Gaura Purnima march 12 2017, Gita Nagari Baru (GNB) got special mercy from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu..especially by the association of HH RP Bhakti Raghava Swami. On that day, around 300 devotees from Lampung, Sumatra Selatan and Jakarta assemble in GNB to follow the festival program.
The program was began by Mangala Arati at 4.15 pm and after Guru Puja the devotees get ready to do Parikram around the village. It is remaining us that resident of Vrindavan do Vrindavan Parikrama on the aspicious day. After several time, devotees passed Mahavana Forest and they did Go Puja led by Guru Maharaj. After that Guru Maharaj gave speech about the important of the forest and he suggest that the resident of GNB can bring their cows to the forest like what Krishna and Balaram do in Vrindavan. Then Maharaj started to cut the ribbon on the name board of Mahavana forest that mean that Mahavana is official opened.
After parikram finished, devotees brought the dities of Srila Prabhupada, Gaura Nilai, and Sri Sri Radha Madana Gopala back to temple and directly continued diksa ceremony by Guru Maharaj.
Devotees in GNB very happy because on the auspicious day Guru Maharaj has officially opened the Mahavana Forest. We hope it will be one of offering to our Acharya Srila Prabhupada who has big desire to establish Vaisnava Community around the world.
Hare Krishna
Reported by Krishna Prema Dasa
