Navadwipdas VRN: all devotees are doing vrindavan parikrama

Jagannath, Bhiwandi: I started reading braj mandal parikrama daily one section

Rohini Jadhav pune: kal bacho se padosise dipdan karvaya ,Katha,sankirtan,prshad vitran Kiya bhahut anand aya maharajji bhagvan bhahut sundar Sikh rahe the

MAUR L Ayodhyanath Dasa: HK Guru Maharaj my obeisance at your lotus feet one month kartik deep daan outsaw padayatra start as from today your mercy upon us

Rohini Jadhav pune: 32 round bhktirasamrit sindu braj Mandal parikrsma chota book padha

Sita kisore devi dasi noida: üíêkal shaam ko ghar per society ko ladies ko bulkar deepdaan karvaya ha or kirtan bhi kiya ha sab .

A- BLR.. Akinchan Bhakt Das: Gurudev, iskcon sheshadripuram have targeted 5 lakh deep daan in Bangalore. All devotees started this service by reaching out to new people and engaging them in deep daan Pr Ganesh Godase pandharpur dham: gurumaharaj deep dan usav is done yesterday in jaganath temple pandharpur very nicely

Blr anadi keshav Das: we are in Vrindavan prarikrama

Gr Noi Svarup Anand Das: Hare Krishna, Happy Kartik Guru maharaj üôè

noi Sita Thakuranidd: Hk GM tmr in noida temple we conduct parenting seminar ",how to trained children in krsna conscious at home", by h.g. bal govind pr. sitathakurani ďd noida

Vrajtarini Radha Devi DasiJalgaon: Guru Maharaj ji Dandwat Pranam Parikrama Book adyan keya first day lag raha tha Dham me he

Gr. noi mansi Garg: HG Atul krishna prabhu in greater noida iskcon and attended mangla aarti also, keertan, Katha,and prasadam .. everything was like vrindawan dham waas.

Hari bol

A'bad-Muralimohan Da3s: Dear Guru Maharaja, Pamho. Yesterday we conducted our 39th One
day Padayatra at Surendra-nagar.

Srimati Radhika Devi Dasi: Hare Krishna, Dandvat Pranam Gurudev! üôèI m in Vrindavan prikrma

Dubai Shyamalangi devi dasi: My humble and respectful obeisnaces to u gurumaharaj and all .yesterday sharad purnima darshan was simply mesmerising in shrinathji haveli dubai lord dressed in silver white with all round gopis doing rasa lila,we are not allowed to click picts. This darshan is on my mind this mor as I chant

Gopigeet dd: hare Krishna dandwat pranam Guru Maharaja 15 devotees daily morning mangla aarti , Gopigeet, damodar astak,tulsi aarti or braj mandal parikrama ka ek adyaye daily kar rahe hai bless us (ALIBAG)girirajgovardhandas: Damodar maas Mahostav ki JAY.

Sundari Lila DeviDasi: dandvat pranam guru Maharaj beed iscon ten devotees in prikrama

Noi Bimala Krishna Dasa: Guru Maharaj I have already joined the Facebook page

Dubai Shyamalangi devi dasi: all darshanarthis got kheer prasad as well

(ALIBAG)girirajgovardhandas: Braj Mandal Parikrama bhakthvrund ki JAY.

Ratnawali Madhavi Devi dasi: unbelievable and can't express in words the darshan of Radha Shyam sunder ji in Vrindavan yesterday while offering Deep daan

Noi Bimala Krishna Dasa: I have completed the first day Parikrama of Vraj Mandala Darshana and after the Ishtagoshati at Iskcon temple i went to make small purchases as advised during the meeting

Maur L Sakhi vrinda dd:We cooked sweet rice for the lord and place it on the roof garden last night Pr Ganesh Godase pandharpur dham Yesterday I have take sankalp in kartik mass every day chanting 40 round upto 30 day and completed 1200 round and every day reading b.g.krishna book reading so pls bless me all these activity completed.

Yugadharma harinam das iskcon Kaundinyapur: gurudev yesterday I completed chapter chapter 1 of vraj mandal parikrama

Srikanth Gangul, Bhiwandi: gurudev yesterday I completed chapter chapter 1 of vraj mandal parikrama

Jaytirth das Raichur: kal hamne Damodar lila me suna ki,pralay ke time sare brahmand nasht hote hai,magar Bhagawan par koi aarop nahi lagata, magar ek makhan ki mataki chori karne par vo khud ko aparadhi maan rahe hai aur Yashoda maiya ke bhaya se kap rahe hai, aaj ka chintan japa time.Jaytirth das Raichur virginia's iPhone: happy Kartika everyone
(ALIBAG)girirajgovardhandas We started MAANSIK parikrama in HARE KRISHNA NAAMHATT KENDRA.

Gr. noi mansi Garg: yesterday we were busy in temple activities of hearing damodar leela n deep daan but from today will start reading braj mandal darshan..

01:26:11 Maur L Jaya Shree Devi Dasi: Hare krsna dear gurudev. The great zeal, enthusiasm and motivation of the devotees on vraja Mandal Parikrama to be on the conference and read vraja mandala darshan is highly motivating to usüôè your grace and mercy is indeed flowing through your heart to the whole world. Thank you unlimited times for being so magnanimous to us and having worked so hard for the Vraja Mandal darshan book nectar. Indeed our fortune knows no bounds.

Maur L Sakhi vrinda dd: we have read the book I felt I am starting the vraj mandal with the devotees I feel the same experience thank u v much for ur masterpiece this vraj mandal book Sharanya krushna devi dasi .(solapur ) Yesterday l was completed chapter 1 varja mandal pari karam.

Maur L Kusum Sarovar Priya Dasi: Hare Krishna Gurumaharaj, bringing one of the 2 Braj Mandal book at work to read to my colleagues who are also offering lamps for Kartik Mass. Please bless us.

Dayalu Radha Devi Dasi: we had a program yesterday to start Damodara month Keshav Bharati Das,Dubai Damodardesh: Thanks a lot for inspiring us…

GGN,Radha citta Hari das: we went to Goverdhan Parikrama with 100 devotees yesterday

Keshav Bharati Das,Dubai Damodardesh: We also started Damodar Arati with Damodar Astakam yesterday at Damodardesh Dubai

A'bad – Shubhlaxmi Devi Dasi: Today we r going for padyatra at Surendranagar…it's our 39th padyatra

Divya Bhatia: hare Krishna guru maharaj dandvat pranam happy damodar month guru maharaj

Dubai Shyamalangi devi dasi: Happy saradiya rasayatra purnima to gurudev and to all.Today is also disappearance day of murari gupta

00:56:14 UAE tulsi puja Devi dasi: happy damador month to dear Gurudev and to all the
Vaishnava

Maur L Vamandevdas: Gurudev we are around 42 devotees from Mauritius chanting today

Maur L-Srivalavi devi dasi: My Dandavaat Pranaam onto your lotus feet on this auspicious day

Maur L Sakhi vrinda dd: Gurudev wish you a Happy Kartik month with we pray to always be in your association. For your pleasure we will chant hear read more and eat non-grains for 1 month. And be with you in vrindavana through Vraj Mandal Darshan

Maur L Vamandevdas: HAPPY KARTIK PURNIMA GURUDEV TO YOU AND ALL

Noi Bimala Krishna Dasa: A very happy Karttika to dear Guru Maharaj and all devotees

Srimati Radhika Devi Dasi: hare Krishna Maharaj ji we are in Vrindavan right now A'bad- Digvijay Arjundas i.p.o: हरे कृष्ण कोटी कोटी दंडवत प्रणाम गुरूमहाराज

Sangli Shantaram Das: Dear Devotees,
Hare Krishna

*LET’S CHANT TOGETHER*
_Let’s Chant Together with Lokanath Swami Maharaja_
A phrase that’s become part of many devotees’ vocabulary. A phrase that reminds us that
Lokanath Swami Maharaja is taking special care to teach us the meaning of *attentive and
powerful* chanting.

We have had close to about 350 sessions and in all that time Maharaja’s desire has been to not only chant with devotees, friends and well wishers, not only to nullify the geographical barriers, but also to interact with all.

To ‘ have a dialogue ‘ – ask questions, receive answers, share realizations, interact with each
other, support and guide each other.

