submitted by Suvyakta Narasimha das
Serving Prabhupada and serving lunch!
Just on the outskirts of Vrindaban, Mathura, a group of devotees dedicated to Srila Prabhupada are operating a project inaugurated by ISKCON Bangalore. Here is a place of pilgrimage in India’s most holy land of Lord Krishna’s childhood pastimes, a beautiful temple and modern facility which is highly organized for preparing and distributing prasadam on a very large scale.
Place of Pilgrimage
Vrindaban-chandra Mandir in Vrindaban, Mathura (UP), India
Just outside the dome and torus structure is the Open Air Theater meant for holding cultural programs. During Kartik month, the OAT becomes live with many traditional dance drama programs featuring many distinguished artistes. The utsava murtis of Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan-chandra are brought in a pallaki [palanquin] to the OAT & various pastimes of Sri Krishna from the Srimad Bhagavatam are enacted in front of them for Their pleasure. The OAT can seat about 1000 people at a t a time.
A large, beautiful sarovar (water body) next to the OAT with its crystal clear water adds to the ambience of the place. Colorful boat festivals for Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha-Vrindavan-chandra every Kartik month lend lot of grandeur to the festival.
The cows provide fresh milk for the pleasure of Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan-chandra
time. The major festivals of the temple are Sri Krishna Janmashtami, Sri Radhashtami, Kartik Fest (7 day festival during Govardhan Puja time) and Gaura Purnima.
Opposite the temple altar and facing it is Srila Prabhupada’s altar. Srila Prabhupada’s pancha loha murti, seated on a Vyasasan with ornate wooden carving for the back drop gives a grand look to the altar. Srila Prabhupada is offered Guru Puja every day in the morning after darshana arati on this Vyasasan.
On festival days, the temple hall is decorated with flowers in various ways, locally called Phool Bangla, for the pleasure of Their Lordships.
Srila Prabhupada faces the Deities.
The Akshaya Patra Program at Vrindaban
Cauldrons for cooking rice and dal
50 vans transporting the meal from the Akshaya Patra kitchen in Vrindavan everyday. The children are fed with unlimited meal quantity sumptuously. The kitchen in Vrindavan is ISO 22000 certified by DNV for Food Safety Management Stystems. The equipment used include a roti-making machine which can make 40,000 rotis/hour, steam generators for cooking rice and dal, vegetable cutting machines which can cut about 300kg of vegetables per hour, grain cleaning machines which can clean 3 tons of grains per hour etc.
Vehicles to transport the meals to the schools.
Iskcon whas yesterday
It seems the ritvik vada program of Bangalore
is today & tomorow….holy moly,
that looks funtastic, it looks like our sweet lord Govinda
and Radha Vrindaban Chandra giving here blessings to this program.
Yes it looks like Srila Prabhupada is holding his hand over Madhu Pandits work
and the Bangalore connection making there way to the top with his blessing of the
real and only Acarya of Iskcon his divine grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svami Prabhupada
i have visited the temple & its fantastic. all Bangalore temples are beautiful. looking forward for Bangalore kanakapura project, i.e., krishna Leela them park
Dear Prabhujis,
All glories to Prabhupad!!
I am associated with Bangalore Iskcon for the past 13 years and has been attending Bhagavatham Class in English. Now i wanted a specific information on this Roti making machine. My wife works in this Jain International School in Bangalore and this school is looking for Chapatthi making machine and they wanted the same machine which is being used in Iskcon Akshaya Patra as it will be genuine. Could you please assist me with some dealers from where you have brought this?
Thanks a lot……….will visit Vrindavan once to check the machine along with them……… a excuse to see the lord of the universe.
Haribol
Manghat Prakash
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