The guest house hosts both devotee and prospective devotee guests from around the globe. There are 28 luxurious marble rooms with best furniture and individual toilet facilities. The rooms are quite spacious and the highest standards of cleanliness are maintained. The guest house hosts a number of devotees including sannyasis, GBC members, gurus and other visiting devotees from places like Mumbai, Surat and Mayapur. The rooms all have split A/C facility and having wide balconies overlooking the garden and the temple. The auditorium has a capacity of 500 and hosts various spiritual and cultural programs on festivals, seminars and other events.
His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami was born in Bengal in 1945, His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami spent most of his early life in the city of Calcutta. In 1970, he left India to study in Germany.
Saturday 31 March 2012
Sunday 11 March 2012
DRESS DESIGN
When we inaugurated our temple in Ujjain, we ordered 27 sets of dresses from
Vrindavan, Mumbai and Mayapur for our deities - Sri Sri Radha Madan-Mohan, Sri
Sri Krsna-Balarama and Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai. However, in due course of time we
started to feel the need to make our own dresses and employed craftsmen from
different parts of India and set up our own workshop. Those days we did not have
any idea that this humble endeavor of ours would gain such popularity and
devotees from different parts of the world would appreciate the designs,
craftsmanship and beauty of our work so much that orders would start to pour
in.
Today we are making dresses for various temples from all over the world. Among them, notable are, ISKCON Delhi (Sri Sri Radha Partha-sarathi), ISKCON Mumbai (Sri Sri Radha-Rasabihari), ISKCON Madurai, ISKCON Dwarka, ISKCON New Jersey and ISKCON
South Africa.
All these temples are getting their dresses made here not only because of the very high quality of our work but they are also appreciating the fact that we are actually trying to render service to different temples, and as a result of that our prices are much cheaper than anywhere else.
The workers in our
workshop are not only excellent craftsmen but due to the sublime influence of
the devotees and the wonderful spiritual atmosphere of Ujjain temple, they are
becoming devotees and regularly chanting the holy names of the Lord. Recently
some of them even got initiated.
Since we are just trying to serve Sri Sri Radha-Krishna and the devotees of ISKCON, we will be happy to help any temple to set up such departments. We will train their devotees to learn the art and also educate them about what materials to use and where to procure them.
Since we are just trying to serve Sri Sri Radha-Krishna and the devotees of ISKCON, we will be happy to help any temple to set up such departments. We will train their devotees to learn the art and also educate them about what materials to use and where to procure them.
Sunday 4 March 2012
GOSHALA
ISKCON Ujjain has a well maintained goshala just behind the temple. There are about 12 cows, bulls and calves altogether. The milk giving elderly cows are Sujata, Surabhi and Sunanda. Sujata gave birth to 2 male (Subir and Syam) and 1 female (Nandita) calves. Surabhi gave birth to 2 female calves (Nandini and Srimati) and Sunanda gave birth to 3 male (Sushil, Subal ad Sukanta) and 1 female (Narmada) calves. Sujata, being too old, gives only 2 to 3 liters of milk a day, whereas Surabhi gives 6 – 7 liters and Sunanda gives about 12 liters a day. There are 2 full time employees working for the Goshala under the supervision of H.G. Yogesh Chandra Prabhu, a resident Brahmachari of the temple. The cows are fed with different types of grass and other fodder. Apart from dry grass, there is corn grass and a kind of grass called 'hathi ghaas' or 'elephant grass'. Apart from this, the cows are fed with crushed wheat, jaggery (gur) and kholi (remnants after removing oil from soya bean seeds). All the medical needs of the cows are well taken care of. The milk from the cows is used to make the sweet preparations and other offerings for the Deities.
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