are having a type of Bhakti-sastri and other Internet-based teachings, that one can take these courses over the Internet.

Date: Date: August 21st, 2010 - Dvadasi
Verse:Special class on Julan Yatra
Speaker: HH Jayapataka Swami
Listen here to the class

mukam karoti vacalam

pangum langhayate girim

Today is the appearance day of Lord Balarama and in Mayapur, devotees are enthusiastically celebrating this wonderful festival. As it is also the last day of Jhulan festival, Sri Sri Radha-Madhava in their beautiful flower outfits began Their swinging pastimes right after darshan arti to increase the ecstasy.

Jhulan Yatra festival is being celebrated with great splendor in Mayapur. This year the festival is happening in Gurukula village. Sri Sri Radha-Madhava visits the swinging arena in a decorated bullock chariot with harinam. Vaisnava youth of Mayapur has turned the gurukula into a beautiful kunja with colorful fountains, decorated pools, flowers and have organised variety cultural programs for the pleasure of the Lord.

“ISKCON Mayapur is happy to invite everyone to participate in the colorful Sri Krishna Janmastami celebrations on 2nd september 2010.Festival commitee has started organizing the festival few months before - designing outfits for the deities and planning for the festivities.Janmastami celebrations in Mayapur is very popular in this region with thousands of visitors flocking the temple on this day to have darshan & prasada. This year, we are aiming at making the midnight abhisheka more grand.