These are the the thoughts that have given birth to the official
*Let’s Chant Together Facebook page*
LIKE IT RIGHT NOW &
stay connected.

https://www.facebook.com/LetsChantTogether/

Noi Bimala Krishna Dasa: I have already joined yesterday

Maur L Sundarachal Das: very good news a new Facebook page for chanting

Srila Prabhupada: Today we are doing Govardhan parikrama Guru Maharaj

Dubai Shyamalangi devi dasi: yes gurumaharaj I am visiting 1 friends home today where other ladies will get together to offer lamp and will narrate the pastime

GauraBhagavana Dasa: Damodarstakam ki jai

Dubai Shyamalangi devi dasi: even in conference call we can read and discuss together on vraj mandal.parikrama and even GM last year in Nityam bhagvat sevaya class .at end of class I would daily share in short the places where devotees are walking and visiting daily Noi Bimala Krishna Dasa: Gurudev I have started re reading the Vraja Mandala Darshana.I
have completed upto acknowledgment yesterday and today onwards I shall read one chapter a day

Jagannath, Bhiwandi: I also started reading
Nagpur Paramkaruna das & Bhaktinidhi devi dasi: we will also start reading vrajamandal darshan
from today Noi – Sri Advaitacharya das: Gurumaharaj, I will be reading Brajamandal Darshan 01 chapter per
day in kartik.

Maur L Sundarachal Das: every year i read the wonderful book vraj mandal book so nice and inspiring as if we are personally visiting the place while reading the book and v beautiful photos v good darsan of vraj bhumi
Vaishnav Pran das: Eager to read vrajmandal darshan book Hare Krishna

SKCON Solapur: in solapur 50k devotees will be doing deepdaan in different programs BLR Anupam Gaura Dasa,

Bhubaneswar:One devotee last year took the book of vrajamandal Darshan book from me and he was really deeply inspired and touched his heart. It is by your mercy.

Jaytirth das Raichur: Today we have started kartik vrat by Radha Shyamsunder mangla aarti & japa preaching,Guru Maharaj

8 OCTOBER 2019
KILL THE RAVANA WITHIN US

Today is the day of Ram-vijay. Many of you are writing or conveying your Dussera greetings. I also greet you
all on this happy auspicious day of Ram-vijay.

I was also thinking someone was killed this day and you are happy. You are expressing your joy on Ravana’s
death day. It has become a happy day for you all. How is that?

Whenever a demon is killed by the Lord the demigods appear on the scene and they have a celebration. They express joy as the demon is killed. I was thinking that we are also demons. We have also become demons. Ravan and Kumbhkaran were Jay and Vijay. They had assumed the role of demons. They fell from Vaikuntha and became demons. Likewise, we also are fallen souls. We also have fallen from who knows where – whether Goloka or Saket dham or Vaikuntha, and now we are acting like demons in this world.

When that demon and demonic nature in us will be killed then the demigods would be happy and that would be the happiest day for all of us. We would be really happy when the demoniac nature, asuri- bhav, within us would be finally and fully finished.

So Ram killed Ravana today. What has exactly transpired, is that Ram has liberated Ravana. That was his aim of killing Ravana. But Ram’s aim was not just killing Ravana or killing Kumbhkaran and any other demons of those days. They were not the only target. They were not the only ones on Ram’s hit list. We all are also on that hit list. Finally we are also getting killed as we have come to the stage of surrendering to Sri Ram, as we are finally surrendering to the holy names of Ram through the chanting of:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

This chanting is killing us, not the real us. We are ofcourse souls and souls cannot be killed, but the demon and demonic nature within us is. The lust, the kama-rog in us, the kama- bhav in us, the kama consciousness – those desires in us are the enemies within us. They are the six serpents, kama, krodha, lobha mada, moha and matsarya ( lust, anger, greed, illusion, pride and envy). These are the demons. These are the enemies in us. The leading demon is lust and lust is what Ravana was being harassed by. That is why he was attempting to enjoy Sita alone. The very same kama, not similar, but the same lust is bothering us, grasping us, keeping us busy, and causing this bhav. Desires are aroused in us. We want to enjoy this world. So we pray,”As You kindly killed Ravana, that way Sri Ram, kill the same demon that is harassing and troubling us.” That would be a further victory of Lord Ram. Ram Vijay, Ram became victorious today, so this could be another victory of Ram when the demon in us would be killed. We pray to Him to kill the demon in us.

Ram Nama Guna, Rupa, Lila, Dhama are the weapons with which the demon in us could be killed. So we should always remember Ram. The devotees make comments like, “Look!, when Hanuman and company were throwing big, big rocks into the ocean to build the bridge, before the rocks were thrown into the waters of the Indian ocean, they were writing the name of Ram on each rock. This was Nal and Neel’s service. They had a big brush and they were stamping the rocks with the names of Ram. As soon as the rocks were stamped with the name of Lord Ram on their body, they were not drowning but floating because of their association with the name of Lord Ram. If this could happen to the rocks which are just dead matter, then why not with us, and we are living beings, if we chant Ram then certainly we will also be floating and not drowning in the ocean. We will remain above the water and will not be touched by the water if we keep chanting the names of Lord Ram. And we will not only float, but we could be in the boat, going back home.

That is also mahima of Ram Nama. So we should take this chanting seriously and be attached and attracted by the holy names, then we will not drown. We will float and go across this material existence and join Sri Krsna. So keep chanting Hare Krishna.

On this day Ram was in Sri Lanka and he killed Ravana there. This pastime of Ram and Ravana should be remembered . As we remember this pastime, we take part in this pastime. Many devotees of Ram in India especially in North India today gather in big numbers. They burn the statue of Ravana. While he is being burnt those who are assembled sometimes throw rocks at Ravana and sometimes they also come with a bow and arrow. They also keep shooting Ravana with arrows. So in this way as we remember this pastime of Ram killing Ravana, or take part in Ravana being burnt alive then, this will kill the demonic nature within us.

Those lusty desires in us will be eradicated as we remember the pastime of Ram killing Ravana. This is the special benefit of remembering this pastime. That is why this pastime of Ram Vijay Ram killing Ravana is very, very useful, for those who wish to become free from the demonic nature or enemies.

Jay Sri Ram! Ho Gaya kama. Some devotees say this that you say Jai Sri Ram and you will be victorious, as we chant Holy names of Shri Ram.

I am in Delhi temple now but I have to go to Punjabi bagh temple in Delhi to give Bhagavatam class.We will again remember in that Vijaya dasami Katha at 8 o’clock today. Then we also have a Kirtana-Mela, at Radha Parthasarathi Temple in New Delhi. It will be continuing all day long as the temple is celebrating Vijaya dasami. I also have a slot in the evening, sometime around 7 or 8 p.m.
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All glories to Ram-vijay. Jay Sri Ram!!

As we remember the pastime of Ram killing Ravana then this will kill the demonic nature within us. Those lusty desires in us will be eradicated. That is why this pastime of Ram Vijay Ram killing Ravana is very useful for those who wish to become free from the demonic nature.

Ram Nama Guna, Rupa, Lila, Dhama are the weapons with which the demon in us could be killed.

Nal and Neel were writing Ram’s name on the rocks being thrown into the ocean to build a bridge to get to Lanka. These rocks were not drowning, but floating because of their association with the name of Lord Ram. If this could happen to the rocks which are just dead matter, then why not with us. We are living beings. If we chant Ram then certainly we will not only be floating, but we could be in the boat, going back home. So we should take this chanting seriously and be attached to the holy names of the Lord. Keep chanting Hare Krishna.

30 SEPTEMBER 2019

HEAR WITH THE MIND!

I welcome you all. I hope you had a good time chanting and enjoyed the chanting and that you are satisfied with your chanting. I hope so and we pray for your happy chanting.

Attentive, meditative chanting is real chanting and that is what we wish to practice on during this japa conference. Ultimately we do not hear with the ear, but with the mind. We do not see with the eyes, but seeing is more complete when the mind is involved. So we see with the mind and like that all the senses are connected with the mind. They all report to the mind.

What we are hearing as we are chanting has to be heard by the mind and if the mind is hearing then we call that attentive chanting. So attentive chanting means the mind has taken note of what you are chanting and what you are hearing. The mind is registering thinking, observing , hearing, listening. It is not mindless or absent minded. Some call this is a very subtle topic. Mind is very subtle to understand.

When we talk of the mind a lot of subtle things are involved. There is something called oblivious to the surrounding. Lots of times we are so
absorbed in thinking of something, we are anticipating something. Then although a lot of things are happening and a lot of actions are going around, our mind doesn’t perceive that because we are oblivious to the surrounding.

