By Mathura Lilesvari Devi Dasi
The Karthik month is a very busy month for most Malaysian devotees. While getting the family together daily to offer ghee lamps to our sweet Lord Krishna, devotees in Malaysia has, over the years, introduced various preaching methods to extend the opportunity of offering ghee lamps to the general masses.
Like every year, the month-long festival was launched in Sri Jagannath Mandir Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 25 October 2015. Under the leadership of Sri Jagannath Mandir , Kuala Lumpur Temple President, HG Kripa Sindhu Krishna Prabhu, this launch event was held to reiterate to the devotees the glories of Karttika month and to get everyone in the right mood of servitude. Devotees were also presented with different preaching techniques that can be used to ensure the opportunity of offering ghee lamps to Krishna reaches more people.
Damodara Home Kits were printed and distributed to devotees to facilitate their preaching. A sweet drama depicting the pastimes of Lord Damodara was enacted by the Gokul Garden children for the pleasure of Their Lordships, Sri Sri Jagannath, Baladev and Subhadra Devi and Sri Sri Nitai Sundara Gaura Hari.
Every year, a ten day Deepavali shopping carnival is held for Indian Businesses in Kuala Lumpur. Hundreds of exhibitors gather in the venue to sell to shoppers. ISKCON Sri Jagannatha Mandir sets up a ‘Damodara Booth’ at this venue and encourages shoppers to offer a ghee lamp to Lord Damodara. Shoppers are also given a Damodara home-kit to enable them to continue offering the lamp at their respective homes. In this way, Lord Damodara has entered the homes of many Indians in Malaysia.
Harinams are also organised and each home that opens their door to the devotees are taught how to offer a ghee lamp to Krishna in this month. Many are ever ready to do it once they learn the immense benefit it has to offer.
Food for Life programmes and Sastra Dana are also organised in schools. Children and teachers are given an opportunity to offer the ghee lamps.
Programmes are also held in universities and orphanages. A complete programme with kirtana, spiritual discourse, offering of lamps and prasadam is organised by devotees.
Devotees are also approaching Hindu Temples in their area to conduct Damodara programmes.
The devotees of Sri Jagannatha Mandir pledge to give this divine opportunity to offer ghee lamps to Krishna to 100,000 people during Karttika 2015.
We seek the blessings of Vaisnavas worldwide to enable our congregation to achieve this target and please Srila Prabhupada and our spiritual masters.
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