{"id":87474,"date":"2020-09-19T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T09:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=87474"},"modified":"2020-09-19T11:11:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T09:11:19","slug":"how-to-teach-others-and-develop-love-for-chanting-the-holy-names-video-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=87474","title":{"rendered":"How to teach others and develop love for chanting the Holy names? (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/L2sjoS7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<h3>Click below to start the player<\/h3>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cw7t9HlARNI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let us hear from HH Lokanath Swami as he reaffirms the Purpose #4 of ISKCON (To teach and encourage the sankirtana movement, congregational chanting of the holy name of God, as revealed in the teachings of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu)<\/p>\n<p>About Lokanath Swami<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1949, in the village of Aravade in Maharashtra India, HH Lokanath Swami (born Raghunath Patil) always had an ambition to dedicate his life to serving people, his country and humanity. Bereft of resources, he did not know where to begin. It was while studying Chemistry in Bombay that his life was irrevocably changed.<br \/>\nHe daily attended the first 10 day Cross Maidan Pandal Festival in 1971 organised by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and his Western disciples.<br \/>\nAlthough Lokanath Swami did not personally meet Srila Prabhupada at this festival, His Divine Grace\u2019s spiritually elevating discourses and the energetic kirtana by the devotees stole his heart. He could not afford much, but managed to buy some small Srimad-Bhagavatam booklets and several Back to Godhead magazines.<br \/>\nThese purchases were what kept him connected to Srila Prabhupada and the devotees during the time that he could not locate them. It seemed that this extraordinary group of people had miraculously appeared and disappeared. It was at the 1972 Hare Krishna Festival that he finally decided to forsake his studies, permanently join ISKCON and move into the temple in Bombay. When his family were unable to locate him, they feared the worst. He had once before left home to join an ashram. On the pretext that his mother was gravely ill, he was asked to come back home to<br \/>\nAravade. After a month of unsuccessful dissuasion to leave ISKCON, he returned to Bombay.<br \/>\nIt was in Vrndavan on Gopastami 1972 that he became an initiated disciple of Srila Prabhupada. He received the sannyasa order from His Divine Grace in December 1975, at the age of 26 years. Lokanath Dasa officially became Lokanath Swami.<br \/>\nOne of the most important instructions he received from Srila Prabhupada was to preach Lord Caitanya\u2019s message by organisation Padayatra (a walking festival) worldwide in order to realize Caitanya Mahaprabhu\u2019s declaration \u2013 \u201cthe holy name of Krsna will be preached in every town and village on this earth.\u201d The first leg of the journey was from Vrndavana to Mayapur.<br \/>\nIn the course of his Padayatra service, His Holiness traveled on foot to many of the major tirthas and sacred sites of India.<br \/>\nOne of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s final wishes was to go on parikrama in Vrndavana with Lokanath Swami leading the way. This was never realized. As per Srila Prabhupada\u2019s wishes, in 1996 Lokanath Swami was appointed as ISKCON Minister for Srila Prabhupada Centennial. He co-ordinated a global campaign. This magnificent Centennial celebrations achieved unprecedented success in terms of the number of Srila Prabhupada\u2019s books distributed, plates of prasada served and festivals conducted worldwide.<br \/>\nToday Lokanath Swami travels regularly throughout India, preaching mostly in Maharashtra. For the past forty years he has traveled and preached in the major cities and towns and remotest villages of Maharashtra guiding their development and spiritual upliftment.<br \/>\nHe regularly travels to Europe, Africa and Asia sharing the teachings of Bhakti-yoga.<br \/>\nLokanath Swami has worked on establishing many temples \u2013 ISKCON Aravade, ISKCON Nagpur, ISKCON Amravati, ISKCON Noida, ISKCON Pandharpur, ISKCON Solapur, to name a few.<br \/>\nHe is well known for his inspiring lectures and kirtans. In 2006, he took over the World Holy Name Project which is an initiative to increase the events and activities that people can participate in to spread the holy name on this planet. The basic purpose of this World Holy Name Festival is to spread the message of Lord Krishna as well as to impart the teachings of Srila Prabhupada.<br \/>\nSrila Prabhupada was deeply concerned by the education system followed in modern India. He always expressed dissatisfaction on how the current education system is stripping Indians of their priceless heritage of Vedic culture and wisdom With this in mind Lokanath Swami has established the Bhaktivedanta Academy for Spiritual Sciences (BASS) in Noida.<br \/>\nHe is also the author of many books ranging from the lessons learnt from his personal conversations with his spiritual master (My Prabhupada, In Conversation With Srila Prabhupada) to taking his readers on a visual and spiritual pilgrimage though Vrndavana (Vraja-mandala Darsana). He is one of the initiating Gurus in ISKCON, and has initiated disciples all over the world. He is presently working on several books and various building projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/L2sjoS7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img src= \"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/L2sjoS7.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let us hear from HH Lokanath Swami as he reaffirms the Purpose #4 of ISKCON (To teach and encourage the sankirtana movement, congregational chanting of the holy name of God, as revealed in the teachings of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87474","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=87474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89611,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87474\/revisions\/89611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}