TOVP Daily Tour Days 52 and 53 – Nrsimha Caturdasi and the Sunday Feast TOVP Presentations at New Dwaraka Dhama

On Saturday, May 2nd, we celebrated Nrsimha Caturdasi at the Los Angeles New Dwaraka Temple. The TOVP presentation began in the evening and gradually the temple began to fill up with devotees. A water abhisheka and puspa abhisheka of the Padukas and Sitari took place during the arati.

Svavas prabhu then introduced the TOVP Team which included Giriraja Swami and Ambarisa prabhu who came especially for the weekend presentations. Radha Jivan gave some opening notes and then turned the mike over to each speaker. Then, in his usual heart-warming and endearing way, he inspired the devotees to make their pledges. By the end of the program over $600,000 was pledged. devotees happily took prasadam.

On Sunday, May 3rd, after a nice lunch at the home of Lochan prabhu and his family Jananivas, Radha Jivan, and Vraja Vilas prabhus took an excursion to Venice Beach, famous for Srila Prabhupada’s morning walk conversations, especially those which later were transcribed into the popular book, Life Comes From Life. There we found a small Harinama party and joined for some time. We returned to the temple for the Sunday program. The temple again filled up with eager devotees, and after the arati the TOVP presentation once again began in earnest. By the end of the evening the pledges had reached another $200,000 making the grand total for Los Angeles about $800,000.