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By Krishna-kripa das<\/strong> (November 2015)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\nWhere I Went and What I Did<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n I continued participating in New York City Harinam for the first twelve days of November. We continued engaging the public in offering candles to a picture of Krishna in his childhood feature as Damodara. During that time, we were visited by Bhaktimarga Swami. On Thursday, November 12, we celebrated Govardhan Puja in our Harinam Ashram in the morning and the Brooklyn temple in the evening. The next day I chanted in Philadelphia\u2019s Rittenhouse Square and took my niece, Fern, to Govinda\u2019s Gourmet to Go. Saturday and Sunday I chanted with my friends Sankarasan Prabhu and Sivam and the Potomac ISKCON devotees in Silver Spring, Maryland. Sunday was Srila Prabhupada\u2019s disappearance day, and I attended the program in our Potomac Hare Krishna temple, and I share realizations of the several Prabhupada disciples who spoke on that occasion.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n I foolishly left my computer bag on a New York City bus on November 10, so I lost all my lectures notes from the first ten days of November. Still I share insights from Bhaktimarga Swami, Jayadvaita Swami, and Romapada Swami, who were visiting New York City, Sikhi Mahiti Prabhu (temple president of Philadelphia), and an Indian devotee who speaks in Potomac. <\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n Thanks to Abhimanyu Prabhu of Gainesville for the use of his computer to complete this journal issue. Thanks to Natabara Gauranga Prabhu for his photo of the Harinam Ashram Govardhana Hill, and to the servants of Bhaktimarga Swami for their pictures of him chanting in the streets of New York City.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n Itinerary<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n November 21\u2013December 15: Gainesville area (except 5 days in Tallahassee)<\/span><\/div>\n December 16\u2013January 4, 2016: New York City Harinam<\/span><\/div>\n January 5, 2016\u2013February 25?, 2016: Gainesville area (and Florida campuses)<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n New York City Harinam<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n As usual many people were engaged in the unlimited auspicious activity of devotional service to Lord Krishna by interacting with our chanting party.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n One Malaysian NYU student, whose university is on one side of Union Square and whose dorm was on another, would see the devotees chanting as she passed by every day. She is interested in religion and the effect it has on people\u2019s lives, and she decided to do her final audio\/visual project on our New York City Harinam party.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n ![](\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-uEKVcypBYtY\/VlTVJ_d2D5I\/AAAAAAAAW00\/_UFJRT_oENI\/s1600\/nyc_harinama_union_square_gave_lunch_to_sell_book.JPG\")
<\/a><\/div>\n One young college student said he had only enough money for lunch but none for a book. I suggested if I gave him lunch then he would have money for the book. He said that would work. Thus he gave two dollars for a medium book, and I gave him some khichri,<\/i> which he liked.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n A young man was begging for money for food on the subway, and I gave him half a piece of banana bread. He really liked it. Two weeks later h<\/span>e happened to come by Union Square. He recognized me and stopped, and he asked for a pamphlet. While visiting us, he chanted, played the shakers, and danced. I offered him a piece of banana bread out of gratitude. I was happy to see his devotional service to Krishna increasing.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n <\/span>Once, three young ladies sat with our party, one singing and playing the shakers.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n Another time a lady came up to photograph us, but I showed her a Science of Self-Realization, <\/i>and photographed her.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n Photographers would take photos of their friends dancing with Kalyani Devi Dasi.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n Inspired by their young daughter,<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n these parents also played the shakers,<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n Once two Oriental kids played the shakers.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n One lady who met the devotees the previous year and who remembered that joy, bought a Bhagavad-gita <\/i>and delighted in dancing with Kalyani when I invited her to.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n A guy also danced with us.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n <\/a><\/div>\n Another guy played shakers and danced, with his guitar on his back.<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n Harinama <\/span><\/i>leader of ISKCON Denver, Ananda Murari Prabhu, led a delightful kirtana<\/i> inspiring some dancing (https:\/\/youtu.be\/j-YpZd7-ruY<\/span><\/a>):<\/span><\/div>\n <\/span><\/div>\n