TOVP Daily Tour Diary Day 80 – Arrival in Toronto, Canada

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 staying for two nights. As a young child he had the extreme good fortune of sitting in Srila Prabhupada’s lap and offering his piggy bank of coins to him.

That evening Indresh and his wife Kishori (their children are named Brinda, Gopika and Hari) hosted a pre-TOVP program in the very large temple room of their new mansion-like home. The Padukas and Sitari received an abhisheka and puspanjali during kirtan as the room filled with more than 200 devotees. Ambarisa and Svaha had also joined us for the next two days and he, Radha Jivana, Jananivas and Svaha spoke about the TOVP project. It was not meant to be a fundraiser as the local temple in Toronto was scheduled for the next day. A feast was served and devotees left inspired for the next day’s presentation.

All glories to Lord Nityananda Rama. All glories to the devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.