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8th February, Varaha Dvadasi will be the 14th Anniversary since the opening of our Vrinda Kunda Temple! To celebrate, we are arranging special parikramas to the Holy Places of Braja. The program culminates with our famous Kalash Yatra, an ecstatic Sankirtan procession with the ladies carrying water pots with coconuts on their heads on 19 Feb. Programs will be going on from 8 Feb-21 March.

Departing almost every morning from Krishna Balaram Mandir, we will go by bus on parikrama to different pastime places of Braja. Lively narrations will be given of the different pastimes that happened in each place. We will return in time for lunch prasadam in the temple. And on all bus parikramas,Sannyasis and Prabhupada Disciples go free of charge.

On Sunday 19th Feb., will be the super ecstatic Kalash Yatra and sankirtan procession around Nandagrama. Kalash means water pot. The ladies will carry on their heads water pots with water from the sacred Pavana Sarovara with colorful cloth and coconuts on top. We'll have 108 pots and the Brijbasi ladies will train our foreign lady devotees how to carry them. Even some of our own ladies who go every year will train them! The Brijbasinis even dance with no hands with their pots on their heads! All the ladies who have participated told me it was the highlight of their Vrindavan experience.

After reaching at Vrinda Kunda, there will be Krishna Katha, butter churning festival, artika, and then feast for one and all. Then everyone can help feed all the Nandagram Brijbasis. That day transportation and prasad will be free for all who come.

So please come relish wonderful Vaisnava association in the Holy Dhama! Especially for those coming for the Anniversary Festivals at Tirupati, Ujjain, Aravade, and Noida on Nityananda Trayodasi and are wondering what to do till Mayapur Festival starts, most of our parikramas will take place after Nityananda Trayodasi. And our schedule ends 2 days before kirtan mela starts in Sri Mayapur!

                        Parikrama Schedule

February
 8th Feast at Vrinda Kunda

 9th Nityananda Trayodasi, Festival in Krishna Balaram Mandir

10th Nagara Sankirtan and feast at Nityananda Vat

11th Narottama's App. Feast at Radha Vraja Mohan Mandir

12th Vrindavan Temples

13th Raval Gokula

14th Barsana

15th Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Vyasa Puja

16th Govardhana Darshan

17th Radha Kunda

19th Vrinda Kunda Festival (Feast at Vrinda Kunda) Free

21st Javat - Ter Kadamba - Vrinda Kunda (lunch at Vrinda Kunda)


For your travel needs as well as assistance for booking accommodation in
outside guesthouses you can contact Laksmipriya at our Welcome Center at
<wc.vrindavan@gmail.com> Her phone no. is +91 81266702. The Welcome Center can
also arrange a taxi to pick you up from the airport or train station. For
booking in the Krishna Balaram Guesthouse, you can contact
<ganapati.gkg@pamho.net> or +91 565 2540021. For MVT <MVT@pamho.net> or +91 565
3207578.

Also these days you can book your train reservations on line at
<http://www.irctc.co.in/>

For more information see: <http://www.vrajakatha.com/parikrama-1.html>

For pictures of last year's festival on Facebook:
<https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154560354344838.1073741860.7878148
37&type=3>

In service of Srimati Vrinda Devi,
Deena Bandhu dasa