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ISKCON Mayapur celebrated the World Holy Name Week from 24th September to 4th October. Every day from 27th September to 4th October, there was a Nama Yajna at Srila Prabhupada’s bhajan kutir from 4 PM to 9 PM followed by prasadam. This Nama Yajna started on 27th Septmeber in celebration of Srila Haridas Thakur’s disappearance and it was performed in front of a murti of Srila Haridas Thakur. HH Lokanath Swami’s ecstatic kirtana on 2nd October was one of the most liked kirtana in Nama Yajna.

The

By Subhatma Guaranga Das

Thousands of pilgrims, guests and visitors chanted and danced to the sweet Holy Names of Krishna at the Krishna Balaram Mandir for 10 days. The chanting goes on anyway with our 24 hour kirtan department, the ladies group chanting in Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi and the devotees from the Youth Forum engaging everyone in chanting one complete round on beads, in Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi upstairs, everyday.

The festival expertly organized by the temple management had diffe

By Kalavati Sundari Devi Dasi on behalf of Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka, New Delhi.

The national capital of India witnessed a historic Maha-Harinaam Sankirtan on 27th September 2015 at Janakpuri, New Delhi, organized by ISKCON Shri Shri Rukmini Dwarkadhish Temple, Dwarka under the guidance of Shri Shri Radha Parthasarthi Temple, East of Kailash.

The Maha-Harinaam Sankirtan was marked by Their Lordships Shri Shri Rukmini Dwarkadhish gracing

By Parasuram das

The French Revolution of 1798 is regarded by western historians as one of the most important events in human history. The revolution sparked off at the magnificent Place D’ La Republic, this is the location where another type of revolution was to happen, the Krishna Prasad “feeding of the 5,000”.

A revolution of consciousness, the Hare Krishna revolution. Referred to as the “spotless” Purana, the Bhagavatam is “directed towards bringing about a revolution in the impious lives of

The Indonesian devotees took up this year’s World Holy Name Week with great zest. Youth from all the temples/communities united to perform a Harinama Yajna never before held.

On the first day, a 12 Hour Kirtan at the Sri Sri Radha Madhava Asrama (Gianyar, Bali) with His Holiness Kavicandra Swami (Co-GBC for Indonesia), His Holiness Ramai Swami (Co-GBC for Indonesia) and His Holiness Bhakti Raghava Swami in attendance. Devotees from the 5 temples and 3 centres took turns to complete the 12 Hours

WHNW Report from Chamorshi (Maharastra)

Leader. : Parameswar Prabhu (Srila Prabhupad disciple )

These days from 24th October to 4th November i was engaged in the service
of writing the reports for the World Holy Name Week event in Vrindavana. It
was kind of service as the reporter . Also required to organize the
mataji's kirtan.
I offer to you the summarized report and some of the pictures.
All glories to You!

The World Holy Name Week in Vrindavana (report).

Today 24th september on the day of ekadasi The World Holy Name Week started
in Vrindavana. The team of very enthusiastic devotees b

Ladies And Gentlemen, this Krishna consciousness movement is meant for reviving our original consciousness.

At present, owing to our long association with matter, our consciousness has become contaminated, just as rain water be

Thank you for making us aware of the WHNW .  I am very glad to inform you that we had one more session of Japathon in Sri Sri Gaur Nitai Sundar (Sri Candrika DD and Harinam Cintamani Das) house at Shyamdesh on 03 Oct. 2015 for the pleasure of Guru and Gauranga. With the Krishna's mercy, this time the Japathon programme was for two hours with Harinaam kritan and Vaishnav Bhajan.Each devotee sang one Bhajan and chanted Mahamantra. It was a wonderful day to spend with the vaishnav devotees.

Lecture on Glories of Holy Name by HH Lokanath Swami on 09 Aug 2014 at ISKCON Noida

(Lokanath Swami born in Aravade, a small village Maharashtra, Indian, he went to Mumbai for studying. In the year 1971, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was touring India with his foreign disciples and had organized a pandal program in Mumbai.Intrigued, maharaj attended the whole Hare Krsna Festival and heard from Srila Prabhupada.)

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Lecture on About Lord Balaram by HG Navina Nirada Prabhu on 30 Aug 2015 at ISKCON Slovenia

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Lecture on Sannyasa Initiation of Amal Bhakta Swami by HH Radhanath Swami on 16 Sep 2015 at Los Angeles

(Radhanath Swami was born in Chicago in 1950. Radhanath Swami's childhood name was Richard Slavin; Radhanath Swami was given the name Radhanath Swami after he entered the renounced order. In his teenage years)

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Report of WHNW happened in Ahmedabad namahatt 'ISKCON BASE', and also from ISKCON Ahmedabad Temple, Gujarat, INDIA.

We started WHNW from 24th of Sept. 2015 and continued till 4th of October.

 - 24th of Sept, Thursday , Morning :

From temple devotees left for Harinaam nagar-sankirtan in the morning at 7am to 8.30 am

Evening - Temple prgrm - We had Holy name Seminar in the temple and after the seminar kirtan was lead for more than half an hour. Followed by prasadam.

- 25th of Sept, Friday, Mo

Mayapur Tourism has announced the launch of its online shopping portal Gaurangagifts.com. Some of the website features include:

• More than 300 devotional products to choose from. The number of products is only expected to grow in future.

• Easily locate products of interest as products are arranged in categories (books, digital media etc.) and sub-categories (children’s books, neck beads etc.)

• Product comparison by size, price.

• Mayapur exclusive products such as bead bags with images of Ma