Bringing Krishna Culture Festivals to a City Near You

Fort St. John, B.C. to Host Festival of India July 26

Submitted by madhuha on Wed, 07/20/2016 - 20:08


Your help is urgently needed, and will be greatly appreciated, in any of these areas:
1) Transporting Festival of India to Fort St, John B.C.--Diesel Fuel to go 3,000 miles (1,000 miles x 3 vehicles)
2) Distribution of Prasadam to the general public
3) Distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books
Your help, no matter how little or great will be graciously accepted, and used in Fort St. John, B.C. Please click on the above Donation button to contribute towards this first Festival of India in Fort St. John.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Submitted by madhuha on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 21:03

Don't miss the first Canadian Festival on our 2016 Tour -- Ratha-Yatra and Festval of India In Jeane Mance Park, Montreal.

Inspired by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
Founder Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

5th Avenue "The Most Important Street in The Most Important City..." Srila Prabhupada 1976

Submitted by madhuha on Thu, 06/09/2016 - 00:12

In July of 1976, on a morning walk in Potomac, Md., Srila Prabhupada said "Rathayatra in New York City on Fifth Avenue, the most important street in the most important city in the most important country in the world. It has been my dream always to have Rathayatra in New York.”


Inspired by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the Founder/Acharya of The Internatonal Society For Krishna Consciousness

The New Illustrated--Bhagavad-Gita As It Is--Exhibit is Finally Done!

Submitted by madhuha on Thu, 05/26/2016 - 11:08

In 2014 Prahlada, now Panca Tattva dasa, started designing an exhibit to replace the Gita exhibit Festival of India has been using for many years. Of course nothing was wrong with the original exhibit that was being used, it is just after 12 or 15 years the exhibit needed to be replaced. Lord Krishna's words and Srila Prabhupada's purports are Guaranteed Perfect for Everyone for the next 10,000 years. Unlike Srila Prabhupada's transcendental purports, and Lord Krishna's sublime and eternal words spoken to Arjuna in the Gita, the Panels used to build Festival of India's exhibits do not last for eternity. Fifteen years is all the use we plan on from an exhibit.

Panca Tattva dasa spent spent hundreds of hours in selecting paintings and text from the original edition of Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad-Gita and designing the exhibit. Manorama Prabhu and M. Raghu d.d. polished it, and it was sent to the printer in early May.


Above, Madhuha dasa inspecting the first panel in the new exhibit.


Bhakta Cory Feres, from Halifax, Nova Scotia cutting the shaped & finished Poplar framing materials.


Cory screwing the precisely-fitted frames together. After the frames were assembled, the steel corner peices that attach to the supporting poles were screwed on.

All Festival of India's exhibits: The Illustrated Bhagavad-Gita; The Science of Reincarnation; Vegetarianism--The Higher Taste; Who Is Prabhupada; and Transcendental Art, are all designed to be 'marketing tools' for Srila Prabhupada's transcendental books. Festival of India's exhibits have been helping devotees distribute Srila Prabhupada's books since 1979. Hare Krishna.

Please be sure to checkout this new Bhagavad-Gita exhibit at the next Festival of India you participate in.

Srila Prabhupada's letter to Jayananda Prabhu just after Jayananda's departure

Submitted by madhuha on Wed, 05/18/2016 - 18:40

Letter to: Jayananda

Bombay
5 May, 1977
77-05-05

My Dear Jayananda,
Please accept my blessings.
I am feeling very intensely your separation. In 1967 you joined me in San Francisco. You were driving my car and chanting Hare Krsna. You were the first man to give me some contribution ($5000) for printing my Bhagavad-gita. After that, you have rendered very favorable service to Krsna in different ways. I so hope at the time of your death you were remembering Krsna and as such, you have been promoted to the eternal association of Krsna. If not, if you had any tinge of material desire, you have gone to the celestial kingdom to live with the demigods for many thousands of years and enjoy the most opulent life of material existence. From there you can promote yourself to the spiritual world. But even if one fails to promote himself to the spiritual world, at that time he comes down again on the surface of this globe and takes birth in a big family like a yogis' or a brahmanas' or an aristocratic family, where there is again chance of reviving Krsna Consciousness. But as you were hearing Krsna-kirtana, I am sure that you were directly promoted to Krsna-loka.
janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah
tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti man eti so' rjuna
[Bg. 4.9]
Krsna has done a great favor to you, not to continue your diseased body, and has given you a suitable place for your service. Thank you very much.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Jayananda -- Bombay 5 May, 1977