The Gaura Purnima day. A couple of years ago many people had come to celebrate the Lord’s appearance. A foreign student asked “was it really true that this was our Saint Patrick’s day?” The speaker said it was. That worked it’s way into the name of the outfit. This morning at the mangala arati the Saint himself led the kirtana. The temple president got locked out of his room while showering and had to come wearing a tee shirt and a green towel. In the morning the Deities wore last year’s outfit. Red yellow and mango. The color scheme was suggested by one of the young girls. That made that one called out of the mouths of babes.
The evening saw this year’s new dress. This one is a ganga-yamuna style that is silver and gold. So this one’s name will be nadiya sasadhara. because though the words seem to mean the white rabbit of nadiyathe translation given is “moon of nadiya”
Another dry day for us pedalers. From the asrama in the usual begining. But at brommer and seventeenth i took the right and went back to seventh. Up the usual way to a metaphysical bookstore to get some sandalwood oil to massage the Deities along with some metaphysical incense to offer Mahaprabhu for his appearance day.
Since the new dress was put on for the sandhya arati, the devotees asked that it be left on for the morning and the next day too. So at the end of the festival day i submited.