Krishnas födelsedag/birthday

Here you see Sri Krishna and Srimati Radharani dancing in the kirtan.



Ananda Premdasi enthusing everyone with her beautiful kirtans and bhajans. She also made all the guitarplayers envious when she played the sitar as if Goddess Saraswati herself incarnated on the strings...



Sripad Bhakti Abhay Shridhar Maharaj spoke about Lord Krishnas appearance and how he blesses his devotees.











This is the abhishek, where Makhan Chor (Krishna) is being bathed with yoghurt, mangopulp, milk, rosewater and honey. Its a great opportunity for everyone to participate in devotional activities. Such activities purify our hearts and makes us soft. And makes us dance...



Naturally the Krishna-monks, the Krishna-friends and the Hindus love to dance and sing to celebrate Lord Krishna. Krishna is there wherever his name is being chanted and everyone could perceive the sublime bliss that filled the room...



Tulsi dd and Arci dd swaying along in the vibrations



The supreme Lord and his consort in the lap of Ananda infront of the altar. The beautiful altar was decorated by Maria and Tulasi.



Here Krishna is watching himself killing demons on film :)



And before the finale we were happy to have several sparks of consciousness perform a great fireshow for Krishnas and all the others present pleasure. It was beautiful and awe-inspiring...













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And here is the finale. For sure around 108 dishes, maybe more, maybe less. Maybe less is more honest, but anyhow it was ALOT. You could find there different kinds of sambar soup, pistage-berberis-rice, chutneys, hommous, beans with chilli, panirscramble in cremefraise, tomato raita, cucumber raita, different kinds of subjis, chickpea stew, gaurangapotato gratain (OMG), nectarindressing with avocado, deepfried panirballs with spices and hazelnuts etc etc etc



Among the sweets you could find cookies, lemonfromage, gajarhalva, candied ginger halva, cakes, raspberry cream, nut-fruit balls, sweetrice, laddus, simply wonderfuls etc etc etc



Honoring the Caranamrita, the bathing water that we bathed Lord Krishna with.



Prasadam, food offered to Krishna, makes you addicted and the addcition will stay with you for many lifetimes to come :) here you see bhakta Alex in bliss.



Bernardo and Aanis in deep conversation over the prasadam...



Round 2, round 3, round 4, in the end you lost the counting...

Srila Prabhupada celebration/firande

English: Yesterday we celebrated the 114th anniversary of Srila Prabhupadas birthday, with dancing kirtan.

Svenska: Igår firade vi Srila Prabhupadas 114:de födelsedag, med dansant kirtan.


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Janmastami celebration/firande in/i Borås

English: For Janmastami we were invited by our dear friend Anandaa Premdasi to come and do kirtan together and also to give Hari-katha. Here is a picture from the elevator in the student house where she lives. She had designed an invitation poster.

Svenska: På Janmastami var vi inbjudna till vår kära vän Anandaa Premdasi för att hålla kirtan tillsammans och ge Hari-katha. Ovan är en bild från hissen i studenthuset där hon bor. Hon hade designat en inbjudningsaffisch.



Eng: Vasudeva giving Hari-katha, based on the Bhagavad-gita. About 20 people participated, mostly students from India.

Sve: Vasudeva givandes Hari-katha, baserat på Bhagavad-gita. Omkring 20 pers deltog, de flesta var indiska studenter.



Eng: Just before midnight, the time of breaking the fast, Anandaa played beautifully on the sitar.

Sve: Precis innan midnatt, tiden för att bryta fastan, spelade Anandaa vackert på sitaren.



Eng: The birthday child, also known as the lord of the universe.

Tomorrow we will celebrate Janmastami again, big time for the public. There will be great things happening! Come on up to the Nimai House tomorrow! We will start 5 P.M.

Sve: Födelsedagsbarnet, även känd som universums herre.

Imorgon kommer vi att fira Janmastami igen, storslaget för allmänheten. Stora grejer kommer att hända! Kom upp till Nimaihuset imorgon! 17:00 börjar vi.
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Glimpse of / Glimt av Berlin Mela

English: Karuna-Mayi raising her arms in kirtan like Nimai.

Svenska: Karuna-Mayi höjer sina armar i kirtan som Nimai.



Eng: It was four years since the deities (Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Govinda Sundaram) were installed in Berlin. This was celebrated with a festival in Vrinda Kunja, Berlin. On the picture above you see Chaitya Guru and Prema Kishor conducting a fire sacrifice.

