Situation Vacant

Mar, 2012

Gaudiya Vaishnava Resident Pujari-priest is needed, boarding and maintenance paid, duties include: To officiate in leading the regular and festive worship of the temple’s altar deities ‘Their Lordships Shree Shree Radha Madhava’ according to the procedures and standards established by ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission and described in Srila Prabhupada’s teachings and by his personal practical [...]

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Five Trainee Pujaris

Mar, 2012

The Desire To See God The desire to see God, to touch God, to talk to God is in itself probably the strongest argument for His existence; besides the logic and evidences from the scriptures, this direct experience is very significant indeed. Bringing Deity Worship from the insiders circle of elderly pujari-priests and making it [...]

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Gaura Purnima Festival 2012

Mar, 2012

All members of our community are most cordially welcome at the Gaura Purnima festival, Radha Madhava temple in Belfast. Programme includes grand arati, new deity outfit, lecture on appearance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, guru-puja and feast prasadam to all guests. Programme starts at 17:30 pm Tursday 8th of March. Volunteers are welcome to attend earlier [...]

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Mangala Arati Time

Feb, 2012

In an overall programme of establishing Srila Prabhupada’s standard (instead of the overinflated standard of ISKCON ’80s) the mangala-arati time in Radha Madhava temple in Belfast has been established for 5 a.m (for the last three months). Srila Prabhupada writes: ”You are waking up your new deities too early! Best time is between 4:30 and 5 [...]

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Evening Dressing Photos 2011-2012

Jan, 2012

Evening dressing is usually done after the evening arati, at 18:50pm. It is followed by the 5th bhoga offering of the day, which include milk sweets. Photos courtesy of our evening pujari – Satya Rupa dd (ACBSP)

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End of Year 2011 – Radha Madhava Temple

Dec, 2011

It is a personal appeal and also the summary of Belfast temple events for the year. Today, when asking for fruit and vegitable bhoga donations at the vegetable market, I aske shop manager to ‘be generous’ in the “spirit of Christmas”. He asked me if we believed in that. I sure hoped it was “yes”. [...]

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