The following quotes and statements validate the significance of the Worship of Sri Giri Govardhan
GOVARDHANA PUJA - ANNAKUTA
Govardhana Hill SB 10-24-29
Silas He Himself SB 10-24-35
Govardhana CC Madhya 2-4-83 "I am Govardhana Hill"
[After the Lord was laid down to rest on the bed, Madhavendra
Puri gathered all the brahmanas who had prepared the prasada and said
to them: "Now feed everyone sumptuously, from the children on up
to the aged!"
CC Madhya
2-4-83]
Govardhana CC Antya 2-6-292, 294, 295, 307:
[As they came, bringing all kinds of food, Raghunatha
dasa purchased it all. He gave them the price for their goods and
later fed them the very same food.
CC Antya 2-6-292]
[2-6-294: Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructed Raghunatha dasa, "This stone is the transcendental form of Lord Krsna. Worship the stone with great eagerness."
[2-6-295: Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu continued, "Worship
this stone in the mode of goodness like a perfect brahmana, for by such
worship you will surely attain ecstatic love of Krsna without delay.
CC Antya 2-6-295]
[2-6-307: "By offering me the govardhana-sila,
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has offered me a place near Govardhana Hill, and
by offering me the garland of conch shells, He has offered me shelter at
the lotus feet of Srimati Radharani."
CC Antya 2-6-307]
July 1969 Letter p.929 Giriraj
June 1976 Govardhana Silas (waited to see them) p.3166
Vaisnavas observe Annakuta (not Durga Puja) Oct. 1967,
p.231
Annadan CC Mad. 2 - p.46
["'My dear sir, since You, a great personality, have accepted Sanatana Gosvami, he is greatly fortunate; no-one can be as fortunate as he.'"
"Thus Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu embraced both Haridasa Thakura and Sanatana Gosvami and then got up and left to perform His noon duties."
"'My dear Sanatana,' Haridasa Thakura said, embracing
him, 'no-one can find the limits of your good fortune.'"]
CC Mad. 2 - p.46]
Annakuta 31-35; 43; BG 9.27
[BG 9.27: Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform - do that, O son of Kunti, as an offering to Me.]
Annakuta Madhya 2-4-93:
[The inhabitants of the village brought to the Deity of
Gopala as much food grains, ghee, yogurt and milk as they had in their
village.
PURPORT: Anna, ghrta, dadhi and dugdha are food
grains, ghee, yogurt and milk. Actually, these are the basis of all
food. Vegetables and fruits are subsidiary. Hundreds and thousands
of recipes can be made out of grains, vegetables, ghee, milk and yogurt.
The food offered to Gopala in the Annakuta ceremony contained only these
five ingredients. Only demoniac people are attracted to other types
of food, which we will not even mention in this connection. We should
understand that in order to prepare nutritious food, we require only grains,
ghee, yogurt and milk. We cannot offer anything else to the Deity.
The Vaisnava, the perfect human being, does not accept anything not offered
to the Deity. People are often frustrated with national food policies,
but from the Vedic scriptures we find that if there are sufficient cows
and grains, the entire food problem is solved. The vaisyas (people
engaged in agriculture and commerce) are therefore recommended in Bhagavad-gita
to produce grains and give protection to cows. Cows are the most
important animal because they produce the miracle food, milk, from which
we can prepare ghee and yogurt.
The perfection of human civilization depends on Krsna
consciousness, which recommends Deity worship. Preparations made
from vegetables, grains, milk, ghee and yogurt are offered to the Deity
and then distributed. Here we can see the difference between the
East and the West. The people who came to see the Deity of Gopala
brought all kinds of food to offer the Deity. They brought all the
food they had in stock, and they came before the Deity not only to accept
prasada for themselves, but to distribute it to others. The Krsna
consciousness movement vigorously approves this practice of preparing food,
offering it to the Deity, and distributing it to the general population.
This activity should be extended universally to stop sinful eating habits
as well as other behaviour befitting only demons. A demoniac civilization
will never bring peace within the world. Since eating is the first
necessity in human society, those engaged in solving the problems of preparing
and distributing food should take lessons from Madhavendra Puri and execute
the Annakuta ceremony. When people take to eating only prasada offered
to the Deity, all the demons will be turned into Vaisnavas. When
the people are Krsna conscious, naturally the government will be so also.
A Krsna conscious man is always a very liberal well-wisher of everyone.
When such men head the government, the people will certainly be sinless.
They will no longer be disturbing demons. It is then and then only
that a peaceful condition can prevail in society.
Madhya 2-4-93]