{"id":355,"date":"2003-08-04T03:26:48","date_gmt":"2003-08-04T03:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2013-12-04T04:13:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T04:13:56","slug":"radhastami-celebrations-in-new-goloka-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/radhastami-celebrations-in-new-goloka-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Radhastami Celebrations in New Goloka 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(By Rangadevi dasi)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Today we had a very wonderful celebration for Radhastami. Gurudeva
\ngave class in the morning. He read from Caitanya Caritamrita,
\nNectar of Devotion and Lalita Madhava, a play by Srila Rupa
\nGoswami. Gurudeva was very excited to do a dramatic reading of the
\nLalita Madhava, the 1st chapter which details the mysterious and
\nglorious Appearance of Srimati Radharani. Mother Krishna-priya told
\nme later this morning that Gurudeva said that when we become pure,
\nwe can stage this play. It would be super wonderful to get to do
\nthis drama, but if we are waiting until all the actors become pure,
\nthen we may be waiting a while.<\/span><\/p>\n

This afternoon we also had a sweet, sweet program with the children
\nfrom the gurukula. It started at 11:30 with an abhisheka of small
\nRadha-Krishna Deities. These Deities are cared for by Urmila
\nMataji. She is a well-known disciple of Srila Prabhupada and an
\nexpert in the field of education. Gurudeva performed the abhisheka,
\nand the kirtana was led by Champaka dd, Urmila Mataji’s daughter and
\na current teacher at the gurukula. The children also took turns
\nleading the kirtana. I was downstairs in the kitchen helping the
\ncooks to make Krishna’s tray. We were all trying to guess which
\nchild was leading by recognizing their little voices. Then the
\nchildren did a very short skit about Jatila (or is it Kutila?) being
\nsent by her mother to go and find Radharani. Srimati Radharani’s
\nmother-in-law was very suspicious due to not seeing her daughter-in-
\nlaw all day. It was very cute. On festival days, we often delay
\nthe bhoga offering and arati by 15 minutes to allow the cooks and
\npujaris a little more time to prepare speacial things. Mother
\nKrishna-priya gave the raj-bhoga cooks this extra time, but then
\nthat delayed the arati until 12:45pm. Because the gurukula did not
\nhave enough material planned to fill up the time and because many of
\nthe small and restless children had already run out of the temple
\nroom to go and eat their snacks, Gurudeva had Mayapura-candra,
\nChampaka’s husband and principal of the gurukula read from the
\nKrishna book. He read the chapter about Krishna stealing the gopis’
\ngarments. After that was the midday arati for Their Lordships Sri-
\nSri Radha-Golokananda. Gurudeva led the kirtana. It was such a
\npowerful and enthusiastic kirtana and many of the devotees were
\ndancing like crazy. At the end of the kirtana Gurudeva
\nchanted “Jaya Radhe, Jaya Radhe!” with such intensity. I looked
\nover at him to catch a glimpse of his face. He looked very intent
\non the Holy Name of Srimati Radharani and he was singing with such
\nconcentration and power, playing his karatalas loudly. Then he
\nasked Drumila Prabhu to lead the prayers to Lord Narasimhadeva.
\nAfterwards he announced “Okay, prasadam!” We all then went down to
\nhonor the feast cooked by Srimati Gayatri devi and Srimati Krisangi
\ndevi.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was also a program scheduled to begin at 5 pm for all the
\ndevotees who worked during the day. Because Gurudeva would be
\nleaving early the next morning because he had already attended the
\nnoon program, Gurudeva did not go in the evening. I also did not go
\nto this program as I was trying to finish up some things before
\nGurudeva left. However, there were many, many cars in the driveway,
\nand I saw many of the Sunday Feast congregation in attendence.
\nEveryone afterwards seemed to think it a very wonderful Radhastami
\ncelebration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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