Like that we should also become oblivious to what is around us while we are chanting. We have to think only of Krsna, remember Krsna. As we hear we should become oblivious to the surroundings and become absorbed in thinking about Krsna, remembering Krsna and be engrossed in remembering His names and following His pastimes.

One time Buddha was asked if he saw some lady passing by. His response was that maybe someone had passed by, but he could not say whether it
was a lady or a gentleman, whether she wearing a blue saree or was he wearing a white dhoti. “I don’t know. I didn’t pay attention.” Buddha was not sleeping nor were his eyes closed. He was observed in meditating and he did not pay attention to what was going around. He was just absorbed in meditation. So that is one example. In Bhagavatam there is an example of Avadhuta Dattatreya. He had 24 gurus and one of his guru was a lohar, a blacksmith who was sharpening arrows. He was sharpening the arrow and he was totally absorbed in sharpening the arrow, fully attentive and totally unaware of surroundings. When he was asked some time ago if he had seen a big grand procession had passed by here, he responded, “I didn’t see grand procession. Hare Krishna Nagar sankirtan has passed few kilometres long, but he said I didn’t see. I didn’t hear anything.” Why? Because he was observed in what he was doing , sharpening of the arrow. He didn’t take note of anything around. So this Avadhuta Dattatreya said, “You are my guru. I make you my guru. Oh arrow sharpener, how attentively you are sharpening.”
We also have to absorb ourselves in this kind of activity and in our case we must be absorbed in chanting. So that’s the goal as to how we should approach chanting – attention on hearing like that sharpener. His mind was fixed in what he was doing. We had to hear, the mind has to hear. I am trying to point out that its not the ear that hears but the mind. We say be attentive, pay attention or chant attentively. What is it?

It says our mind has to be attentive. The tongue has already uttered the holy name. The tongue has done its job. It will reach the ear unless there is a mind that is paying attention to what is entering the ear and what it is hearing. We will not hear our chanting. Unless the minds involvement is there we are not going to do attentive chanting. Your attention has to be on hearing what the tongue has uttered

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Sound vibration as it enters into the ear the mind has to not only hear but on the other hand immediately capture and registered that. Then the mind has to be there and should not be going off. If mind is busy elsewhere or already sleeping then we will not hear. If we have an attentive, alert mind then it is ready to hear. In the ear there is a provision to hear. The ear is the tunnel through which sound which has been uttered enters and passes through but at the end of the tunnel we can say there is the mind. Hearing is not going to happen, if there is no mind. What can influence us? We are influenced by what is around us at any given point in time. That is one thing. And what else? Always there is something that we had gone through yesterday or the night before or the year before. We went through some experience.

We are shopping. We enjoyed this. So the mind also enjoyed that so it is also going to revisit these places. Your mind and the things that are not around – distant places, distant country , distant people, this and that is going to be coming to you in your mind. This happens all the time and we are busy with that. That keeps our mind busy. You will have to think how to improve your chanting. You will chant with attention and if you take these things seriously you could improve your chanting. Accordingly, I think this kind of topic dhyan purvak japa or attentive chanting is related to offence less chanting. We had routine chanting. We have a ritual that everyday we had to work harder and harder on the mind and sharpen the intelligence so that we really enjoy and our atma become prasanna , satisfied.

Chant Hare Krishna and be happy or make our souls happy. Our mind is always busy 24 hours a day with sankalpa vikalpa, mind accepts something,
rejects something. All the time:

brahma-bhutah prasannatma
na socati na kanksati
samah sarvesu bhutesu
mad-bhaktim labhate param

Translation:
One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman. He never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally
disposed to every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me. (BG 18.54)

A Krishna conscious person’s atma is prasannatma. He is self satisfied by chanting and by attentive chanting, pure chanting suddha nama ucaran. Now my mind is prasan, happy and now it is not doing na socati na kanksati, not lamenting not hankering. So this way we lament for something, for this, that again a person is busy na socati na kanksati lamenting, hankering – “I want to get this that I don’t have.

This kind of business to stop the mind from hankering and lamenting – sankalp , vikalp – accepting something ,rejecting something. 24 hours we are busy. Our mind is busy. We need to work on training our mind and that is attained by practice, purifying our mind by attentive chanting. In order to succeed we should endeavour to do attentive chanting. We should endeavour day in and day out . You want to be prasannatma. You want to be happy but then it is harer nama eva kevalam in order to become prasannatma. There is no other way. One is chanting Hare Krishna and only way in fact ultimately is attentive chanting. hat will make us happy. Make some kind of routine that will not make us happy if we are not
chanting. Mundane thoughts that will not make us happy, pray to become happy by attentive chanting and make extra effort.

Hare Krishna!

29th SEPTEMBER 2019

SHARE KRSNA WITH OTHERS.

Hare Krishna!
Today being Sunday some of you are not chanting but that is an every Sunday story. We have repeated that several times. But some are resting but those who are chanting are not resting. You are active. You are making a so called holiday into holy day – chanting the holy names in association of a holy man. Certainly you will become holy, fully holy. I congratulate you all. And I am pleased, Lord is pleased The whole Parampara is pleased with your chanting.

Some of you are continuing the holy name festival spirit. It’s good and it’s welcome. Why stop? It’s the World Holy Name Festival so, I will quickly say that our Tulsi puja Mataji from Dubai, originally they are from Bharatvarsha ended up in Dubai. She organised 12 hour kirtan non stop kirtan in which 50- 60 devotees participated. This was also the time of her birthday. Happy Birthday to you! We are happy with Tulsi puja for organising non stop kirtan at her place and we all wish you happy birthday. You could all chant one maha-mantra for Tulsi puja Mataji. You could chant with me:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

Also I think we mentioned this yesterday. We could repeat in Yavatmal that many Matajis have gathered and they are having a Japa Retreat and
Jayabhadra Mataji from Amravati has travelled all the way from Amravati to Yavatmal. She organised the Japa Retreat for the ladies and some 20-30 ladies are gathering in this event for 3 days and she is also organising ISKCON Girls Forum program for Young girls in the evening. So this is to promote the glories of the holy name. We are very, very happy with this endeavour.

And of course Sacidananda Prabhu is continuing his retreat at Govardhan Vrindavan and around 300 devotees have gathered there. I don’t know all the details, but they are learning the art and science of developing love for the Lord or addressing the Lord from the core of the heart with feelings, crying for Krsna. The theme of the retreat is a pretty serious business activity and I am happy that Sacidananda Prabhu is organising that event. It’s still on, This is it’s last day. Also in glorification of the holy name. Serve the holy name, establishing the holy name is the dharma of this age of Kali. So we are very pleased with this endeavour. You have to express your happiness by saying
Hari Haribol!

You all have to take responsibility for the propagation of the holy name, be responsible by first chanting yourself . You could chant your own japa first then you could see how family members, your relatives, your friends, your neighbours, your colleagues can take to chanting the holy name of the Lord or even some brand new people jare dekho tare kaho krsna updesh or all those you come in contact with or interact with. You could also appeal to them to chant or explain to them how to chant or make sure that they are chanting. Take some responsibility for this for your own chanting and you also have obligation towards the propagation of the holy name.

So this is not only the responsibility of the Governing Body Commission or responsibility of only temple president or only temple management to spread and propagate the holy name of the Lord. On behalf of Governing Body Commission, on behalf of temple President, on behalf of the Temple Management, on behalf of your spiritual masters, you have to take this responsibility and of course on behalf of Gauranga Mahaprabhu. He is the One who has instructed all His followers to jare dekho tare kaho krsna updesh and bolo krsna bhajo krsna koro krsna-siksha. So this instruction the Lord has given to all of us and then Srila Prabhupada has organised this Society for Krishna Consciousness. We should all in an organised fashion with a definite strategy should proceed to propagate the holy name. We always have to remember what is this. When we say propagation preaching propagation of the holy name. This is propagation of Krsna.

We are sharing Krsna with them. We are sharing the merciful and all powerful and all beautiful Lord with them and this is the need of the whole world. This is what will satisfy each entity, each jiva. There is nothing else. Nothing better than Krsna that will make peace, bring satisfaction and make people happy and content. It is a big thing. It is not some sectarian or light thing. Take some responsibility to do this. Share Krsna in the form of the holy name.

