Why training is required in spiritual life?
- For one who does not take personal training under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, it is impossible to even begin to understand Krishna. – BG 11.54 Purport by Srila Prabhupada
- To achieve success in this way, one must first find the proper spiritual master and receive training under his direction. Then one can achieve faith in the Supreme. When that faith matures, in course of time, it is called love of God. – BG 17.28 Purport by Srila Prabhupada
- […] And by such training, even for some days, the neophyte devotee gets intelligence in such transcendental service, which leads him ultimately to get free from perpetual inhabitation in the material worlds and to be promoted to the transcendental world. – SB 1.6.23 Purport by Srila Prabhupada
As Srila Prabhupada mentioned above, the training under a bona-fide spiritual master is inevitable for spiritual advancement to even begin to understand Krishna. Hence, Sri Dharmavira Prabhu came down from his position and started the Harinam training program.
“A bonafide spiritual master is a representative of Krishna, if he bestows any blessings upon his disciple, that will make the disciple immediately advanced without the disciple’s following the regulative principles. Or, the regulative principles will be easier for one who has served the spiritual master without reservation” – BG 13.8-12 Purport by Srila Prabhupada
Sri Dharmavira Prabhu is personally training the aspiring sincere sādhakas at his place Sri Radhakund including stay and food free of cost for their spiritual advancement.
The Harinam training is ‘Simple living and High thinking’ program:
The living at Sri Radhakund Dham with Sri Dharmavira Prabhu is simple. A simple and healthy meal is provided to all sādhakas, which control one’s senses and protects from over sleeping. This helps all sādhakas to raise early. The day time is completely dedicated to chanting the pure Holy name with Sri Dharmavira Prabhu. It is also a great opportunity for sādhakas to do service to Sri Dharmavira Prabhu and inquire from him submissively.
Sri Dharmavira Prabhu is offering a minimum of two weeks Harinam training program at Sri Radhakund. However, the sādhakas should have been chanting 64 rounds of Harinam daily for over a year under his guidance through WhatsApp .
The training program is scheduled as follows:
| Time | Training events |
| 2:00 AM | Wake up alarm |
| 3:00 AM | Chanting with Sri Dharmavira Prabhu |
| 6:00 AM | Sri Radhakund Parikrama |
| 8:00 AM | Rest in the room |
| 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 10:00 AM | Rest in the room |
| 11:00 AM | Chanting with Sri Dharmavira Prabhu at Radhakund |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM | Rest in the room |
| 4:00 PM | Chanting with Sri Dharmavira Prabhu at Radhakund |
| 6:00 PM | Return to the room |
| 7:00 PM | Sleep |
This Training program is most successful for chanting the pure Holy name of Krishna under the guidance of Sri Dharmavira Prabhu. The testimonials are evident to show the success of Harinam training program. Click here for video testimonials or written testimonials.
The results of pious activities do not equal the results of chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.
go-koṭi-dānaṁ grahaṇe khagasya
prayāga-gaṅgodaka-kalpa-vāsaḥ
yajñāyutaṁ meru-suvarṇa-dānaṁ
govinda-kīrter na samaṁ śatāṁśaiḥ
“Even if one distributes ten million cows in charity during an eclipse of the sun, lives at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamunā for millions of years, or gives a mountain of gold in sacrifice to the brāhmaṇas, he does not earn one hundredth part of the merit derived from chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.” – CC Ādi 3.79 Purport
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Diet Suitable for Chanting and devotional life
Hare Krishna! Please try to change slowly and get used to this diet to be able to follow devotional practice and chanting schedule consistently for the next 30-50 years.
| Time | Diet food items | Remarks |
| As soon as you wake up | Drink two glasses of warm water without brushing | It cleans urinary tract |
| Morning Prasāda | Dried fruits, fruits and fruit juices —- Soaked dried fruits like dates, manuka, almonds, anjeer etc — Eat fruits like papaya, banana, pears, musk-melon, pomegranate etc. — Drink fruit juices like carrot, beetroot, orange, lemon etc. | Do not eat meals with fruits, morning meal: restrict to various natural dry and normal fruits. Try to eat within 1 hour of sunrise as digestion fire is great during 1 hour of sunrise |
| Afternoon meal Prasāda | You may have khichdi, sabji, roti, curd — Prepare khichdi with Millets (like Kodo, Foxtail, Browntop etc preferably), daal, potato, tomato, cauliflower, sesame seeds etc.. — Prepare roti of millets like bajra, ragi, jawar etc, avoid wheat flour — Curd should be of desi Gomata milk i.e. A2 milk, do not eat jersey cow milk products | Make sure you eat healthy organic food as if all nutrients requirements are fulfilled, you will not feel hungry at night. Avoid drinking water for at least 1 hour after a meal, otherwise you will calm down digestive fire which is necessary to digest the entire food you just ate. |
| Sunset time | You may have some healthy snack before sunset but don’t eat anything after sunset. You will feel hungry for the first few weeks, then your body will adjust to this diet schedule. | Ayurveda suggests we should not eat after sunset as digestion fire is completely down after sunset, so whatever you eat, it rots in your stomach and invites various illnesses. Please avoid heavy dinner after sunset, it also increases the urge for sex which is dangerous if you want to progress in devotion. |
| After sunset around 7pm | — Drink hot desi Gomata milk with desi haldi and desi vedic ghee — Make sure you drink desi Gomata milk — Make sure to add 1 small spoon of desi turmeric in milk before boiling — Add 1 big spoon of desi ghee into hot milk and mix nicely and offer to Krishna as night bhoga and then drink hot milk | If desi Cow (A2) milk is not available then please avoid drinking packaged or Jersey cow milk. |
| 8 – 8:30 pm | Sleep around 8 – 8:30pm | This early sleep will help detoxify and heal the body and one will feel very fresh after waking up around 2:00 – 2:30 am. |
Please check the below articles from Sri Dhramavira Prabhu on eating and sleeping.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/chanting64rounds/permalink/1393210580823600
https://www.facebook.com/groups/chanting64rounds/permalink/1383465795131412
We wish you all the best and hope you are able to follow above slowly, slowly and within a few months you will be able to do it happily.