The magical Caitanya Caritamrita publishing marathon (video)

Welcome everyone to our continuing series “Be a Gardener”, glorifying and remembering Sri Chaitanya Caritamrita. And the ways in which Srila Prabhupada wanted to bring it to the world so eagerly that he conceived of a marathon in which devotees worked nonstop to produce the Chaitanya Caritamrita in an impossible amount of time. We’re gonna be hearing from some of the participants today, who were key in bringing that marathon to fruition. Actual participants who are there on the ground who have their own experiences.

One of them today, who I’m very happy to introduce to you is His Grace Ramesvar Prabhu, who was the head of the BBT. A confidant of Srila Prabhupada, especially in book publication and who was right there on the ground with all the proceedings that took place before, during and after this Chaitanya Caritamrita marathon. He is privy to many of the things Prabhupada said and expressed about the importance of the Chaitanya Caritamrita, so historically his presentation will be very important. We also have Dhriti Devi Dasi, who’s one of the artists, many of you may know her through her paintings, but it may have never met her before. She walked on to the scene there at the marathon. I’ll let her talk about that herself, but it’s very important for our movement to see those who were there. It carries on the mood. Just by seeing the devotees hearing from them, their eyewitness reports, that there’s a way in which we imbide the mood of the time, the subtleties of what Srila Prabhupada thought about things and it helps us to conceive the mission that we’re carrying forward, doesn’t it?

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