Iskcon Temple Zurich

Iskcon Temple Zurich

Religion have no boundary. Divinity is a feelings of unison of many soul.

Words fall short in explaining certain feelings. They can only be felt by our soul. Such was my experience of visit to Iskcon Temple ,Zurich Switzerland . Well it is not that I am a die hard devotee and cant do without visiting temples. However, far away from home if we come across something that resembles our known environment, we feel happy. That was exactly what I felt when I discovered in internet that there is an Iskcon temple in Zurich city. We were planning for a long time and finally went there last Sunday. We choose Sunday because every sunday they have Sonntag fest. The timing was mentioned in the website (from 3 P.M). But we took our sweet time and finally reached there around 4 P.M. We were more then happy to see so many welcoming faces who were mixture of Asians and Europeans. The music of sweet devotional song took us inside the main Puja or Prayer room. The Idols were decorated beautifully and few of those devotees were singing 'Hare Krishna Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare' . Though the pronunciation, accent , environment everything was different, but still the feelings of heart , love for divinity was touching my heart. I could feel the warmth of ocean of love towards the almighty.

Once again I felt religion sees no boundary. Whether in the Prayer inside Church or in music inside a temple what becomes important is to feel your devotion towards the supreme power. The surrender, the love sees no barrier of Language. After the devotional music session, one of them were explaining some verses of Gita in there own language. Though we couldn't make out the whole meaning but still it does not made any difference.

Finally after the whole session we attended a nice dinner buffet ( Indian style, vegetarian buffet 14 CHF per head). The 8 course dinner was very nice. I especially liked the environment in which it was served and the way people from different cultures accumulated and enjoyed the food sitting together. Those who got the food early went and sat in the table and those who were busy with work , got it late and since there were hardly any places left they sat on the green grass happily. Children were chirping around as always.

There were some mini exhibition also in the reception with devotional books, Indian clothes, skirts, bags, bakery items and etc. We also got to know that they celebrate almost all important festivals of India in there temple.

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