Questions And Answers: Festivals / Sāka-Festival

Do we find acyuta-sāka anywhere now?
Questioner: Satyarāja Govinda dāsa, USA
Date: 2022-01-09
Jayapatākā Swami: I was just thinking that in Māyāpur we should have a sāka festival
so we can show all the different sākas.
I don’t know what sākas are available in the USA.
But here in Māyāpur they have a variety of sākas.
Helañca-sāka grows in a lotus pond,
on the top.
Wherever you have lotus pond in America, you can grow Helañca-sāka there.
Also, Russia!
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Is cabbage considered as a sāka. Is coriander, mint curry leaves considered sāka? And also some sākas are available only in Bengal not available in Tamil Nāḍu. So how to offer these things to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu?
Questioner: Anonymous
Date: 2022-01-09
Jayapatākā Swami: You can grow the sāka.
Get the seeds.
I don’t know if spinach is technically a sāka.
We could may be prepare it like a sāka.
Normally, I don’t know whether bādha-gobi -
cabbage is considered a sāka.
Curry leaves is a type of spice
and coriander leaves.
So these are like leaves
from different vegetables and things.
So maybe some of the things are there in Tamil Nāḍu,
and they have poṭala and pumpkin leaves.
So we might ask the devotees to make a comprehensive list
of different sākas
and see for the Tamil devotees which ones are available in Tamil Nāḍu.
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