{"id":6510,"date":"2008-10-03T06:06:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T05:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2008-10-03T06:06:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T05:06:20","slug":"world-holy-name-day-2008-nagpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=6510","title":{"rendered":"World Holy Name Day 2008 &#8211; Nagpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2156.jpg'  align=\"left\" alt='' \/><strong>By Ekalavya Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Home Base: Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir Nagpur, Maharashtra, India<\/p>\n<p>World Holy Name Day 2008 &#8211; Nagpur<\/p>\n<p>Dear Maharajas and Prabhus,<\/p>\n<p>Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to the chanting of Sri Krishna&#8217;s Holy Names!<\/p>\n<p>On 22nd September, 2008, the day of Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s arrival in New York, devotees of ISKCON Nagpur celebrated World Holy Name Day with a Maha Harinama Sankirtan throughout the streets of Nagpur.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the photos at the following link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.in\/ekalavyadas\/WorldHolyNameDay2008Nagpur\">http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.in\/ekalavyadas\/WorldHolyNameDay2008Nagpur<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The celebration began at the home of the mother of HG Sadhana Bhakti Mataji with the garlanding of a large photo of Srila Prabhupada. Sadhana Bhakti&#8217;s aging mother (70 plus!) had arranged for many new devotees to attend the program, and more than 50 of them received new japa beads and took a vow to chant at least 1 round per day. The lecture, &#8220;Srila Prabhupada, Ambassador of the Holy Name&#8221;, was well received.<\/p>\n<p>Harinama Sankirtan proceeded throughout different avenues of Nagpur. Pedestrians, rickshaw walas, bicycle riders, and merchants stopped what they were doing and participated in the chanting. Although the hot sun was beating down, the beating of the mrdunga drums brought joy to the hearts of the devotees as they raised their arms and danced to the loud chanting of:<\/p>\n<p>Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare<\/p>\n<p>An opulent prasadam feast was served to all the devotees at the conclusion of the Harinama Sankirtan procession.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening devotees congregated at Nagpur, Dhuntuli area, at the home of congregational devotee Mr. Patel.<\/p>\n<p>The topic of the lecture was, &#8220;The Holy Name &#8211; The Matchless Gift&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kirtan was enjoyed by all.<\/p>\n<p>Dasanudas, Ekalavya Das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imgs_2156.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Ekalavya Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  On 22nd September, 2008, the day of Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s arrival in New York, devotees of ISKCON Nagpur celebrated World Holy Name Day with a Maha Harinama Sankirtan throughout the streets of Nagpur <!--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-6510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","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=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}