Report Dhaka - Swamibag, Bangladesh, 2018

Hare Krishna! 

Please accept my humble obeisances. 

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada and Gurumaharaj.

The 69th Vyasa-puja of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Guru Maharaja was celebrated at ISKCON, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The festival was spread over 26th, 27th and the 28th of March 2018. The celebration of this festival was started through adhivasa ceremony on 26th march. On 27th March (the Vyasa-puja day), Harinama Sankirtana was continued from 6 am to 11 am, until abhiseka was started. At 6.30 am a street sankirtana team moved around different roads of Dhaka City with so many devotees and ecstatic sankirtana for the welfare of the living entities of the whole world. After abhiseka ceremony devotees offered flowers unto the lotus feet of Guru Maharaja. At 12 pm special bhoga was offered to Guru Maharaja. After that special Mahaprasada was distributed among more than 3000 devotees. A gallery was displayed with the rare collection photographs of Guru Maharaja. For the betterment of health condition of Guru Maharaja a fire sacrifice was performed and special Japa Yajna was performed. The live telecast of Vyasa-puja class was displayed on large LED screen. Devotees got so much enthusiastic seeing Guru Maharaja live from Chennai.

In afternoon session, devotees offered their offering to Guru Maharaja and spoke about the transcendental glorification of Guru Maharaja. After evening arati a special documentary on the life and preaching of Gurur Maharaja was presented. After that devotees performed different cultural programs.

On 28th March devotees glorified Guru Maharaja and spoke about his transcendental pastimes from morning to evening. At noon Feast Mahaprasada was distributed among 5000 devotees. At the evening the program was ended through different cultural programs was presented.

Your Servant,

Jagatguru Gauranga Dasa