Report Coimbatore, India, 2018

Respected Gurumaharaj,
 

Hare Krishna. Please accept our respectful obeisances unto Your Lotus Feet. All glories to Your Divine Grace. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

120 devotees from Coimbatore went to Chennai for attending Gurumaharaj Vyasa Puja 2018.  The remaining devotees at ISKCON, Coimbatore, celebrated Gurumaharaj Vyasa Puja for 2 days i.e., on 27th & 28th March, 2018. Gurumaharaj altar was decorated by Manimukunda prabhu, Premaraj Gauranga prabhu, Krishna Dayasagara prabhu & Vinodh prabhu. On 27th & 28th March (both days), Guru Puja for Gurumaharaj was done by Achyuta Gopinath prabhu in the temple hall by 8 A.M and around 20 devotees attended the Gurupuja. Srinivasa Hari Dasa sang the Gurupuja kirtan of Gurudev Krpa bindu diya. After this, Gurumaharaj's Srimad Bhagavatam lecture was played in the temple hall (for both days) for one hour and around 25 devotees have attended the lecture. We started the glorification for Gurumaharaj by 10 A.M. in the temple hall. The following devotees have glorified Gurumaharaj's divine qualities during these 2 days. 

1) Rathnanga Rama Das
2) Krishna Dayasagara Dasa
3) Simha Chandra Dasa
4) Viseswari Gopi Devi Dasi
5) Premaraj Gauranga Dasa
6) Palaka Mukunda Dasa
7) Madhu Sevita Dasa
8) Ramesh Dasa
9) Raji Mathaji
10) Gunanidhi Gaura Dasa
11) Vanamali Mathaji
12) Lajjavathi Mathaji
13) Sobha Madhava Dasa
14) Varadha Sakhi Devi Dasi
15) Sanjaya Achuta Dasa
16) Padmini
17) Tunga Vidhya Devi Dasi
18) Manimukunda Dasa
19) Krishna Kumar
20 Bhagavath Amritananda Dasa
21) Braja Bishnu Dasa
22) Caitanya Caranaravinda Dasa
23) Manvantara Dasa
24) Kunja Mohini Devi Dasi
25) Srinivasa Hari Dasa
26) Achyuta Gopinath Dasa
27) Sadbhuja Gaurahari Dasa

We did milk and water abhishek  for Gurumaharaj's lotus feet (picture) and Pushpa Vrishti by prabhus. Abhishek started at 11.35 AM and went upto 12.10 PM. Braja Bishnu prabhu,Caitanya Caranaravinda prabhu & Damodhara Kripa Sindu prabhu did assistant services for arranging Puja and Abhishek for Gurumaharaja. We did afternoon Arati for both days (i.e., on 27th and 28th March) for Gurumaharaj at 12.25 PM. Arati was done by Manimukunda prabhu and the Samsara Dava kirtan was done by Srinivasa Hari Dasa. All the devotees assembled did 3 times Pushpanjali for Gurumaharaj by chanting the Pranama mantras for both days. Ekadasi prasadam was served for around 100 devotees at 2 PM. Bhoga offering to Gurumaharaj  was done by Bhagavath Amritananda prabhu. Bhoga cooking was prepared by the following devotees on both days:

1) Lajjavathi Mataji
2) Padmalocani Tungavidya Devi Dasi
3) Lavanyamayi Devi Dasi
4) Tulasi Sakhi Devi Dasi
5) Kamala Gopali Devi Dasi
6) Govinda Yasoda Devi Dasi
7) Bhagavath Amritananda prabhu
8) Sathyabhama Devi Dasi
9) Ishani Mathaji
10) Sundari Mathaji
11) Sulakshana Malini Devi Dasi
12) Radhika Mathaji
13) Siromani Kirtida Devi Dasi

Next day i.e., on 28th March, few devotees did the glorification by around 11 AM.  Their names are already included in the above list. Feast prasadam on 28th March was honoured by 150 devotees. Some photos of Gurumaharaj's Vyasa Puja celebrations are attached herewith.

Your insignificant Disciple,

Report prepared by
Srinivasa Hari Dasa