Gender
Male
Pune
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Gender
Male
Location
Pune
Name / Initiated name
Ram Charan Das
Daily number of rounds of Hare Krishna mahamantra.
20
When, where and how did you come into contact with the Hare Krishna Movement?
Become Life member in 2001 when His Grace Jagjivan Prabhu then President of Mira Road Temple, Mumbai came to my office in Nariman Point, Mumbai.
Name the nearest or most frequently Visited ISKCON temple/ centre and name few of the devotees whom you know.
I have been overseas in Lagos Nigeria since May, 2001 to April, 2005 and then for some months in India in Mumbai and Pune, then I went to DaresSalaam, Tanzania in November, 2005 till October, 2010, I have been having a house in Pune and have been born and brought up in Malad (West), Mumbai so associated with Juhu and Mira Road temple till I was in Mumbai and in Pune associated with Negdi temple, currently as I am in Lagos since June, 2011 have been associated with Lagos temple and know all the devotees there including the temple president His Grace Yadhunatha Das Prabhuji and His Holiness Bhakti Dhira Damodar Goswami Maharaj.
Please describe yourself so that other like minded devotees can find you.
I love and enjoy Kirtan than any other part of devotional service and would like to have association of such kind of devotees who are like Gandharva's.
What are your expectations from this community?
As a neophyte devotee, I understand that we should not have any expectations as expectations leads to problems but in spiritual life one can expect to have association of devotees so the same is for me.
Describe any specific service you would love to offer to Lord Krishna & His devotees?
Doing Kirtan, chanting of the Maha mantra, reading of the Bhagwad Gita and Srimad Bhagvatam,
Comments
oh hare bol, i was welcome to iskcon tample
today i want to tample
hare hare
rajesh is good devotee and i plying for hare krishna to bless him
PRAYER FROM THE SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM.
bhave bhave yathā bhaktiḥ
pādayos tava jāyate
tathā kuruṣva deveśa
nāthas tvaḿ no yataḥ prabho
O Lord of lords, O master, please grant us pure
devotional service at Your lotus feet, life after life.
yadi dāsyasi me kāmān
varāḿs tvaḿ varadarṣabha
kāmānāḿ hṛdy asaḿrohaḿ
bhavatas tu vṛṇe varam
O my Lord, best of the givers of benediction,
if You at all want to bestow a desirable
benediction upon me, then I pray from Your
Lordship that within the core of my heart
there be no material desires.
mām ugra-dharmād akhilāt pramādān
nārāyaṇaḥ pātu naraś ca hāsāt
dattas tv ayogād atha yoga-nāthaḥ
pāyād guṇeśaḥ kapilaḥ karma-bandhāt
May Lord Nārāyaṇa protect me from unnecessarily
māḿ keśavo gadayā prātar avyād
govinda āsańgavam ātta-veṇuḥ
nārāyaṇaḥ prāhṇa udātta-śaktir
madhyan-dine viṣṇur arīndra-pāṇiḥ
May Lord Keśava protect me with His club in the
devo 'parāhṇe madhu-hogradhanvā
sāyaḿ tri-dhāmāvatu mādhavo mām
doṣe hṛṣīkeśa utārdha-rātre
niśītha eko 'vatu padmanābhaḥ
May Lord Madhusūdana, who carries a bow very
śrīvatsa-dhāmāpara-rātra īśaḥ
pratyūṣa īśo 'si-dharo janārdanaḥ
dāmodaro 'vyād anusandhyaḿ prabhāte
viśveśvaro bhagavān kāla-mūrtiḥ
May the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who bears