We just received news from Noida that devotees are acting responsible.

ISKCON Noida is organising Padayatra. Padayatra is starting today from ISKCON Noida. They will walk for 15 days visiting dozens of towns and
villages before they reached Vrindavan just on time for the beginning of Vraja-mandala Parikrama, the beginning of the month of Damodar. So ISKCON Noida has taken this responsibility for propagating. They are starting this program for propagating the holy name of the Lord. So this is quite exemplary.

Tulsi that’s a responsible act, Sacidananda Prabhu is acting in a very responsible manner and so is Jayabhadra. So keep taking more and more responsibility to share Krsna, Krishna consciousness with all around you, people everywhere.

Of course when we say propagate the holy name along with that we distribute Srila Prabhupada’s books. We distribute prasada. We sometimes
organise some cultural events, some festivals. So many activities are there , but the holy name is in the centre. Krsna is in the centre. So along with the propagation of the holy name, book distribution, prasada distribution also happens festival organisation. It’s a complete package.

Like that we wind up our japa talk. There is lot to do so get into action. Practice and propagate the chanting the holy names of the Lord to make ourselves Krishna conscious and rest of the world Krishna Conscious.

Gaur Premande Hari Haribol!

28 SEPTEMBER 2019

CRY FOR KRSNA!!

We have 442 devotees chanting with us today. In Yavatmal in Maharashtra one Mataji is chanting with 25 other Matajis. I am very happy seeing this. Also this being Saturday devotees in Melbourne, Australia get together. I think they must have assembled in Prabhupada quarters in Australia so they are also with us. Also there is a special mention of the other devotees who have assembled in Vrindavan. Few hundred devotees have assembled in Sacidananda Prabhu’s retreat. They are also chanting. They are going to chant 64 rounds today, that’s their target. Then they will end up crying for Krisna, end up or during chanting? Let’s see whether they can achieve that.

Devotees have assembled in Govardhan for Japa retreat, they have termed it as ‘Crying for Krsna’. I was thinking devotees should get together. I am encouraging gatherings of my disciples in Mayapur, Vrindavan, Mauritius, Melbourne , South Africa at various places. We have formed different groups basically consisting of my disciples. We have formed disciple care communication committees. They should get together not that they are not getting together now but those who are not coming together they should have such meetings. So you get together every month or week. This also could be the subject matter of discussion and that is chanting. Chanting should be the theme. Crying for Krsna. Devotees in Mauritius get together and they discuss ‘How could we cry for Krsna’? Oh! When that day will be mine when I will cry
for Krsna’. Where are you Krsna?

This zoom conference that we have been conducting is also a Japa retreat, japotsava – festival of chanting. Whenever we get together you can discuss further what you have understood. As we get together and chant what you have, or haven’t understood or your realisations. You can raise some questions. You also raise certain questions here and I answer that. But during your meetings that should be the topic of discussion. Crying for Krsna should be as a result of the chanting. . Offense less chanting, pure chanting,suddha nama japa. ‘ prem-japa’ or prem-kirtana. This is crying for Krsna. How to achieve that? We do discuss that to encourage the people on
a regular basis whenever you get together with your counsellors or with the group of devotees or disciples or in your temple or in your town. There could be more discussion when you get together in your temple, in your country.

Chanting is crying. Chanting is prem. Srila Prabhupada did mention that our chanting is crying. We should be crying like a baby. That’s the goal or target. That’s the perfection. That is ‘Mantra-siddhi’ – perfection of chanting. What is perfection of chanting? We start chanting at the level of faith. Then we have to evolve from sraddha to prem. We have to evolve from sraddha to sadhusanga, bhajan kriya, anartha nivrutti, nistha, ruci, aasakti, bhava, and finally Krsna prem. Crying is going to happen at the level of bhava or prema.

Crying-premnajana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena
santah sadaiva hrdayez su vilokayanti
yam syamasundaram acintya-guna-svarupam
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

“I worship the primeval Lord, Govinda, who is always seen by the devotee whose eyes are anointed with the pulp of love. He is seen in His eternal form of Syamasundara, situated within the heart of the devotee.” ( Brahma-samhita 5.38)

This is the statement in the Brahma-samhita by Lord Brahma. Such darsana is possible for that person whose eyes are anointed or decorated
with premanjan or tears of love. That is crying. The intensity with which it comes. There are torrents of tears. Caitanya Mahaprabhu had prem .
nayanam galad asru dharaya
vadanam gadgada rudhaya gira
pulakair nicitam vapuh kada
tava nam grahane bhavisyati

Translation:
O My Lord, when will my eyes be decorated with tears of love flowing consulantly when I chant Your holy name? When will my voice choke up,
when will the hairs me my body stand on the end at the recitation of your name. (Siksastakam Verse 6)

A person in that state of mind. Crying is state of our mind. When he is crying that is perfection. Crying is expression also of thinking, feeling, willing. I feel like crying. Sometimes you feel like crying.

Such perfection is not going to be achieved overnight. Rome was not built in a day as they say. Practice makes a man perfect. The state of mind when you feel like crying is perfection and it is not going to be achieved without practice. It will take practice of chanting attentively day after day, months after months, years after years chanting and attentively making all the endeavours.

Sometimes there will be success or failure. But with great patience we have to go on endeavouring, so one day or one of these lifetimes, we will be crying for Krsna. Crying for Krsna is not a cheap thing.

Crying for Krsna is such a title, which means loving Krsna or praying to Krsna .We love Krsna. We love God. Crying is one thing or crying is one of the symptoms . There are 8 different symptoms – asta-sattvic vikara. Caitanya Mahaprabhu explained nayanam galad asru dharaya that’s one – crying or shedding tears. vadanam gadgada rudhaya gira- , choking of voice, pulakair nicitam vapuh kada/ tava nam grahane bhavisyati – trembling of the body. Or Mahaprabhu Kirtana

mahaprabhoh kirtana-nrtya-gita-
vaditra-madyan-manaso rasena
romanca -kampasru-taranga-bhajo
vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

Translation:
Chanting the holy name, dancing in ecstasy, singing, and playing musical instruments, the spiritual master is always gladdened by the sankirtana movement of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Because he is relishing the mellows of pure devotion within his mind, sometimes his hair stands on end, he feels quivering in his body, and tears flow from his eyes like waves. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master (Sri Gurvastakam Verse 2)

We sing in Gurvastakam that there is romanca or hair standing on the ends. Why single out the crying? When am I going to cry or when am I I going to love. Love is again a big, very deep topic. We should not take it lightly. Sahajiyas are very expert in crying for Krsna. Sahajiyas are sahaj. They take crying for Krsna very cheaply. They do an exhibition of their crying. One should not be shedding tears immaturely. When we advance in Krishna consciousness , we attain a certain maturity in Krishna consciousness then there will be crying. Crying is a feeling, it’s a state of mind in which we are expected to achieve love of God. Not like sahajiyas. It is said, ‘Easy to cry and easy to dry.’ One may do whole a exhibition of crying. One may feel I am such an exalted devotee now, with this symptom and that symptom. That
is deceiving others, aie dusta mana tumi kiser vaisnav O wicked chanter , what kind of Vaisnav are you? Bhaktivinoda Thakur said like that. Sahajiyas feel others will be impressed by such crying.

I have to stop as I have Bhagavatam class in Nagpur temple. We should be honest and do introspection, do atma-parikshan and find where we stand and try to go to the next higher level . Starting from sraddha. We should be crying – Oh! I don’t have faith. Crying for not having faith. At the level of sadhu sanga one should have feelings that I am so busy, can’t go to Sunday Festival. At the level of anartha nivritti means look at the state of my bhajan? I am not able to chant 16 rounds properly. I don’t have attraction for chanting.

One could also cry like this. That is also crying for Krsna. You should be crying – when can I chant my sixteen rounds properly? I am such an ayaram- gayaram . I have no attraction for chanting of the holy names of the Lord.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, “I have no attachment for You Oh My Lord. I have no attraction for You.” Like that also one can cry. This is also crying for Krsna. Look at me, no faith, look at me I don’t get any association, look at my and anarthas

There are so many anarthas that I have. When will I get rid of them. This is also honest crying. You could be praying like that. You have to keep your goal in mind. You have to do first thing first. Sraddha is first then there could be sadhu sanga. Sadhu sang can be the first level for someone. Anartha nivritti, becoming free from anarthas can be first stage for you. For different folks it will be different depending on where you stand. You should be crying – how can I go higher so that ultimately I will have bhava, emotion, feeling, prema.

