Please visit our website:  www.worldholyname.com to download the latest posters, banners, stickers, and other goodies.

You can also upload reports, blogs, photos, videos, etc yourself directly to the site.

You can view the schedule online here:

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AS6kJ9ks75AAZGdkemJrenNfMWhwdzdwOGMy&hl=en

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, September 21st, 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 Shri 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 Disappearence Day of Srila Haridas Thakur,  Tuesday, September 21st, 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.  Please visit our website to access some nice quotes about the glories of the Holy Names.

www.worldholyname.com

We welcome your comments and suggestions and look forward to joining with you for successful World Holy Name Festival 2010.

Thank you very much.

Your servant, on behalf of the World Holy Name Festival Committee,

Ekalavya das