{"id":11972,"date":"2013-10-16T07:36:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T06:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11972"},"modified":"2013-10-16T07:36:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T06:36:45","slug":"24hour-kirtan%e2%80%99s-27th-anniversary-35-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11972","title":{"rendered":"24hour Kirtan\u2019s 27th Anniversary (35 photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adi Kesava das<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday commemorated the 27th Anniversary of the Krsna-Balaram Mandir 24 hour kirtan mandali. With Kartik around the corner many devotees have already started flocking in. Special guest kirtaniya Madhava Naidoo, a member of the 24 hour kirtan during the 90\u2032s was present as well as Amala Harinam prabhu who both led wonderful ecstatic chanting.<\/p>\n

See our Media Downloads section<\/a> for the mp3\u2032s.<\/p>\n

Krsna-Balaram Mandir 24 Hour Kirtan Mandal was inaugurated and is sustained by the express will of ISKCON\u2019s founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. It functions to help generate a pure, spiritually surcharged atmosphere conducive to the advancement of pure devotional life.<\/p>\n

After the inception of 24 hour kirtana in 1975, the kirtana-yajna continued in a somewhat disorganized way for some diminutive period. In 1978, however, less than a year after the disappearance of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, 24 hour kirtana at the Krsna-Balaram Mandir was unfortunately ground to a halt.<\/p>\n

Reinaguration commenced eight years later, during Kartika\u2019s eve on Vijaya Dasami 1986, by the determined efforts of His Grace Sriman Aindra prabhu, a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, with the assistance and support of a few other soft-hearted devotees. Aindra prabhu, recognizing the common sense in organizing a core group of kirtana enthusiast to ensure its continuance, reconstituted ISKCON Vrndavana\u2019s 24 hour kirtana as a distinguished department of service. In the beginning, upon suggestion and sponsorship, hired singers and musicians formed part of the kirtana group. Within the first 6 months, however, Aindra prabhu, disgusted with the obvious escalation of material motivation amongst the kirtana party members, politely dismissed all the hired kirtaniyas, and since then till today, members of the Krsna-Balaram Mandir 24 Hour Kirtan Mandali receive no monetary remuneration. Pure sacrificial engagement intended to propagate a mood of cent percent selfless devotion to Krsna, that is the 24 hour kirtana ethic. Golokera prema-dhana, hari-nama-sankirtana. Our only real goal is vraja-krsna-prema. We keep body and soul together simply to facilitate this aim.<\/p>\n


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By Adi Kesava das<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday commemorated the 27th Anniversary of the Krsna-Balaram Mandir 24 hour kirtan mandali. With Kartik around the corner many devotees have already started flocking in. Special guest kirtaniya Madhava Naidoo, a member of the 24 hour kirtan during the 90\u2032s was present as well as Amala Harinam prabhu who both led wonderful ecstatic chanting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}