Damodara World Launch Diary 1, Part 6

By Uttama Chaitanya Das

 

Day 20: Tuesday, Chennai

Arrived in Chennai at 9.00am. Picked up at the airport by Vijay pr’s driver and rested at his place.

Darshana mtj was very happy to receive me. She was very kind and she prepared some nice lunch.

Chennai is very wet with daily showers. The streets are wet and filthy. The main complaint here – traffic congestion. I would add to that – bad roads.

Damodara World Launch Diary 1, Part 5

 

Day 18: Sun, Durban & Phoenix: Dis day of Narottama das Thakur and
Appearance anniversary of Sri Sri Radha-Radhanatha deities.

Mangala arati 0430.

Being a Sunday more than 60 people attended the MA. The Sunday Feast starts at 4.00pm. Nevertheless some devotees choose to come in the morning.

Today I was requested to speak on the pastimes of Narottama dasa Thakur, one of my favourite katha. I didn’t have much resources to refer. But i could recall some pastimes.

Damodara Tour Diary – South India

By Rasika Murari dasa

Hare Krsna

All glories to Srila Gurudeva
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
All glories to Sri Sri Jagannatha Baladeva and Subhadra Maiya

Please accept my humble obeisances

Day 1 –  27th September 2008, Saturday, KLIA ~ Chennai ~ Tirupati

We Left the abode of Sri Sri Nitai and Nimai at about 6.30am. Sriman Palani prabhu have mercifully offered his assistant to drive me to the KLIA and thus he had put up the night. We reached KLIA after an hour and half. It took another 45 minutes for the check-in proceedings due to very long queue. There was just enough time for me to change some Indian rupees and rushed through the immigration and security checks to the departure hall. People are already boarding the plane when I arrived at the
departure hall. .

Damodara International Promotion – North India

By Srivas Caitanya dasa

 

Hare Krsna

All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All Glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
All glories to Sri Sri Jagannatha Baladeva and Subhadra Maiya

Please accept my humble obeisances.

Day 1 – 3rd October 2008, Friday

KLIA – New Delhi Airport -Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi Temple, New Delhi

Damodara World Launch Diary 1, Part 4

By Uttama Chaitanya Das

 

Day 13: Tuesday, Mauritius – South Africa. Durban – Johannesburg – Damodara
month 1st day, Krishna Saradiya Rasayatra

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Hare Krishna.

My first ushering of Damodara festival outside of Malaysia since 1995.

Left for airport at 0630 to catch the plane at 0930 to Durban. From Durban need to board another plane to Johannesburg.

After 4hrs, I landed at Durban International Airport. Someone was supposed to be waiting for me at the airport to handover the ticket to Johannesburg. Unfortunately no one was there.

Damodara World Launch Diary 1, Part 3

By Uttama Chaitanya Das

 

Day 8: Thursday, Vadodara – Mumbai – Ramacandra Vijayotsava

Today is Dussera. A grand festival in Gujarat. A public holiday I was told.

The tradition is to buy lots of sweet especially jalebi. The temple is doing
brisk business selling so many different kinds of sweetmeat.

Gujarat’s speciality is its sweets, just as Bengal. Nartaka Gauranga pr and
Damodara Caitanya pr sent me to the airport.

Damodara World Launch Diary 1, Part 2

By Uttama Chaitanya Das

Day 5: Monday, Mumbai – Ahmedabad

Flight 0835 delayed by an hour. Reached Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat, at
1030.

My first trip to this city. My last visit to Gujarat was in 1992.

I was received at the airport by a devotee and it took some 40 minutes to reach the temple.

I was astonished to view such a huge, ancient-looking temple.

The old temple-building houses a simple temple – Sri Sri Gaura Nitai and the temple guest rooms.

Everything looks ancient here and little run-down.

Damodara World Launch Diary 1

By Uttama Chaitanya Das

 

Day 1: Thursday, KLIA – Chennai – Mumbai

Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances.

By the mercy of Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga, we are embarking on our first
international promotional tour of Damodara preaching programme. It was not a
long-thought off plan. Rather, it all happened within one month – the
planning and execution.