Kurukshetra-Inbound School Of Yoga on the World Culture Festival

The World Culture Festival took place in Berlin,in the month of July ´11.It  was organised by the  group Art Of Living for their 30 years celebration.It was a very international festival with many visiotrs and programs from all over the world.We also had a stand from the Kurukshetra-Inbound Scool of Yoga for saling items from our shop and inviting the people to our ashram.

We made the shop empty for to take all to the festival!!!

It was a big mooving...

This is Olympia Stadion where the event took place.

The entrance

And...our stand!!!We had an extra adventure with the weather -it was raining all the weekend and became much colder....so for to keep all dry we had to put the stands very tide under the tent and when the custumors were inside too was a real funny situation.But  we sold a lot of jackets and shalls becouse everyone was cold and wet.

After the festival the metro was so crouded

Here are some videos to show to joyful travel in the metro that night .All were chanting mantras!

Happy travel!

The festival, with the theme of ‘Celebrating Diversity and Enriching Life' saw around 50,000 people from across 151 countries, 6000 artists and 804 dignitaries, including religious and spiritual leaders, ministers, members of parliament and ambassadors from around the world. The main attraction was the extensive yoga and meditation workshop conducted by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

On the main stage were many beautiful performances from many cultures.Indian dance presenting Krsna and the gopis :) 

Elitsa Todorova and the Bulgarian performance

More than 1000 Bulgarian danced in a performance the traditional bulgarian dance Horo.

Japaneese performance "Lotus"

Around 1000 quitar players joined together and played  music.

A big performance of Surya Namaskar.

There were pavilions of some of the continents-Europe pavilion,Afrika pavilion,Asia pavilion,America pavilion.There were little stages with other performances.

Lithuanian Dancers

Also all the festival was completely vegetarian and the catering was made by devotees , the "Vegetalis" company,which produces prasadam!

More about the festival you can see here : http://www.worldculturefestival.org/de/

Special thanks from Kurukshetra Yoga Shop Team to:Silpakarini d.d.,Mandali d.,Gauri d.d.,Sita Thakurani d.d.,wihtout whom this would be not posible.

Also thanks to Harijan Maharaj,Radhika Priya d.d.,Cheitya Guru d,Gaur Keshava d., and all the rest who helped somehow,

Jay Nitai Gaura Hari Bol!

Fresh lecture of Gurudeva ! Important message !!!

 Gurudeva Paramadvaiti Swami gave an inspiring lecture yesterday morning,15.07.11 in Kurukshetra Ashram,Berlin,Germany.An important message for all about our awarness to contribute the higher ideals we follow.A message for increasing the Conscious art and all little steps nessesery to share this sweeter taste with others.Please hear it.It´s in English.

http://premavilas.zv1.de/BAP%20Podcast/15.07.2011.mk.ks.mp3

Report from the visit of Harijan Maharaj in Berlin

BA Harijan Maharaj visited Berlin for  2 weeks.He gave us a lot of inspiration with  his joyful and in the same time strict mood of living spiritual life.

In Kurukshetra Ashram He gave open  lectures every evening

Gaura Arati in Kurukshetra

One sunny day we went for harinam in the park.

Maharaj plays a hungarian folklore instrument called citra.

Is beautiful to hear the holly name in so many different moods of the different  cultures!

Little part of our program in the park

Bhajan with Jaganath Prasad

After the bhajan and distributing of invitations Harijan Maharaj  gave a lecture  from Bhagavat-gita

We had many young friends atractked to the special sounds :) 

Some of them tryed to play too :) 

Swami BA Harijan gave lectures every morning in Vrinda Kunja Ashram

Mahaprabhu - Giridhari are always shining there for us

Maharaj tryed to teach us a few sanskrit verses from Bhagavat-gita....

On one of the evening programs a journalists from a local newspaper visited the temple,joined the program of Maharaj and made an article after a few days.
Also Maharaj shared very intersting experiences about working with people,organising tours ,newsletters and a better organisation and strategy.

