(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners were invited to participate in the YVCare Earth Festival in Mumbai on October 28 and 29, 2023. Many visitors from diverse backgrounds—including environmentalists, police officers, TV celebrities, tourists, and others—showed great interest in learning more about the practice and expressed their concern over the 24-year-long persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.
In India, winter is the season of fairs and exhibitions, and people visit book fairs, flower shows, and other exhibitions with their friends and families.
The YVCare Earth Festival is India’s biggest festival dedicated to the environment, sustainability, compassion, health and fitness, and a cruelty-free lifestyle. At their booth at the festival, Falun Dafa practitioners informed people about their spiritual practice and shared its principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. They had Falun Dafa books and informational materials on display. They also demonstrated the five exercises and distributed flyers to the festival goers to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution.
The Falun Dafa booth at the YVCare Earth Festival on the JVPD grounds in Juhu, Mumbai
Practitioners teach visitors the Falun Dafa exercises.
Festival Staff: “What You All Are Doing Cannot Be Done by Anybody Else.”
Because the festival focused on the environment and compassion, it drew visitors interested in a conscious way of living. Against this backdrop, many were shocked to learn about the persecution. Some thanked practitioners for speaking out about this issue.
A festival staff member who stopped to speak with practitioners said he was impressed by the their efforts. “This is very different from everything else. What you all are doing cannot be done by anyone else in this world,” he said.
Amey, a young man sympathetic to the Tibetan cause, said he’d heard about the persecution of Falun Dafa. He was eager to learn more and talked with practitioners, expressing his hope that the CCP would collapse because it is so evil.
Rajesh Sreedhar from a western suburb of Mumbai was amazed that practitioners booked the booth with their own money and were selling Falun Dafa books at cost. He was keen to know about Falun Dafa and the ongoing persecution in China and asked about the health and other benefits of the practice. He purchased a copy of Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Dafa.
About 38 people registered for free introductory Falun Dafa webinars so they could learn the exercises in detail.
Celebrities and the Media Stop by the Booth
Sara Khan, a TV actress, accepted a Falun Dafa informational flyer from a practitioner at the booth and promised to read it to learn more about this mind-body practice.
Practitioners introduce the exercises to festival attendees.
Rajpal Yadav, a comedian and actor in Hindi cinema, learned about the practice and accepted materials from the practitioners.
A practitioner gives TV celebrity Rajpal Yadav flyers and a crystal lotus keepsake.
Regional news channel Superfast 24 stopped by the booth to interview practitioners and covered the exercise demonstrations.
A Superfast 24 reporter reports on activities at the Falun Dafa booth.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police of Mumbai, Vinayak Dhakale, showed keen interest in learning more about Falun Dafa and invited practitioners to introduce the practice at his regional department.
A practitioners gives Vinayak Dhakale information about Falun Dafa.
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