For year 2023, Damodara month is from Oct 17th, 2024 - Nov 15th, 2024. In this period, every day ghee Lamps can be offered to Lord Krishna as follows,
One by one in the family show the ghee lamp in 7 circles clockwise around the picture of Lord Krishna by saying the following Hare Krishna Maha mantra or by Singing Damodarastaka.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hosting a Damodar program at home is a wonderful way to connect with the divine and invite blessings into your life. Here are some of the key benefits:
Inviting Krishna into Your Home: By hosting a Damodar program, you are essentially inviting Lord Krishna into your home. This creates a sacred atmosphere and can foster a deeper connection to the divine.
Spiritual Purification: Performing devotional activities like chanting, offering prayers, and lighting lamps during Damodar Month can purify your mind, body, and soul.
Accumulating Spiritual Merit: The scriptures describe Damodar Month as a time when one can accumulate immense spiritual merit. This merit can help you overcome obstacles, attain spiritual liberation, and ultimately return to Krishna.
Spreading Krishna Consciousness: Hosting a Damodar program is also a wonderful way to spread Krishna consciousness and introduce others to the beauty of devotional service.
Personal Growth: Participating in a Damodar program can lead to personal growth and transformation. It can help you develop qualities such as love, compassion, and devotion.
Host a Damodar Puja at your home in New Jersey USA, Fill this form or contact Gopi Kantha Krishna Das @ 201-208-8976
Padma Purana, Uttara Khanda 112.3
Of all plants, the sacred Tulasi is most dear to Me, of all months, Kartika is most dear, of all places of piligrimage, My beloved Dvaraka is most dear and of all days, Ekadasi is most dear.
One who offers a steady ghee lamp to Lord Hari during the month of Kartika enjoys pastimes in Lord Hari’s splendid world.
Skanda Purana
As satya yuga is the best of yugas, as the vedas are the best of scriptures, as Ganga is the best of rivers, So Kartika is the best of months, the most dear to Lord Sri Krishna.
When one offers a ghee lamp during the month of Kartika, his sins in many thousands and millions of births perish in half an eye blink.
A person who offers a ghee lamp during the month of Kartika attains a result that cannot be obtained with even a hundred Yajnas or a hundred piligrimages.
A person who gives ten million cows in charity to the brahmanas doesnot earn even one sixteenth of pious merit earned by one who places a lamp on the roof of Lord Krishna’s temple.
Please hear the glories of offering a ghee lamp during the month of Kartika, an offering that is very pleasing to Lord Kesava. O king of brahmanas, a person who offers a ghee lamp in this way will not take birth again in this world.
Even if there are no mantras, no pious deeds and no purity, everything becomes perfect when a person offers a ghee lamp during the month of Kartika.
To one who either at home, or in a temple offers Him a ghee lamp during the month of Kartika, Lord Vasudeva gives a great result.
A person who offers a ghee lamp to Lord Krishna during Karitka attains the eternal spiritual world where there is no suffering.
By offering a ghee lamp during the month of Kartika one burns away a collection of sins as big as Mount Meru or Mount Mandara. Of this there is no doubt.
O Narada, no sin exists anywhere in the three worlds that will not be purified by offering a ghee lamp to Lord Kesava during Kartika.
Narada Purana, in a conversation of Sri Mohini-devi and Sri Rukmangada
Of all gifts the gift of a ghee lamp during the month of Kartika is the best. No gift is equal.
Glories of Karthik Month
Na sama Kartika masam