All Glory to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga

20th Anniversary Disappearance Festival

of Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj


Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Nabadwip

1 August 2008

Pictures: Nimai Chandra Prabhu

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Early morning Sri Guru Arati at Srila Guru Maharaj's Samadhi Mandir, The Temple of Union in Separation...

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...followed by Mangal-Aratik to Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharva Govindasundar.

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Krishnadas Prabhu, one of the pujaris.

Devotees arriving despite rains early in the day.

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Exactly 20 years after Srila Guru Maharaj disappeared from this world: kirttan and discourses on the plinth of the Samadhi Mandir.

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More devotees seated in front of the Samadhi Mandir and inside the nat-mandir.

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Venerable Vaisnavas chant the glories of Srila Sridhar Maharaj and his Pastimes in this world.
This year Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj was very much missed
by the assembled devotees as he led the programme in our Dum Dum Park Temple, Kolkata.

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Prasadam prepared and ready for distribution.

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Sannyasis and the first batch of devotees are served upstairs in the new Prasad Distribution Hall...

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...followed by repeated sittings of Prasad distribution...

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...upstairs...

...and downstairs.

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Concluding the morning programme in remembrance and honour of Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj
on this 20th Anniversary of his disappearance from this world, here at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Nabadwip.


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