Such crying will be more honest. There will be rolling on the ground. Ultimate objective is Premamayi service.

Think contemplate on whatever we shared.
See you tomorrow.
Hare Krishna.

26 SEPTEMBER 2019

TIME TO CONCENTRATE ON THE QUALITY OF OUR CHANTING.

Hare Krishna!

We are getting the whole world to chat, in different forums , different gatherings, in our own gathering here in zoom conference. I think we should be concentrating and working now on reviving our numbers. We had the prerogative of having almost 700 participants. Now we are only 460 so we should do some homework. All of you and all of us have to do it together, to work on increasing the number of participants at this conference. Padmamali Prabhu is giving you the target of 700 participants. Some of you are still in the festive mood, WHNF mood. They are still sending the reports and scores, some of you are doing that. That’s nice. Some of you are giving your own personal scores of chanting more than 16 rounds. That’s welcome. Minimum is 16 rounds, but the more the merrier. You may report or not report, but more chanting is always welcome. ISKCON Noida is reporting 10 top scores of Harinama bank in their report. There is this Harinama Bank. You could read. But you have to, I may remind you , send all your reports two world holy name conference. Yesterday we were showing the link and for the scores. So take note of that and send all your reports there. The right destination is world holy name conference.

I was thinking during the month of December there is book marathon and devotees do extra effort to distribute books. Not that they don’t distribute books in other months. Books are to be distributed every month, everyday, but we distribute more books during marathon time. So likewise we make extra effort of spreading the holy name, get more and more new people, your relatives, friends, neighbours, school children, new devotees new people in the park, get them to chant. But it does not mean that throughout the year such attempts should not be made. We continue to some extent as much as we can manage, throughout the year. So keep doing that. There could be a World Holy Name Festival every month, every week ,every day, and the big one the Grand one will be during the actual World Holy Name Festival, official time when Prabhupada arrived in America. This is just a suggestion that all those who took part in World Holy Name Festival for those who were organising things, gather their team members, their groups , and do the review of World Holy Name Festival. Review of how was it. What were the strong points and what were the weak points. What were the challenges. In future we have to do this next year also. So make planning for next year of how to do it. Oh! We couldn’t do this thing this year. Next time for sure we will do this. We will do that. So begin making plans, now itself. Do pre-planning for better success. Plan your festival. For next year make some plans. Some plan not the whole detail plan. So what strategy works and what strategy did not work, like that everywhere you should do you in temple or in bhakti-vriksha, in your own area where you belong. So do the review. Note it down, write it down and preserve the file or minutes of your meeting, resolutions that you will be adopting so that you can find them again for the world Holy Name festival and implement your planning. Work on your resolutions.

While doing marathon we were working on numbers of rounds that you were chanting or you were getting others to chat. That’s why the Harinama bank was also there. Lots of deposits are there. I chanted 64 rounds everyday, and I chanted this many rounds on the first day and so many reports like that. So we have worked on the numbers increasing the quantity and for sure the Lord is pleased. kirtaniya sada hari. Some of you took 22 hours to chant the rounds and chanted 192 rounds. So that’s the quantity you are working on or focusing on the quantity. That’s also welcome. More the merrier as we said.

At the same time the quality is also equally important if not more important than the quantity or numbers. So you could and others also now concentrate on the qualitative chanting. So always do attentive chanting, offence less chanting. Chanting is of three kinds or three phases or stages as explained in the book ‘ Nectar of devotion’. Offensive chanting, clearance stage, and offence less chanting. So we have to make progress, attempt committing less or no offences. Minimise offences. That is then the clearing stage of offences.

Then there is ruci and then offence less chanting. Out of all these, our goal is to reach at offence less chanting or prem Harinama.
So work on that. You could get together with your team, your friends and discuss the topic. Discuss the topic of chanting without offences. Or how can I achieve this, so that I can chat without offences. Or meditative chanting.

Lovingly chanting the holy name of the Lord, so that can become the topic of our discussion. There is a report that devotees are gathering at Syamalangi Mataji’s place and she is also going to serve prasada. So like that there could be gatherings this way. You can have a Japa session like this or it can be separate one, during the day or weekdays or holidays. Get together and discuss how to improve your chanting. How to improve and do quality chanting. How to evolve, improve and chant offencelessly. Counsellors can get together and discuss this topic how to improve the chanting. I am happy to announce that Sacidananda Prabhu has gathered many devotees for his seminar. They are gathering together at the foothill of Govardhan. Beginning from today it will go on for several days. He will be talking and others will listen. Sacidananda Prabhu who is sitting right next to me. He will be talking on ‘Crying for Krsna’.

It’s a big topic. They are going to learn how to cry for Krsna crash course. So for sure that gathering topic is how to chant better, with attention, feelings, when we are calling out to the Lord. When you are calling out it’s not easy.

That’s not the first thing you should be learning. There are other things also. But the ultimate stage is how to cry for Krsna. So some attempts are being done, to discuss to improve chanting or chanting with feelings. So we will also make like that for a few days. The purpose of this conference, is to improve our chanting, how to chant better, chant lovingly attentively. so next few days we will make some attempt, of ‘Crying for Krsna’, during this conference.

I am in Vrindavan and I have Bhagavatam class today , and before that I will be going for Srila Prabhupada Guru puja.

Gaur Premanande Hari Hari Bol!!

25 SEPTEMBER 2019

GLORIES OF WORLD HOLY NAME FESTIVAL.

harer nama harer nama
harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha

For spiritual progress in this Age of  Kali , there is no alternative, there is no alternative, there is no alternative to the holy name, the holy name, the holy name of the Lord. (CC Adi lila 7.76)

Kanhaiyalal is reporting from Vrindavana that on Holy Name Festival they did six hours kirtan daily and Bhagavatam classes by Sarvabhauma Prabhu.We welcome all of you chanters! We have received a wonderful report from Vrindavana.

World Holy Name Festival coordination is a global coordination , GBCs have assigned myself, Janananda Maharaja and Ekalavya Prabhu. Then on our behalf there are coordinators in different continents and countries. I cannot share the names of all those and several posts are also vacant for the same. For India Madhavi Gauri Mataji is communication coordinator and she is based in Delhi. We had some kind of state coordinators Padmamali Prabhu was coordinating, World Holy Name communication coordination providing inspiration to Holy Name efforts in the state of Gujarat and well at local level. There are many of them Parthasarathi Prabhu for Solapur, and like that particularly every town. Can’t say village and of course can’t say all the towns, many towns, many villages have coordinators. I personally came to
Vrindavan.

Yesterday evening we had a Grand finale kirtana at Krishna Balaram temple in the courtyard of Krishna Balaram temple in association and assistance of Pancagauda Prabhu, President of the temple.We had kirtana in the courtyard of Krishna Balaram temple with lots of temple devotees and visitors that officially we have concluded the World Holy Name Festival. World Holy Name Mahotsav ki Jai! Padmamali Prabhu has sent a quite an extensive report and then, he says this is not everything and he is gonna report more. Report of each, some six temples of Gujarat, their participation in their Nagar sankirtana, their Padayatras, their 64 rounds kirtanas and this and that, there is so much. This you will have to personally read through. It is quite a Mahabharata long, extensive report.

Final report from all of you, the participants of World Holy Name Festival, either global coordinators or national coordinators, state level coordinators, regional coordinators, local coordinators, you have to compile your reports along with photographs and/or videos and send them to be uploaded on the World Holy Name Festival website. I don’t know the technical ID or access maybe someone could type and explain how they could upload and where to send their reports.
www.worldholyname.org

So this could be finally reported to GBCs and ultimately to Pancatattva so all reports whatever has been sent thus far, has been noted. We are not able to. I am not God and you know that, I don’t even remember and I cannot recall or repeat or share all those reports, but be assured that if you have sent the report here it has been noted and we highly appreciate your participation in the World Holy Name Festival and reporting about the festival. Reports are still pouring in, bombarding in, I cannot keep track of this : Mukund Madhav from Hadapsar, Pune. 100 devotees participated in Nagar sankirtana yesterday. In the garden, 150 new devotees chanted. It is Paramatma Prabhu and Caitanya Jivan Prabhu reporting from Jalgaon. And then part of the report is that Ekendra Gaur who chanted 192 rounds yesterday. He was busy 22 hours to complete his 192 rounds. So congratulations, so I think he is, Ekendra Gaur is the top chanter and someone Shrikant Gangul from Ghangur, Bhiwandi near Mumbai was writing something and it wasn’t clear.

