{"id":6385,"date":"2008-09-09T16:13:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2008-09-09T16:13:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:13:25","slug":"news-from-mayapur-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=6385","title":{"rendered":"News from Mayapur"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ila devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Young Boys\u2019 Harinama<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Saturday 6 September, twelve young boys, aged 6 \u2013 10, took part in a Harinama around the campus. The Harinama was arranged as part of Ramananda Raya dasa\u2019s birthday celebrations.<\/p>\n

It was great fun for the boys as they used the \u201cHarinam Express\u201d rikshaw, which enabled them to go around all the areas, without struggling to walk, so that they could concentrate on the chanting. Nanda-Nandana, Visvambara, Bala-Gopala, and Tamal all lead kirtana very nicely, whilst others played instruments or attempted to help pedal the rikshaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d like to see all the children of Mayapur do Harinam regularly,\u201d said Shastra dasa, \u201cduring World Holy Name week we are inviting all the schools to come and do Harinama, so please start practising!\u201d<\/p>\n


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Harinam Deities make surprise appearance on Radhasthami<\/strong><\/p>\n

After an almost two-week absence, SriSri Nitai-Mayapur-Chandra made Their re-appearance on Radhasthami. Where were They during this time? Preparing for this special day, to lead Harinama on a new carved wooden rikshaw altar, with newly-painted faces and a lovely deep plum-pink outfits, including tiny toe-rings.<\/p>\n

Dayal Mukunda Prabhu and his wife, Yashoda Mataji, who are the fortunate servitors that keep the Nagara Sankirtana Department\u2019s Deities in their home, wanted to make a special offering on this day by arranging for a new altar to be carved in Navadvip town, and by having Them repainted. Sachi Mataji did the painting and Their eyes looked so deep and penetrating after she had worked on Them, that devotees all over the Temple campus kept commenting about Their attaractive new glance.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Harinam around the Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir area attracted many visitors as usual. I reflected on how the Harinama really changed the mood around, so many visitors just loiter around the different areas of the large Mayapur Campus, waiting for afternoon Deity Darshan, in the parks and on the benches, but when the Harinama party appears, they immediately become transformed as they get the opportunity to take part in the congregational chanting of the Holy Name, directly under the guidance of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Absolute Truth is Sri Krishna, and loving devotion to Sri Krishna exhibited in pure love is achieved through congregational chanting of the holy name, which is the essence of all bliss.\u201d Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi-lila 1:96<\/p>\n

\u201cI have heard that Srimati Radharani is very compassionate and always desiring to engage the living entities in Krishna\u2019s service. We pray to be able to assist in fulfilling this desire of Hers, by getting everyone together to chant congregationally. On this special day of Her Appearance, we pray for new inspiration and strength from Her, to be able to do Harinam and Prasadam distribution (Food For Life) all over the nine islands of Navadvipa\u201d \u2013 Shastra dasa, Harinam Department<\/p>\n

The next exciting event that the Harinam Department is preparing for now, is the worldwide \u201cHoly Name Week.\u201d Expect a lot of chanting and dancing\u2026..<\/p>\n


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\"HareBy Ila devi dasi<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Saturday 6 September, twelve young boys, aged 6 \u2013 10, took part in a Harinama around the campus. Harinam Deities make surprise appearance on Radhasthami<\/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-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","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=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}