Panihati Chida Dahi Utsava
Festival celebration at our temple
The Panihati Cida Dahi Utsav is celebrated every year at the Hare Krishna Temple to recollect the event when Srila Raghunath Dasa Goswami distributed chipped rice mixed with yogurt to all devotees, following the direct order of Sri Nityananda Prabhu in Panihati village. Lord Nityananda blessed Srila Raghunath Dasa Goswami, granting him the fortune to soon find refuge at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Amidst the festival, chipped rice mixed with yogurt and chipped rice mixed with milk are distributed to all visitors and participants, who joyfully partake in the Mahaprasadam. Join this enlivening celebration and receive the blessings of Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga at the Hare Krishna Movement Jaipur.
How we celebrate
The Hare Krishna Movement Jaipur is abuzz with spirited festivities as it celebrates the glorious Panihati Festival. This annual event, filled with devotion and joy, brings the devotees together to observe the divine pastime of the Lords Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga.
The festival features the splendid Palaki procession of Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga. Adorned with flowers, vibrant decorations and jubilant and uproarious kirtans. The unique attraction of the festival is the water dip of the two Lords, Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga.
Adding to the festive atmosphere are the engaging discourses that portray the entire pastime that took place in the village of Panihati. As the day progresses, the celebrations culminate in the distribution of the delicious and humble Cida Dahi Mahaprasadam.
Participate in the festival and honor Cida Dahi Mahaprasadam to attain the mercy and blessings associated with this auspicious day.
Brief Story of the festival
Raghunath Dasa Goswami had been attempting to come to the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu for a long time. Once he went to Lord Nityananda in the village of Panihati and offered his obeisances by falling prostrate at a distant place.
Lord Nityananda spoke to Raghunatha Dasa as follows. “You are just like a thief, for instead of coming near, you stay away at a distant place. Now that I have captured you, I shall punish you. “Make a festival and feed all My associates yogurt and chipped rice.” Hearing this, Raghunatha Dasa was greatly pleased. He immediately sent his own men to the village to purchase all kinds of eatables and bring them back.
After Nityananda Prabhu sat on a raised platform, Raghunath Dasa brought before Him the seven huge pots. On that platform, all the most important associates of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, as well as other important men, sat down in a circle around the Lord. No one could count them all.
Each and every one of them was supplied two earthen pots — one of chipped rice soaked in yogurt and the other of chipped rice soaked in condensed milk.
The day after the Panihati Festival, Lord Nityananda gave Raghunath Dasa the blessing that he would very soon attain the shelter of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
