Radio Mayapur Podcasts

Chandrashekar Acharaya was born in 1973. He met with the devotees and got connected with ISKCON. He shares his journey with us on Radio Mayapur.

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Vackresvari Dasi is an initiated disciple of Jayapataka Swami. She has lived in Mayapur, cultivating and teaching in the Russian community for many years. She is a serious practitioner and student of Vedic sastra knowledge and a strong proponent of the teachings of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Vackresvari Dasi has written important books in Russian. Her most recent book is Eka Chakra Dham. Umapati Das interviews her in the Radio Mayapur studio.

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Umapati Das is an initiated ISKCON disciple of Jayapataka Swami, and H.G. Vrajendra Kumar Prabhu is a senior devotee from Russia. He was born in 1960 in Vladivostok. Since his childhood he has been interested in yoga and Eastern philosophy. He got his master’s degree in philology, translation, Asian studies and the Japanese language from the Far Eastern Federal University. In 1979 he read the ancient scripture Bhagavad Gita for the first time.

After his visit to India in 1984 he began a deep study and translation of the ancient Vedic scriptures. In 1990 he received his first initiation fr...

VrajaVinod Shyam Das was born in 1979 in South India. He has completed his MBA in Maysour. He moved to Dubai for work and shifted to Mayapur in 2021. He is the CFO (Chief Finance Officer) in Mayapur. He shared his journey with us on Radio Mayapur

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Radhika Nagara Das began practicing Krishna consciousness in 1995. From 1996 to 2008, he served full-time with the Scottish Yatra. By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada, the Scottish Yatra was one of the leading yatras in book distribution worldwide. While serving with the Scottish Yatra, he was engaged in book distribution and became one of the managing directors and sankirtana leaders in 2003, and continued serving in that capacity until 2008. He actively preached in universities and facilitated weekly Nama-hattas and festivals in the main cities of the North of England. These included regular Bhagavad-gita classes and discourses on the philosophy of Krishna consciousness.<...

Umapati Das is an initiated ISKCON disciple of Jayapataka Swami, and Shyama Sundari devi is an initiated disciple of Chaitanya Chandra Charan Das from Russia.

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Harita Madhavi Devi Dasi was born in Chennai in 1993, and her early years began living in the Middle East. Later, she shifted to Melbourne, Australia, to pursue higher studies in biomedical engineering. Mataji has been providing many services to the deities in ISKCON Melbourne. Recently, she started to live in Mayapur.

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Devaki Devi Dasi, disciple of HH Niranjana Maharaja, joined the brahmacharini ashram in Sydney/Australia in 1985. As a grihastha, she helped to pioneer the first more organized temple in the former Soviet Union and since 1999, serves as a renounced traveling preacher, regularly visiting India, Bangladesh, Eastern and Western Europe, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. She served on the GBC Committee for Devotee Care and currently promotes such care as a top priority within the ISKCON family. Her multifaceted understanding of Vaishnava culture inspired her to establish the Institute for Spiritual Culture in 2014, offering insightful education...

Prahlad Narasimha Das Adhikari was born in 1959 to a Catholic family in the historic city of Cuenca, Ecuador.

As a teenager, he began to practice yoga and TM meditation. Having reached the age of 14, he started to serve in Yogananda's Ashram, where he first became acquainted with such Vedic sciences as Jyotish astrology, Vastu, Ayurveda, having received this knowledge from a Swami, who also told him about the Maha-mantra Hare Krishna and about the Ratha Yatra procession in New York, where he saw Srila Prabhupada, the great saint from India.

In 1981, Prabhu received an initiation...

Tulsi and Pandava visited the Radio Mayapur studios, and we offered them the studio to use as they pleased. Both Prabhu's are from Bulgaria but currently reside in NYC at the ISKCON Brooklyn temple. We are delighted to produce this Bulgarian language video for the devotees in Bulgaria and worldwide who understand the language.

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Madhumangala Das was born in 1962 in Japan. He completed his High school in Tokyo. In 1990, he met with the devotees in the original temple, which burned out. He lives in Mobara, Japan.

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Radhika Raman Prabhu is an excellent devotee living in Japan who is fond of playing the piano. Since childhood, Prabhu has been interested in music and piano. Prabhu speaks about his life and times to Radio Mayapur.

