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VAISNAVA DOGS

Radhe !

I have just returned today from Sri Nabadwipa Dham Parikrama and i want to share this unique experience with you.

We decided to visit Ek-Chakra village (the birth place of Nityananda Prabhu, who is none other than Sri Balarama in Krsna's pasttimes).

We started doing sankirtan there in the praise of Lord Nityananda and Gauranga:

Nitai Nitai Nitai Nitai Nitai Nitai Nitai He !
Nitai Gauranga Jai Nitai Gauranga !
Gaura Gaura Gaura, Gaura Hari !
and within few minutes, we were surrounded by these 6-7 dogs, who were not barking, but making the loud sounds, something similar to like "kweu-kweu" as if doing sankirtan with us. Some of them were also jumping with us while we danced in hari nam sankirtan.

We also noticed one of the dogs weeping, with tears in his eyes.

These dogs then accompanied us till the rest of our yatra in ek-cakra (we visited every place by foot).

Unfortunately, I was not able to catch this scene in my phone, since it does not have a camera.

When we sat at various places for hearing Nityananda Katha from Caitanya Caritamrita and Caitanya Bhagawat, these dogs also sat on the ground, for hearing hari katha.

That was the day of ekadashi, and our group sat under the mango groves for honouring our ekadashi prasadam. These dogs also sat there with us, and we also shared our ekadashi prasadam with these dogs.

The villagers told that whenever any sankirtan group comes, these dogs behave in the same way.

Hari Bol,

YHS,

Cintamani Sakhi devi dasi
(forwarded to me by Vraja Krsna Das)