Gender

Male

Birthday:

January 13

Name / Initiated name

Mathura Mohan Das

Daily number of rounds of Hare Krishna mahamantra.

16

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

How_did_I_become_a_devotee_of_Krishna?🍂🌱🤷‍🌱🍂 I used to waste a lot of time playing sports. In 2003, after giving SSC exam, I started spending more time in sports. The first ISKCON devotee of our area and my teacher "Sriman Arkamitra Das" Prabhu. His pre-initiation name was “Tarak Chandra Karmakar”. Then, seeing my so much addiction to sports and wasting so much time, he graciously told me one day--- "You waste a lot of time playing sports. You can come and chant 2 malas on my chanting mala every day. You will see, many You will be happy." He was not initiated yet. He was initiated in 2009 by "Sreel Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Maharaj". In response to his words, I said--- "Can I do this? It seems very difficult." He said lovingly and encouragingly to me--- "It's very simple." Then, explained everything. After understanding everything, I found that actually starting "Harinam Japa" is not that difficult. "Harinam Japa" can be started very easily. From that day "Shriman Arkamitra Das" started chanting "Harinam Japa" at the feet of the Lord. "Japa malas" and "Japa tholi" were not so easily available then as they are now. Within a few days, he graciously brought me a chanting bag from Dhaka. Thus by the grace of many births, by the grace of a pure Vaishnava I joined this "Hare Krishna" movement of Mahaprabhu. 🙏🐚🙏🤷‍♂️"Hare Krishna"🤷‍🙏🐚🙏

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

Name of the nearest ISKCON temple is "Shri Shri Jagannath Ballava Mandir", Netrakona, Bangladesh. And name of the devotees whom I know is--- 1. Shriman Joy Rama Das Brahmachari, President, Shri Shri Jagannath Ballava Mandir, Netrakona, Bangladesh. 2. Shriman Arkamitra Das, President, "Hare Krishna" Namhattha Sangha, Atharabari, Ishwarganj, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. 3. Anantadev Das Brahmachari, Senior Devotee, Shri Shri Jagannath Ballava Mandir, Netrakona, Bangladesh.

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

I am a simple man. Wanna to prosper in devotional path.

What are your expectations from this community?

I wanna kripa from all devotees of this community.