He says he chanted 200 rounds but I am not sure, so Ekendra Gaur seems to be the winner chanting 192 rounds. Then Swarupanand is reporting of a rock show in the market, Greater Noida, 300 participants. I mean those who participate are devotees, not necessarily temple devotees or they already are guests. They are visitors. If they chant Hare Krishna they are all devotees. We are all devotees. All the souls are devotees of Krsna. So he said 300 devotees – temple devotees, congregation of devotees and brand new devotee visitors also. Madhavi Gopi from Thane has chanted 32 rounds or something like that everyday. Jahnavi Ganga chanted a lot of rounds. 52 rounds she is also from Thane. We have taken note of your lots of rounds of chanting. Acknowledging and reading last one hour from time to time I am reading Siromani from Baroda and others chanting.

Rohini Jadav is very active in reporting chanting with children. Lots of children chanted because of her. Ojasvini all the way from Russia was chanting 64 rounds every single day, sometimes more than 100. Madhavanandini has chanted extra rounds also from Russia . Who is that from Toronto? Nama Kirtana is originally from Baroda and he is now in Toronto also managed to keep some Nagar sankirtana, going and getting visitors to chant one round in the temple. Srimati Radhika from somewhere chanted 32 rounds. 48 rounds Suchitra Sakhi from Greater Noida. There is also a report from Italy, Nandalal Prabhuji. I saw him. He sent photographs doing the Nagar sankirtana on the streets of Milan.

Nagar sankirtana and report. Solapur Parthasarathi Prabhu wrote a report. It was very well planned like in the Gujarat temples, this temple also organised sankirtana, extra japas, walking every single day with participation of congregation of temple devotees. What I specially made note of was there were no rains in Solapur for some time. People were waiting where are the rains? Please send some rains.

All the farmers, everyone was awaiting, as soon as the devotees started performing World Holy Name Festival in Solapur, in Nagar sankirtana, from nowhere, the clouds appeared in the cloudless sky. Parthasarathi Prabhu writes they were experiencing clouds hanging right above the temple or where the kirtana was performed and soon there was rain. This happened several times whenever they used to start Nagar Kirtana or 24 hours sankirtana. The clouds gather and it rains so they had a realization of yagyatbhavati parajanyo the result of the yagya, the outcome of the yagya, sankirtana yagya also is parjanya, it rains. So this was first hand experience.Sometimes the rains may pour instantly, on the spot or the rains may happen the next day or next month, so the rains are the result of the sankirtana yajna.

Neetu Sharma from Greater Noida chanted. He is just a little boy, just 10 years old and he chanted 24 rounds yesterday and then Hardik Patel from America, originally from Gujarat. Hardik Patel has ended up in America and he bought, some sets of Bhagavatam and was distributing Srimad-Bhagvatam in Atlanta, America.So like that I am sure that there are more reports, I do not remember or also we don’t have so much time to share all those reports. I have a good excuse to say that we have less time, the fact is, I don’t remember because there are so many reports, and I am just overwhelmed and I cannot share all those reports. Ramvijay is writing something. He did nagar kirtana with Mukund Madhav. They say it did not rain while doing kirtana but in Pune also there was rain after doing kirtana and sankirtana. Any other devotees wish to write up quick. Because there is some outstanding report which I missed or was not reported you could do so in a few minutes that are at our disposal. Mahalakshmi is from Shirdhon Maharashtra. 60 devotees did japa.

Mahalakshmi is my disciple from my family, blood relations. So Mahalakshmi did that. Syamalangi is also reporting that Bhakti Vriksha celebrated in Dubai and Bhakti Vaibhav course for one week in Dubai and kids chanted. I missed Jayatirtha from Raichur. 2500 participants in kirtana. I missed the report. So we congratulate Jaytirtha Prabhu on celebrating World Holy Name Festival in Raichur. It is in Karnartaka. Also Vaikuntheshwar from Baroda chanted 64 rounds. Sneha Gupta reports four students did 8 rounds of mala. And Solapur had 30 Harinama kirtanas in these 7 days. Jagannath Gangul says he chanted 200 rounds. It took a lot of time. Then Aradhya Madhavi from Baltimore all the way from America started Japa marathon. It started at 4 am like that and it went on for a long time I suppose. Kirtanas, downtown kirtans also, there
were many kirtans in the temple for three days. Thank you from Aradhya.

Reports from Gondia say thank you for the Holy Name Festival in Gondia. ISKCON Solapur is presenting further details – 2 times 12 hours non stop kirtana. Ratnavali Madhavi is reporting that Bhakti Vriksha from Sector 50…. Reports are not staying on the screen for long because there is a big push from the bottom or somewhere, so we cannot keep track of the long reports coming in. This 12 hour Harinama by Krishna Nama Prabhu. This must be Beed. This was at Baroda. Kaviraj Goswami did 48 rounds and 1hour Bhagavatam reading.

So I think it is wonderful, great. We did it , not one person could doit. This was participation of all of you from everywhere, not just from India but all over the world devotees participated and the final score from Bangalore 8300 extra rounds chanted besides 16 rounds. More than 8300 rounds were chanted in Bangalore by the devotees. Antaryami Krishna from Shillong, first year in Assam, he also took part in World Holy Name Festival, this was the first time and I hope this is not the last time Thank you Antaryami. 32 rounds everyday last 4 days, and home kirtanas. There is also Neelambari Radha from Russia ,Moscow. So there is no end to this. Devotees from Satara are reporting.

From Latur 14 Nagar Kirtanas, 12 hours non stop kirtana. Radhika 32 rounds. Lalit Mohan 64rounds .Swaha Swaha, all these things taking place in a yagya. My daughter, Amulya can’t talk. She has a talking problem, but she did Japa fluently. Mahadev 48 rounds everyday from Greater Noida. Pandarinath from Sangli Padmamali from Gujarat reports that daily 1lakh people received messages, about Harinam sankirtana. That’s a big report.

Read Bhagavatam at corporates everyday, Lakshminath Prabhu from Bangalore. 32 rounds from Juhu Krishnalok and our Padayatras of course, you know all India Padayatra, Kanpur Padayatra, Maharashtra Padayatra, Tirupati Padayatra. They were on the road everyday. They travel for whole year, but especially during this World Holy Name Festival they made an extra effort to get people to participate in chanting, dancing. We should be remembering them. Those first year Padayatris are under going lots of inconvenience to bring the holy name to more towns and more villages. All glories to the Padayatra devotees.

Pandarinath Prabhu is proudly announcing that his wife Sridevi read Bhagavad-gita four chapters So Sridevi and Radhika Raman from Toronto earlier were in India and went to preach the glories of the holy name to family members. They are in need of the holy name he realised, so he fulfilled the demand. Fulfilled the supply, as there was a demand. Thank you Radhika Raman for the propagation of the holy name. Radhika Raman is in India now.

I think we will read the reports later on and we should stop here , it’s time for greeting the Deities in different temples. And I will make some concluding comments tomorrow about the World Holy Name Festival, on how we could possibly stay high forever and keep spreading and sharing the glories of the holy name with others. Also besides this charity begins at home. Besides, we chant for our own purpose, our own cause and we could keep chanting for others benefit , which is “Paropkar”. We will talk in the next session more about conclusion, putting comments on World Holy Name Festival.

Hare Krishna

JAPA TALK 24 SEPTEMBER

LORD IS ATTACHED TO HIS DEVOTEES.
There are devotees chanting in 457 places. Actually, it is due to Srila Prabhupada’s mercy that chanting is happening in still more places.

Hundreds of reports are pouring in from various places on the last day of the World Holy Name Festival. More and more reports are coming. The reports that come tomorrow will be the last and final. I want to declare the reports which I remember. However you are also free to read the reports that come after the Japa sessions. You may also read this report in the World Holy Name Festival website also.

These glorious reports are also the glories of the holy name because all those participants who are chanting are chanters of either japa, or participating in a kirtana mela or doing nagar sankirtana in some street. Wherever those devotees are chanting, those chanters are also glorious. All glories to all those chanters!

