Subject: FW: LORD JAGANNATH RATHAYATRA in Canberra on 30 MAY09 From: "Aniruddha" <aniruddha@iskcon.net.au> Date: Wed, May 20, 2009 11:12 am To: "Rasanandini.TKG.JPS(Melbourne AU)" <eleanor@stretch.com.au> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Rasanandini Prabhu,

Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

You might like to put this on the FOLK News site and print the poster for the notice board.

Your servant,

Aniruddha Das

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From: failure@pamho.net [mailto:failure@pamho.net] On Behalf Of Ranganath Das BRS Sent: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 8:15 PM To: ISKCON Australia Management Subject: LORD JAGANNATH RATHAYATRA in Canberra on 30 MAY09

Hare Krishna prabhus, mata ji and maharaj

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

This is just to invite you all to the rathayatra festival here in Canberra. I would also appreciate if this invitation could also please be included in your temple newsletter and the notice board.

Thanks for your support.

Yhs

Ranganath das

LORD JAGANNATH RATHAYATRA

by ISKCON CANBERRA

30th MAY, 2009

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WITH

HIS HOLINESS PRABHAVISNU SWAMI

By the mercy of Lord Jagannatha, ISKCON Canberra temple will be celebrating Lord Jagannatha Rathayatra in Canberra on Saturday, 30th May starting at 10:30AM. This year, we will be blessed by the kind association of His Holiness Prabhavisnu Swami, and the outstation devotees who will be participating in this Maha-Harinam for the pleasure of the Lord.

A Palanquin will be carrying Their Lordships Sri Sri Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra through the streets of Canberra City.

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ISKCON Canberra invites you to attend Rathayatra. Please come along and get the Mercy of Lord Jagannath on this auspicious occasion. Everyone will get the chance to carry the Palanquin of Their Lordships.

Rathayatra Program

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Start Time: 10:30 AM from Hare Krishna Temple, 1 Quick St, Ainslie, ACT

Rathayatra Route: Hare Krishna Temple, Quick St -> Limestone Ave -> Ainslie Ave -> Glebe Park to City Walk -> Return to Hare Krishna Temple

Expected Finish time: 1.30PM at the Temple

Prasadam: 1.30 pm at the temple

Contact: Hare Krishna Temple on 62626208 or 0404486746 or iskcon@harekrishnacanberra.com

The Inner Meaning of Rathayatra (ref "Hidden Glories Of India" book, BBT Publications)

Although Lord Krishna became a great king in His time, His childhood He spent in the village of Vrindavan. There He sported with the cowherd boys and girls, and of all of them, Radharani was His most beloved. When Lord Krishna left Vrindavan to become king of Dvarka, however, Srimati Radharani's lamentation was unequalled in the universe. She never gave up hope that He would someday return to Her. In this way She enjoys a special transcendental long known as vipralambha-bhava, or "the mood of love-in-separation".

Once when Lord Krishna was king, He met Radharani and Her friends in a secluded place at Kurukshetra. But when Radharani saw Krishna in His princely grad, with full opulence and regalia, She longed to see Him as the simple cowherd boy She once knew. She longed to bring Him back to Vrindavan.

The mood of wanting to bring Lord Krishna back to the intimacy of Vrindavan is the confidential theme of the Rathayatra festival. When devotees pull the long, sturdy ropes of the Rathayatra cart they are pulling Krishna back into their hearts - back to the land of Vrindavan. Radha and Krishna incarnated as Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and in this way, They were reunited - in His body. Yet during His last years, which He spent in Jagannath Puri, Lord Caitanya fully manifested the mood of Radharani and relentlessly lamented the divine tragedy of Radha and Krishna's separation.

Every year in Jagannath Puri, Lord Caitanya celebrated the Rathayatra festival in Srimati Radharani's mood of pulling Krishna back to the simple, village-like atmosphere of Vrindavan. Mahaprabhu taught that this feeling of separation actually evokes the presence of Krishna and, ultimately, gives way to the highest happiness. This is the internal meaning of Rathayatra.

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