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World Holy Name Festival 2010 is from September 17 – October 2, 2010.
Click here to view the festival schedule.

All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The World Holy Names Committee proposes the following initiatives:
1. Japathon
2. Harinam Sankirtan
3. 12-hour Kirtans
4. Global Prayer
5. Reciting the Glories of the Holy Names

1.

The Japathon starts on the auspicious Disappearance Day of NamacharyaSrila Haridas Thakura (see Calendar) and continues for 10 days until the anniversary of the arrival of Srila Prabhupada, The Ambassador of The Holy Names, to the West. The Japathon is a chance for congregation members to join full-time devotees for japa. Haridas Thakura chanted more than 300,000 names of Krishna daily and was awarded the title Namacharya by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Last year during the Japathon, ISKCON Pune’s congregation chanted 70 million Holy Names daily. None of us can be Haridas Thakur, but, collectively, we can chant millions and billions of Holy Names.

2.

Last year, we encouraged temples to participate in a 50-man Harinam to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Srila Prabhupada’s Sannyasa. Some temples organized Harinams on a daily basis, one temple organized a 500-man party, and some temples joined together for Harinam. This is a coordinated effort to push back maya and deliver the Holy Names into the hearts of every city. We suggest a 51-man Harinam for each Friday of the Japathon (see Calendar).

3.

12-hour Kirtans. We suggest inviting your congregation to the temple for a day of kirtan, from 10 AM to 10PM (local time). We have scheduled these “sankirtan yajnas” on each Saturday of the World Holy Names Week (a week which has now expanded to include two Ekadasis). We will post the schedules online as they become available.

4.

Global Prayer – all the initiatives are meant to unite ISKCON and even non-ISKCON devotees in prayer. The more devotees that participate, the better. Instead of one temple doing a 12-hour sankirtan-yajna, we want to encourage *all* the temples to do a yajna (or going on Harinam) at the same time. With the different time zones, however, this becomes complex. This “Global Prayer”, however, will take place on the Disappearance Day of Srila Haridas Thakur at noon GMT and go for 10 minutes. We ask all devotees everywhere to stop what they are doing (even if they are sleeping) about 5 minutes before 12:00 PM GMT: wash your hands and mouth, then chant for 10 minutes. If you find this enlivening, feel free to continue throughout the remainder of World Holy Names Week.

5. Reciting the Glories of the Holy Names – we ask that devotees who are giving class during World Holy Names Week to speak about the glories of the Holy Names.

Examples are these quotes (stolen from Indradyumna Swami’s Facebook wall):
"The devotee should make it a regular practice to spend a little time alone in a quiet place and concentrate deeply on the holy name. He should utter and hear the name distinctly. It is impossible for the jiva to singlehandedly avoid and overcome the illusion of distraction. By the mercy... of the Lord, however, this is accomplished with ease." [Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura ]

"Of all the names of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna is the most
important, as the Lord Himself has confirmed: 'My dear Arjuna, 'Krishna' is
the most important of all My names.'" [Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana, Sri
Vishnu-sahasra-nama-stotra, A Thousand Names of Lord Vishnu, text 20 ]

"In the teachings of Sriman Mahaprabhu, there are two principle
instructions: developing a taste for chanting the holy names and displaying
compassion for the fallen souls." [Srila Bhaktivinod: Sri Caitanya
...Siksamrita, 1.7 ]

"My only hope lies in the limitless nectar of Your Holy Name." [Srila
Bhaktivinode Thakur, Harinama Cintamani, Chapter One]

"O sadhu, if you cannot suddenly renounce this dreamlike world, then day and
night meditate on Vrindavan. Worship Vrindavan's king and queen and always
chant Their holy names."

"If the opulence or knowledge of many millions of universes were clustered
together, they would hardly equal a small fragment of the glory of Krsna's
holy name. Krsna's holy name is my life. It is the goal of my life. It is
the means I will employ to attain the goal of my life." [Srila Rupa Goswami,
Padyavali, Text 23]

"Even if one distributes ten million cows in charity during an eclipse of
the sun, lives at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna for millions of
years, or gives a mountain of gold in sacrifice to the brahmanas, he does
not earn even one hundredth part of the merit derived from chanting Hare
Krishna." [Srila Sanatana Gosvami, Laghu-Bhagavatamrta]

Krishna is the original name of the Lord and all other names are simply part
and parcel of that original name Krishna. The original name Krishna is more
powerful than the other names and the result of chanting the name of
Krishnais greater than that of chanting the other names of the Lord."
[Jiva Goswami, Sri Krishna Sandarbha]

The sadhu helps the fallen jiva to regain his natural state of freedom from
sin, by the constant service of bringing about the descent of transcendental
sound in the form of words uttered by his lips and the mahaprasada in the
shape of food that is offered by him to the Lord. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta

"O people, please do not fear this blazing fire of sin! The monsoon clouds
of Lord Govinda's holy name will extinguish it with a flood of rain." [Garuda
Purana, cited by Srila Sanatana Goswami in Hari-Bhakti-Vilasa, 11th vilasa ]