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Category: Janmastami - Jaya Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundar
 
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Photos from Janmastami 2012 have been uploaded! 


Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundar's Janmastami has become an grand annual tradition. First comes actual Janmastami for our "first love" and adorable Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha which of course is followed by the appearance day of our beloved spirtual master, Srila Prabhupada.  So about a week later devotees and friends including Godbrothers & Godsisters as well as kirtaneers gather in front of the always merciful Sri Sri Radha Shyamsundar and celebrate His appearance day in a grand way. We do this annual function to simply please Radha Shyamasundar since They so mercifully came to our home and the least we can do is to celebrate Their Appearance day in a special way once a year. 

This year we had some challenges with rain but with last minute tents on the stage as well as the grounds it made for a different experience with even better light effects and more intimacy for the many hundreds that attended. Devotees enjoyed kirtan, talks and an eleven course feast.  The anticipated highlight is the now famous baby Krishna drama where an actually baby comes dressed as Krishna every year surrounded by exuberant gopas and gopis and of course Mother Yasoda and Nanda Baba.  
His Holiness Bhakitmarga Swami &  His Holiness B.B. Bhagavat Swami lead the festivities along  with the “Gaura Shakti kirtan band” which immersed the crowd into the nectar of the holy names

Thank you to all the devotees who helped, participated and attended to make Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundar a grand festival and may He shower His blessing on all those sincere devotees.  

 
 
Hare Krishna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! 
Sri Sri Radha Ksirchor Gopinatha! New Remuna Dham ki Jai! 
Here is an upload of a few pictures from the very special midnight darshan of Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha in Their Janmastami flower outfit. 

{Minakshi has them in high res images...contact: minakshidevidasi@hotmail.com}

Just catching up on filing pictures and postings :-) 
 
 
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Hare Krishna! We are back on  line after being quiet for over a week. Thanks for the messages and queries. It is indeed heart warming to see vaishnavas concerned for each other and also to  know devotees are reading this blog...

Actually we have been quiet due to being so busy with Krishna Consciousness. Srila Prabhupada has given us the good fortune to have festival after festival complete with devotional service and thus blogging had to take a back seat. Of course we had Sri Krishna Janmastami and followed by Srila Prabhupada's vyasa-puja and if that was not enough we threw a grand festival at our home for Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundar where we had the oppurtunity to serve hundreds upon hundreds of devotees as well as 3 ISKCON sanyasis for the pleasure of Their Lordships. So there is a lot to catch up on in the next few posts...

The presiding deities of Toronto are Sri Sri Radha Ksirachor Gopinatha and every year we humbly serve Them by offering Them a flower dress for midnight. It is not only an annual tradition but service we love to do since we are focused on Gopinatha throughout the day...from leaving for the flower shop at 6am to picking up the crew and making the dress through the afternoon and finally dressing Radha Gopinatha in the late evening in time for His revealing to ecstatic devotees in the thousands at midnight chanting the Maha mantra in unison.

Jaya Sri Sri Radha Gopinatha. Hope the entire family of worldwide devotees had a very happy Janmastami...