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The Mayapur Festival Committee is planning to celebrate next year's Gaura Purnima festival in a grand way. Next year is the 500th anniversary of Lord Gauranga's starting His sankirtana movement and the 40th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada's starting ISKCON. In this connection, the Festival Committee has printed two brochures. One has all the festival details and the other has the sponsorship details.
You can find the full details about the Mayapur Gaura Purnima Festival 2006 at www.mayapur.info. If you plan to go to Mayapur for next year's festival please read the following details from the brochures:
Celebrating the 520th Anniversary of the Appearance Day of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu:
Srila Prabhupada started the Mayapur Festival in 1972 as a facility for his followers to enter Sri Dham Mayapur for enlivenment, empowerment, and purification. From its humble beginnings, the Mayapur Festival has developed dramatically and now attracts thousands of devotees from around the world.
The Mayapur Festival Committee enthusiastically invites all ISKCON devotees to attend the 2006 Mayapur Festival to observe an ecstatic celebration to honor the 500th Anniversary of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's starting His sankirtana movement and to honor the 40th Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada's starting ISKCON.
During this festival, which will likely be one of the largest in recent times, devotees will relish free prasadam provided by our festival sponsors. A yatra, a temple, or an individual devotee may sponsor prasadam for an entire day during the festival.
As the Festival Committee no longer charges festival fees, all aspects of the festival's success depends upon devotees from all over the world donating generously. When a devotee donates for the festival in Sri Dham Mayapur, he serves the Vaisnava world in the most holy dham and thus receives a thousand times more devotional benefit than for a donation given elsewhere.
We completely depend on your kind donation to make this festival a grand success. Lord Gauranga and Srila Prabhupada will undoubtedly shower unlimited blessings upon you for helping this most glorious festival.
—Mayapur Festival Committee
Mayapur Festival Schedule
Feb 16: GBC Meetings Begin
Feb 18: Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's Appearance Day
Feb 26: GBC Meetings End and Devotees Arrive
Feb 27: GBC Report and MIHE Seminars Begin
Feb 28–Mar 2: World Sankirtana Festival
Feb 28: Mayapur Project Presentation
Mar 1: Congregational Preaching Night
Mar 2: Book Distribution Awards
Mar 3: Navadwip Mandala Parikrama Begins
Mar 9: Parikrama Returns to Mayapur and Festivities Begin
Mar 10:
MIHE Seminars Resume after Parikrama
Sri Sri Radha Madhava Boat Festival
World Excellency Awards Distribution
Mar 11:
Santipur Festival
Film Festival
Mar 12:
Ganga Puja
Immersion of Ashes of Departed Souls
Mar 13: Ratha-Yatra
Mar 14:
Gaura Purnima
Lord Gauranga's Abhishek
Mar 15:
Jagannath Mishra's Feast
1st Annual Hare Krishna Film Festival 2006:
A team of experts will select the best videos ISKCON devotees have produced in the last three years, and the Film Festival organizers will show these videos during the festival in the Samadhi Auditorium from 7 to 9 pm. A panel of judges will select winners, and the winners will receive the Nityananda awards and prizes at the end of the Film Festival. For entry information, visit the home page of ITV www.itvproductions.net.
