Written by audarye Thursday, 19 March 2009
With great pleasure we inform you that this year congregational summer camp in Lička Jesenica will take place from 04.08. till 09.08.2009.
For further informations please read "Main features of traditional summer festival" in continuation.
In front of the summer camp management board
Murari Gupta das
Main features of traditional summer festival in Lika are:
* attendance at mangala-arati is obligatory, therefore no late evening programs
* service and program attendance are as well obligatory for all devotees
We stress on importance of sadhana, philosophy, spirit of cooperation, good association and one of main attributes of festival is prasadam, both in quality and quantity.
Accommodation is modest, but we try our best to manage that everyone gets facilities in according with their needs. Matajis and children are in houses, prabhus are in tents and cottages.
Capacity is limited to 100-130 devotees, so you must announce yourself.
Things you my found useful to have with you: tent, sleeping bag, matting, flash light, personal hygiene kit, gamchas, vaisnava clothes and some warm cloth as morning hours are quite chilly. For inner hygiene be sure to take your japa mala, otherwise if you don't have it already, we'll gladly provide one for you.
For devotees who want to donate something for this festival we would like to point out that help and donations are voluntary. Our experience is that some of guest on festival can hardly finance bare necessities, so these kind of people need support. In majority that referrers to the students and young people who are not financially independent. It is also our experience that there are persons who have money but from various reasons don't have trust or desire to donate. This may be due to lack of enthusiasm or confidence. Therefore we keep our accounts in details, open to all of our donators, thus making all balances overseen by donators themselves. Balances of income and expenditure for past years may be seen here (reports are written in Croatian and access to them require registration).
Project itself costs around 3000 Euros, and last years we had very good response. Expenses were partially covered by organizers themselves and this year will be the same. This is a very nice chance to serve devotees and we appeal to all of you who have money to engage in this service. In any case, any of your goods and contributions are very welcome and we appreciate very much your energy and time spend in maintaining this festival.
Our primary goal is to engage as many people as possible in serving devotees and therefore we humbly invite all of you to join in this sacred mission. Thank you!
Directions to festival can be found here.