Lord Ram with Mother Sita Devi worshipped.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead incarnated Himself as Sri Rama, appearing as the son of His pure devotee Maharaja Dasharatha, the King of Ayodhya. Lord Rama descended along with His plenary portions, and all of them appeared as His younger brothers. In the month of Chaitra on the ninth day of the growing moon in the Treta-yuga, the Lord appeared, as usual, to establish the principles of religion and to annihilate the disturbing
elements.

Every year New Vrindaban celebrates Ramnavmi with great joy and pomp. On Ramnavmi, the functions at New Vrindaban begin with mangala-arati at 5:00 am, followed by Sringar-darshan (where the Lord is decorated with new exquisite dresses), sacred abhishek, elaborate noon arati and offering of sumptuous bhoga.

This year's Ramnavmi falls on 24 March 2010. We will be announcing the celebration date and schedule of activities soon. Please watch out this space in March for more details of Ramnavmi celebrations at New Vrindaban.

We will celebrate the appearance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu on Sunday, February 28th. Since this is weekend day, everyone should have free time to participate in our festival. We want to spend the day chanting the Holy Name and hearing about Lord Chaitanya’s lila.

We will also have ISKCON Cinema playing various movies about Lord Chaitanya's pastimes in the Guest Hallway between the temple room and guest rooms all day. We invite everyone to cook something for Lord Chaitanya. Please bring your offering in time for the 6:30 pm offering. The offering should be an Ekadasi prep.

Please call Sikhi Mahiti das, 304-843-1600 x105 or email, sikhimahiti (at) gmail.com, with your questions or comments.

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