SRI
JAGANNATH RATHAYATRA
SUNDAY
25th JULY 2010 - 4.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Yio Chu Kang 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 : Yio Chu Kang Stadium -
210 Ang Mo
Kio Avenue 9 Singapore
569777
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 Raghunandan
Prabhu @
90704059. Alternatively, you can e-mail us
at [email protected] or
simply log on to www.krishnaclub.com
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!