KKSblog.com - Hamburg’s first Ratha Yatra! |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:20 PM PDT
Now after 42 years of Krsna consciousness in Germany, for the first time Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra made Their way through Their city. The Parade was short but powerful. Kadamba Kanana Maharaja was starting and ending the parade-kirtana. Jaya Gaura Prabhu, a Prabhupada disciple from Germany, was the main organizer of the Ratha Yatra and also lead a rocking kirtana for the lord. A small but beautiful stage program followed, with dances, bhajanas and even a German rap-group called “Tulsi Beatz”. The festival concluded with Markandeya Prabhu, a disciple of Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, who is an expert songwriter and inspired the audience with some wonderful pieces of his. It was indeed a successful Ratha Yatra for this important city! Can’t view the slide show? Just visit flickr!   |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2011 12:12 PM PDT (Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sweden, 2010) Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
" Krishna your not eating!" Krishna said: "I have already eaten so much and I am already completely full." "No you have hardly eaten anything and you are getting weak. You have to go to the forest for the entire day, and it has to last a long time…. so you may feel full now, but very soon it will be digested and there will be nothing to eat till lunch.The preparation is very nice and you will really like it." She is trying to get Him to eat. He doesn't but Rohini has personally cooked and Yasodha says to Rohini: "You speak to him, now". Rohini is considering herself to be Krishna's mother and says: "Listen to your mother. You are killing your mother by not eating what she has cooked for You. Please eat," So Krishna has to eat and eat and eat and they are forcing him more and more to eat and finally the whole ordeal of breakfast is over and it is time to go. They follow Him to the edge of the forest and then Krishna says: "No…. no, you cannot come!" Krishna finally asks his mother: "What is most important for us?" "Cows of course." Then Krishna says: " Isn't it true that we put the cows before us? " "Yes of course we do”. “Then I can't have shoes unless all the cows and calf's have them". Mother Yasodha couldn't arrange it, so that Krishna got out of it and then finally he wanted to go and Mother Yasodha, Nanda Maharaja and other elders follow him and then Krishna said: "We cannot get in the mood of playing with the cow heard boys if the elders are around and they still don't go so". So Krishna gets heavy and says: " I will go to hell if you don't go now! If I cannot go to the forest to play with the cow heard boys and the cows, then I cannot do my sewa. Then I will go the hell if I cannot serve the cows because of you". They still don't go, so the final argument that does it is was: "If you don't go home to cook then I will go hungry for lunch. I will not get lunch". Then they realise and finally they go and get ready to prepare lunch and like that Krishna can finally go alone in the forest. So we can see the residence of Vrindavan – they get more and more bound to Krishna so much that they can't leave him and in his absence they are also bound that they can only think of Krishna!
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Back in Germany, Maharaja went to the first Ratha Yatra ever in Hamburg, one of Germany’s main cities. Actually in Hamburg, Germany’s first temple was founded and famous personalities like Bhakti Bhusana Maharaja, Bhakti Vaibhava Maharaja and Sacinandana Maharaja joined there. But somehow or other there was never a Ratha Yatra blessing the local citizens. 
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