Jaya Radhae!Jaya Krishna!Jaya Vrindavan!
All Glories To Srila Prabhupada!
We are pleased to inform you that the devotees at Sri Krishna Mandir celebrated the Jhulan Yatra festival with great pomp and show in the temple premises from 20th to 24th August. Balaram Purnima on the 24th marked the end of the gorgeous 5-day festival. With everyone being engrossed in the festive mood continuously for five days, it gave us a glimpse of the akhanda-utsav in the spiritual world.
Jhulan Yatra is an annual festival, wherein the Lord is made to sit in a beautifully decorated swing and all the devotees are given an opportunity to swing the Lord and His eternal consort, Srimati Radharani, accompanied by ecstatic bhajans.
Each day, the festival was sponsored by different families/groups and they came up with their own ideas for decorating the swing. It was a very pleasant sight to see all the devotees so much engrossed in enthusiastically decorating the swing for the pleasure of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Madanmohan. The whole temple was decorated in such a way that it gives the feel of a forest with various kinds of plants, fruits, flowers, etc.
The jhulan yatra celebrations would start everyday after the sandhya arati(Gaura Arati) and would go on upto about 8:30pm after which delicious preparations of prasadam would be served to all the devotees.
24th of August being Balaram Jayanti, there was also the enacting of the pastime of Balaram killing Pralambasura after the Jhulan yatra.
It was a great success and all the devotees thoroughly enjoyed the 5-day festival and are now eagerly looking forward for the next festival in line - Sri Krishna Janmashtami, which falls on Thursday, the 2nd of September.
We would like to inform all the devotees, well-wishers and friends that we are organizing a grand celebration on the occasion of Sri Krishna Janamashtami. We request you to come and join us un the celebration and make it a grand success!
Hare Krishna!!
