TOVP Daily Tour Diary Day 98: Visit to Richmond, Virginia
Thu, July 09, 2015
by Sunanda Das
The small devotee community in Richmond, Virginia is run by temple president Divyanam das, and he and his wife Premalatika devi dasi, along with their two children Kulashekhar and Mahatma, hosted us in their home. The TOVP presentation on Tuesday, June 23rd was in the home of Subala Sakha das and Krishna Pramodni devi dasi
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TOVP Daily Tour Diary Day 97: New Hastinapura (ISKCON Washington, D.C.) and ISKCON Baltimore TOVP Presentations
Thu, July 09, 2015
by Sunanda Das
On Sunday, June 21st, we were scheduled for two TOVP presentations. The first was at New Hastinapura Dhama in the U.S.A.’s capital, Washington, D.C.. This is also one of the original temples established by Srila Prabhupada and, in fact, the main Deities of Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan were the first Radha Krishna Deities in
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TOVP Daily Tour Diary Day 96: Philadelphia Temple Bhumi Puja
Sun, July 05, 2015
by Sunanda Das
On Saturday, June 20th, we left Delaware after breakfast at the home of Krishna Mohan and Amala Sundari prabhus for the nearby Philadelphia Temple (where we had previously visited in March) for the Bhumi puja yajna of the new temple on the property. By the grace of Lord Nityananda, only three weeks after we had
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TOVP Daily Tour Diary Day 95: ISKCON Delaware TOVP Presentation
Sun, July 05, 2015
by Sunanda Das
On Friday, June 19th, after arriving at the home of Temple President Krishna Kirtan and his wife Shyamala and their children Gauranga and Vasudeva, we made our way over to the temple of this small but dedicated and growing community of devotees for the TOVP presentation. During arati the Padukas and Sitari received Their abhisheka
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TOVP Daily Tour Diary Days 93-94: New York Rathayatra and TOVP Presentation
Sun, July 05, 2015
by Sunanda Das
New York Rathayatra New York is considered the most important city in the world. Therefore, it’s not surprising that it was the first city where Srila Prabhupada preached and established his first center. It was also in New York that he incorporated ISKCON, that the first Harinama samkirtana went out, that Back to Godhead magazine
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TOVP Daily Tour Diary Days 86 – 92: Visit to New Panihati Dhama: Atlanta, Georgia
Sun, July 05, 2015
by Sunanda Das
We departed from Toronto, Canada and arrived in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, June 5th for the weekend of the Rathayatra and Panihati Festival. The Atlanta Yatra is also one of the original temples opened during Srila Prabhupada’s physical presence, and he visited a number of times, exhibiting various pastimes, including going into a deep trance
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TOVP Daily Tour Diary Days 82-85 – Four Days in the Toronto Area
Sun, July 05, 2015
by Sunanda Das
We spent the following four days in Toronto visiting different devotees’ homes and other nearby temples and devotee communities: Monday, June 1 Brunch at the home of Shasank and Satyabhama prabhus in Toronto Travel to Muskoka for a TOVP presentation to 50 devotees and Indian congregation members organized by Jaya Gopal and Vyasacarya prabhus: $34,000
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TOVP Daily Tour Diary Day 81 – TOVP Presentations at ISKCON Brampton and ISKCON Toronto
Sun, July 05, 2015
by Sunanda Das
ISKCON Brampton is a suburb in the Toronto area that has a small temple and congregation of devotees. On Sunday, May 31st we made our way there for a special mid-day Sunday Feast TOVP program which was also attended by His Holiness Bhaktimarg Swami who had come especially for the TOVP presentations in Brampton and
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TOVP Daily Tour Diary Day 80 – Arrival in Toronto, Canada
Sun, July 05, 2015
by Sunanda Das
We had to take an extremely early flight on Saturday morning, May 30th, from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to get to Toronto, Canada. We were picked up by Subha Vilas prabhu (his wife’s name is Ashalata), a disciple of Srila Prabhupada and father of one of the TOVP Canada Team, Indresh prabhu, in whose home we were
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