Hare Krishna! Karttika: Lord Krishna’s Favorite Month A Month of…



Hare Krishna! Karttika: Lord Krishna’s Favorite Month
A Month of Love: Devotional service can be performed at any time, in any place, yet devotees know well that devotional service performed during Karttika is especially pleasing to the Lord. Therefore, they perform additional austerities and devotional practices during this month. Although the Vedic scriptures describe in detail material benefits one may derive by performing devotional service during Karttika, pure devotees of Lord Krishna have no interest in these. rather, they are interested only in pleasing the Lord. every year, ISKCON devotees eagerly await the arrival of Karttika, when they daily sing the Damodarastakam prayers and offer heartfelt love and devotion as they circle ghee lamps before the Lord. Throughout the month, they are so immersed in the childhood pastimes of Krishna as Damodara that you can hear them constantly sing about them.
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