Muralimohan Prabhu through this japa conference has reminded us that in ISKCON we distribute the holy name, Prabhupada books and prasada. By doing all these one becomes a worthy ‘paropakari’, doing something good of great benefit for others. The recipients of these three items – the holy name, Prabhupada books and prasada are really greatly benefitted. Those who share these gifts do ‘paro upakar’ and are glorious.

Devotees in Toronto, Canada have sent their reports through the japa conference. World Holy Name Festival was celebrated in Bangladesh. Sankirtana Gaur Prabhu organised sankirtana in Bangladesh, a Muslim country, He says that many Muslim youths had joined the Nagar Sankirtana in Bangladesh. It is glorious.

Devotees in Dubai are glorious. They have a program called ‘Nityam Bhagavata Sevaya’ where devotees assemble to hear Bhagavatam during World Holy Name Festival before they start work. The topics of these Bhagavatam sessions are japa. They are reading from Namamrta and Prabhupada books which has all the quotes of glorious Harinama.

In Bhiwandi devotees are chanting. Srikanth Ganguly chanted 140 rounds and he is still going to chant another 20 rounds today. Gaur Prabhu has taken a vow to chant 192 rounds. I think that is 300,000 holy names. In Bangalore, 200 devotees were chanting extra rounds. So far they have chanted more than 7000 extra rounds. 200 devotees took part to chant extra rounds. And a mataji from Pune, Rohini Jadhav Mataji, chanted and got different children to chant japa also.

From Solapur, Ramalila Mataji is doing Nagar Sankirtana and got as many as 70 Matajis who went into the streets and with their family members. Nandamukhi Mataji from Noida chants 40 rounds daily during World Holy Name Festival. In Jamshedpur Bhadra Revathi Prabhu chants 36 rounds. Madhavi Gauri Mataji from Delhi is the coordinator of the Holy Name festival in India. She does all the communication. We will have to thank her for her efforts for spreading the word around for the World Holy Name festival. She is also reporting that chanting is taking place in remote parts of Africa and Nepal. There is chanting and dancing in Bangladesh. We welcome those reports from those countries. Their japa must be glorified. She will send more reports tomorrow morning.

Neetu Sharma from Noida chanted 20 rounds. Radha Chitta Hari from Noida chanted 22 rounds today. Chakrapani Radha and Yogi chanted 64 rounds. Advaita Acarya and Sita Thakurani chanted and they are gathering lots of people and getting them to chant in various parts of Noida. Even Hari Kirtana Prabhu collected members from his colony and made them chant one round. Everyone is doing their best to glorify the holy name by chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna themselves and getting others to chant. So today is the last day of the World Harinama Festival. If you have not done anything so far, this is the last chance. Today is the last day for your participation. From Melbourne Australia there is a report of Nagar Sankirtana, and book distribution and tonight Bhakti Rasayan Maharaja is going to conduct Nagar Sankirtana in Melbourne, Australia.

Wonderful! Very, very happy to hear that.

Devotees are distributing prasada in the World Holy Name Festival and cooks are also glorious. We are grateful to all those cooks who are cooking prasada for distribution during the World Holy Name Festival. In Gurgaon Nagar Sankirtana was conducted in a new neighbourhood. Let’s stop this reporting part now and I shall share something glorious from Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s antim lila.

One night there was kirtana in Nabadwip, Mayapur at Srivas-angan’s, a famous kirtana sthali. Every night Mahaprabhu would conduct kirtanas. Mahaprabhu gathered only His confidential and pure associates to chant and the whole night Caitanya Mahaprabhu was chanting and dancing. In Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s chanting and dancing, He created the vibrations which are still there, even to this day. That is what is causing us to chant Hare Krishna. Gauranga Mahaprabhu’s chanting is a cause of our chanting – sarva karana karanam. He chanted and He is still chanting and hence we are chanting, We should remember that. Therefore we are part of Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s chanting movement.

This is how Caitanya Mahaprabhu had done mighty kirtana in Srivas angan. So one night during kirtana, Srivas Thakur noticed that there was some kind of disturbance, some cry was heard from the inner chamber of his house. When he went he was shocked to find that his son had died. The ladies were crying. Srivas Thakur wanted these ladies to stop the crying as it could disturb Gauranga in His chanting. This was his preaching to the ladies and his good wife, Malini was
crying as her son (one of their five sons) has died. Srivas Thakur was explaining to the ladies that dying can’t be avoided. ‘Death is surely going to come one of these days. The departure of our son is glorious because kirtana was going on in our house. You all must have heard the chanting of the holy name, that was going on in our angan (courtyard). How glorious is his departure!. There was nothing to worry. Our son has definitely returned to the spiritual world. In that sense this is an occasion for celebration. Our son has gone back to Godhead as he was hearing the holy name before his departure.’

Srivas Thakur also told the ladies that now they have to stop crying. If they do not stop crying, and if he hears them crying again then he will throw himself in the Ganga and leave his body because of the disturbance they will be causing to Gauranga Mahaprabhu’s kirtana. Mahaprabhu and His kirtana party were getting distracted.

After a warning like that Srivas Thakur returned to the kirtana mandali, kirtana party with Gauranga with His associates, The Pancatattva and HIs associates were fully absorbed in the kirtana, forgetting the surroundings. They were in their own world of chanting. Then at some point, the kirtana stopped and Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu came to know that there was some disturbance. He said, ‘I feel there is some difficulty. Something’s wrong.Something’s happened?’ Srivas Thakur was just surprised by His perception and Mahaprabhu’s guess and said, ‘ Yes, You are right.’ Upon enquiring what has happened, He was told that Srivas Thakur’s son had died and in the middle of the kirtana Srivas Thakur had gone inside the house and had stopped the ladies from crying and rejoined the chanting and dancing. He did not give any impression that any calamity had taken place. This was told to Gauranga Mahaprabhu.

This way Caitanya Mahaprabhu realised something and He expressed His realisation. This was great appreciation for Srivas Thakur. He said,’ Just see how Srivas Thakur is attached to the holy name. How much he did. He did not want my kirtana to be disturbed. So he expressed total detachment from his family and children. Especially his son has died and he showed absolute detachment, totally detached because he was totally attached to the holy name and was attached
to Me and so he managed to develop detachment from the family relations social relationship with his son.

So we are supposed to be attached to the holy name and it is a ladder from sraddha to prema so we could see how Srivas Thakur had achieved that, of course that asakti is beyond. I want to say one more thing, that was Mahaprabhu’s statement, ‘Just see how attached our devotees, especially Srivas Thakur, are to me. How could I leave them behind?’ These were Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s words when He was thinking of taking sannyasa. He could not keep His thoughts within Himself. He uttered it, a slip of the tongue. He couldn’t resist. How could He leave such devotees such as Srivas Thakur? ‘Look at him.’ He said. ‘I am taking sannyasa. How can I leave?’ This is the Lord’s statement. The Lord is also equally attached to the devotees who are attached to Him. This we could see in this episode.

Attachment to the Lord is developed by getting attached to the holy name. The names of the Lord, the holy name and the Lord are not different identities. They are one and the same! We shall stop here. Today is the last day. Reminder to all over there to distribute the holy name, prasada and books also and the glories of the holy name. This way you are assisting the Lord.

dharma-samsthapanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge (BG 4.8)
Hare Krishna!

23rd SEPTEMBER

KIRTANS WILL GO UNOPPOSED!

Welcome all. The entire parampara is blessing you, starting from Brahma, who appeared as Brahma Haridas Thakur and all acaryas are blessing the chanters. I am just conveying those blessings on behalf of the previous Acaryas, including Srila Prabhupada.

You are all blessed that you are getting blessings of the parampara. On the conference today we have 442 participants. We know the world is chanting. More and more new participants are also chanting and also many regular chanters are chanting at different places. Only difference is we are not able to see them on the conference. Everywhere chanting is going on and that gives us joy. Whole parampara is joyful. Gaurang is watching all the chanters. Lots of reporting has happened during the Japa session. Specially devotees have chanted additional number of rounds, from different parts of the world and different parts of India. In Ahmedabad 55 devotees chanted 64 rounds.

Devotees from Bhiwandi and from New Bombay, Ekanath Gangul also chanted 64 rounds. Ramlila Mataji from Solapur reported her daughter in law chanted 32 rounds for the first time. Like that Panchali from Greater Noida chanted 32 rounds and I don’t even remember all the reports. I only said some of them which came to my mind. Someone reported doing 118 rounds. I think that was the biggest score.

