Gender

Female

Location

Varanasi

Birthday:

January 20

Name / Initiated name

Mridula Singh

Daily number of rounds of Hare Krishna mahamantra.

16

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

I asked The Supreme Personality of Godhead for Bhagwad Geeta in English at the age of maybe 5 and I got Bhagwad Gita As It Is on my bed on my 14th birthday I read it 3 times I could not understand much, I always had doubt since my very childhood in my mind whether or not is their any incarnation of The Supreme Lord in kaliyuga for us degraded souls to uplift? then at the age of 21, I saw Sriman Sacinandan Gaur Hari in a whatsapp status, then same evening I read a post of Shrila Prabhupada in instagram, challenging to chant 16*108 times the mahamantra to change your life in 6 months, I was quite depressed at that time, so started chanting 16 from that day itself to change my life. Then I realised all these 3 things Bhagwad Geeta, Mahaprabhu and Prabhupada are inter-related. Now I'm fully comitted to the philosophy and this Hare Krsna movement after listening so to many Prabhupada lectures and reading to Prabhupada books like BG, SB, etc and listening to so many lectures of many pure devotees in the movement like Sri Srimad Gour Govind Swami Maharaj, Sripad Aindra Prabhu, Srila RadhaGovind Swami Maharaj and many others.

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

I could never visit any ISKCON temple because my father and hence whole family is very averse to all these religious things apart from my mother, she is a pure devotee as far as I could understand. I could never muster courage to practice much things apart from just reading, chanting and listening.

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

I am a 22 year old Indian-girl-student pursuing B.Tech in IIT-BHU Varanasi.

What are your expectations from this community?

To help me please my Guru Maharaj and Sri Nama Prabhu to the fullest.

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

Harinaam Sankirtan, Harinaam Sankirtan and only Harinaam Sankirtan.