Janmashtami - All You Need to Know

Dear Friends

Hare Krishna. We wish you a joyous Janmashtami Festival. 

Wednesday, 24 August

Interfaith Arts & Culture Youth Fest

Main Stage, 9am - 12pm

Adivas Ceremony

Temple Room

6:00pm Ceremony to invoke auspiciousness

6:30pm 100 Ways to Counteract the Ill Effects of the Age of Kali

7:00pm Arati & Kirtan

7:30pm Prasad

Thursday, 25 August

Sri Krishna Janmashtami

Fast until midnight

Temple Schedule

4:30am Deity Greeting in Their 1st new outfit

             Mangal Arati & Kirtan

5:00am Tulasi-puja & Japa

7:00am Srila Prabhupada’s Guru-puja

7:10am Class by His Grace Sri Hari Das

8:00am Deity Greeting in Their 2nd new outfit

9:00am - 9:00pm Public Offerings, Kirtan & every hour the devotees will recitel of a Chapter of Bhagavad Gita 

9:00pm Altar Closes

9:00pm - 12:00am Kirtan

Midnight Deity Greeting in Their 3rd new outfit

               Arati & Kirtan

NOTE: Darshan will be until 1:00am.

Puppet Theatre @ The Amphitheatre

6:30pm

Krishna Book @ The Campfire

(near the Tulasi Garden)

8:00pm - 11:00pm

Senior Citizens Arts & Culture Fest
Main Stage @ 10:30am

Cultural Entertainment Stage

5:30pm   Music by The Morning Walk Band

6:45pm   Kirtan and Talk by His Grace Swarup Damodar Das

7:30pm  Sri Sri Radha Radhanath Maha Abhishek 

8:30pm   Variety Music by Kannan Veeramani (India)

9:30pm   Drama: "Divine Words"

10:00pm Kathak Dance by Harishika Maharaj

10:15am Bhajans by Veena and Rajesh Lutchman 

11:00pm Krishna Katha by Her Grace Rukmini Devi Dasi 

11:45pm Final Kirtan 

*Program subject to Change

Govinda’s Restaurant & Radhanath’s Gifts

Festival Trading Times: 10:30am - 11:00pm

Radhanath's Gifts has just unpacked a new range of Gopi Outfits and other stock.

Parking & Security

Note: there will be street closures. Parking will be available around the Temple vicinity and at the City Treasurer’s Office (opposite Chatsworth Centre). The Park & Ride Shuttle Service will be available from 7pm until 2am. There will be visible security and metro police patrol at all parking facilities.

Drop & Go at the Main Entrance to the Festival

Take advantage of this facility if you have seniors or children. Then park and make use of the shuttle service.

Janmashtami Festivals also held at the following venues:

New Jagannath Puri Temple (ISKCON Phoenix) from 4:00pm

ISKCON Pietermaritzburg from 6:00pm

ISKCON Ladysmith from 6:00pm

ISKCON Newcastle from 6:00pm

Friday, 26 August
Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa-puja
Fast until midday
Note: Everyone is invited to bring fruit and flower offerings for His Divine Grace. Offerings must be in by 10:00am. Offerings can be dropped off at the amphitheatre.

4:30am Mangal Arati and Kirtan

             by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
5:00am Tulasi Puja & Japa
7:30am Greeting Sri Sri Radha Radhanath in Their new outfit
7:35am Srila Prabhupada’s Guru-puja
9:30am Kirtan
10:00am Offering of Vyasa-puja Book &

               reading the meaning of Vyasa-puja
10:30am Srila Prabhupada's Abhishek Ceremony
11:15am Reading of Vyasa-puja Offerings
11:45am Offering of book distribution scores
11:50am Bhakti Theatre Drama: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
12:30pm Reading of Vyasa-puja Offerings
1:00pm   Srila Prabhupada’s Puspa-puja and Guru-puja
1:30pm   Feast

NOTE: The festival will be broadcast live on MayapurTV on the Durban channel.

Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa-puja celebrations also held at the following venues:

New Jagannath Puri Temple (ISKCON Phoenix) from 9:30am
ISKCON Pietermaritzburg from 6:00pm
ISKCON Ladysmith from 6:00pm
ISKCON Newcastle from 6:00pm

Get your copy of the POST today for your 12 page ISKCON50 sovernier supplement. Also see page 17 of the main body of the newspaper's main Opinion Piece dedicated to Srila Prabhupada.

We look forward to seeing you at the Festival.

Your friends at Sri Sri Radha Radhanath Temple