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Krsna Vijaya is the General Manager of ISKCON Mayapur. He was born in Hyderabad, India, and was introduced to Krishna Consciousness through his maternal uncle in Secundrabad. Later, with the blessings of his spiritual master, he shifted to Sridham Mayapur. He is in charge of various departments. Krsna Vijaya speaks about how and what his departments do.

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Krsna Vijaya is the General Manager of ISKCON Mayapur. He was born in Hyderabad, India, and was introduced to Krishna Consciousness through his maternal uncle in Secundrabad. Later, with the blessings of his spiritual master, he shifted to Sridham Mayapur. He is in charge of various departments. Krsna Vijaya speaks about how and what his departments do.

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Born in Kenya, Africa, in 1992, Rama Rupa Das grew his devotional philosophy to become a Vaishnava at the ISKCON Mayapur West Bengal Gurukul school for boys. After graduating in 2016, Rama Rupa has gone on to a devotional Seva career in Deity Service, Land Management, and different worship ministries. He now lives at ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta Manor temple and devotional center outside London in the United Kingdom.

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Mahatma Prabhu was born in Los Angeles, California in 1950. In 1969, at the age of 19, he first met Srila Prabhupada through The Bhagavad Gita As It Is, and then later that year met Srila Prabhupada personally in Los Angeles. In January of 1970 he moved into the temple in Berkeley, California and shortly after received first and second initiation.

He went on to do a variety of services including book distribution, sankirtan leader, temple president, college preaching, congregational development, and various educational projects. This has culminated in the work he does today developing workshops, social media, online courses and...

Vamsi Vadana Das was born in 1986 in Bulgaria. He trained as a film and art teacher at the Bulgaria National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest and most renowned school of arts in the country. In 2004, Vasmi Vadana Prabhu dedicated his life as a Vaishnava and began doing Seva for devotees in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

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Born in 1999 in Sofia, Bulgaria, Gopi Gheta Amrita was born into a devotee family. At age 15, her maturity caused her to love Bhakti, and she began her life as a Vaishnava. Gopi Gheta Amrita, a highly trained musician in percussion at the music academy, is also a trained music conductor. A leader of the kirtan on Harinam, she is an energetic devotee and mentor to many.

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Gadhara Pran Das was born in Greece in 1983. He studied as a Navy Engineer and he was going to build a ship, but fortunately, he joined the ship of the Hare Krishnas. He serves in Sankirtan Dham, Italy, and lives there.

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Viswanatha Das born in 1967. In his teens, his brother gave him Prasadam from the ISKCON temple, eventually leading Viswanatha to become a Hare Krishna devotee. He serves and stays in the beautiful place of Sankirtan Dham in Italy.

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Vaikuntha Das was born in 1957 and after school and having completed his studies he worked for years in Italy. In 1986, Vaikuntha Prabhu met the Hare Krishna devotees and joined them.

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Krishna Chaitanya Das was born to a devotee family in Mumbai on 14 January 1989. He was the first young devotee in Gurukul to complete Bhakti Sastri. Prabhu was the Head Master in Gurukul for a few years and still teaches Gurukul to youngsters how to do Yagnas the traditional way according to Sat Kriya Sara Dipika by Bhaktivinoda Thakur. Prabhu is in charge of teaching and performing all the yagnas here in Mayapur. He is well known here in Mayapur for his famous and fabulous Yagnas.

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Jagadanada Das was born in July 1980 in a small village in Bangladesh. He was known for singing Bengali kirtans in his village from a very early age. Prabhu was introduced to the Hare Krishna devotees in 2002 and later shifted to Sridham Mayapur in 2017. He serves in the Ekachakra Dham development office in Sridham, Mayapur.

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Prabhupada Das, born in Philadelphia during the hard years of Philly city living eventually found the Hare Krishna devotees who initially he did not like. Over many years of fighting against the struggles of life in Philly he succumbed to the love from A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami and became his disciple. In his long service as devotee to his guru A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, Prabhupada Das has served with great distinction and dedication.

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Mandakini Devi Dasi was born in UK, July 2001. Mataji lived the first 12 years in UK and later shifted to Sridham Mayapur. She is a singer and plays the instrument Veena. Her vision to develop and expand spiritual education for children led to her publising books when she was just 19 years old.

Mandakini’s passion for combining Krishna Consciousness with children’s education has inspired her to create captivating and thought-provoking books that entertain and engage young readers. Her stories impart valuable life lessons that will stay with children for years to come, and serve as effective teaching reso...

Biography of His Grace Kripanidhi prabhu.

