Above and below: in Kolkata, devotees are busily preparing offerings for the Deities in Sri Nrisingha Palli.

Last touches of the painting works.

One of the many beautiful rooms fully ready now for the devotees to stay.

The bathrooms are now all also completed and fully equipped.

A sink and a spare common bathroom at the end of the hallway.

Devotees spend the morning decorating the nat mandir.

Sri Sri Gaura Nityananda Prabhu

Sri Sri Laksmi Nrisinghadev and Prahlad Maharaj

Nimai Prabhu is checking on the bhoga stock for the festival.

His Holiness Sripad B.N. Sadhu Maharaj with Sri Jagannath Vallabha Prabhu and Sri Ramanuja Prabhu.

On this holy day, His Divine Grace confers the holy sannyas order onto Sri Ramanuja Prabhu.

His Divine Grace explains the meaning of sannyas and gives the guidance.

His Holiness Sripad Bhakti Ujjval Sajjan Maharaj.

etam sa asthaya paratma-nistham
adhyasitam purvatamair maharsibhih
aham tarisyami duranta-param
tamo mukundanghri-nisevayaiva

"I shall cross over the insurmountable ocean of nescience by being firmly fixed in the service of the lotus feet of Krishna. This was approved by the previous acaryas, who were fixed in firm devotion to the Lord, Paramatma, the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

Decoration service continues throughout the morning and afternoon.

Caught on camera: Sri Krishnapad Prabhu slicing the bamboo pole for the vaysa-asan in the nat mandir.

His Holiness Sripad B.T. Niriha Maharaj arriving with wall calendars and diaries for the Vaishnav seva.

His Divine Grace will present these diaries to the holy senior Vaishnavs coming to the festival.

The wall calendars will be distributed and sold among devotees during the many forthcoming preaching programmes.

Sripad Sajjan Maharaj is assigned the book room service.

During the evening arati.

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