Happy Gaura Purnima 2019 from the TOVP Team

On or around Gaura Purnima 2022 all of ISKCON will ecstatically celebrate together the Grand Opening of the magnificent Temple of the Vedic Planetarium at the World Headquarters of ISKCON in Sridham Mayapur on its 50th Anniversary, and our beloved Mayapur Deities will at last be moved into Their long-awaited new home. After twelve years
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Gaura Purnima and the ToVP, as told by Madhavendra Puri Das

I came into Mayapur in the early evening, via the train from Kolkata. I’d never arrived at this time but the dusty yellow lit scene was only a side thought in my mind. The horns, the calls and the rattle of bicycle wheels seemed insignificant in comparison to the new set of sounds. I gazed
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Festival Season Arrives

For this year’s festival, almost five hundred devotees from around the world had gathered, and Prabhupada – while taking his morning walk in the nearby fields, while entering the temple of Radha-Madhava, or while lecturing from the Caitanya-caritamrta – was the central attractive feature. Each morning after giving the class, he would circumambulate the temple
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