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Çréla Prabhupäda then said, “I will build a temple in
Bhubaneswar like Jagannätha’s temple in Puré, because my
Western disciples are not allowed to enter that temple. Lord
Jagannätha will come and stay in Bhubaneswar, then all my
disciples can go there and have His darçana.”
Çréla Prabhupäda came to Bhubaneswar in early 1977.
Although arrangements had been made for him to stay
comfortably in the State Government Guesthouse, he refused
saying, “I will only stay on the land where my disciple Gour
Govind has built a mud hut for me.”
When many of Çréla Prabhupäda’s senior disciples wanted to
abandon the Bhubaneswar project because it was in an isolated
and out of the way place, and start a large project in Jagannätha
Puré, Çréla Prabhupäda prophesied that the Bhubaneswar temple
would be as famous
as the Jagannätha
temple in Puré
and that it would
become the centre
of the city. Çréla
Prabhupäda stayed
in Bhubaneswar
for seventeen days
and waited for the
auspicious occasion
of Lord Nityänanda’s
appearance day to lay
the foundation stone. Thus the Çré Çré Kåñëa-Balaräma Mandir
in Bhubaneswar was Çréla Prabhupäda’s last founded project.
Inset: Top left Gour Govinda Swami’s hut in Bhubaneswar.
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