Sve: Det var fyra år sedan gudsgestalterna (Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharvika Govinda Sundaram) installerades i Berlin. Detta firades med en festival på Vrinda Kunja, Berlin. På bilden ovan ser ni Chaitya Guru och Prema Kishor anrätta ett eldoffer.





Eng: Srila Gurudeva giving a lecture in the Mauerpark.

Sve: Srila Gurudeva ger en lektion i Mauerpark.



Eng: Relaxed bench conversation with Gurudeva. Prem made the Blues Brothers look like Tweety.

Sve: Avslappnad bänk-konversation med Gurudeva. Prem fick the Blues Brothers att se ut som Tweety.



Eng: Bhajan evening.

Sve: Bhajan-kväll.
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Camp Burn Yourself (the uncut version)

ENG: What really happened...
SV: Vad som verkligen hände...







SV: Du behöver inte oroa dig :) Egentligen så var de alla mkt snälla. Några har t.om. lovat att komma och elda på Krishnas födelsedag den 4e september.

ENG: No need to worry :) Actually they were all very kind and nice. Some of them have even promised to come and make fireshow on Krishnas birthday the 4th september.

Let me present... / Laat mig presentera...

Arci Devi Dasi and/och Karuna-Mayi Devi Dasi



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Camp Burn Yourself

ENG: Equipped to the teeth with huge pots and fire we headed towards the CBY festival (Camp Burn Yourself) to distribute Krishnas prasadam :)

SV: Utrustad till tänderna med kastruller och eld begav vi oss emot CBY 2010 (Camp Burn Yourself) för att distribuera Krishnas prasadam :)





ENG: Here we first offered the food to Sri Krishna
SV: Här bjöd vi först Sri Krishna att smaka på maten.







ENG: Juggling hippies and fire eaters in a grand mix of nice people who performed and practiced toghether in many workshops their dangerous, talented, well coordinated and fiery tricks. Traditional swedish folkmusic was also one thing that made me like this festival alot. So many talents in one place. And so much fire! (But the camera man was sleeping for the time of fire so no pics of that) :P

SV: Jonglerande hippies, företagare, eldslukare och en himla massa odefinierbara trevliga människor. Det var en salig blandning av olika akrobatiska, livsfarliga, eldiga, skickliga, välkoordinerade framträdanden och alla gillade att elda en massa. Mycket eld. Väldigt mycket eld. (Men när det var dags för eld sov kameramannen så det finns inga bilder på detta) :P





ENG: Tulasi & Srimati doing their serious kitchen services
SV: Tulasi and Srimati gjorde allvarligt sina plikter i köket





ENG: This is how happy you become from prasadam. Harcore meateaters was surprised and admitted that it was very nice and asked for the recipe.

SV: Så här glad blir man av prasadam. T.om. råbarkade köttätare erkände att det var riktigt gott och frågade förundrade om receptet.





ENG: Never leave a pot of cooking rice. Or rather, never forget to bring the ricecooker again.

SV: Lämna aldrig en kokande kastrull med ris. Eller rättare sagt, glöm aldrig igen riskokaren.





ENG: In the rain you could separate the true hippies from the others, meaning the others stayed inside and looked.

SV: I regnet kunde man urskilja vilka som var riktiga hippies, mao de andra stannade inne.

Welcome for Krishna's birthday party! / Välkommen på Krishnas födelsedagskalas!

English: Welcome to the Nimai House the 4th of september. 5 P.M.

Celebration of the day when God's origin appeared on earth in his eternal form, Sri Krishna, a beautiful blue boy with a peacock feather in his curly black hair and a flute in his hands.

Mantra meditation music, divine storytelling, spiritual vegetarian prasadam-food, ancient ceremonies and Krishna-movienight.

www.nimai.info

Svenska: Välkommen till Nimaihuset den 4e september. Kl. 17.00

Firande av dagen då Guds ursprung uppenbarade sig på jorden i sin eviga form, Sri Krishna, en vacker blå... pojke med en påfågelfjäder i sitt svarta lockiga hår och en flöjt i sina händer.

Mantrameditationsmusik, gudomligt historieberättande, andlig vegetarisk prasadam-mat, uråldriga ceremonier och Krishna-filmkväll.
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