The day after tomorrow, on Sunday 31 October, devotees headed by Jananivasa Prabhu (from Mayapur) will be making puspa-samadhi of Padmalochan Das, at ISKCON Govardhan.
The puspa-samadhi program on Sunday will be as follows:
In the morning around 8-9 am Jananivasa prabhu with Mayapur sankirtan brahmacharis, and any other devotees wishing to attend will make the puspa-samadhi of Padmalochan Das at ISKCON Govardhan, near the place of Krishna's tax pastimes with the gopis. There will be some prasadam distributed to assembled vaisnavas (sweets as I understand). At 2 pm there will be a feast for Srila Prabhupada disciples at ISKCON Govardhan. (I am not arranging this personally, so this is the information I was given by my friends, who arrange the program)
On the same day in Mayapur around 9am devotees will assemble for kirtan & prasad program in Sruti-Bhavan bld (former Youth Forum) near Gosala, in the rooms where Prabhu was taken from to join Prabhupada-nitya-lila, seven months ago.
His life's work is Govardhan guide (book Madhurya Dhama) he spent 20 years of his life in Vrindavan, researching the Dham on the order of Srila Prabhupada, who gave him personal instruction to write books about Holy Dham.
It is his research and work that have became basis of knowledge of Vraja-parikrama and pastime places for devotees these days.
Padmalochan Das has very special place in Vraja, Govardhan in particularly (it is so wheither there is a physical samdhi or not).
Jananivasa Prabhu, his best friend, will be personally doing the puspa-samadhi installation at Govardhana with Mayapur sankirtan brahmacharis, brijabasis and all other vaishnavas who wish to come there to participate.
I have made 2 blogs for my husband (work in progress): http://brijabasi.blogspot.com/ http://padmalochan.wordpress.com/
If any of devotees reading this would like to share personal memories of Padmalochan das, I would much appreciate - just write whatever your true expirience of him was - to give a better perspective of his personality. I would like to write a book about him aventually where this memories will be included, but for now will be published in his blog.
- Vrindavan Lila Dasi
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