ISKCON, Mayapur will celebrate the foundation laying ceremony of the historic Ram Temple in Ayodhya
Temples across the US will perform special poojas and prayers, while a large number of Indian-Americans have said that they would lit diya to celebrate the bhoomi poojan of the Ram Temple.
Biswabrata Goswami
Hummingbird News
KRISHNAGAR, 4 AUG: The International Society for Krishna Consciousnes (ISKCON), Mayapur will celebrate the foundation laying ceremony of the historic Ram Temple in Ayodhya tomorrow.
“The
bhoomi pujan and laying foundation stone of a grand Sri Ram Mandir on 5th
August at Ayodhya is a historic and proud moment for all the followers of
Sanatan Dharma across the world. The much awaited construction of the Sri Ram
temple is hailed by millions of ISKCON devotees all over the globe and we at
the headquarters of the institution in Mayapur plan to celebrate the day by
offering lamps before the deities and organising Harinam Sankirtan in the
Chandrodaya temple campus throughout the day”, said Subroto Das, head media
communications, Iskcon, Mayapur.
His
Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, founder Acharya of
International Society for Krishna Consciousness, as an ambassador of the
Sanatan Dharma in the western world acquainted
masses the glories of Maryada Purshottam Sri Ram Chandra in America, European nations to name a few, Das
said.
Earlier on Saturday, the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust
had issued an appeal to all saints across the country to perform puja in their
respective temples and Maths from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm on August 5.
Champat Rai, general secretary of the Trust, requested people to
watch the live telecast of Bhoomi Pujan on television and light earthen lamps
at home in the evening.
A similar call was issued by the VHP to saints and seers
associated with the front. It said the Bhoomi Poojan day must be celebrated
keeping in mind the guidelines issued by state administrations to contain the
spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
“We will follow the same rules in Bengal. People have been asked
to stay at home and watch the ceremony on television. They will sing devotional
songs and offer prayers at home,” said Sourish Mukherjee, head of the VHP’s
media cell in Bengal.
Nabendu Kumar Bandopadhyay, a state leader of the Hindu Jagran
Manch, said, “Our organisation too will celebrate the day through prayers at
homes and temples. There will be no public gathering.”
Meanwhile, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has collected soil from
famous temples and places of pilgrimage spread across West Bengal as well as
water from several rivers for the bhoomi pujan to be performed at the site of
the Ram temple in Ayodhya on August 5 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is
scheduled to lay the foundation stone.
VHP workers have collected soil from a large number of sites such as the Madan Mohan temple at Cooch Behar district in north Bengal, the temple of Kapil Muni at Sagar Island in the Bay of Bengal, Dakshineswar temple near Kolkata where Ramkrishna Paramhans was a priest and Kalighat temple located near chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence.
Similarly, water was collected from the confluence of Saraswati,
Kunti and Hooghly rivers at Triveni in Hooghly district, the Bhagirathi river
near the Iskcon temple at Mayapur and several other places.
Temples across the US have announced special events to celebrate the foundation laying ceremony of the historic Ram Temple in Ayodhya, with a tableau truck displaying digital images of the Ram Temple going around the US Capitol Hill on Tuesday, according to Hindu community leaders.
Temples
across the US will perform special poojas and prayers, while a large number of
Indian-Americans have said that they would lit diya to celebrate the bhoomi
poojan of the Ram Temple.
Indian-Americans
from in and around Washington DC said that a tableau truck with a big LED
display on Sri Ram Mandir will go around the Capitol Hill and the White house
on Tuesday night. “Ayodhya Sri Ram Mandir Tableau will go around the US Capitol
Hill marking the beginning of the historic Temple construction at the holiest
site for billion strong Hindus around the World,” a statement issued by the
community leaders said.
The
Hindu Mandir Executives’ Conference and Hindu Mandir Priests’ Conference have
also called for a virtual collective national prayer across America to rejoice
the upcoming Shree Ram Mandir Poojan at Ayodhya.
Similarly
in the city of New York as well, Hindu community leaders have decided to
celebrate the historic occasion.
Images of Lord Ram and 3D portraits of the grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya will be beamed across the giant billboards in the iconic Times Square on 5 August.
Courtesy: Images from iNET.
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