SRI
JAGANNATH RATHAYATRA
SUNDAY
26th June 2011 - 4.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Yishun
Stadium
Dear
Devotees!
Hare Krishna! Please join us for this most
joyous Chariot festival where Their
Lordships Sri Sri
Jagannath, Baladeva and Subadra shower us with Their
mercy by coming into the open amidst great kirtan and chanting of
the Holy Name!
Venue : Yishun Stadium – 101
Yishun Avenue 1 Singapore 769130
Programme :
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm : Arati, kirtan and offerings to
receive Their Lordships & Bhoga Offering
4.30 pm - 7.00 pm: Rathayatra
and Kirtan
7.00 pm - 7.30 pm
: Discourse
on the glories of Sri Sri Jagannath, Baladev and
Subhadra
7.30 pm - 8.00 pm
: Maha
arati and Kirtan
*Delicious
and sumptuous prasadam will be served!
Please
contact H.G Narottamananda
Prabhu @ 98506342 or H.G Madan Mohan
Prabhu @
98523890. Alternatively, you can e-mail us at[email protected] or
simply log on to www.krishnaclub.com
Please also
find attached all the
services that you may wish to take up for this auspicious
event;
Jointly organised for the pleasure of all Vaishnavas
by:
Gita Reading Society and
Sri Harinam Society.
Ratha-yatra
Lecture
By
His Divine
Grace A.C
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
London,
July 13, 1972
“Prabhupada:
Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you very much for your kindly
participating in this festival, Ratha-yatra festival. This festival
is coming down since five thousand years when Lord
Krishna, along with His elder brother Balarama and
His younger sister Subhadra, all together in a chariot came from
Dvaraka to Kurukshetra. Kurukshetra is still
existing, and the Dvaraka, the city, is also still existing. So
according to Vedic culture, when there is eclipse, lunar eclipse,
people take bath in sacred rivers. So especially they go to
Kurukshetra, a pilgrimage. So Krishna along with His family
members, brother and sister, came to Kurukshetra, and receiving
this news, the gopis and inhabitants of Vrndavana, where Lord
Krishna lived in His childhood, they came to see Him. So amongst
the gopis, Srimati Radharani was the chief. And when she saw
Krishna in Kurukshetra in all opulence, She said, “My dear Krishna,
You are also here; I am also here. But We are missing Vrndavana. So
I wish that You come along with Me again in Vrndavana and We enjoy
in the forest of Vrndavana.”
This
feeling of separation was preached by Lord Caitanya. So this
Ratha-yatra festival is still observed in Jagannath Puri in India.
And five hundred years ago Lord Caitanya participated in this
festival, and He was in the mode of separation as if Radharani was
taking back Krishna to Vrndavana. So this Ratha-yatra festival is a
feeling festival for the Vaishnavas. Lord Caitanya taught us how to
feel separation of God. Lord Caitanya never taught us that He had
seen God, but He felt the separation of God very severely.
Similarly, His next disciples, the Sad-Gosvamis, they also
prosecuted their devotional service by separational
feelings.
So this
Ratha-yatra festival is very nice, feelings festival for the
Vaishnava. And anyone who is participating in this festival, he’ll
gradually develop his dormant love for Krishna. Thank you very much
for your kindness.
All
glories to Srila Prabhupada! Jaya!
Chant
Hare
Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna
Krishna Hare Hare
Hare
Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
And Be
Happy!