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WORLD  Gaurpurnima Festival Mayapur 2003 BY TUSTI MOHAN KRSNA DAS  MAYAPUR, INDIA, Mar 18 (VNN) — Dear Devotees, dandavat Pranams, All Glories to Srila PrabhupadaToday 18-3-2003 in this most auspicious occasion of Sri Gaurpurnima (The appearance of the Golden Avatar Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu) we would like to share some nectars and pics about our activities in Sri Mayapur Dham. Thousands of devotees attended this important festival and the halls of our temple are fully packed with devotees from many countries and thousands of pilgrims from west Bengal and specially most of them came to see the new outfits of their lordships as it is tradition. Sri Sri Radha Madhava Astasakhis in Mayapur are considered one of the most beautiful in the world as well one of the best decorated, the dresses that every occasion the Deities use, is part of common comments and attraction to all the devotees. After Nrishimhadeva arati and Panca Tattva arati everyone was eager to see how would be the new outfit of Radha Madhava and Astasakhis, and time was running while kirtan was going on, but as usual takes time every Gaurpurnima ,Radhastami, Janmasthami since many things has to be done inside the altar and finally when the altar was opened devotees started shouting loudly !!.. Haribolllllll..!!! When they saw how beautiful are their Lordships and their dresses that this time are very colorful and decorated with flowers in a very elegant way. I personally was eager to run and take pictures of all the deities and send them to you as early as possible thinking that devotees in western countries would wake up and login so they can see this beautiful form of the supreme Lord. After Govinda prayers, HH Sacinandan Swami lead the kirtan and Srila Prabhupada procession that this time is divided in different halls so ladies can do SP puja in one hall and Prabhus in Sri Panca Tattva temple. Tens of devotees including myself jumped to the platform before the altar to start taking pictures to the Deities. It happens like with journalist or photographers when they are covering an important world event, but this time was the transcendental beauty of their Lordships that was the centre of attraction of everyone. Definitely Sri Sri Radha Madhava captivates the hearts and minds of devotees more and more day by day. We will be posting today in our websites all the activities that are going to happen in Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir. Please visit http://www.mayapur.info to be updated on Mayapur festival. Contact VNN about this story  Send this story to a friend
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