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How to Celebrate Janmastami ?
Hare Krishna dear devotees please accept my humble obesiences.
This is your Prasanth, from Gita4youth family.
Wishing you a very happy Janamastami in advance and all the devotees are very excited to celebrate the auspicious the most divine appearance day of our beloved lord Sri Krishna.
Now How to celebrate Janmashtami ??
and how we can take practical steps in order to make our Janmashtami a huge divine success
I'll be sharing five practical tips that we all can follow
Tip #1 Wake up early :
Yes Wake up early & attend mangalarti .
So as the name suggests mangala means auspicious. So mangala aarti is very dear to srisri radhakrishna because even in golok vrindavan.
Mangala aarti signifies worshipping radha krishna when they are together in the groves of srivrindavandham so attending mangala Aarti.
Especially on the day of Janmashtami is considered to be very auspicious and when we start our day with glorifying the lord starting with guru ashtakam, narsingharti and tulasi arti, this will give us the spiritual energy for the rest of the day.
Tip #2 Hearing Krishna Katha:
After mangalarti comes tip2, that is hearing about lord sri krishna and his beautiful pastimes from the lotus lips of bonafide devotees like we can listen to srimad bhagavad-gita lectures or bhagavatam lectures given by srila prabhupada and his bonafide devotees.
This is Sravana maas, hearing is highly recommeneded. And one can relish by hearing about his glories. Hari Anantha, Hari Katha Anantha.
Tip #3 Chant Chant Chant:
Now the 3rd tip is to Chant Hare Krishna Mahamantra as much as possible.
This is very merciful day because on this day lord Shri Krishna appeared personally on the earth to lower the burden of Bhumi Devi. So we should chant as much as possible. Chanting does not only comprise chanting on the beads it also comprises dancing in kirtan and participating in singing playing instruments for the happiness of sri krishna and srimati radharani.
Tip #4 Read Krishna Book Chapter 1-4
Now the tip number four, you can read krishna book chapter 1,2,3,4 starting from the advent of srikrishna, then the prayers and then
all the sweet pastimes that krishna did in sridham vrindanvan.
In fact srila prabhupada on the day of Janmashtami used to get all the devotees together and then read krishna book
Tip #5 Serve with your heart:
This tip is the most important one.
You should go to your nearest isckon temple and serve practically as much as possible. If you can't reachout to us, we will provide some online Services to offer RadhaKrishna.
Do lots of sadhu-sanga associate with devotees.
Talk about krishna's pastimes, talk about his glorious position and do practical services
Now service could be any service.
Example:
a) you can also serve in the shoe stall
b) you can take up the kirtan service
c) you can dance for sri krishna
d) you can take you can take up small small services as per the availability
Doing practical devotional services is the most important.
Srila prabhupada always mentioned that the goal that the prayer that we are making to sri radha and krishna while chanting is that
"Oh Srimati Radharani and Oh krishna please kindly engage me into your loving devotional service"
So that is the goal of all the chanting, that is the goal of the kirtan.
If you are getting any service at any temple please don't miss on to this wonderful opportunity.
It's the life and soul of this human form of life.
Now in addition to these five practical tips that all of us can do especially on this Janmashtami
You can decorate the deities you have at your home. Offer flowers, tulsi, fruits to RadhaKrishna.
Because this shows our affection and our loving desire to serve our beloved lord.
Bonus : Fasting:
A lot of people were asking me regarding fasting on janamashtami fasting on the day.
Fasting on Janmashtami is like fasting for the body and feasting for the soul
The reason why we keep fasting on Janmashtami is to meditate and engage most of our time into the loving service of sri krishna and srimati radharani.
It is to give us more time for their remembrance and for engaging us in their service.
So if you are fit and fine then you should definitely keep fast but if your health does not allow then it's totally fine instead of focusing that, just focus on the services.
please pray that oh shri krishna you are appearing on this earth please kindly appear in my heart as well and
I personally pray that may this Janmashtami shri krishna be pleased with us and may he engage us even more in his loving devotional and unalloyed service.
Hare Krishna dear devotees happy Janmashtami to all of you in advance.
please accept my humble obesiences jai shrila prabhupada.
Your true well-wisher, your friend, Prasanth, Gita4youth Team.
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