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Dedicated to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
The person who has not at any time received the dust of the feet of the Lord’s pure devotee upon his head is certainly a dead
body. And the person who has never experienced the aroma of the tulasi leaves from the lotus feet of the Lord is
also a dead body, although breathing. —Saunaka Risi, Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.3.23
Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Newsletter 1 March 2010
When Srila Prabhupada established temples he instructed the In 1992, Her Grace
devotees to worship the Lord very nicely, saying that if they did Tulsi Devi Dasi single-
so, the Lord would personally be present and the temples would handedly took the responsi-
be non-different from Vaikuntha. bility of cooking the “Raj
Waking up the bhoga” (Noon offering) for
deity in the the deities . She did this
morning (mangala seva alone(as there were
darshan), offering very less devotees to help)
bhoga to Their for many years and grad-
Lordships, offering ually raised the standard of
arati, singing for the offering by introducing
Their pleasure 12 offerings to the Lord,
(during arati), including 3 sweets which is
putting Them to still being followed till date.
rest (shayan She adds, “In those times it
darshan) are few used to be such a rush that
important sometimes I would be
activities of daily making hot chapathis and
worship which are they would be offering
regularly carried them one at a time to the
out at Sri Lord.”
Sri Radha Gradually,over the years many other devotees joined in to
Gopinath temple. perform this sacred service.
Offering bhoga Currently the seva is being managed by a senior devotee Tulasi
to the Lord is one Manjiri Devi dasi. The entire seva has become very well organised
of the most important activities, with a fixed number of devotees assigned for each day of the
since devotees accept only foodstuffs offered to the Lord in the week.
form of Prasad. The Lord is self sufficient.He does not need Everyday a total of seven
anything but as devotees we need to offer everything to the Lord offerings are made to the Lord
and accept the same in return as His mercy for our purification starting with Balya Bhoga-
and further Early morning at 4:40 am
advancement when the Lord wakes
in up, second just before
Krishna con- Sringar Darshan at
sciousness. 7:25 am, Mangal
When Bhoga-at 9:30 am, Raj
Their Bhoga-at 12:00
Lordships Sri pm,Vaikalika Bhoga at
Sri Radha 4:15 pm, Sandhya
Gopinath were Bhoga at 6:30 pm and
installed in the last one just before
1988, initially He goes to sleep (Shayan
the resident Darshan).
devotees Madhuram sweets which
started include cakes, cookies and pastries,
cooking for the deities. As per ISKCON standards Sandesh,Rasagullas,Rasa Malai,Burfi are also an extension of this
they used to offer Mangal Bhoga, Raj Bhoga and Sandhya Bhoga seva which are offered to the Lord as a part of the different offer-
with foodstuffs falling into four categories(as mentioned in the ings.
scriptures) those that are swallowed,
licked, drank and chewed.
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