Events

Panihati Cida Dahi Festival Sunday Feast times (5:30 pm) June 8, 2025 Special offerings to our beloved Deities. All Maha Prasadam pots will be available for the devotees to purchase and make donations. This is a unique opportunity for all Sunday School children (and parents) to demonstrate their Bhakti Art - by painting the pots offered to our Deities. Please contact HG Prafulananda Madhav Prabhu to sign up. What is Panihati Cida Dahi Festival?

Snana Yatra - Bathing of Deities - Lord Jagannath Become a sponsor - visit https://ISKCONHouston.org/Donate Grand Sponsor $501 Abhishek $108 Flower Decoration $251 Festival Feast $351 Snana Yatra, is a bathing festival of deities celebrated - month of Jyeshtha. Elephant attire is put on the bodies of deities on the occasion of Jagannath Snana Yatra. This is the first occasion in the year as per the Hindu calendar, when the deities Jagannath, Baladev, Subhadra are brought out from the Jagannath Temple (Puri) and taken in a procession to the Snana Bedi. There they are ceremonially bathed and decorated for devotees. It is a belief among devotees of Lord Jagannath that if they make a pilgrimage to see the deity on this day, they would be cleansed of all of their sins. Come join us and you can bathe Lord Jagannath before we celebrate Rath Yatra

Rath Yatra - Chariot Festival of Deities - Lord Jagannath, Lord Baladeva and Srimati Subhadra Become a sponsor - visit https://ISKCONHouston.org/Donate Aarti @ chariot $108 Prasadam (khaja) $151 Flower Decoration $251 Festival Feast $351 Chariot $1008 Grand Sponsor $501 Rath Yatra, Festival of Chariots - Lord Jagannath, Lord Baladeva, Goddess Subhadra In the Brahmanda Purana, it is said, “A person who sees the Lord’s Rath Yatra (chariot festival) and then stands up to receive the Lord can purge all kinds of sinful results from his body.” In the Bhavishya Purana, it is said, “Even if born of a lowly family, a person who follows the Rath Yatra car when the Deities pass in front or from behind will surely be elevated to the position of achieving equal opulence with Vishnu.” Come join us to celebrate Rath Yatra