And the premier of the film "Guru" was succesful!

The room was full of enthusiastic people who came for the event

Specialy for the case there were german subtitles

 Harijan Maharaj has co-produced the movie about the search for the guru, called Guru. Director of the movie is Tamas Toth. It has been shot in February 2010, during the Kumbha Mela in Vrindavan and the premier exhibition took place last december

India-My Dream -a brilliant production of a photo album book with 216 pages and more than 200 color photos,colected in 4 years work of Harijan Maharaj and a friend of him from his Inbound-Yoga toors to India.The book got 3 National Awards in Hungary.

Now Maharaj went back to Hungary,where he helpy for the organisation of the Summer Hungary Mela in Nanda Falva.We hope Harijan Maharaj will visit us again to share more intersting stories for Krsna and his devotees.

Bhakti Abhay Harijan Maharaj Ki Jay!

Gurudeva Ki Jay!

Hari Bol!

Invitation for The World Vaishnava Association meeting in Berlin

Dear Vaisnavas

Koti Pranams

It is my pleasure to invite you to a European meeting of WVA secretaries and supporter.

It is so nice that we can openly talk about any topic of our common concern.

We will present the WVA portrait for unified presentations in Europe.

In the age of education a common platform is a natural step forward to show to the world who Vaisnavas are and what they have to offer.

It would be our pleasure to host your delegates. Please tell us in advance how many and whom we may expect.

All glories to all Vaisnava Acaryas.

Date:

17. July 2011

Venue:

Kurukshetra Asram – Invalidenstr. 145, 10115 Berlin, Germany

Program:

16. July arriving day and Brahmahotsava festival of their Lordships Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Govindasundaram

17. July WVA Meeting starts after Prasadam at 09.30 with the WVA portrait and different points collected by the secretaries.

18. July departure day

For further information please contact:

balabhadra@gmail.com

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"Meat Eaters Anonymus" Festival

Here is a small report from the Spoon Revolution festival in Vrinda Kunja center,Berlin.In the same weekend we had a stand on a festival in Cottbus,so it was an intensive weekend.Also Lord Indra was playing with the clouds so it was very rainy all the time,but this didnt desturb the inspired vegetarians to celebrate together the  common goal of compassion.On the video you can see part of the performance of our dear friends from Quiro,more about them you can see here : http://quirio.com/  . 

One of the main messages of the festival  was 

"You are not alone,i had meet on my plate too !"

City Festival in Cottbus 2011

Dear friends,we want to share with you our nice experience from the Cottbus festival two weeks ago.The festival is a typical street festival with food stands,stages with music,art and takes place every year.Normaly the devotees from ISKCON temple in Leipzig are participating regulary.We also had invitations other times but we took part for first time this year with the nice coorperation of the devotees from Leipzig,Berlin and Jena!Without them would be not posible :) Thanks again and again :) 

Dedicated to the sacred water!

On the photo above you can see a group photo of all participating united to serve a common goal !

Our tent

and again :) 

In the front the devotees had a stand with books and CD´s and prasadam,so in the middle we also had the mango lassi and sweet balls for distribution :) 

The prasadam...

And the mango lasi rounds!Very delicious:) 

The temple tent 

Bhajan and fire

Many different devotees took part in the chanting of the holly names

Chanting

Gopati and his wife Mohini Priya on the photo below are some of the organisators of this event and we are very thankful to them for the coorperation !Hari bol!

Happy in the service :) 

This was the devotional stage next to the tents.The devotees singing bhajans...

We took turns in the singing.

And sometimes the people had more fun...

And theather.Very nice play prepared by Hriday Gauranga prabhu,who went specialy to the ashramin London for to learn this story!

One of two biger stages on the feast.

We are singing again and again :)

A devotional band playing alternative music for Nrsmha deva :) 

The cook was working hard!

Prasadam break :) 

So ...the team again....The mercy of the devotees ki jay!

Jamuna ji ki jay
Consciousness all over the world ki jay!
Radhe Radhey!