Saturday 9 December 2023 | Kartik Vad 12, Samvat 2080
Sat 9 Dec 2023
Bhakti Sangeet and Nrutya Nite
With the divine inspiration from HDH Acharya swamishree, sant and devotees put up a superb stage show on 22nd December 2011 to commence the five day celebration of Shree Ghanshyam Maharaj’s Patotsav in Nairobi.
The stage show was performed in HH Swamibapa Hall. A team of singers and musicians from sant mandal and devotees commenced the programme with a prarthna song. With heavy applause from the audience, the highly talented team performed song after song - each one being better than the previous one.
Laughter being the best medicine, a news broadcast team presented the evening breaking news. However, due to bad weather, signals were weak and the news from three different TV channels got mixed up. The audience laughed off their heads as they listened to the entangled news.
In the final session, devotees dressed in traditional Indian costumes performed a stunning prarthna nrutya. The second performance was a chair dance followed by nrutya from very young devotees. The grand finale was a ‘Dandiya Raas’ which concluded the evening programme. After the performance each member uttered the same phrase to each other – “What a spectacular performance!”
Acharya Shree Jitendriyapriyadasji Swamiji Maharaj is the current spiritual leader of Maninagar Shree Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan. He is the heir to Acharya Shree Purushottampriyadasji Swamishree Maharaj, and sixth in the lineage of ascetic Acharyas, which descends directly from Lord Shree Swaminarayan.