{"id":7619,"date":"2009-09-05T07:42:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T06:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2009-09-05T07:45:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T06:45:35","slug":"iskcon-gurus-join-hands-for-world-holy-name-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=7619","title":{"rendered":"ISKCON Gurus Join Hands for World Holy Name Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

By HH Lokanath Swami <\/strong><\/p>\n

naca, gao, bhakta-sange kara sankirtana krsna-nama upadesi’ tara’ sarva-jana<\/p>\n

“My dear child, continue dancing, chanting and performing sankirtana in association with devotees. Furthermore, go out and preach the value of chanting Krishna-nama, for by this process You will be able to deliver all fallen souls.”
\n(CC Adi 7, Text 92)<\/p>\n

I would like to express my gratitude to all the senior devotees of ISKCON who have come forward and responded to my appeal that we all join hands to promote world holy name week. I would especially like to thank the devotees who are performing the sacred service of diksa guru for helping by encouraging their disciples to participate and especially for being exemplary leaders by personally participating in this program themselves.<\/p>\n

By all of us joining together to cooperate to spread Krishna-nama, we can please Srila Prabhupada.<\/p>\n

World Holy Name Week (Sept 2 – 11, 2009) has the potential to help spread the holy name to every town and village of the world, thereby fulfilling the prediction of Lord Caitanya.<\/p>\n

Prthivite ache yata nagaradi grama Sarvatra pracara haibe mora nama<\/p>\n

“In every town and village, the chanting of My name will be heard.”<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada’s greatest desire was to spread the chanting of the Holy Names all over the world. To fulfill this desire, the GBC established World Holy Name Day during Srila Prabupada Centennial in 1996. Taking charge of the program at that time, was my beloved friend and godbrother, H. H. Bhakti Tirtha Swami. World Holy Name Day, was a tremendous success.<\/p>\n

This year we are celebrating World Holy Name Week and the response has been extremely encouraging from ISKCON’s leaders. ISKCON Gurus actively supporting the program and promoting it amongst their followers include:<\/p>\n

o H. H. Romapada Swami o H. H. Sivarama Swami o H. H. Bhakti Caru Swami o H. H. Prabhavishna Swami o H. H. Vedavyasapriya Swami o H. H. Sacinandana Swami o H. H. Mahavisnu Swami o H. H. Bhakti Vikasa Swami o H. H. Bhakti Caitanya Swami o H. H. Candramauli Swami o H. G. Matsyavatar Prabhu o H. H. Kadamba Kanana Swami o H. H. Bhakti Vijnana Goswami<\/p>\n

Many spiritual leaders in ISKCON are coming forward to participate in this program and promote it amongst our communities. I apologize for not specifically mentioning everyones’ here. However, we plan to publish everyone’s reports, photos, etc, on our website.<\/p>\n

This is a unique offering to Srila Prabhupada on the 50th Anniversary of his Sannyasa, as this is the first time, to my knowledge, that so many ISKCON gurus are joining together to promote a preaching program, since Srila Prabhupada’s Centennial in 1996 and Srila Prabhupada’s 108th Appearance Anniversary in 2004.<\/p>\n

World Holy Name Week fulfills the mandate of ISKCON because it specifically addresses number four of the seven purposes of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness incorporated on July 11, 1966:<\/p>\n

(4) To teach and encourage the sankirtan movement, congregational chanting of the holy name of God as revealed in the teachings of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.<\/p>\n

My realizations of this program, even before it officially begins on September 2nd (and some temples have already started) are very sweet. Communicating with all of ISKCON gurus and leaders has been a special occasion to associate with senior devotees that I usually don’t get an opportunity communicate with. This has been very enlivening and relishable.<\/p>\n

I hope that this becomes a trend: gurus communicating and cooperating and working together to achieve common aims with common resources.<\/p>\n

I’m very pleased by the positive response. I hope that this continues in the future.<\/p>\n

Leaders often are busy in management and big festival programs and sometimes have less opportunity to fully absorb themselves for extended period of time in the Holy Names. I hope that in the coming week, of September 2 – 11,
\n2009, you can take a Holiday or make it a Holiweek of World Holy Name Week.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, I would like to wish everyone a blissful World Holy Names Week.<\/p>\n

Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

Your servant in the service of Srila Prabhupada and the Holy Name,<\/p>\n

Lokanath Swami<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.worldholynameweek.org http:\/\/www.whnw.org<\/p>\n

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lokanath Swami<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would like to express my gratitude to all the senior devotees of ISKCON who have come forward and responded to my appeal that we all join hands to promote world holy name week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","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=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}