Vrindavan 2016.07.11 (VT): The preparations of Guru Purnima are in full swing in the city. Various ashrams, maths and temple are preparing to celebrate the festival on July 19, for which sants from all over the world have started gathering in the holy city.
Sants with ashrams in Vrindavan busy teaching sanatan dharma around the world annually return to the Dham for the grand celebration of the Guru Purnima festival. Many of their disciples from around the world take this opportunity to come to their respective ashrams, using this opportunity to renew their relationship with their spiritual masters. More than 2,000 ashrams are getting prepared to host sants and devotees from around the globe, to celebrate the festival.
Mahant Sutikhna Das of Sudama Kuti ashram is personally taking care of all preparations for the occasion. He said that there will be a maha-arti of Sant Sudama Das Maharaj on the day followed by prasad. Around a lakh of devotees are also expected to visit the ashram to worship the Guru Gaddi. For them, a special team has been formed at Sudama Kuti to look after the arrangements.
Mahant Haribol Baba of the Vairagi Ashram said that rooms are being prepared for disciples to stay and celebrate Guru Purnima. They have already received thousands of confirmations from deciples and devotees about their visit during the festival, to worship Sant Vairagi Baba and the Guru Gaddi at the ashram.
The Pandit Jagannath Prasad Bhaktmali ashram at Gyan Gudri has also started preparing for the Guru Purnima celebrations. Rasik Sharma of the ashram said that daily programmes and prasad distribution will be finalised in a couple of days, to serve the disciples and devotees visiting during that time.
Guru Purnima is one of the most important festivals in Braj. It is celebrated on the full moon day of Ashad month. On this day, people show their gratitude to their spiritual teacher for connecting them to the path of devotion to Krishna. Guru Purnima is also called Vyasa Purnima, since it is originally a commemoration of Srila Vyasadeva, the author of the Vedas, epics and Puranas, teaching his son Shukadev the Bhagavatam.
In Braj Mandal this day is also called Muriya Purnima, since Sanatan Goswami left his physical body on this day, so Vaishnavas shaved their heads and do parikrama of Govardhan.
In Vrindavan, special celebrations are also held by the devotees of Banke Bihari in Nidhivan in honor of Swami Haridas, for whom Bihariji came into the world.
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