Nectar from Durban!

April 4- 9:
On April 4th, Maharaja flew in to Durban from Pretoria. He was basically in relax-mode, taking it easy, saving the voice and energy for the huge Ratha Yatra festival soon to take place the following weekend on the Durban beachfront. Every year before Ratha Yatra, Maharaja goes on a sort of ‘training’ program; you’ll find him in the mornings during japa, chanting around the temple moat with full force and steam, and a few devotees following behind him, struggling to keep up with his pace…yes, it was a pretty hilarious scene!

Throughout the week, an ocean of devotees from around the world

were floating in the country for Ratha Yatra- it was really waves of transcendental hype and energy bursting in the atmosphere! Devotees were either endlessly training in the plays with Bhakti Marg Swami, chopping unlimited bags of vegetables, cooking hundreds of massive pots of biriyani, having non-stop kirtanas, and so on…all in a whole-hearted endeavor for the pleasure of Lord Jagannatha and His devotees. And of course Maharaja couldn’t rest for that long…he also did a few spontaneous evening programs, with sweet, melodious bhajanas and deeply inspiring classes. His mood in the lectures focused on making devotional service more and more dense. (Download all mp3 audio on Spiritual Radio 108 . Go to uploads folder and file name ends with "dbn_sa" )

“Whatever service we do, let us do it first class- really nice. That’s also making it more dense because you know, if your offering is on automatic pilot it’s not the same. So in this way, this point of sändränanda-visesätmä, is on my mind. It has been on my mind for a while and it will be there maybe for my entire stay in South Africa. So everything will be related to this point…”

Reports on Ratha Yatra coming soon…!

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