MILPITAS, CA: Every year Bay Area Youth Vaishnav Parivar (BAYVP) celebrates Annakut Utsav in style and thousands attend this festival to have a glimpse of Krishna Leela which depicts Bal Krishna lifting the Govardhan Parvat with a touch of finger and standing thus for seven days.
As the name denotes, innumerable varieties of food called sakhadi and unsakhadi are displayed. Sweets, farsan are prepared by devotees and offered to Lord Krishna. This is offered to Krishna to celebrate the Hindu New Year on Kartik Sud One. All the devotees who attended received a feast as Mahaprasad after the darshan. This year the theme was based on Ashray Leela wherein Lord Krishna lifted the Govardhan Parvat with his small finger to save all Vraj people, cows, calves and other animals from the wrath of “Indra”.
All the Leelas of Shri Krishna were displayed around the temple hall giving the feeling to visitors that they are in the Vraj Bhoomi, Krishna’s abode on earth. On one side of hall there were eight darshans of Shrinathji. The sequence of eight darshans is set out as Mangla, Shringar, Gwala, Rajbhog, Utthapan, Bhog, Sandhya Aarthi and Shayan. On other side of the altar, traditionally decorated huts and gopa & gopies of “Vraj” are seen involved in their daily routine. The breathtaking display included waterfalls and creation of young Shri Krishna frolicking on the bank of Yamuna River.
A replica of Govardhan Parvat was also created in front of temple entrance for Govardhan pooja. Here devotees worshipped and circled the hill considered as Shri Krishna’s incarnation.
Hundreds of volunteers worked day in and out for over two weeks to make this event successful. Every family contributed their time in this once a year event either through preparing variety of sweets, food or giving donations for success of this event.
The Tulsi vivah celebrations will follow after a few days.
Rasesh Parikh
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