ISKCON is ramping up for its mega 50th anniversary celebrations, with events to be held all over the world throughout the year 2016. These will commemorate the day Founder-Acharya Srila Prabhupada officially registered the society in New York on July 11th, 1966.
But ISKCON will warm up for that by celebrating another 50th in 2015. They’ll commemorate both Prabhupada’s leaving Kolkata on the steamship Jaladuta on August 13th, 1965, and his arriving in Boston, USA on September 17th.
ISKCON India’s Eastern temples have banded together with chairman Sankarshan Nitai Das to organize events centered around the first part of his journey.
Starting in January 2015, they’ll theme all their temple festivals around Prabhupada’s spiritual quest. They’ll distribute thousands of his books, put up billboards that celebrate his achievements and hold public Harinamas at Kolkata locations that were key in his earlier life.
They’ll also organize programs at schools and colleges where they’ll distribute literature on Prabhupada’s life and ISKCON’s history, then give the students quizzes on what they’ve read.
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HH Srila Prabhupad ji ki jai!!!!!! Gaurango Jai Jai! Hari Hari