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For updated festival information visit www.mayapur.info
Highlights of Mayapur Festival 2006:
520th Birth Celebration of Lord Gauranga
40th Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada's Starting ISKCON
500th Anniversary of Lord Gauranga's Starting His Sankirtana Movement
Free MIHE Seminars—Enlivening Sadhu Sanga
World Sankirtana Festival: An International Gathering of Preachers and Sankirtana Devotees
A Festival of Remembering HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami Maharaja
Hare Krishna Film Festival
Nabadwip Mandala Parikrama
Free Prasadam (except during the period of Parikrama)
No festival fee
Festival Chairman: HH Jayapataka Swami
Festival Coordinator:
HH Bhakti Purusottama Swami
bps@pamho.net
Residence phone: +91-3472 245481
Mobile: +91-9332255248
MIHE seminars: The Mayapur Institute for Higher Education will engage many ISKCON leaders and senior devotees in offering free Sadhu Seminars that will directly address the needs, concerns, and challenges of ISKCON devotees. What better way to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the sankirtana movement than to associate with ISKCON's most advanced souls? For more details please visit www.mihe.info
Mayapur Festival Room booking:
Sivananda Gauranga Das
Phone: +91-3472-245494 / 245620
e-mail: mghb@pamho.net
Room booking will start from first week
of November 2005 only
Navadwip Mandala Parikrama booking:
Parikrama fees US$38
Purananda Das
Phone: +91-3472-245145
e-mail: purananda.jps@pamho.net
Transportation from Kolkata to
Mayapur:
Sulocana Gaura Das
Phone:+91-3472-245728
Mobile: +91-9333221778
e-mail: purananda.jps@pamho.net
Sponsorship Details
Sponsor a Transcendental Event
Go puja (Worship of Krishna's Cows): $500 (Rs 23,000)
Prasadam distribution to visitors: $4,100 (Rs 2,00,000)
Vishwa-shanti Maha Yajna: Fire Sacrifice for Universal Peace $350 (Rs 17,000). For participating in Yajna (Yajaman) 51 US$
72 hours Harinam Sankirtana: $500 (Rs 23,000)
Jhulan Festival: Sri Sri Radha-Madhava's Swing Pastimes $500 (Rs 23,000)
Boat Festival for the Pleasure of Sri Sri Radha-Madhava $500 (Rs 23,000)
Sri Sri Jagannatha Baladeva Subhadra Ratha-Yatra: $220 (Rs 10,000)
Elephant Procession: $150 (Rs 7,000)
Sri Jagannath Mishra's Feast for four thousand devotees $4,100 (Rs 2,00,000)
If you would like to sponsor only a part of the amount you may co-sponsor with someone.
Even if you are unable to come to Mayapur for Gaura Purnima Festival, you can still get great devotional benefit by sponsoring any of the following items for the pleasure of the Lord.
1. Sponsor a Lamp
There will be an offering of 520 lamps to Lord Gauranga on the auspicious occation of His 520th Appearance Day Anniversary. You can make an offering for only $21. You can take the prasadam lamp to your home. If you are unable to come to Mayapur for the festival, you may send your donation with your friends.
Lamp $21 (Rs 1,001)
2. Sponsor a Conch or Kalash
You can sponsor a conch (Lakshmi sankha) or kalash for bathing the Lord at His Gaura Purnima Abhishek. You will get the conch and kalash to take to your home.
Conch $125 (Rs.5,001)
To sponsor a kalash:
Silver $125 (Rs 5,001)
Copper $51 (Rs 2,501)
3. Offer a Pair of Shoes
In addition to offering a lamp, conch, and kalash for Gauranga's Abhishek there will be an additional opportunity for devotees to offer a pair of silver shoes to Lord Gauranga on the most auspicious day of His appearance. The sponsor will receive the shoes as prasad.
Silver Shoes $35 (Rs 1,500)
Golden Shoes $45 (Rs 2,000)
4. Sponsor Prasad for all the Vaishnavas
For your own great spiritual benefit or in the memory of your loved ones you may sponsor prasad for all the devotees. A yatra, a temple, or an individual devotee may sponsor prasadam for an entire day during the festival.
One time prasad $1,000 (Rs 46,000)
One day Prasad $2,000 (Rs 92,000)
Please send your donation by check or
draft in the name of ISKCON, payable at
Kolkata. Send it by registered post to
Purananda das
Gaura Purnima Festival
110A, Motilal Nehru Road
Kolkata - 700029,
West Bengal
INDIA
or
Directly transfer to
Gaura Purnima Festival AMEX account
Bank: American Express Bank, Kolkata
Account No.: 420081073
Account Name: ISKCON Gaura Purnima
Festival Fund
Bank Address:
American Express Bank Ltd
21, Old Court House Street
Kolkata 700001
West Bengal,
INDIA
Swift Code No.: AEIBINDXCAL
Dollar Account: 611525
For more details please contact
bhakti.purusotttama.swami@pamho.net
or purananda.jps@pamho.net
and please inform us by email upon sending a donation.
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