Grand celebrations of the annual Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra in Mumbai

The stage is set for the grand celebrations of the annual Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra (Chariot procession) in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park on January 30, the organizers said here on Wednesday. The huge procession of Lord Jagannath, Baldev, and Subhadra Maiya will attract over 3,00,000 devotees, according to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)’s spiritual head, Radhanath Swami Maharaj. “For the first time, the idol of Lord Jagannath, Baldev, and Subhadra Maiya will be brought here from Puri (Odisha) for tomorrow’s Rath Yatra. The procession will be simultaneously carried out in 192 cities worldwide,” Radhanath Swami said. He said this is the only global festival in which “the Lord himself is taken out of the temple to meet his devotees” and the Mumbai event is now ranked as the second-largest Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra in the world after Puri. (IANS)

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