Splendour in the Grass Festival and TOVP Share Something in Common

What do the Splendour in the Grass Music Festival in Australia and TOVP have in common? Remarkably, devotees from New Govardhana Farm have set up a Govinda’s prasadam stall there with a theme representing the TOVP itself as the shape of the stall. The Splendour in the Grass Festival is a three day music festival
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TOVP Australasia Tour, Day 6 – Brisbane, Australia

On the 21st of November we arrived in Brisbane, Australia from New Govardhana and immediately began preparing for the evening TOVP event. Lord Nityananda’s Padukas and Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Sitari were nicely displayed in the temple and, as usual, we had an arati and abhisheka for Them accompanied by ecstatic kirtan. Over 250 devotees attended the
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TOVP Australasia Tour, Day 5 – New Govardhana, Australia

From Sydney we made our way to the wonderful devotee farm community of New Govardhana. We were welcomed by the small community with open arms and bright spirits. We were told by several devotees not to expect any big fundraising results as this is a small farm community, so we were happy to just come
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TOVP Australasia Tour, Day 4 – Sydney, Australia

Leaving Melbourne, Australia after a few days of no travel, the TOVP Tour made its way to Sydney, also one of the largest cities in Australia. The management there, under the outstanding direction and leadership of Temple President Vijay Gopikesh and Varanayaka prabhus, and inspired by His Holiness Ramai Swami, rented a separate hall for
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TOVP Australasia Tour, Day 3 – Melbourne, Australia

On November 11th the TOVP Tour Team brought Lord Nityananda’s Padukas and Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Sitari to the original Capital City of Australia, Melbourne. Although Canberra is now the Capital, Melbourne is one of the largest cities in Australia and this showed by the incredible response of the devotees who pledged over $500,000 U.S. to the
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TOVP Australasia Tour, Day 2 – Adelaide, Australia

The Adelaide, Australia temple, like Perth, is a very small community of about fifty devotee families and congregation members. We were not expecting any major contributions here but were happy to come and bring the blessings of Lord Nityananda and Lord Nrsimhadeva to the devotees. To our great surprise we miraculously collected $165,000 in pledges
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TOVP Australasia Tour, Day 1 – Perth, Australia

The Perth temple is a mid-size community of devotees numbering about 200-250, many of them new practitioners of Krishna consciousness. Their Graces Jananivas and Vraja Vilas prabhus arrived on Monday, November 6th in preparation for the first program of the Australasia tour on Tuesday, November 7th. Being a weekday only 150 devotees were able to
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TOVP Tour to Australasia – Departure

On Sunday, November 5th ,immediately following Mangal-arati, His Grace Jananivas prabhu and Brajavilas prabhu left Sridham Mayapur with the Padukas of Lord Nityananda Prabhu and Lord Nrisimhadeva’s helmet, to distribute mercy throughout Australasia. They will be joined by Their Graces Ambarisa prabhu and his wife Svaha mataji for a one month tour of Australia, New
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Australian Tour Video Trailer

This November, 2017 the TOVP Tour bringing Lord Nityananda Prabhu’s Padukas (Divine Shoes) and Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Sitari (Sacred Helmet) from Sridhama Mayapur will be setting foot in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. Perth – Nov. 7th Adelaide – Nov. 8th Melbourne – Nov. 11th (extended stay) Sydney – Nov. 18th New Govardhana – Nov. 20th
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