ISKCON or the International Society for Krishna Consciousness has been known for propagating the Holy Name of Lord Krishna through the Hare Krishna Mahamantra worldwide as instructed by our previous acharyas.
The weeklong festival celebrated every year aims towards engaging devotees in spreading the glories of the holy name everywhere through special kirtans, events, harinams and much more.
For the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada and in celebration of ISKCON50, World Holy Name Week 2016 was celebrated between July 18 – August 14, 2016.
Here are pictures: http://bit.ly/2jImFjY
Results from the ISKCON50 2016 event:
1. We have received a total of 44 reports – 5 from overseas and the rest from India.
India: Ahmedabad, Amravati, Aravade, Baroda, Beed, Belgaum, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Dabilpur, Delhi, Govardhan Eco Village, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Katra, Kaundanyapur, Kurukshetra, Manipur, Mayapur, Nagpur, Nasik, Nellore, Nigdi, Noida, Panchsheel, Pandharpur, Pune, Rajkot, Siliguri, Solapur, Surat, Tirupati, Udhampur, Vijaywada and Vrindavan
Overseas: Australia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Singapore and UK
2. While every activity narrated in each of the reports is unique, some instances stood out as being substantially different from the usual programs that come to mind when thinking about world sankirtan festivals. Some of these have been listed below:
a. Perth, Australia: Organised a Mantra Meditation/Yoga session for the public at the local community centre
b. Beed: Multiple school programs with Bhagavad Gita discussion sessions and Sankirtan with over 500 school children on some occasions. An estimated 800 extra rounds were chanted during the week’s festivities as part of the Mahamantra Japathon
c. Rohini: Conducted a yagna by the boys of Mayapur Gurukul and organised 64-round japa sessions
d. Nagpur: Harinama in a mall in the city centre
e. Solapur: Organised a Harinama Hundi and planted 50 trees in the temple premises
f. Geeta Colony: Mantra meditation sessions in the local park
g. Noida: Teams of devotees encouraged park-goers across Noida to chant one round of the Maha Mantra on beads
h. Amravati: Concluded the eighteen-day festival with the Jhulan Yatra of Sri Rukmini Dwarakadish
i. Pune: Conducted school programs involving kirtan, cultural programs (classical dances and dramas), short classes and prasad at five of Pune’s major schools. Designed rangolis in the temple illustrating Prabhupad’s life and journeys
j. Belgaum: The Belgaum congregation initiated a 365-Village Preaching program in 2016 in honour of ISKCON’s 50th anniversary and had covered over 250 of the targeted villages by the start of WHNW 2016
k. Bengaluru: Mama Abhishek of Lord Nrsinghadev
l. Aravade: Top 3 chanters for the week were given a special gift on Janmashtami
m. Surat: Kirtan programs at the workplaces of certain devotees and of certain affluent members of the local community
n. Vrindavan: Hare Krishna mantra rock band by temple president, Pancagauda Das, accompanied by his mini orchestra and other Vaisnavas.
3. Our World Holy Name Week team helped to support the global internet outreach effort of #FORTUNATEPEOPLE who have gathered 9735 chants so far, and the campaign continues.
For more information and to see all the individual reports, please visit:
The dates for World Holy Name Week 2017 are from September 1 – September 12, 2017 (some dates may vary depending on geographic location).
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