Neera Haria Sankirtan

13/04/2026

🎶 Celebrating the 21st Anniversary of The Hare Krishna Centre - Leicester, UK - Kirtan Festival 🎶

Such a blessing to have been invited to lead kirtan on Saturday night at a very special event to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the opening of The Hare Krishna Centre in Leicester and the installation of Their Lordships Sri Sri Nitai Sachi-Sundar 🥳

A blissful evening of chanting, dancing, feasting and philosophy with Gauranga Sundara Dasa Prabhu and The League of Devotees 🙂

💬 "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. In Kali-yuga, if this Vedic maha-mantra is chanted regularly and heard regularly by the devotional process of shravanam kirtanam, it will purify all societies, and thus humanity will be happy both materially and spiritually."

- Srila Prabhupada (Srimad Bhagavatam, 4.18.14)

12/04/2026

🎶 Celebrating 21 Years of Hare Krishna Centre - Leicester, UK - Kirtan Festival 🎶

Such a blessing to have been invited to lead kirtan last night at a very special event to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the opening of The Hare Krishna Centre in Leicester and the installation of Their Lordships Sri Sri Nitai Sachi-Sundar 🥳

A blissful evening of chanting, dancing, feasting and philosophy with Gauranga Sundara Dasa Prabhu and The League of Devotees 🙂

💬 "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. In Kali-yuga, if this Vedic maha-mantra is chanted regularly and heard regularly by the devotional process of shravanam kirtanam, it will purify all societies, and thus humanity will be happy both materially and spiritually."

- Srila Prabhupada (Srimad Bhagavatam, 4.18.14)

12/04/2026

12/04/2026

Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, in Kimpuruṣa-varṣa the great devotee Hanumān is always engaged with the inhabitants of that land in devotional service to Lord Rāmacandra, the elder brother of Lakṣmaṇa and dear husband of Sītādevī.

Source: https://prabhupadabooks.com/sb/5/19/1
Srimad Bhagavatam 5.19.1 translation by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

12/04/2026

SRILA PRABHUPĀDA: “DON’T BE OVERBURDENED”:

I am in due receipt of your very long letter of April 10,1967. On the same day I received also your wife's letter requesting me to pay $300.00 which she gave in loan to the Society.

I have at once replied to her letter through Rayarama that the money, $300, which she has given in loan to the Society must be returned to her, and I am glad that you are going to repay next week.

If you, however, find any difficulty to repay her, then write to me and I shall manage to send her the $300. Of course it will be difficult for the managers to send $300 while they have lost $6,000.

Still, I do not wish to put your wife into trouble for the money which she faithfully loaned to the Society. So kindly let me know that you are going to repay her loan. Otherwise I shall send her the money.

I can understand that there is some difficulty in meeting the regular expenditure of your Society—namely $350, as you have stated in detail. I apprehended this difficulty in San Francisco when you first informed me of opening a branch in Montreal, and I discouraged the enterprise. But you were, both you and Kirtanananda, all enthusiastic.

Now when you have opened it is not good to close it; that will be a discredit for the Society. Try to continue the branch by cooperation. I can understand that you are a family man. You cannot expend the whole amount you earn, but as your wife has proposed that she can allow you to spare 50%. So either 50% or any per cent you can easily spare for the Society, we shall welcome.

Don't be overburdened. We don't want anyone to be overburdened. Rather I shall ask Kirtanananda who is not a family man to take the whole responsibility. So don't be agitated. Prosecute Krishna consciousness in peacefulness.

Source: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Letter to Janardana -- New York 12 April, 1967:

https://vaniquotes.org/wiki/I_do_not_wish_to_put_your_wife_into_trouble_for_the_money_which_she_faithfully_loaned_to_the_Society._So_kindly_let_me_know_that_you_are_going_to_repay_her_loan._Otherwise_I_shall_send_her_the_money

12/04/2026

ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS! DON’T JUST KNOW IT BUT LIVE IT!:

KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE NOT THE BODY BUT ARE SPIRIT SOUL IS NOT ENOUGH FOR LIBERATION. YOU HAVE TO ACT IN STATUS OF SPIRIT SOUL!

Source: Bhagavad Gita As It Is 5.2 purport by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

https://prabhupadabooks.com/bg/5/2?d=1&f=3364

“Therefore, jnana (or knowledge that one is not this material body but spirit soul) is not sufficient for liberation. One has to act in the status of spirit soul, otherwise there is no escape from material bondage.”

12/04/2026

SUCCESSFUL MISSION: QUALITY NOT QUANTITY, EVEN ONE SINCERE PERSON THAT LOVES GOD, ONE MOON MORE POWERFUL THAN MILLIONS OF STARS TO DRIVE AWAY DARKNESS:

“We don't want any numerical strength. We want one sincere person who has learned to love God, Kṛṣṇa. That's all. I have come to your country with this mission, and if I find one or two boys or girls sincerely have learned how to love God, Kṛṣṇa, then my mission is successful. I'm not after any number of... Because if I can turn one soul to this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he'll do tremendous work, because he'll be fire. You see? He can do tremendous work. Ekaś candras tamo hanti na ca taraḥ sahasrasaḥ. One moon is complete to drive away the darkness of night, not millions of stars required. What these millions of stars can do? One moon is sufficient. So our propaganda is to create one moon. You see?”

Source:
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
https://prabhupadabooks.com/classes/general/excerpt/new_york/april/12/1969
Lecture Excerpt -- New York, April 12, 1969