His Grace Kripanidhi Prabhu was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1972, at the age of 21, in Portland, Oregon, USA.

On the direct order of Srila Prabhupada, he traveled and distributed books as a brahmacari for the next 11 years.

In November 1977, he was briefly sent to Vrindavan, where he was present during the final pastimes of Srila Prabhupada. He was privileged to dig the samadhi by hand for Srila Prabhupada on the night of November 14th with another brahmacari.

He returned to India in 1983 and served as...

Shanti Vardhana Chaitanya Das was born Taiping Malaysia 1967. He has completed his External degree in 1989. He is the Secretary to the temple of Kaula Lampur, Malaysia.

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Murari Mohini Devi Dasi was born into a simple and loving family in Oruro, Bolivia. She grew up in an environment that was respectful and grateful to Mother Nature, especially Mother Earth, or Pachamama, as the indigenous people call her in Bolivia. Murari Mohini Devi has lived with part of her family in Mayapur since December 2018. She is the founder of Mayapur Clean & Green. They aim to make Mayapur a better place to live.

https://iskconnews.org/mayapur-clean-green-successfully-addressing-e-waste-management/

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Ramai Swami was born in Alexandria, Egypt, but grew up in Australia when his parents moved there when he was 4 years old, and studied music at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). He came in contact with ISKCON by reading a Back To Godhead magazine belonging to a friend from the university. He joined as a full time member and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in Melbourne in 1973. Ramai Swami spent his formative years in ISKCON in the Brisbane and Melbourne temples, and later headed bus programs, traveling to cities and towns and sharing Krishna consciousness all over...

Deva Gaura Hari Das was born in Malaysia, Penang in 1969. He studied in Queensland at Science University. He stayed in Mayapur with his family for many years. He is a good musician and has done many devotional services for Srila Prabhupada.

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Sankirtan Narottam Das was born in 1981, South India. He studied electric engineering and communication. He met with devotees in 1998.

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Anadamaya Gopinath Das was born in 1972, Chennai India. He studied engineering in Coimabatore. He met with devotees in 2001, leading Bhakti Vriksa in Australia.

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Ramanuja Das was born in Australia, 01/01/1957. He met devotees in 1979. Ramanuja Prabhu is Temple president of ChirstChurch.

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Kalasamvara Das was born in 26 September 1951 in Christchurch, New Zealand. He studied as Master in tailors. He joined the movement in 1976. Temple president of Auckland, New Zealand.

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The Temple President of the Wellington, New Zealand ISKCON temple, Jagadjivana Das, sits with Ganga Das from Radio Mayapur to discuss the history of the Wellington temple and his life and times as an ISKCON devotee since 1986.

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Ambarish Maharaja Das was born in Chopda, Maharastra in 1976. He completed his Education as an Electrical Engineer in Bombay. Throughout his ISKCON history, he has made many friends and keeps in touch regularly with his U.K. friends.

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Medhavi was born in Chennai and is an Chartered Accountant who joined ISKCON in 2005 in Papua New Guinea.

Medhavi comes from a pious family and was raised in a Krishna Conscious family in South India.

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While traveling with H.H. Bhanu Swami, Radio Mayapur’s podcast host, Ganga Das, is at the ISKCON temple in Melbourne, Australia. He had met with his old friend since 1980, Prabhava Das, who was born in Santipur, West Bengal, only 70 kilometers from Mayapur. Prabhava Das was born in 1962, went to the Mayapur Vrindaban Gurukul, and became a member of ISKCON at age six.

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Born in Teluk Intan Malaysia in 1947, after studying medicine and growing into family life, Adipurusa Das became a devotee member of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness at age 40. Since then, he has done devotional service for Srila Prabhupada’s mission and is currently the Temple President of the ISKCON temple in Adelaide, Australia.

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Her Grace Dr. Nitaisevini Devi Dasi was born in Mumbai in a Gujarati Business family, conventional followers of the Pushtimarg. Later she with her family shifted to Hyderabad in 1984, since then she was closely connected to ISKCON Secunderbad. Inspired by Visits of many senior devotees, she later joined as a Full time devotee in 1997 and took initiation in the year 1998 in Atlanta,USA from H.H.Jayapataka Swami Maharaj. She has completed her Graduation in Commerce, Masters in Education with a PG diploma in Management of Voluntary Organisation. She also completed her PhD in Education from Andhra University. Mataji...