Dear Prabhus and Matajis, Hare Krsna. Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! We, at ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry (CDM) are excited to announce the upcoming launch of the new and improved Bhakti Home program together with its brand-new website packed full of useful tools and resources to help your congregations to …
Join us for an exclusive Live interview session with HH Bhakti Raghava Swami where he will be speaking about the ‘Pioneering Days of Nama-hatta in ISKCON. LIVE @ 11:00 A.M IST 27th February 2021 You can watch it on Facebook and YouTube Channels: https://www.facebook.com/cdmayapur https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKagZH_JujV57bgdgOVltyw You can ask your questions in the comment box during …
Sri Bhakti Das, a lawyer and a music teacher share his journey with Music in Krsna Consciousness. The bhakti-yoga tradition emphasizes music and singing as its core practice and the easiest method for connecting with the Self and the Supreme. Aside from the repetition of the mantra kirtan, an ocean of poetic devotional songs has …
In the nineteenth century, Bhaktivinoda Thakura organized this method of preaching more systematically and set up a base for this preaching effort in Godrumadvipa, which he dubbed the “Nama-hatta” or the market place of the Holy Name. From here, he traveled to so many places and established over five hundred Nama-hatta sangas or associations headed …
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Advaita Ācārya having appeared, He found the world devoid of devotional service to Śrī Kṛṣṇa because people were engrossed in material affairs. Everyone was engaged in material enjoyment, whether sinfully or virtuously. No one was interested in the transcendental service of the Lord, which can give total relief from the repetition of birth and death. …
Hare Krsna. My name is Andharupa dasi initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1975 at Miami Florida. I was asked to tell my story of my cure from Hepatitis C. The summer of 2004 His Holiness Jayapataka Maharaja visited New Ramana Reti temple in Alachua Florida. I approached Maharaja and asked him for his blessings for …
Surbhi Kunja situated in Godruma Dvipa is the place where Lord Nityananda started His Nama-hatta – Marketplace of the Holy Name. This Nama-hatta spread all over Bengal in due course. In later years Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur pioneered the Nama-hatta and did his bhajan in this place. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur describes the marketplace in his book Sri …
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– By His Holiness Kadamba Kānana Swami — This is dependent on the seriousness of one’s anger and aggression. If it is very serious, then the person may need counseling. Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot resolve psychiatric or psychological problems. By chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one becomes purified, and eventually, both psychological and psychiatric problems can …
My father and mother, living at Bakura district, Catna village, are initiated devotees of the Gaudiya Math. My name is Gauranga. I had joined the ISKCON Sri Mayapur temple six months ago, and after finishing the three months bhakta training course, I was put in the school preaching service. A few days ago, just before …
Lord Nrsimhadeva Resolves A Father’s Dilemma -9th September 2006- Read More »
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s modern-day Nama-hatta mission continued with Srila Prabhupada, the founder of the International Society for Krsna Consciousness (ISKCON), His disciples including HH Jayapataka Swami (Minister for Congregational Preaching), HH Bhakti Raghava Maharaja, HH Bhakti Purushottama Swami, and HH Gauranga Prem Swami have expanded these Nama-hatta by the thousands throughout West Bengal, Bihar, and …
