20230309 Gaura Pūrṇimā Festival Thanks Message [Bengali]

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram
Harihi oṁ tat sat

Jayapatākā Swami: Hare Kṛṣṇa! I forgot to say something in Bengali. Our Braja-vilāsa Prabhu had said there are many unsung heroes we have. Which means that behind this festival there are many sevaites which generally people cannot understand. Like, the various kitchens they are cooking, they cannot see any of the programs, but they toil a lot for this. There is a Help Desks set up and there are many, like some Śrīla Prabhupāda disciples and others who take help from this desk. Then, every day, whatever darśana you take every day of the Deities, the way in which the Deities are worshiped, seeing this makes many people very enthused. One Śrīla Prabhupāda disciple said that seeing such beautiful decorations of the Deities, he was crying. Then, when the Navadvīpa-maṇḍala parikramā goes on, the security behind the scene who take care of the tents, and other administrative services, many are involved. Our security guards do so much work! There are so many people like this behind the festival, I am not able to talk about all of them, so many divisions, so many devotees. So because there are so many devotees, we have the divisions and that way all the arrangements are going on very nicely. I forgot to say this also when I spoke in English just earlier to this, I should have said it. Now, there are different services like cleaning of the temple, etc., many of these go unnoticed but there are so many devotees involved in this. And amongst all this, the book distribution is going on which is very nice! In the middle of the parikramā, many devotees distributed Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books. This way, what should I say, there are so many divisions of the festival – devotees who do the registration, book distribution, prasāda distribution, and so on. So whatever I did not say earlier, I am offering my heartfelt gratitude to all of them. Hare Kṛṣṇa! Jaya Dhāmeśvara!