World Holyname Week is celebrated throughout ISKCON fraternity every year to propagate congregational chanting of the holy name.
The world holy name week (WHNW-16) was celebrated globally from 28th Jul – 14th Aug 2016. Devotees in Singapore at the Gauranga Centre, played their part of spreading the glories of holy name by doing harinaam sankirtan.
Indeed, the holy name week had a rousing start as devotees were led by a senior kirtaniya to an ecstatic round of kirtan. In Singapore owing to a hectic work schedule, devotees decided to dedicate their evenings after work to engage in the service of the holy name sankirtan for over ten days.
In what is the 50th year of incorporation of our society it was just apt that the devotees were able to account for over 50+ hours of harinaam sankirtan during the 2016 WHNW celebrations. This included 3 days of intense 12 hour harinaam sankirtans apart from the daily two and half hours of kirtan that was done on weekday evenings.
Devotees coming together and chanting the holy name after their hectic day was a treat to the eyes, ears as well as souls present. After all the soul stirring kirtans were just the right relief for the fatigued souls.
What better way could there be then to offer the over 50 hours of kirtan at the lotus feet of our beloved grandfather HDG AC Bhakti Vedanta Srila Prabhupada.
This year we had different congregations getting together on different days to come to along and for the pleasure of the lord and his devotees not only engage in doing the kirtan but also engaged in various other services aligning with the celebrations.
The enthusiasm for kirtan was there for all to see as devotees engaged in various services and kept themselves involved in the various engagements related to the WHNW.
It was indeed befitting to the occasion that the devotees asked for more and more frequent kirtan and we were also requested to do 12 hour kirtans more frequently.
At this unique occasion, we pray to his divine grace to give us the serenity and the capacity to endeavour to spread more and more of the holy name to the people in general who are in extreme need of this medicine and to give us the strength to be an instrument for the same in the hands of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev and at the same time seeking the blessings of Vaisnavas to achieve the same.
Kaliyug Tapavan Bhuvan Mangal Harinaam Sankirtan Yagya ki Jay
Srila Prabhupad ki Jay
Srila Gurudev ki Jay
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