H.H.Vedavyasapriya Swami - Installation of Sri Sri Radha Shyamasunder.

Rajvidya Das - 12th April 2010

Hare Krishna fellow devotees, friends and well wishers.

Please accept my humble obeisance
All Glories To Srila Prabhupada
All Glories To Srila Gurudev
On the very auspicious day of Purnima, Balaram Rasayatra, Krishna Vasant Rasa(krishna performs Rasa Dance twice in a year), it was also the appearance day of Hanumanji,Vamsivadana Thakur and Shyamananda Goswami, Srila Gurudev installed His dear most deities Sri Sri Radha Shyamasunder.

As we all know that for many years Srila Gurudev has been travelling with Sri Radha Shyamasunder, now they have a permanent residence at Vrindavan. It was Srila Gurudev's dream which has come true. The installation ceremony started on 29th March and concluded on 30th March the actual day of the installation. On 29th, the Adhiwas ceremony performed with various grain, invoking auspiciousness.

There was also an Initiation ceremony and yagna was performed, three devotees took shelter of Srila Gurudev. We, (My self, Nalini and Radharani) could not reach Vrindavan on this day. There were other members of our God Family from Delhi, Allahabad, Ludhiana, and Jaipur present.
We took a train from Mumbai on 29th March and arrived Mathura station on 30th March, at 2 am. As the train was arriving Mathura Station we could feel the purity of the Dhama, when the train stopped, the platforms were full of pilgrims sleeping all over the place.

In Bhagavad Gita the first instruction of Krishna to Arjuna was that you are not this body, you are a spirit soul, when we saw those pilgrims sleeping on the platforms without the comfort of beds we sensed that these people did not look educated but were really surrendered spirit souls.

We reached Vrindavan at the residence of Srila Gurudev, Radhe Dham a 5 Storey building, Srila Gurudev resides on the 3rd floor. We had the darshan of Srila Gurudev as soon as we got out of the Taxi. Srila Gurudev was waiting for us.
We went for Mangla Arati with Srila Gurudev, beautiful Gaura Nitai, Krishna Balaram, and enchanting Sri Sri Radha Shyamasunder. Vrindavan Radharani is Gorgeous and Beautiful. Full photo set available here

All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All glories to Vedavyasapriya Swami

Haribol Your servant Rajvidya das