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Host a Hartalika Teej Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Hartalika Teej is one of the most demanding and most beautiful of all women’s vratas in the Hindu calendar. The three-day fast — no food, no water in many traditions — performed in honor of Parvati’s devotion to Shiva, is an act of extraordinary...
Host a Karwa Chauth Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
For millions of Hindu women across India and in the Bay Area diaspora, Karwa Chauth is one of the most personal and powerful days of the devotional calendar. The day-long fast — begun before sunrise without even water, broken only after seeing the moon through a sieve...
Host a Guru Purnima Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Every tradition in Hinduism agrees on one thing: the guru is irreplaceable. Whether your family traces its devotional lineage to a specific Vaishnava acharya, a local swami, or a grandparent who first placed a scripture in your hands and said “this is the...
Host a Maha Shivaratri Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
If Maha Shivaratri is one of the deepest observances your family keeps — the overnight fast, the four-prahar puja through the night, the abhisheka of the Shivalinga with milk and honey and Ganges water, the chanting of Om Namah Shivaya — then you are holding something...
Host a Hanuman Jayanti Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
There is perhaps no figure in all of Puranic literature who embodies pure, selfless devotion more completely than Sri Hanuman. He asked for nothing from Rama except the opportunity to serve. He crossed the ocean for Sita, burned Lanka with his own tail, carried a...
Host a Ganesh Chaturthi Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Every Hindu home that celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi knows the particular joy of bringing a Ganesha murti home, installing it with ceremony, performing puja morning and evening for ten days, and then immersing it with full procession and music. That tradition runs deep —...
Host a Narsimha Chaturdasi Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Narsimha Chaturdasi is one of the most powerful days in the Vaishnava calendar — yet it is often observed quietly, in homes where a small puja is performed and the story of Prahlad is told to children before bed — the same Prahlad whose devotion is also at the root of...
Host a Jagannath Rath Yatra Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Every summer, a remarkable procession takes place in Puri, Odisha — and in cities across the world where ISKCON has carried its tradition. Enormous chariots carrying Lord Jagannath, his brother Balarama, and his sister Subhadra are pulled through the streets by...
Host a Holi Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Long before Holi became famous for its color-throwing celebrations, it was a deeply devotional festival rooted in two of the most vivid stories in all of Puranic literature: the unshakeable faith of the child-devotee Prahlad (whose story is also at the heart of...
Host a Ram Navami Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
If there is one name that rings through every Hindu home across every generation, it is Rama. Whether your family observes Ram Navami with an akhanda Ramayana path that runs through the night, a morning puja with the chanting of Rama naam, or simply the quiet reading...
Host an Ekadasi Kirtan at Home | ISKCON Silicon Valley
Twice a month, on the eleventh day after each new and full moon, a huge number of Hindu households quietly skip grains and beans for a day. If your family keeps this practice — Ekadasi — you already observe one of the oldest, most consistently kept fasting traditions...
Host a Shravan Month Kirtan at Home | ISKCON Silicon Valley
Monday fasts kept through the whole month. Kanwar pilgrims carrying Ganga water for miles on foot. Shiva temples packed before dawn. If Shravan means devotion to Lord Shiva in your family, you’re keeping one of the most widely observed monthly vows in the entire...
Celebrate Your New Home with a Griha Pravesh Kirtan | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Moving into a new home in the Bay Area is one of the most significant milestones a family can mark. Whether you are buying your first house or relocating to a new apartment, the Vedic tradition has always understood that a home is more than four walls — it is the...
Host a Lohri Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Lohri is the warmest festival in the Punjabi calendar — and warmth is the right word in every sense. The bonfire lit after sunset on the night before Makar Sankranti, the throwing of puffed rice and sesame seeds and popcorn into the flames, the circling of the fire...
Host a Hartalika Teej Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Hartalika Teej is one of the most demanding and most beautiful of all women’s vratas in the Hindu calendar. The three-day fast — no food, no water in many traditions — performed in honor of Parvati’s devotion to Shiva, is an act of extraordinary...
Host a Karwa Chauth Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
For millions of Hindu women across India and in the Bay Area diaspora, Karwa Chauth is one of the most personal and powerful days of the devotional calendar. The day-long fast — begun before sunrise without even water, broken only after seeing the moon through a sieve...
Host a Guru Purnima Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Every tradition in Hinduism agrees on one thing: the guru is irreplaceable. Whether your family traces its devotional lineage to a specific Vaishnava acharya, a local swami, or a grandparent who first placed a scripture in your hands and said “this is the...
Host a Maha Shivaratri Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
If Maha Shivaratri is one of the deepest observances your family keeps — the overnight fast, the four-prahar puja through the night, the abhisheka of the Shivalinga with milk and honey and Ganges water, the chanting of Om Namah Shivaya — then you are holding something...
Host a Hanuman Jayanti Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
There is perhaps no figure in all of Puranic literature who embodies pure, selfless devotion more completely than Sri Hanuman. He asked for nothing from Rama except the opportunity to serve. He crossed the ocean for Sita, burned Lanka with his own tail, carried a...
Host a Ganesh Chaturthi Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Every Hindu home that celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi knows the particular joy of bringing a Ganesha murti home, installing it with ceremony, performing puja morning and evening for ten days, and then immersing it with full procession and music. That tradition runs deep —...
Host a Narsimha Chaturdasi Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Narsimha Chaturdasi is one of the most powerful days in the Vaishnava calendar — yet it is often observed quietly, in homes where a small puja is performed and the story of Prahlad is told to children before bed — the same Prahlad whose devotion is also at the root of...
Host a Jagannath Rath Yatra Kirtan at Home | Bay Area | ISKCON SV
Every summer, a remarkable procession takes place in Puri, Odisha — and in cities across the world where ISKCON has carried its tradition. Enormous chariots carrying Lord Jagannath, his brother Balarama, and his sister Subhadra are pulled through the streets by...
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