Spiritual Safari 2025 (South India) cultural program in ISKCON Tirupati

So let's do one more time. Okay. Everyone loud chant. Okay. ¿What we're going to do now? I want to invite the devotees of safari to come to the stage. So we're going to sing little bit. We're going to accompany also Maharaj and the prophet disciples. We will request also his holiness Bhakti Bigna Binasim Haswami to say a few words to all of you the congregation, also of Tirupati. So some they're going to sit on the chair. Some we sit in the floor. Okay. If we need more chair we're going to bring. So please, Safari devotees I kindly request also Maharaj, His Grace Bhagavatamrita Prabhu, please come here. We're going to sing a few more minutes and come. Come. Badaman Mala Prabhu Mataj, please. Thank you. Maybe Prabhu, we need some more chairs. I don't plan about it. Chairs. Chairs. Some more. Little bit more. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Just sit down there in the floor. We're going to sit together.

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Yes. Prabhu, you see his holiness Jaya Pataka Swami is watching this cultural program from Chennai. He's watching live. Okay. So we want him to see the safari devotees chanting. So please, more devotees come. Don't worry. Come here. Sit down here. Plenty of space. Here. Come. Come here. ¿Prabuji, can we have some more chairs? Four or five chairs. Now no. Tomorrow. Krishna Bata two cantas. Yes, a toka two cantas. You sing and she can play for you. OK. This one. ¿Can you hold this mic?

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Hare Krishna, dear devotees. OK. So we are starting. We continue with our cultural program today. This is the Safari Yatra. We are very happy to be in Tirupati. Here we feel home. This is like when we go to. To Mayapur Dam. When you come to Mayapur or Vrindavan, you feel home. Now, Tirupati. I have to say something about the devotees in Tirupati. They have a very warm heart and they have done so much for us to take care of the devotees who have come from every corner of the world today. And this is a humble cultural program that we offer to all of you for the pleasure of his grace Rebati Rahman Prabhu, his good wife and all the devotees. And of course for the pleasure of three Radha Govinda Ashtazaki. So I would request to sing another five minutes from Krishna Avatar Prabhu. Krishna Avatar Prabhu. He is from South America from a country called Uruguay. You know, this is from the other corner of the world. To go to that country you have to fly approximately thirty five hours to reach there. By fly, can you imagine, this is our train from Trivandrum to Calcutta. Mayapur will take this much thirty five hours. But by fly, you have to fly to South America. So he's here with us. I request him to sing. So we have devotees also who come from different parts of the world. We have his grace Bhagavatamrita Prabhu from Brazil. And we have his holiness Bhakti Narasimhaswami from South Africa. We have his grace Jivanath Prabhu from United States of America. We have his grace Misra Bhagavan Prabhu on the Mrindanga from America. The last three. By the way, the last three devotees which are mentioned are initiated disciples by Ac Bhakti Vedanta Swami Sila Prabhupada. So we are very fortunate to have Sr Prabhupada disciples with us. And it's one more Srila Prabhupada disciple. I would like to mention one more who is coming on safari for many years, many times. Is his holiness Bhakti Vikna Binas Narasimhaswami Maharaj So we are very grateful to all of you. So now let's stop talking and listen and chant. Please. Everybody also repeat loudly. Okay. Please. No sleeping is allowed here. We all should chant the Mahamantra Hare Krishna together. Okay. Alle Christen.

Krishna, Krishna, everybody.

So beautiful. Thank you very much to Krishna Batara prabhu. Thank you to all the devotees. Thanks to all of you. I will now would like to in introduce. And you know you can hear from some of the devotees who have come from different corners of the world. And first I would like actually to call one Sila Prabhupada disciple. To maybe to tell one Pastor Nzila Prabhupada. ¿Would you like to hear one first time of Srila Prabhupada? OK. I will call his grace Mister Bhagavan, please. You know Mister Bhagavan Prabhu, he has some personal association with Sira Prabhupada in Mayapur. ¿In which year? In nineteen seventy six. But all these years in Christian conscience. This is the first time he come into South India. And this is the first time coming to Tirupati. So he told me some Leela is there I know Sila Prabhupada related very much the culture of South India. I would like maybe this or anyone that you want to say to us if you can share a lila with Sila Prabhupada.

Hare Krishna. My name is Misha Bhagavandas. I live in Dallas, Texas in nineteen seventy six. Today I was reminded of this pastime when we were at a temple and there was a Chennai band with the long Chennai. Everybody knows what a Chennai is. Yeah, like a clarinet. And in South India they have this particular famous word, Chennai bands. So April nineteen seventy six should have provided invited a Chennai band to come from here all the way to Mayapur. And they put themselves up on top. Everybody been to Mayapur, Mayapur there's a main gate and on top there's little towers. So it was a Chennai band of three men. One of them played a drum, a big Medunga, And he had little silver taps on his hands. So he used all his fingers and they had a little stick in the other hand. And he was just playing like, brr. And then the Chennai would break in and the cartel player. So this was really loud. And all the devotees started reacting to it because you could hear this all over Mayapur. And then Sridha Prabhupada, he would take his morning walk every day. He would begin by going up on top of the lotus building. He'd do three times around on the top of the lotus building, around Jaypattakaswamy's house. And then he'd come down the stairs, go to the main gate, take a left turn, go to the Surah kitchen, make a U turn, and then come back. And then follow the same route and go in and greet the deities. So when Prabhupada was coming back from the Sulab kitchen, heading towards the main gate, devotees went up and stopped him and said, shila, Prabhupada, these people are making all this noise, making this music up here and we can't. It's disturbing our Joppa. And Prabhupada stopped. He put his cane into the ground and he said, it is the music to the gates of Vaikunt.

Wow. What a wonderful lila of Sila Prabhupada, Hare Krishna.