Sri Jagannatha Ratha-Yatra - Hindi  (Softcover, Hindi, Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja)

Sri Jagannatha Ratha-yatra is bound to take one’s appreciation of Ratha-yatra to new heights, beyond the thrill of an extraordinary cultural or religious experience. Annually, in Puri, India, approximately a million people attend the ancient Ratha-yatra festival, to take darsana of Lord Jagannatha on His chariot, and at least three times that view it from other places in India and around the world. Still, the deep significance of Ratha-yatra, being most confidential, is not widely known. Sri Jagannatha Ratha-yatra is rich with this significance, offering Gaudiya Vaishanavas an invaluable perspective of this wonderful event. The book contains three separate ancient histories of Ratha-yatra as well as an elaborate description of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s inner moods during the festival. The basis of this book is The Origin of Ratha-yatra, a transcription of Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja’s English lectures, but because a written review and translation (into Hindi) of one’s spoken word will naturally contain intensified focus and greater detail, as well as elaboration and omissions, Sri Jagannatha Ratha-yatra is a new presentation of this subject. Due to Srila Maharaja’s deep immersion in the beautiful moods of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, it is not surprising that his revelation of Sri Ratha-yatra is also suffused with this sublime sweetness and deep philosophical truths.