In 1996, according to a Polish poll, the three most popular people in the country were Pope John Paul II, Mr. Jurek Owsiak, and then-Polish-president Mr. Kwasniewski.
Who is this Jurek Owsiak? At the time, Owsiak was the director and founder of Poland’s biggest charity, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Help. Every year during the Christmas period, the charity would put on television benefit programs, during which the public phone in pledges to buy medical equipment for children’s hospitals. In 1995, the Orchestra raised one million dollars, no small amount for an Eastern European country.
In the mid-1990s, Owsiak had also arranged a folk-rock festival in the summer, called Woodstock. The festival, which is based on the concepts of the original Woodstock in America, is attended by tens of thousands of young people. His original reasoning behind organizing the festival was “so that all of the people who took part in the winter fundraising can come together for a summer meeting of love, peace, and music.”
Our monumental three day Ratha Yatra festival was celebrated in June of 2019, with a kirtan pilgrimage Tompkins Square Park, underneath the famous Hare Krishna Tree; a kirtan experience at the major commercial intersection known as Times Square, the crossroads of the world where anywhere between 30,000 — 50,000 pass through per day; a Ratha Yatra Parade down New Yorks most well known street, fifth Avenue; and, finally a flower festival at ISKCON New York Citys Sri Sri Radha Govinda Temple
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This kirtan was recorded at Shree Peetha Nilaya, Bhakti Marga’s main ashram and international headquarters, located in the heart of Europe near Frankfurt, Germany.
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Check out the days proceeding Woodstock 2107 in Poland as 700 devotees from around the world come together to prepare Krsna’s Village of Peace to receive the first persons coming to the event. A precursor for what’s to come!
It is said that Lord Caitanya’s secret weapon is prasadam, or vegetarian food offered to the Supreme Lord. It’s no longer a secret in Poland, however, as we distributed 160,000 plates of prasadam in Krsna’s Village of Peace at the recent Woodstock festival, now known as the Pol’and’Rock festival. We cooked, offered and distributed 160,000 full plates of prasadam in 5 days to the people attending the event. We prepared over 50 tons of foodstuffs! Two hundred devotees worked in shifts around the clock in 7 different large kitchens. Prasadam is tasty, nourishing and purifying. Our hearts were completely satisfied introducing the wonderful world of Krsna consciousness to the people in this way.
Our festival’s are an interesting blend of east and west in order to attract the general mass of people to the deeper message of Krsna consciousness. They are family affairs and we arrange them so that there is something for everyone in the family. Because they are colorful,attractive, fun and deeply devotional people attend each summer, year after year. My godbrother, B.B Govinda Mahārāja once kindly described them as, «The Greatest Show On Earth.”