By Janananda Gosvami
Dear Devotees.
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. At this past Mayapura GBC meeting, at the instigation of HH Lokanatha Maharaja, the decision was made to establish an annual day throughout ISKCON dedicated to the chanting of the Holy Names of Krishna. – “World Holy Name day”.
March 2007 Mayapura GBC meeting
ANNUAL WORLD HOLY NAME DAY
The observance of World Holy Name Day is to be held in connection with Srila Prabhupada’s arrival in the USA (Sept. 17, 1965) to coincide with, and commemorate, his delivering the gift of the holy name to the world. A Global Coordination Team for World Holy Name Day shall be appointed consisting of His Holiness Lokanath Swami, His Grace Janananda Das, and His Grace Ekalavya Das. The chanting of the holy name is the yuga dharma, “The vision of ISKCON is to bring the holy name to every town and village and this program is helpful in fulfilling this vision.” Quote from purposes of ISKCON. Every year, there would be massive harinama sankirtan festivals held across the planet, generating a tremendous amount of media interest and coverage. Every year, devotees around the world would share their ideas on spreading and glorifying the holy name. There would be an increased focus in ISKCON on the chanting of the holy names.
A good start to bringing us closer to the point of “Kirtaniya Sada Harih” Kirtan is the life of our movement. We will be sending out regular updates and articles on Harinama over the next few months related to the event on September 17th or whatever date you fix. . Kirtan is the most unifying, purifying, blissful, attractive, healthy activity that exists. It’s the yuga dharma, the business of the nitya siddhas. Let’s get into it. Step forward. How wonderful we feel after Hari Nama Sankirtan. Any devotees from anywhere in the world who would like to take some responsibility for organising the events in local areas please let me know. Please get your local leaders into it. It is a GBC resolution and all temples and ISKCON communities are expected to observe it. Later we want to take it to other gaudiya vaisnava groups, other sampradayas, other religions and the public.
Very soon we are hoping to get some posters advertising the event, which will be avaialble for the use of everyone. Just imagine the powerful effect of hundreds of thousands of devotees chanting the holy names together in different parts of the world on the same day. Much more soon.
CHANT AND BE HAPPY.
HARI NAMA SANKIRTAN KI JAYA
Your servant Janananda Gosvami