Aashishs Blog

...and I am back! I have been too busy as of late to do any blogging. I have several amazing videos to share, including a couple videos (and maybe an mp3), of His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami doing bhajans and harinama through Amsterdam. Also on the list are videos and photos from my Hungary Retreat for His Holiness Sivarama Swami's 2008 Vyasa Puja Day (which was amazing!), so watch this space....

This video below is from the Gaura Purnima Harinama - I just love that tune!!! The video is in Divx Format and is High Quality. You can see the video full screen by clicking on that button to the left of that 'X' button which is on the right.

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Today was the glorious apparance day of Nityananda Prabhu, and we had celebrated with an amazing harinama with His Grace Jayadeva Prabhu (after a full feast!). I must say, the harinama was amazing, he was singing beautifully and he projected the holy names out clearly and it really did have an impact, as you shall see in the video.

Towards the ending, we enter the McDonalds Restaurant on our way back - that was the last place I would ever have gone, the smell of beef was in the air! During that time, I had remembered that His Holiness Radhnatha Swami said you could even go to Hell just for walking in McDonalds because there is so much karma involved, but I had then remembered that for a Vaishnava, Heaven and Hell are the same.

This video is in Divx Format, as that is what my LG Viewty Camera records in and converting into anything else is too long. It is an amazing quality video so you can't miss this one, don't forget that you can switch to full screen viewing by clicking on the button next to the 'X' button at the right side of the video player toolbar.

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Hiya Folks! I'm back on the blogging scene after a short disappearance! There are many videos that I wanted to share with you but due to soooooo many upload problems (google Videos fault) I couldn't post anything for a long while, but that's now sorted out.

The first video is this amazing Harinama with His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami in London. One of the very first videos I had posted on my blog was a harinama by His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami and that was amazing and this is certainly no different! Maharaja comes for only a short time in the UK, but when he does come, you do not want to miss out.

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New Years Eve/Day Harinama (chanting & dancing) through London was such an amazing experience! London was completely packed out and there were actually a lot of people in the Harinama procession. His Grace Parasurama Prabhu led the Harinama for most of the time, and he was absolutely amazing! Words, unfortunately, do not do justice, hence that's why there is a video for you to see and 1 photo to expand and view (it was dark and so most of the photos were no good).

Here is a short video of the harinama, so that you can see how it was. It was taken on my new mobile phone, the LG Viewty, so the video quality is a lot better than my old mobile. This is the first new years eve/day Harinama through London that I have been on, and I will certainly be coming next year!

I went to the Notting Hill Carnival on the 26th August on a Sunday. I had known the dangers of going there as one Brahmacari, who was also going there to sing & dance (for Krishna), had told me of sighting "topless dancers" at the previous year! I had started to wonder whether it was even worth going or not as you could easily fall down and go looking at other things *cough* S****ep **e**ha [Fill in the stars! Had to change it due to a - urm - complaint! LOL] *cough*!

You know, I did get a glance of some of the dancers (these were wearing some clothes) and they all looked bored and no life in them. Not a single trace of ecstacy. Just watch the video below of our Devotees dancing and singing away to see where the real ecstacy was!

Regardless of what I had thought and heard, I started to see several advanced devotees participating in this adventure. Basically, all the devotees were going there to distribute books, give out some lovely Transcendental sweets and sing the Holy Names to purify the people and it worked wonders! Lots of people were surrounding us as we sang away the Holy Names and everyone who took our sweets loved them. Book distribution went well, though I have some way to go to...

2007.08.26-Notting Hill Carnival

After a long while, I finally uploaded the video of His Holiness Bhakti Chaitanya Swami doing an amazing Harinama through the streets of London. You just have to watch it! The video is about 30 minutes long.

His Holiness Lokanatha Swami leads a wonderful harinama through the streets of London!!!!! You just had to be there, I very rarely see such a huge harinama procession. Video is over 1 hour.

Well, I could have taken the video via my camera instead of my Sony-Ericsson phone (its VCD Quality) but that would take a long time to upload. Any opinions out there???

Check out some of the photos from the Harinama which I have been going on about! Click on the photo below to access the Album:

2007.03.31-HH Kadamba Kanana Swami Harinama

Maharaja leads an ecstatic harinama through the streets of London! I'm telling you, I saw so many people other than devotees dancing also! Check out the video below: