Sri Sri Gaura Nitai
Dear devotees and friends: We humbly invite you to participate along with devotees from Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga New Jersey in the grand festival for Sri Gaura Purnima.
Fast until moonrise (6:22 PM), then no grains (anukalpa). Paran is Wednesday March 4th, 2026 06:02 AM and 09:53 AM.
Come and participate in the grand festival of Sri Gaura-Purnima & the start of the 540th Gaurabda year. Festivities include kirtana, readings (From Chaitanya-caritamrta), discourses and prasadam.
Please RSVP via our contact page.
For your satisfaction we offer this audio lecture of Srila Govinda Maharaja’s talk on Sri Gaura Purnima day February 24th 1994.
Srila Govinda Maharaja’s talk on Sri Gaura Purnima day February 24th 1994
On Saturday February 21st, 2026, we humbly invite you to celebrate with us the Grand Appearance day of the President Acharya of Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sangal, His Divine Grace Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacharya-varya Astottara-sata Sri Srila Bhakti Kanan Giri Maharaja.
Celebrations for this most blessed event will be held at Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga Global Headquarters in New Jersey, USA, and centers worldwide from 5-7 PM.
The festival will include kirtana, discourses and other all-auspicious activities.
Please RSVP using one of the methods available.
Srila Giri Maharaja offers a few words of glorification on the 97th appearance day of Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda dev Goswami Maharaja. Short introduction by Gokulananda das.
Dear devotees and friends, we humbly invite you to participate in the festival for the Grand 97th Appearance Day Celebration of Om Vishnupad Paramahamsa Parivrajakacharya-varya Astottara-sata Sri Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaja which will take place at Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga Global Headquarters in New Jersey, USA and worldwide centers on Saturday, December 6, 2025 from 7-9 PM.
This festival will include kirtana, discourses and other all-auspicious activities. Please RSVP by clicking on the contact page and using one of the methods available there.
Dear devotees and friends, we humbly invite you to participate in the festival for the Grand 131th Appearance Day Celebration of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math’s Founder President Acharya, Om Vishnupad Paramahamsa Parivrajakacharya-varya Astottara-sata Sri Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Dev-Goswami Maharaja which will take place at the Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga headquarters in New Jersey, USA and at GVSS centers around the world on October 15th 2025 from 7-9 PM.
This festival will include Nama sankirtana, discourses and other all-auspicious activities. Please RSVP by clicking on the contact page and using one of the methods available there.
What follows is a brief introduction of His Grace Sriman Suresh Durgam dasa followed by a recent email exchange between myself and him.
In 1981 I spent the months of October and November in the ”blue house”, as it was known, with some of my Godbrothers from ISKCON. It was one of the properties owned by Srila Sridhara Maharaja and had previously been offered for the use of Srila Swami Maharaja (Prabhupada) and his disciples during his and their stays at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math Navadwipa.
The purpose of my visit was to request sannyasa from Srila Sridhara Maharaja. As it turned out I received much more than the sannyasa mantra from him. Everyday in the early morning and evening Srila Sridhara Maharaja spoke with us very freely and informally. We asked him many questions on a wide variety of topics. Often his response to a single question might extend into a discourse of thirty to forty minutes or more covering many facets of a topic or expanding into other areas of interest that might arise from a sloka he quoted or a subject tangential to the one at hand. At other times a sentence or two might seem sufficient or there might be a series of back and forth probative questions followed by a reply that, however brief or extended, appeared to issue forth from the scriptures themselves or some other area of the plane of transcendental knowledge with which he was obviously intimately familiar.… Read More...
Dear devotees and friends: We humbly invite you to participate along with devotees from Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga New Jersey in the grand festival for Sri Radhastami on Sunday August 31, 2025.
Fast until noon.
The festival will include kirtana, discourses and other auspicious activities. Please RSVP via our contact page.
Included is a link for the pleasure of the devotees on this most auspicious of days – Sri Radha: “in charge of the domestic affairs of Krishna.”
You are invited to attend Sri Nandotsava and Thakura Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada appearance day celebrations the morning of Sunday 17th August 2025 at 1 PM. These festivities will follow the previous evening’s program of Sri Krishna Janmastami, which should conclude around 12 Noon.
The festivals will include kirtana, discourses and other auspicious activities. Please RSVP via our contact page.
Dear devotees and friends: We humbly invite you to participate at the Sri Gaura Vinoda Saraswat Sanga Global Headquarters in New Jersey, USA in the celebration of the grand festival of Sri Krishna Janmastami on Saturday August 16, 2025 at 8pm until 12am midnight Wednesday, August 17th 2025.
Complete fast until midnight, then no grains (anukalpa).
Janmastami-vrata paran is at 6:14 AM – 10:00 AM Sunday August 17, 2024.
You are also invited to attend Sri Nandotsava and Thakura Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada appearance day celebrations the following morning on Sunday 17th August 2025.
The festivals will include kirtana, discourses and other auspicious activities. Please RSVP via our contact page.
