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Kartik Month or Damodar month<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devotional service can be performed at any time, in any place, yet devotees know well that devotional service performed during Kartik is especially pleasing to Lord Krishna. Therefore they perform additional austerities and devotional practices during this month. Although the Vedic scriptures describe in detail material benefits one may derive by performing devotional service during Kartik, pure devotees of Lord Krishna have no interest in these. rather, they are interested only in pleasing the Lord. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Srila Prabhupada speaks in the Nectar of Devotion (summary of the Bhakti-Rasamrita-Sindhu) about the power of performing devotional service during the month of Kartik:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the most important of these ceremonial functions is called Urja-vrata. Urja-vrata is observed in the month of Kartik (Oct.-Nov.); especially in Vrindavana (Krishna\u2019s place of \u201cbirth\u201d), there is a specific program for temple worship of the Lord in his Damodara form. \u201cDamodara\u201d refers to Krishna\u2019s being bound with rope by his mother, Yashoda. It is said that just as Lord Damodara is very dear to His devotees, so the month known as Damodara or Kartika is also very dear to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIn the Padma Purana it is said, \u201cThe Lord may offer liberation or material happiness to a devotee, but after some devotional service has been executed, particularly in Mathura (Krishna\u2019s appearance place in India) during the month of Kartika, the devotees want only to attain pure devotional service.\u201d The purport is that the Lord does not award devotional service to ordinary persons who are not serious about it. But even if such unserious persons execute devotional service according to the regulated principles during the month of Kartika, and within the Jurisdiction of Mathura in India, are very easily awarded the Lord\u2019s service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although this speaks specifically of Mathura, and many devotees do go there for this special month, Mathura or Vrindavana can also refer to a holy place like a Temple where there are Krishna Deities present and pure devotional service rendered. Wherever there is consciousness of Krishna, and we perform devotional service for Krishna\u2019s pleasure, we are greatly benefited, especially during this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever your situation\u2014even if you live far from a Temple\u2013try to be Krishna conscious as best you can, and pray for the mercy of Krishna and his devotees. There will be a special benefit during this month. That can be an impetus for us for this month, but the idea is to make our entire life, day after day, month after month, and year after year centered around devotional service so we can offer our whole life to Krishna. Then we will go to a plain where the only activity is Krishna bhakti, performed with love and devotion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Devotees take special vows (vratas) to increase their spiritual practices. One activity they do during Kartika, which was given by Shrila Sanatana Goswami (the principal architect of our Gaudiya sampradaya who was empowered by Lord Chaitanya) is to chant the 8 verses found in the Padma Purana, the Damodarastaka prayers, and offering a ghee lamp or candle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These prayers recount the Lila or pastime of Krishna as a child being bound by his mother to a grinding mortar. And we learn the tattva (essential truth) of this Lila and of Krishna consciousness in general. Although Krishna is the original form of God (sac-cid-ananta-rupam), he acted like an ordinary child, crying out of fear of being punished by his mother for his mischief. Devotees are not interested in worshiping Krishna in awe and reverence as is practiced to other forms of God\u2014like Vishnu\u2014but in worshiping Krishna in loving intimacy afforded by the form of Krishna. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Due to the devotee\u2019s intense love for him, Krishna forgets his position as God. And for the devotee, after studying the scriptural knowledge of Krishna\u2019s position as God and realizing it, he forgets that Krishna is God\u2013a kind of Divine ignorance. This occurs so he can have a more intimate love for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an act of gratitude for our sponsors, we, the Congregational\nDevelopment Ministry, offer a monthly offering on behalf of all our\ndonors. Subscribe and get a monthly puja for Lord Nrsimhadev done on\nyour family\u2019s name!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To subscribe to the monthly offering to Lord Nrsimhadev in the name of your family, please visit our website https:\/\/iskconcongregation.com\/cdm-subscriptions\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Therefore they perform additional austerities and devotional practices during this month. 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