Gender

Male

Location

Berhampur,Odisha

Birthday:

March 23

Name / Initiated name

Aditya Roshan Dash

When, where and how did you come into contact with the Hare Krishna Movement?

Through Bhagvadh gita as it is and prabhupada's book krsna the supreme personality of godhead and teachings of Lord caitanya and a youtube channel Vedic tales. Vedic tales you tube channel posts such melodious bhajans like Sri Vrinda devi Ashtakam, https://youtu.be/xmiNXMOxcYg , here is the link please do watch it,it glorifies krsna-pyaari Raharani.

Name the nearest or most frequently Visited ISKCON temple/ centre and name few of the devotees whom you know.

I know three of them two are sister of my grandmother and the other is one is one Uncle whose name is Gagan. Only these three i know.

Please describe yourself so that other like minded devotees can find you.

Well I am a 16 year old teen. I from 9th class i was inspired to be a scientist from Feymann,Einstein,Newton. I hated the concept of god because I thought that hare krsna devotees were those corrupted Brahmins who only spoke mantra to get money and food and all the blindfaith is spoken in the bhagvadgita. Even i chasitised Tulsi Das, in 9th class, for his poem on lord Ram, which said that those who are not devotees of Ram then we should break our relationships from them which I thought to be aggressive and hence chasitised him, my kind Hindi teacher(which i realised now) despitebeing christian she warned me against chasitising devotees, but i did not pay any attention rather went on chastising ,after getting claps from my like minded atheist mates I became more determined to discourage existence of god. But how merciful is Radha krsna! Through one of the serial called cosmos, in a episode about newton and his theory developments it said that Newton would shut himself in room and study ancient Greek scriptures and the animation of newton seeing symbols coming out of book and revealing him the secrets of cosmos,that part insiperd me a lot . So he being my inspiration I thought if he can get such that since I cannot get any Greek scriptures so nearest scriptures was my grandma's Bhagvad Gita in odia although i was pinched by the pride of spreading non god or atheism but the animation of that newton thing overcame it. Seeing my interest my grandmother ordered english version of Bhagvad gita As it is so for first 10 ten days i tried to read but was not consistent however i realised that Bhagvad Gita was not encouraging the principal of Blind faiths and of neo-phyte devotees(who approached god as an jinnie,who will grant their wish,i hated such concept with the idea that i don't have to burn oil lamps or break 108 coconuts to request my father money) but in March 2020 Covid hit India and there was Lockdown and our 10th Icse exam was announced to be postponed to indefinite. Since i was restricted from using Internet and TV i was left with no other choice but Bhagvad Gita. well the first few lines made me feel bore but prabhupada's commentary would make me give chuckles about how neophytes would approach god which matched with idea ,then at secoond chapter when krsna was lecturing about the soul mechanism it made him look like Tony stark like it really interested me about Body being a machine and fascinating about we could transfer ourselves from body to body and stuffs like that, but from third chapter i became irregular ....hence it took me 3 months to finish it ...but from the chapter of dhyan yoga where krsna told that if a person would arrange himself in meditation in such position of sun and moon then he would be able to go to this planet and stuffs like. When I reached to chapter Devotional service i felt like insecure like i would die at any moment and felt lonely like i don't have a bestie , i don't have any partner and like nobody loves me....trust me this feeling was hurting me from all the layers from mind to body but in chapter of devotional service i can't say , but i would get an wave of relive with every verse of it it would made me feel alas somebody is there out there who will love me infinitely and then comes here vedic tales it shared stories of Shrimad Bhagavatam i enjoyed it and it posted on sound cloud a flute music what attracted me there was the poster which i later came to it is the drawing of heart srila bhakti vedanta Narayana Goswami by Syamarani dasi ,is krsna serving Radharani in seva kunj with tears in their eyes that picture touched me like will he and she will love me this much and i would imagine enjoying with them sometimes as my friend or parent with the flute music in my ears , https://soundcloud.com/vedic-tales , try this you may feel the same. and then goes on..please guide me i want to go to him and her really desperately, because prabhupada said that this krsna consciousness movement is to participate in sublime dance of krsna ,i came for that

What are your expectations from this community?

To participate in sublime dance of krsna and dance with krsna and radharani as their son on this song specially https://youtu.be/0qB0acOERjU .

Describe any specific service you would love to offer to Lord Krishna & His devotees?

oh yes! i have planned to prepare an X-mas greeting card to Radharani and krsna secretly, 'cause my parents won't encourage devotional service in love. Apart from that i cannot serve unless i am trained like Goswamis and prabhupada. And how can serve them when I don't have anything superior than they have. It doesn't make any sense to help money to a rich man.