Metro India News | Hyderabad 

Sri Gaura Purnima festival marking the transcendental appearance of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was grandly celebrated at Hare Krishna Golden Temple on Friday. Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the devotee incarnation of Lord Sri Krishna was born in 1486 AD that is 539 years ago at Navadweepa, Mayapur, West Bengal, on the auspicious day of Phalguna Purnima.

A special alankara of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu adorned the altar followed by darshan for all visitors. As part of the festival, devotees offered 56 varieties of delicious items to the Lord as 'Chappan Bhog' including sweets, kara, fried items, fruit juices and other eatables.

Later in the evening, a Grand Pallaki utsavam of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, was celebrated followed by 'Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga Ashtottarasata (108) Kalasha Maha Abhishekam' with varieties of fruit juices, select flowers, Panchamritam, Panchagavyam, Sugandha Dravyas in the midst of vedic hymns and mantra chantings, followed by an enlightening Special Pravachan.

Speaking on the occasion Sri Satya Gaura Chandra Dasa Prabhuji, President of Hare Krishna Movement, Hyderabad said that “As per Vedic revelations, Lord Sri Krishna appeared in this age in the divine form of Gauranga or Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in Bengal to inaugurate the Yuga Dharma of congregational chanting of Holy names of the Lord.

By taking shelter of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, everyone can practice chanting “Hare Krishna Maha Mantra” (minimum 108 times) every day and be free from the miseries of this world and ultimately attain loving devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna Himself.”

Special performances like dramas, skits, traditional dance, kirtans were performed by Hare Krishna Youth wing called “FOLK (Friends of Lord Krishna) & Congregation wing GIFTS (Gauranga International Foundation for Spiritual Services).