Dear Mayapur Community Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada! On behalf of the Mayapur Executive Board (MEB), I am very happy to share with you the good news that we have made adjustments in the Mayapur Management structure so as to realign it with the way it was originally set […]
Mayapur Management Co-Director Structure Re-established
Sri Jagannath Mishra Festival 29 March 2021!
Today we continue our celebration of the appearance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna who descended in the age of Kali in the role of a devotee. He appeared on what we now call Gaura-purnima, in the evening of the full moon day in the month of Phalguna. At the time, […]
Gaura Purnima Festival – The Rising Moon of Kali Yuga!
An experience with thousands of sweet memories, leaving footprints behind that will forever be with us. Gaura Purnima festival is like the story of the gopis feeling of separation from Krishna when it finally came to an end, looking how it started seems like it won’t come to an end. Although, in Mayapur it is […]
Shantipur Festival An Experience To Remember 26th March 2021!
Today is the famous Santipur festival, also known as Govinda Dwadasi. Devotees from Mayapur set out early to visit Santipur in large numbers. Several buses filled up, children to adult very joyfully rushing to catch the their buses. Shantipur festival has always been a key part of ISKCON Mayapur’s Gaura Purnima festival for many years. […]
Disappearance of Srila Madhavedra Puri 26th March 2021!
During Nityananda Prabhu’s tour of all the holy places of India for the purpose of purifying them, by the will of providence, he happened to meet Madhavendra Puripada somewhere in western India. When Nityananda Prabhu saw Madhavendra Puri Goswami he fainted away in a swoon of ecstatic love and His transcendental body became completely still. […]
Story from Caitanya Lila – A Plot to Rob Lord Nityanada!
In Navadvipa lived a brahmana’s son who had no peer among the thieves. He was a brahmana in name only. His heart was filled with evil. He was the commander of an army of thieves. There was no mercy in his body. He always happily stayed among thieves. Seeing Lord Nityananda’s ornaments and His glistening […]
Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu as Gaura Gopala!
The following pastime is found in the Sri Caitanya-caritamrita, but is more elaborately described in the Sri Caitanya-bhagavata, Adi-khanda, Chapter 3 as follows: One saintly brahmana who was most virtuous was touring the places of pilgrimage in order to obtain Sri Krishna. He used to worship Gopala by chanting the six-syllable Gopala mantra, and without […]
Gaura Purnima Story: Narada Muni & Lord Gauranga!
Once Narada Muni could see that Kali yuga was going to come very soon. So, he thought he will ask Krishna what the solution for this was, so he went to Dwaraka. That time Krishna was staying at the house of Satyabhama and he had to inform Rukmini that He was going to her palace. […]
Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 4th and 5th Day Review!
Today is the shortest day in Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama – devotees left by boat at 5am from Mayapur to Koladvipa (navadvipa town). There we had darshan of Dhamesvar Mahaprabhu, Jagannath Das Babaji samadhi and Paramotala Shiva temple. Devotees returned at 10am for breakfast in Mayapur. In the evening there will be katha in Gita bhavan […]
Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 2021 Day 3!
From Mayapur main gate, devotees once again set out on parikrama for the 3rd day. The experience and mood one relish from going for parikrama is indescribable, every year it’s a different story, feelings, experience and altogether a different Bhava! Rushing down for Mangal-arati, I could tell the atmosphere is always different at this time […]
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