Syamalangi Mataji from Dubai managed to get more people to chant and even kids chanted on small Japa malas. For small kids there was the small Japa mala with 27 beads. Parents and children were chanting in Dubai. Efforts were made in other parts of the world also to chant more. Get more people to chant. Advaita Acarya from Greater Noida is arranging a holy name festival there today and you know he had been reporting that devotees are preaching in different parts of Noida with great success.

They reported to me yesterday in the park that each one of them got more than 500 new people to chant the maha-mantra. Manjulali Mataji reported 630 school children chanted one round of maha-mantra. This is in Bangalore. Advait Acarya Prabhu was chanting from Slovenia. He did not report anything, but I was happy to see him chanting. Hardik Patel distributed Srila Prabhupada’s books which are full of the glories of the holy name.

Book distribution is also a celebration of the World Holy Name Festival. Like that, we should remember your reporting made here. That is all right, and we have only one more day to go – today and tomorrow. You may continue reporting to me on this conference, but you should be visiting World Holy Name Festival website and should be sending your reports to Ekalavya Prabhuji. Dinanukampa Mataji can guide all how to do the total reporting of entire week. You should report your personal report, report of your city, or report of your entire country or continent. Dinanukampa Mataji and Madhavi Gauri mataji will check how to do the final reporting and prepare the combined report of everything. This will be eventually reported to the GBC(Governing Body Committee.) They will not go into minute details, but will have an overview of bib things, big numbers and there will be winners.

Till now so many reports are coming. Trilokinath from Brisbane, Australia reported Harinama is going on there. The Bhakti Vriksha group of Srimati Radhika chanted yesterday. I want to stop this reporting now, and want to tell you some glories of the holy name, this morning.

We are saying that we will be talking about the glory of Harinama, but this is also like a report of Maha Harinama Sankirtana that took place 500 years back in Navadvipa. For the past few days you have been hearing how Caitanya Mahaprabhu was instructing and inspiring followers to go out and chant and dance and spread the glory of Harinama. ‘Share glories of the holy name, share the holy name with others.’ Caitanya Mahaprabhu also told them to come back and report him.

One day many devotees presented a very bad report to Mahaprabhu. It was very discouraging. That was that Chand Kazi along with his police force were opposing the kirtana. They were opposing not just by saying, ‘Oh! Don’t do it!

You can’t do it! They went even beyond that and started beating and threatening all the chanters. They started breaking mrdangas.” There was reporting like this from all over. Such reports were reaching Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. When Mahaprabhu heard these reports He was very furious. He was very angry like a rudra personified. He was in the mood of destroying all those agents and parties and individuals who were opposing Mahaprabhu’s or Hari’s kirtana or the holy name ‘Hare Krishna’.

Then Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that they should gather all the devotees from Navadvipa. “I will also be there in the front of the procession. We will all go to Chand Kazi’s house. I will question him, threaten him, scare him so that he doesn’t stop our kirtana.” So then a big number of devotees arrived on the scene. They most probably gathered at Srivas Thakur’s house. His courtyard was known as ‘Srivas Angan. So the news spread.

All the Navadvipa residents became very, very delighted and jubilant. Because there was going to be the Maha Harinama Sankirtana party and Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu was going to lead the procession. They all started sweeping and cleaning the streets. They decorated the streets and entrances of their homes. So that the kirtana party can be greeted, whenever they will pass by their homes. All those who arrived at the evening time, were carrying the mashal or lamp in their hands as it was evening. There were so many of them with torches.

The number of participants was amazing. There were millions of participants. This number was beyond the number of residents or citizens or population of Navadvipa. Many demigods had arrived in disguise and there was an overpopulation. The amount of decoration done on the streets was also amazing. They were wondering who is decorating this? Residents were decorating, but they noticed there was much more additional decorations that had taken place. Some visiting personalities also got busy in decorating the town. I can’t give all the details. There are so many details. There is a whole chapter on this in Caitanya Bhagavata. Vrindavan Das Thakur has explained this kirtana and kirtana party. This party was divided into so many groups. Advait Acarya was leading one of the parties and Haridas Thakur was dancing and leading another party.

Nityananda Prabhu said, “ No! No! I can’t be away from You, my Lord. Wherever You are in whichever party You will be I will be next to You. So like that it was a well organised Sankirtana procession. Now it was heading towards the house of Chand Kazi. “Where is Chand Kazi? Get him!” Those of you who have visited Navadvipa Mayapur know where Chand Kazi’s samadhi is. Imagine that was the location of the house of Chand Kazi. And then this whole procession started heading towards the house of Chand Kazi. There was a whole uproar as devotees were chanting and dancing.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

They were surcharged with the chanting of the holy name of the Lord. It was heard from the far distance and now Chand Kazi was also able to hear this, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna! He was the one who had been stopping the kirtana all these days. He used to say, “Stop this kirtana! Kirtan must stop! We will threaten you , we will beat this kirtaniyas and break their mrdangas.” These orders were already in place, but this day, as Mahaprabhu’s party was chanting there was no opposition. Chand Kazi was wondering what’s happening? His followers reported to him that this is Nimai.

Nimai is coming with the big procession, chanting party and dancing party. Some of them are saying, “We will catch Chand Kazi! We will kill Chand Kazi! When Chand Kazi heard reports of this huge harinama party, headed by Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Advaita Acarya, Haridas Thakur, Srivas Thakur, Gadadhar Pandit. All His associates were there performing nagar Sankirtana. Finally the kirtana party arrived right in front of Chand Kazi’s kothi.

Chand Kazi was trying to hide, feeling his end is near now. He cannot save himself. Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu managed to have audience with Chand Kazi. There was the dialogue between Chand Kazi and Gauranga. Chand Kazi was also greeted in his own way, so then there was a dialogue between two great personalities. That was a very good and instructive dialogue. Very inspirational dialogue in fact, which we should study and read from Caitanya Bhagavata.

Gist of it is that Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, “Oh! What happened? You have been stopping our kirtanas all these days, for the past several days, but today we did not see anyone opposing us. We did not encounter any opposition. There was no one trying to stop us. What happened? Why today no one came to stop our kirtana? Tell us what happened? Kirtana went unopposed.” Then Chand Kazi shared his experience of the night before. What he had encountered or what he had gone through.

He said in the middle of the night when I was fast asleep, I heard the roaring sound of a lion, coming in my direction. I was woken up and I saw a very scary scene. Literally there was the lion, but His face was only lion like and His body was human-like. He jumped on my chest, and said that you were stopping My kirtanas, and stopping this Hare Krishna Hare Krishna chanting? I will kill you if you continue such attempts, I am ready to kill you.

He had a long fingers and sharp nails. He placed them on my chest. He was trying to dig them deeper into my chest. There was blood from my chest, but luckily he was kind to me. He said I will let you go, but if you ever again try to stop My kirtanas or chanting and trouble the kirtaniyas , dancing on the streets of Navadvipa, if you ever tried to stop that I will be back. I will then cut you into pieces and make chutney of you and eat that. Understand? Chand Kazi was sharing his experience of the night before. I said you may not believe what I said but look, and he uncovered his chest he removed his kurta and showed the marks of the nails of that person who appeared last night.

They are still fresh can you see?
This is not the end of that pastime, but we need to stop here. But the gist is that Mahaprabhu had promised that I will protect you. You do the kirtanas and if anyone is opposing you, I will take care. He had said this. Then what happened in the case of Chand Kazi. Now you know. That lion was Narasimha. Gauranga is Narasimha. kesava- dhrita-narahari-rupa. Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared as Narasimhadev and He protected. Then we know from history that there was an order that from today onwards Nimai’s Kirtana party will go on unopposed. No one will stop it. Nimai’s Kirtana will go on in Navadvipa. He passed that order. This pastime is also called Chand Kazi’s uddhar Lila.

He was liberated, and we know that this Chand Kazi was none other than Kamsa. In Caitanya Mahaprabhu Lila has appeared as Chand Kazi. Then there was Chand Kazi uddhar. In Mayapur there is a samadhi of Chand Kazi. That samadhi is not only visited by Muslims but also by Gaudiya Vaisnavas. We have Navadvipa-mandala Parikrama in Mayapur, that time we all go to Chand Kazi’s samadhi. We offer our respects and we do Parikrama of his samadhi. Caitanya Mahaprabhu liberated Chand Kazi and then kirtanas went on.

So go on chanting and reporting. We have one more day.

Hare Krishna!