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WORLD  Santipur Festival March 26th BY TUSTI MOHAN KRSNA DAS  INDIA, Mar 29 (VNN) — Dear Devotees,March 26, 2002 hundreds of devotees went to Sri Santipur where the House of Sri Advaita Acarya is to perform one of the most sublime and devotional services to the lord, during this day which is 2 days before Gaurpurnima. Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu and Sri Nityananda Prabhu accepted invitation from Sri Advaita Acarya ( all of them are the Lord Himself in different aspects) to honor prasadam at his house in Santipur and many extraordinary pastimes happened there, but the most important thing for a devotee is the special blessings that Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu gave to everyone who takes prasadam at that place and that day will get automatically Krsna Prema ( Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu Ki jaya), the descendant # 14 of Sri Advaita Acarya ( HG Prasant Goswami) few years back decided to give this services to HH Jayapataka Swami to bring foreigners and local devotees to cook and distribute mahaprasadam to thousands of people and this is happening every year, so HH JPS organize this festival along with HH Kavicandra Swami and other senior devotees present at that time including HH Mahavishnu swami who was leading kirtan, and HH Subhag Swami who was coordinating along with other this seva of Mass prasadam distribution. To collect donations and to prepare the devotees to go and work and be instruments of Lord Gaura Hari in this extraordinary event by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada who makes us conscientious of Krsna and to have the opportunity to serve others. The descendant of Sri Advaita Acarya realized that if he wants that this program would be successful has to be done by Srila Prabhupada's movement, and it shows that Srila Prabhupada can do amazing things and only by his causeless mercy that we all could go and do this seva under his inspiration. So ISKCON devotees went to give prasadam to more than 40.000 people and have kirtan and stage programs which all was done simultaneously with the assistant of sankirtan parties and Namahatta devotees, and thousands of kichree plates were distributed, and His Grace Prasant Goswami the 14th descendant of Sri Advaita Acarya offered a special lunch prasadam in the same house to the special guests present at this event. Our devotees got double mercy by cooking, distributing and eating prasadam at this auspicious day in the in a very special place in Gaura-mandal In www.mayapur.info we are trying to post as many pics as possible about this event that talks by itself. Sri Gauranga Mahapurabhu Ki jay..!!! Sri Nityananda Prabhu KI jay..!! Srila Prabhupada Ki Jaya..!!! YS Tusti Mohan Krsna das Contact VNN about this story  Send this story to a friend
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