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Iskcon At Kumbha Mela -



betal_nut - Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:36:15 +0530
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To apply to become a Mahant and form your own Khalsa is a legal procedure where you have to apply on legal Rs.500 stamp paper and accompany your application with Rs.51,000. Then our application has to be first approved by the head of the Nirvani Ani Akhara, Sri Shivanandanji Maharaja and then the Gaudiya Mahasabha headed by Sri Phula Dola Behariji Maharaja, the Char Sampradaya Ashram from our very own Vrindavan, has to approve it. Then you have to give special daksina to the chief mahants and then all the 550 mahants of the Nirvani Ani Akhara will send their representatives and you have to give Rs.120 to each one. The whole thing comes to about two lacs.


Seems an awful lot of money to spend just to be able to parade independently down some road in India once a year.
jiva - Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:11:41 +0530
ISKCON at Kumbha Mela ? Which one ISKCON ?

May be this one ?


with respect,
braja - Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:26:49 +0530
QUOTE(betal_nut @ Apr 26 2004, 11:06 AM)
Seems an awful lot of money to spend just to be able to parade independently down some road in India once a year.

Oh, you think that elephants and white umbrellas just fall from the sky? wink.gif

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