Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2008

Dezember: Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti in Berlin

Gurudeva has been in the Berlin Temple for 10 days and blessed us with some wonderful classes.


Gurudeva giving initiation. Fredrick from Sweden , who received a new name: Nitai Karuna Das.


An inspired impromt performance to see the new year in.



Gurudeva presented the new temple project called "Vrinda Kunja Berlin". We had an inauguration of it, dancing, singing, prasadam..... We are reconstructing the future temple for our Deities. Here you can see some pictures of the buildings: vrindakunjaberlin


On Sylvester we were given a very nice theater about the inevitability of death and how to prepare for it.


....Also on Sylvester the devotees prepared exotic fruit drinks which went down very well !!!


A star perfomance from Sri Ram Das.


The Sylvester Buffet took place in the seminar room and the the restaurant room, and many guest came.


Freitag, 5. Dezember 2008

Opening Vegetarian Club in Berlin

The grand opening of the vegetarian club of Berlin took place on wednesday 26 november. The place was packed with 100 visitors, who enjoyed a livery theater perfomance with a very tasty prasadam.

Slide-Show, a visual presentation in connection with vegitarianism.



Govinda Vilas Prabhu introducing the festivities.



Who could resist this wonderful offering?


Around a hundred people took part in the opening feast.


An exciting perfomance of theater and music.


..........and much more music :-)



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Montag, 8. September 2008

B.V. Vishnu Maharaj in Berlin

We received B.V. Vishnu Maharaj in our Berlin Temple. He is the vicepresident of the World Vaisnava Association (WVA).


B.V. Vishnu Maharaj also visited our farm in Mewegen.



Many people came to his lectures.


He sang and danced with great enthiusiasm.

Donnerstag, 4. September 2008

Radhastami - Srimati Radharanis Erscheinungstag

Srimati Radharani´s Darshan



Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Govinda Sundaram




Video Darshan



Mittwoch, 20. August 2008

Janmastami - Krsnas Geburtstag

Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Govinda Sundaram


Many devotees came to Janmastami


.......and many devotees contributed to 108 preparations for Krsna


Janmastami´s Puppet Theatre




Dienstag, 12. August 2008

XIV European Vaishnava Mela in Nandafalva

We celebrated our Summer Mela in Nandafalva Temple in Hungary, from 4th to 11th august.
We where delighted to see so many devotees from around Europe.



Welcome to Nandafalva



Gurudeva Paramadwaiti and Gurudeva Atulananda giving class



Gurudeva Atulananda ecstatically leading kirtan



The Lordships Sri Sri Gouranga Gopi Radha Vallabha



Gurudeva giving the sannyasa order to Ambarish Prabhu



The new sannyasi is called Srauti Maharaj




Srauti Maharaj ki jay !!!



Gurudeva preaching to the people



Dancing Indian-Style



Member of the public from the neighborhood, including the Mayor of the City and the Ambassador of India in Budapest.




Children´s Theater




Inauguration of the new shrine



Intensely joyful kitchen seva



Gurudeva leading a children´s Ratha Yatra.



A panoramic view of Nandafalva Tempel.
Nandafalva was formed in 1979 and the new temple, which combines traditional Hindu and Hungarian elements, was built in 2000.


Samstag, 2. August 2008

Gurudeva Atulananda in Berlin

We were blessed by the presence of Gurudeva Atulananda, in our Berlin Temple, to celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of the Installation of Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Govinda Sundaram.



Gurudeva Atulananda with Gurudeva Paramadwaiti, who was in full swing preaching the spoon revolution.




Gurudeva Atulananda leading an ecstatic Kirtan




Gurudeva Atulananda visiting a grihastha ashram in Berlin, the home of Prabhu Antardwipa and Gangamata Mataji d.d.




Kirtan Gurudeva Atulananda (part 1)



Kirtan Gurudeva Atulananda (part 2)


Spoon Revolution: 38th World Vegetarian Congress in Dresden

The Vegetarian European Community organized the 38th World Vegetarian Congress from 27th July to 2nd August 2008 in the city of Dresden-Germany under the motto:“100 Years of Food Revolution”.




The World Vegetarian Congress not only appealed to veggies: it talked on ethics, religion, spirituality, food, health, sport, politics and society, ecology and nature conservation, the world hunger problem as well as animal rights and protection of animals.



......and the Spoon Revolution team has also been there.



We presented the Spoon Revolution cause and attracted many interested people and we met a wide spectrum of people and ideas.


Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2008

Prasadam for the Rockers !

The biggest Heavy-Rock Festival of all Europe: "With Full Force XV" (with 25.000 people) was held in North Germany from 4-7 july, and was greatly inspired by our team of devotees, the Kurukshetra devotees of Berlin, who supplied delicious prasadam throughout the whole event.



The people buying prasadam.



Some of our favorites plates.



See how well the prasadam was received !



There were 25.000 people attending this festival.



Antardwipa Prabhu is one of our most dynamic cooks, can be seen here making prasadam.



Cocking in our mobile kitchen.



Prasadam the full day (Saturday at 2:00 am)



We will see you next time :-)


A special thanks to Prabhu Antardwipa, Angira, Mandali, Rene, Radesyam, Jaganath, Balabhadra and Janavi d.d. for their contribution to this event.