Coaching a soccer team to chant!
Soccer balls aside, time for prasadam!This month has been really exciting – it is Gaura-Purnima time, we’ve had many enthusiastic visitors on our Harinama and FFL excursions, we added a new village to our list of regular Food for Life spots, and we distributed 19 large pots of
kichari this month (which is equal to 5 700 plates).
Gaura-Purnima time is always enlivening as devotees from all over the world visit Mayapur and they give us new enthusiasm with their joyous and enthusiastic participation in our programmes. This month HH Janardhana Goswami who is known for his wonderful kirtans and harinams joined us several times, and also accompanied us on our boat prasadam distribution program.
We were going down the Ganga by boat when we spotted a rather large crowd near the banks of the Ganga – we decided to stop there, and it turned out to be a local soccer match in a village. There was a large open field right next to the Ganga, a very nice spot for kichari distribution! The soccer players did not seem to mind when we placed our pots in one corner of the field, and soon in fact the whole soccer match was transformed into a harinama party! We were lucky – sometimes we do meet with aggressive or unfriendly people, or with Muslim people who do not welcome our prasadam always, but we were really welcome in this village! It turned out to be such a great spot that we re-visited it the very next week, and decided to add it to our list of regular spots. The village is called “Gauranga Sutar”.
We will also have a large FFL program as part of the Vyasa Puja celebrations of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami this coming Thursday 5 March, please come if you are in Mayapur!
We wish to extend a heartfelt word of thanks to all our kind donors who made all these programs possible!
Your servant
Shastra dasa
kichari this month (which is equal to 5 700 plates).
Gaura-Purnima time is always enlivening as devotees from all over the world visit Mayapur and they give us new enthusiasm with their joyous and enthusiastic participation in our programmes. This month HH Janardhana Goswami who is known for his wonderful kirtans and harinams joined us several times, and also accompanied us on our boat prasadam distribution program.
We were going down the Ganga by boat when we spotted a rather large crowd near the banks of the Ganga – we decided to stop there, and it turned out to be a local soccer match in a village. There was a large open field right next to the Ganga, a very nice spot for kichari distribution! The soccer players did not seem to mind when we placed our pots in one corner of the field, and soon in fact the whole soccer match was transformed into a harinama party! We were lucky – sometimes we do meet with aggressive or unfriendly people, or with Muslim people who do not welcome our prasadam always, but we were really welcome in this village! It turned out to be such a great spot that we re-visited it the very next week, and decided to add it to our list of regular spots. The village is called “Gauranga Sutar”.
We will also have a large FFL program as part of the Vyasa Puja celebrations of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami this coming Thursday 5 March, please come if you are in Mayapur!
We wish to extend a heartfelt word of thanks to all our kind donors who made all these programs possible!
Your servant
Shastra dasa
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