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Happy Gaura Purnima 2019 from the TOVP Team

Sat, March 02, 2019 by Sunanda Das

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

Published in Festivals, Fundraising

Tagged under: Gaura Purnima, Grand Opening

Gaura Purnima and the ToVP, as told by Madhavendra Puri Das

Fri, March 16, 2012 by Mandakini Devi Dasi

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

Published in Festivals

Tagged under: Gaura Purnima, Madhavendra Puri das

Festival Season Arrives

Fri, March 02, 2012 by Mandakini Devi Dasi

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