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ROAR 53 | SINGAPORE | SATURDAY | 25 MARCH 2017
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s Jayanti Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s Jayanti was celebrated at Singapore Ramakrishna Mission on 12 March 2017. At the temple hall, the pictures of Sri Chaitanya in his ecstatic state and Chaitanya and Nityananda dancing with the Lord’s Name were displayed with a beautiful floral deco.
attachment to his scholarship. The second was his great compassion in redeeming Krishna’s devotee who was afflicted with leprosy. The third was his utter detachment to the sense objects and control of sense organs namely the sugar getting evaporated from his tongue.
Swami Satyalokananda led the group hymnal chanting of Sri Jagannatha Ashtakam and Sri Madanagopala Ashtakam. Swami Vimokshananda, in his short speech, traced the glorious life of Sri Chaitanya. He narrated three main incidents from his life. The first was throwing away of his own superior writing on ‘Nyaya’ – Logic, a literary work that he created. This proved to show how ‘Nimai’, the early name of Chaitanya – was bereft of any
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The function came to a close with the singing of ‘Shyama Nama Sankirtanam’ while a special arati to Sri Chaitanya and earlier a special puja were conducted by Swami Pavitratmananda. It was attended by 120 sincere devotees who offered ‘Abir’ at the holy feet of Sri Chaitanya and also Sri Ramakrishna. Prasad was given to all. Logistics were taken care of by Swami Jitamanasananda.
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