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Sunday 25 May 2014

The Dwarkadheesh Temple:The Temple of West India.

The Dwarkadeesh Temple at night.



The Dwarkadheesh Temple is situated at the western most place of India in Gujarat near Okha Port.
It is ancient temple dedicated to Lord Krishna.It is said that the Dwarka nagri is immersed in the Arabian Sea.

The Temple is Ancient Architectural Example.

The Giant Shiva near Dwarka,Gujarat.


The Nageshwar Temple
I visited Dwarka in early 2013,which is nearly 600 km from Ahmedabad.
Many tourists daily visit this ancient temple from many parts of Gujarat such as Porbander,Rajkot and Jamnagar.
About Krishna Bhakti
In 1965, the Krishna-bhakti movement had spread outside India when its founder, Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, (who was instructed by his guru, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura) traveled from his homeland in West Bengal to New York City. A year later in 1966, after gaining many followers, he was able to form the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement. The purpose of this movement was to write about Krishna in English and to share the Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy with people in the Western world by spreading the teachings of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (an incarnation of Lord Sri Krishna according to the Bhavishya Purana). In an effort to gain attention, followers chanted the names of God in public locations. This chanting was known as hari-nama sankirtana and helped spread the teaching. Additionally, the practice of distributing prasadam or “sanctified food” worked as a catalyst in the dissemination of his works. In the Hare Krishna movement, Prasad was a vegetarian dish that would be first offered to Krishna. The food’s proximity to Krishna added a “spiritual effect,” and was seen to “counteract material contamination affecting the soul.” Sharing this sanctified food with the public, in turn, enabled the movement to gain new recruits and further spread these teachings.

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