Saturday 5 November 2011

Deepotsava Celebrations at ISKCON Bangalore

Annual Deepotsava Festival Celebrations at ISKCON Bangalore

Celebrations inaugurated by Sri H D Devegowda, Former Prime Minister at ISKCON Sri Radha Krishna Mandir, Bangalore

Sri H D Devegowda, Former Prime Minister inaugurated the Deepotsava, festival of lights today, October 16, 2011 at ISKCON Sri Radha Krishna Mandir, this is a month-long festival which started on October 11, 2011 and will go on till November 9, 2011, this auspicious month Karthika masa also called as Damodara masa. This is one of the important festivals of ISKCON community wherein devotees experienced the spiritual bliss of remembering and glorifying the Lord Krishna as prankster and the most merciful Lord Sri Damodara, by offering ghee lamps to Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Krishna-chandra, with accompaniment of soul stirring devotional music.

Thousands of devotees joined to celebrate the spiritually enlivening month-long Deepotsava festival. During this festival, ISKCON Sri Radha Krishna Mandir was decorated with thousands of lamps, the temple altar was decorated with lamps of various shapes and sizes and a special Sanskrit song, Damodarashtaka was sung during the arati.
























For more information visit: http://www.iskconbangalore.org/press-release-deepotsava-festival-2011

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