last updated 16th January 2007
....and keep coming back between
now and January
Pictures of the Auckland inauguration yajna
Pictures from the Whangamata Harinaam and Boat festivals
Pictures from the Katikati Pizza Festival @ Jharikhanda (This page)
Pictures
from the program with Janananda maharaj ACBSP @ JTCd's & Vedavati's
in Katikati
(more
yet to come)
Pictures from the Rotorua program
Pictures from
the Hamilton program
His Holiness Ramai Swami gives class in the tent
Radha and sister Yashomati reherse before putting on their dance for the Lord and devotees before the pizza is served
we hope to add some pics of the dance too later......
while outside its all hands on deck to prepare and serve pizza for 150 hungry devotees
The pizza oven with Mangal Vaishnava prabhu and team pumping 'em out
with what all the devotees made and brought there were over 60 (sixty) big oven trays of pizza and a few small ones too
pick-up for servers distribution point
serving some extra preps to those who want pasta, salad, fruit salad and drinks to go with their pizza
Rama Priya and Purnamasi lining up for prasadam
pizza servers going out on distribution
just passing out a few of these - did you get one yet???
pizza distribution yajna ki jaya
Yashoda dhulala prabhu out and about with another tray full
Divya Govind prabhu heading to wash up to lead the bhajan for the Garbha-rasa
let the rasa begin
Click HERE
for a short Video clip
while the hard-core pizza connoisseurs continue to savour the flavour of the mixing of compatible rasas in the background
............no there wasn't a bad smell coming from little Gopal, poor Atmananda prabhu has Hay fever
......and then came the games and dramas
Click HERE for a short Video clip
Click HERE
for a short Video clip
a bus-load of devotees return to Auckland
meanwhile the dramas continue
second generation "Youth kirtan" until late in the evening
Jagannath Baladev & Subhadra taking refuge in the house when the cyclone came through
an effigy of Ravan is burnt to the ground
A short video clip of the burning of Ravan and
fireworks (9MB .avi)
The next day at JTCd's and Vedavati's in Katikati
with Janananda maharaj and about 75 devotees
JTCd's altar (see more detail here - cyber darshan)
photos by Gaura Gopal
more pics to come