Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!!
Again I write because I could not send you an e-mail. Apparently it is no longer in use, the one you gave me. This is the only thing I could think of to do. Please reply to Radha-bhakti dd ASAP via e-mail if you are using. I hope you can visit as I see that you are in America by that time- maybe you can sneak away for a weekend?
Sorry to send this here but, anyways. Hare Krishna!
your aspiring servant,
Rasa-mandali dd
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Hare Krsna dear Hanumatpresaka Maharaja,
Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Haribol! We are writing to you on behalf of the Toronto Ratha-Yatra Organizing Committee. This year, our festival is taking place on July 13th-14th, 2013. Maharaja, do you know your availability at this time? We were wondering where you will be, and if it might be possible for you to attend our festival?
Our vibrant parade cruises right through Toronto’s downtown core, with three glorious chariots and thousands of devotees. The festival continues on Centre Island, where the famous Festival of India continues to inform and entertain the masses, and where one can find Toronto ’s own unique features. Some of the highlights of our festival have included:
- Ecstatic kirtan through Toronto 's famous Tunnel
- Sumptuous Prasadam (Over 35,000 plates distributed each year!)
- Q&A Tent
- Yoga Meltdown - our Hare Krishna yoga festival!
- Vegan Cooking Demonstrations
- Award-Winning Entertainment
- Dedicated Events for Children
- An Area Dedicated to "Simple Living, High Thinking"
- A Bhajan Kutir with Non-Stop Kirtan
- A Pre-Festival event, which in the past has been held at Dundas Square ( Toronto 's equivalent to New York 's Time Square), or at the Temple featuring twelve hour kirtans with such kirtaniyas as HG Madhava Prabhu
- ...and much more!
More than anything else however, Toronto ’s Ratha-Yatra presents an incredible outreach opportunity. There are countless people in this metropolitan centre that are in need of Krishna Consciousness. For this, we need your blessings and your association.
If there is a possibility that you can attend our festival, please reply to this email. Also, if possible, please inform us of where you might be arriving from.
Hoping to have the opportunity to serve you this summer.
Your servants,
Radha Bhakti devi dasi and Shyamalangi devi dasi
Toronto Festival of India (Ratha-Yatra) Hospitality Team
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HpS - Jaya! AGTSP paoho. We got the letter forwarded from Dayanidhi Das. I answered her with a copy to you. We had actually been thinking of Toronto, but we are still in this North America Tour that weekend. We get back to Nashville like the 16th. After that maybe we could come for some other festival???