During this time, pilgrims come from far and wide to offer a lamp to Mother Yasoda and Lord Krishna, and also increase their spiritual activities. The importance of this month is described extensively in the scriptures, especially in Srila Rupa Goswami’s Mathura Mahatmya.

Every day, devotees come to the Temple and offer a candle to Lord Damodara and read Krishna book. The Damodarastakam, a series of eight beautiful verses by the great sage Satyavrata Muni, is sung daily in the morning and evening.

Morning – Candle offering – 7am – 7:20am

Evening – Candle offering – 4:20pm  – 7:30pm

Krishna Book reading- Prabhupada’s Rooms – 7:30pm  – 8:30pm

Notes:
Candles will be provided free of charge to everyone. Please do not bring your own candles, lamps or ghee wicks for offering. One candle per person.

Offerings will be paused between 6:30pm – 7pm as the curtains will be closed at this time. During this time there will be a special talk given on Krishna’s pastimes.

Children under 5 will not be given a candle. Children must be supervised at all times.

Offering times and locations may vary on festival days

Krishna Book Reading – 7:30pm-8:30pm , in Śrīla Prabhupāda’s darshan room.

This year at Bhaktivedanta Manor, during the whole month of Kartik, we will be reading from Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, book, famously known as the Krishna book. This is a Summary Study of Śrīla Vyāsadeva’s Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Tenth Canto, by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder-Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

Please come and join us in reading the stories about Lord Krishna in the very same rooms where Śrīla Prabhupāda translated many of his books.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.1 purport: Wherever the Ganges waters go, they purify the land and the person who bathes in them. Similarly, kṛṣṇa-kathā, or the topics of Kṛṣṇa, are so pure that wherever they are spoken, the place, the hearer, the inquirer, the speaker and all concerned become purified.

Times and locations may vary on festival days