Hare Krishna dear parents and children!
The special Damodara month is almost here! Are you ready to bind Krishna with the rope of your love, just like mother Yashoda bound Krishna to the wooden mortar by her pure devotion?
Did you know this month is very dear to Srimati Radharani because so many beautiful pastimes happen in this month? That is why in Damodara month we can receive so many blessings just by doing a little devotional service.
For this reason, we have prepared FUN activities for you to do every day, so you can remember Lord Krishna and get His mercy.
We will be posting every day on our Facebook page and every week on our website crafts, colouring pages, mazes, crossword puzzles, games and much more all about Lord Damodara!
We will also have 6 sangas where we can all join in chanting, reading beautiful pastimes of Krishna, hearing sweet memories with Srila Prabhupada and offering arati to Lord Damodara while singing the Damodarastakam song together.
Isn’t it wonderful how devotees always have some special day to celebrate and serve Krishna? Sri Krishna Pusya Abhisek is the first major festival of the year. Srila Prabhupada explained in a letter that “Krishna was just a toy in the hands of the Gopis, so one day the Gopis decided that ‘we shall decorate Him’.
Every year on this day, the deities are bathed in hundreds of kilos of colourful and fragrant flowers in a beautiful abhisek. The deities of Sri Sri Radha Madhava are also offered a stunning dress made out of multi-coloured flowers. Each year, the flower dress has its own unique design and flower choices.
Even without going to the temple, we can celebrate this festival at home and bring pleasure to Sri Sri Radha Madhava, by offering them a flower dress. We will be sharing a picture of Radha Madhava, which you can decorate with flower petals. If you don’t have flowers at hand, you can make some paper petals from different colours and use those instead. Don’t forget, Krishna accepts the love with which we try to serve Him. He even accepted banana peels from Vidura, because he offered them with so much devotion.