Srila Prabhupada a letter about having a festival in Berkeley for Lord Chaitanya
Nalinikantha das: So Locan was the temple president, and Jayananda was helping him. We were living in Berkeley, and we wrote Srila Prabhupada a letter about having a festival in Berkeley for Lord Chaitanya. We told him that we were going to make eight banners of the Siksastaka prayers and put them up across the street for everybody. Prabhupada wrote back, he was very enthusiastic and he said, "I want that all the educated people in your country seriously understand these prayers of Lord Chaitanya, and I approve of your plan for the festival. Unfortunately, I will not be able to come. But we have 24 such festivals in a calendar year. If you can observe all of them in such a grand way, then the whole Bay area will become Krishna conscious."
So we did put up the banners and Jayananda, of course, was the moving force for all of these wonderful festivals. We had a good turnout, and we distributed about a thousand plates of prasadam at the park afterwards.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Nalini Kanta Dasa
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