{"id":5421,"date":"2008-03-02T17:25:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T16:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2008-03-02T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T17:04:23","slug":"childrens-harinam-team-in-mayapur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=5421","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Harinam Team in Mayapur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/THEPARADE.jpg'  align=\"left\" alt='' \/><strong>Reported by Ila devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now that the Mayapur Nagar Sankirtan Department (\u201cNagar Sankirtan\u201d is better known as \u201cHarinam\u201d in the west) has been in existence for a year, the need for engaging the youth more, even from a very young age, has resulted in the formation of the Junior Harinam Team \u2013 for children below 10!<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday 1 March the young kirtaneers had their first Harinam in public around Srila Prabhupada\u2019s Samadhi and the Grhastha area.  A flat rikshaw was used to seat the leaders and mrdanga players (drums can be really heavy to carry) whilst the others followed, carrying colourful flags.  Turns were made to give everyone who wanted a chance to lead the chanting, and parents were pleased to hear how sweet the voices of their children are.<\/p>\n<p>Shastra Prabhu assisted in guiding the singers, whilst other parents guided the parade, encouraged the children, kept them together and of course, took lots of photographs for memories.  The mood was kept light and happy.<\/p>\n<p>The Children\u2019s Harinam met briefly with the main kirtana party of about 50 devotees going around Mayapur campus, and adults exchanged encouraging looks with the young singers.  The main adult kirtana party became ecstatic as HH Radhanath Swami joined them, and children ended the day happily as the effort was rewarded with Prasadam \u2013 ice cream, cake, pizza and juice. <\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by approximately 30 children, and due to the success of the day the Nagar Sankirtan Department will do regular children\u2019s Harinams \u2013 once a month for the small ones \u2013 just enough to keep it exciting.  As their interest grows the team might go out more regularly.<\/p>\n<p>The Nagar Sankirtan Department wishes to thank all parents and well-wishers who assisted on the day and who kindly sponsored the Prasadam.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CHILDRENSHARINAM.thumbnail.jpg' alt='' \/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BOYSLG.jpg' alt='' \/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/YOUNGVAIS5RTAN.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/boys-leg.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Ila devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Now that the Mayapur Nagar Sankirtan Department has been in existence for a year, the need for engaging the youth more, even from a very young age, has resulted in the formation of the Junior Harinam Team \u2013 for children below 10!<!--more--><\/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-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","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=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}