Arrival

Expanding Jagannatha's Mercy To All Devotees Worldwide, Removing Temple Restrictions For Foreign Seekers

📅 January 26, 1977 📍 Puri ⏱ 16 min
Jagannatha's mercy knows no borders; exclude sincere devotees of any nation from His temple and you diminish His supremacy.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Indian man (1): ...Prabhupāda, who has been kind enough to grace this occasion wherein we have assembled this evening to pay our respectful homage to Atibāḍī Jagannātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who was a contemporary of Lord Caitanya.

Prabhupāda: [Transl. Which language will be suitable for public?]

Indian man: [Transl. For public no problem either Bengali or English.]

Prabhupāda: [Transl. If I speak in English they will understand.] I thank you very much...

Hari-śauri: The microphone's not working.

Prabhupāda: ...for kindly receiving me. So in our humble way we are trying to... Indian man (1): Is the mike on?

Prabhupāda: ...introduce the Jagannātha Swami's culture. Jagannātha svāmī nayana-pathagāmī bhavatu me. [Śrī Jagannāthāṣṭaka] You'll be very much pleased that in the year 1967 I introduced Ratha-yātrā in San Francisco. And it is going on continually for the last six or seven years, and the government, they have fixed up a holiday for Ratha-yātrā.

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