Vrinda Kunda Festival Schedule.
Deena Bandhu dasa: 19 February, Varaha Dvadasi will be 13 years since the opening of our Vrinda Kunda Temple! To celebrate, we will do special parikramas to the Holy Places of Braja. The program will culminate with our famous Kalash Yatra, an ecstatic Sankirtan procession with the ladies carrying water pots with coconuts on their heads on 27 Feb. Programs will be going on from 19 Feb-1 March.
We will depart almost every morning from Krishna Balaram Mandir by bus and go on parikrama to different pastime places of Braja. There will be lively narrations of the different pastimes that happened in each place. Then we will return in time for lunch prasadam in the temple. And on all bus parikramas, Sannyasis and Prabhupada Disciples and their families will go free of charge.
Then on Saturday 27th Feb., we will be having the super ecstatic Kalash Yatra and sankirtan procession around Nandagrama. Kalash means water pot. All the ladies will carry water pots with water from the sacred Pavana Sarovara with colorful cloth and coconuts on top. We’ll have 108 pots and the Brijbasi ladies will train our foreign lady devotees how to carry them. Even some of our own ladies who go every year will train them! The Brijbasinis even dance with no hands with their pots on their heads! All the ladies who have participated told me it was the highlight of their Vrindavan experience. That day is free for everyone!
After reaching at Vrinda Kunda, there will be Krishna Katha, butter churning festival, artika and then feast for one and all. Then everyone can help feed all the Nandagram Brijbasis. That day all transportation and prasad will be free for all who come.
So please come relish wonderful Vaisnava association in the Holy Dhama! Especially for those coming for the Anniversary Festivals at Tirupati, Ujjain, Aravade, and Noida on Nityananda Trayodasi and are wondering what to do till Mayapur Festival starts, most of our parikramas will take place after Nityananda Trayodasi.
Parikrama Schedule
February 19th Feast at Vrinda Kunda
20th Nityananda Trayodasi, Festival in Krishna Balaram Mandir
21st Nagara Sankirtan and feast at Nityananda Vat
22nd Narottama’s App. Feast at Radha Vraja Mohan Mandir
23rd Vrindavan Temples
24th Javat - Ter Kadamba - Vrinda Kunda (lunch at Vrinda Kunda)
25th Govardhana Darshan
27th Vrinda Kunda Festival (Feast at Vrinda Kunda) Free
28th Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati’s Vyasa Puja
29th Radha Kunda - Kusum Sarovara
March 1st Raval Gokula
3rd Barsana
For your travel needs as well as assistance for booking accommodation in outside guesthouses you can contact Laksmipriya at our Welcome Center at Her phone no. is +91 81266702. The Welcome Center can also arrange a taxi to pick you up from the airport or train station. For booking in the Krishna Balaram Guesthouse, you can contact or +91 565 2540021. For MVT or +91 565 3207578.
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In service of Srimati Vrinda Devi, Deena Bandhu dasa