(Minghui.org) The Lalbagh Flower Show, which is held twice a year at the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, is one of Bangalore’s most popular attractions. Bangalore, India’s third largest city, is known as India’s Garden City or Silicon Valley. Falun Dafa practitioners were invited to participate in the 216th Flower Show held from August 8 to August 19 this year. Over 800,000 visitors from all over attended. The theme of this year’s show was the life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a political figure and social reformer.
Practitioners’ floral display was of a mother and daughter meditating. Every day of the festival, they altered the design of their floral arrangement to present a new visual. They also demonstrated the Falun Dafa exercises, which drew the attention of many visitors to learn more about the practice.
They distributed flyers in six languages: Hindi, English, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam and told people about the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance and how practitioners in China have been persecuted for the past 25 years. Many people expressed their sympathy and supported the practitioners’ efforts to expose the persecution.
Many people were drawn to the Falun Dafa booth at Lalbagh Flower Show.
Practitioners created a flower display depicting a mother and daughter doing the fifth Falun Dafa exercise, a meditation.
Practitioners demonstrated the fifth Falun Dafa exercise at the flower show.
Former Member of Parliament Aneel Hegde visited the Falun Dafa booth at the Lalbagh Flower Show.
Former Member of Parliament Aneel Hegde is the first MP in the Indian Parliament to speak out against the persecution of Falun Dafa on the floor. He praised practitioners for their efforts to tell people about the persecution and promote the practice. He admired their flower display of the mother and daughter and called it “amazing!”
Many visitors stopped at the booth to learn about Falun Dafa and the exercises, and most said they had never heard of the practice before. Many photographed the practitioners demonstrating the exercises and stayed to try them out. Several attendees who were keen to continue exploring Falun Dafa after the flower show left their contact information. Many people took books and materials home and said they wanted to learn more about how they could incorporate Falun Dafa and its principles into their lives.
A practitioner teaching the first Falun Dafa exercise
Groups of children, accompanied by their teachers, were drawn to the Falun Dafa exercise demonstration. Both the students and their teachers eagerly asked questions about the practice. Several groups of students took pictures by the Falun Dafa booth and expressed their support for practitioners. They repeated the phrases, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!”
Students holding fliers and gifts had their photo taken in front of the Falun Dafa booth.
Many people who read and heard about the persecution for the first time were shocked and asked practitioners why the Chinese Communist Party would turn on its own people.
One journalist who visited the booth said he was interested in reporting on the suppression of faith and religion. He wanted to report on the persecution of Falun Dafa so more people could hear about it.
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