Radio Mayapur Podcasts

Jiva Daya is a long-time resident of New York City, a popular social and personal consultant, and a member of the team supporting the famous Wisdom of the Sages podcast channel. Jiva Daya discusses her growth as a devotee of Krishna, as well as her life and times, in her work and private life. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/0Q6ZWuEcs1w

Radhikaraman Das is a long-time resident here in Mayapur and a good friend of Ganga Prabhu. Together, they discuss Radhikaraman’s life and times as a Vaishnava devotee. Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEdKdeqOJXU

Samba’s life has been one of discovery and adventure. The book he has written, The Krishna Carpenter, available on Amazon, is about different ways of seeing the world, education, and what we really need to learn. It’s about Krishna because Samba is a devotee of Krishna. Samba Das, now living in Mayapur, West Bengal, India, has been a carpenter, a traveller, a builder, and an expert in the science...

Bhakti Rasayana Sagar Swami was born in Baku. In our family, God was not denied, but they also did not follow religious practice. My grandfather was a wealthy landowner. During the revolution, everything was taken from him, then, it seems, they were shot, therefore, in the family, communism was considered a great evil. Everything that the school gave, I did not accept as the truth, especially sinc...

Navina Nirada Dasa joined ISKCON in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1984 at the age of 15 and soon became one of the world's top book distributors. He travelled the globe more than a dozen times as Book Distribution Minister. Since 1996, he has been part of a team that successfully taught thousands of devotees through this Graduate Course of Book Distribution. He built and directs the Vaishnava Academy in...

Ganga's long-time Italian friend, Murari Chaitanya Das, now lives in Mayapur. They sat in Radio Mayapur studios and shared their lives and times. Watch the Video podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/LagI4-4uMdw

Chandrashekar Acharaya was born in 1973. He met with the devotees and got connected with ISKCON. He shares his journey with us on Radio Mayapur. Watch the Video podcast on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvVTKdgsEmY

Vackresvari Dasi is an initiated disciple of Jayapataka Swami. She has lived in Mayapur, cultivating and teaching in the Russian community for many years. She is a serious practitioner and student of Vedic sastra knowledge and a strong proponent of the teachings of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Vackresvari Dasi has written important books in Russian. Her most recent book is Eka Chakra Dham. Umapati Da...

Umapati Das is an initiated ISKCON disciple of Jayapataka Swami, and H.G. Vrajendra Kumar Prabhu is a senior devotee from Russia. He was born in 1960 in Vladivostok. Since his childhood he has been interested in yoga and Eastern philosophy. He got his master’s degree in philology, translation, Asian studies and the Japanese language from the Far Eastern Federal University. In 1979 he read the anci...

VrajaVinod Shyam Das was born in 1979 in South India. He has completed his MBA in Maysour. He moved to Dubai for work and shifted to Mayapur in 2021. He is the CFO (Chief Finance Officer) in Mayapur. He shared his journey with us on Radio Mayapur Watch the Video podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/EEDXrWp3FuA

Radhika Nagara Das began practicing Krishna consciousness in 1995. From 1996 to 2008, he served full-time with the Scottish Yatra. By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada, the Scottish Yatra was one of the leading yatras in book distribution worldwide. While serving with the Scottish Yatra, he was engaged in book distribution and became one of the managing directors and sankirtana leaders in 2003, and co...

Umapati Das is an initiated ISKCON disciple of Jayapataka Swami, and Shyama Sundari devi is an initiated disciple of Chaitanya Chandra Charan Das from Russia. Watch the Video podcast on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxKs1MbK-4

Harita Madhavi Devi Dasi was born in Chennai in 1993, and her early years began living in the Middle East. Later, she shifted to Melbourne, Australia, to pursue higher studies in biomedical engineering. Mataji has been providing many services to the deities in ISKCON Melbourne. Recently, she started to live in Mayapur. Watch the Video podcast on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1B8VsSJ...

Devaki Devi Dasi, disciple of HH Niranjana Maharaja, joined the brahmacharini ashram in Sydney/Australia in 1985. As a grihastha, she helped to pioneer the first more organized temple in the former Soviet Union and since 1999, serves as a renounced traveling preacher, regularly visiting India, Bangladesh, Eastern and Western Europe, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. She ser...

Prahlad Narasimha Das Adhikari was born in 1959 to a Catholic family in the historic city of Cuenca, Ecuador. As a teenager, he began to practice yoga and TM meditation. Having reached the age of 14, he started to serve in Yogananda's Ashram, where he first became acquainted with such Vedic sciences as Jyotish astrology, Vastu, Ayurveda, having received this knowledge from a Swami, who also told h...

Tulsi and Pandava visited the Radio Mayapur studios, and we offered them the studio to use as they pleased. Both Prabhu's are from Bulgaria but currently reside in NYC at the ISKCON Brooklyn temple. We are delighted to produce this Bulgarian language video for the devotees in Bulgaria and worldwide who understand the language. Watch the Video podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/3vrtcbMHfoY

Madhumangala Das was born in 1962 in Japan. He completed his High school in Tokyo. In 1990, he met with the devotees in the original temple, which burned out. He lives in Mobara, Japan. Watch the Audio podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/WJOH72e2-hg

Radhika Raman Prabhu is an excellent devotee living in Japan who is fond of playing the piano. Since childhood, Prabhu has been interested in music and piano. Prabhu speaks about his life and times to Radio Mayapur. Watch the Audio podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ITv-WmUo0P4 .

Krsna Vijaya is the General Manager of ISKCON Mayapur. He was born in Hyderabad, India, and was introduced to Krishna Consciousness through his maternal uncle in Secundrabad. Later, with the blessings of his spiritual master, he shifted to Sridham Mayapur. He is in charge of various departments. Krsna Vijaya speaks about how and what his departments do. Watch the Video podcast on YouTube at https:...

Born in Kenya, Africa, in 1992, Rama Rupa Das grew his devotional philosophy to become a Vaishnava at the ISKCON Mayapur West Bengal Gurukul school for boys. After graduating in 2016, Rama Rupa has gone on to a devotional Seva career in Deity Service, Land Management, and different worship ministries. He now lives at ISKCON’s Bhaktivedanta Manor temple and devotional center outside London in the U...

Mahatma Prabhu was born in Los Angeles, California in 1950. In 1969, at the age of 19, he first met Srila Prabhupada through The Bhagavad Gita As It Is, and then later that year met Srila Prabhupada personally in Los Angeles. In January of 1970 he moved into the temple in Berkeley, California and shortly after received first and second initiation. He went on to do a variety of services including b...

Vamsi Vadana Das was born in 1986 in Bulgaria. He trained as a film and art teacher at the Bulgaria National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest and most renowned school of arts in the country. In 2004, Vasmi Vadana Prabhu dedicated his life as a Vaishnava and began doing Seva for devotees in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Watch the Audio Only podcast on YouT...

Born in 1999 in Sofia, Bulgaria, Gopi Gheta Amrita was born into a devotee family. At age 15, her maturity caused her to love Bhakti, and she began her life as a Vaishnava. Gopi Gheta Amrita, a highly trained musician in percussion at the music academy, is also a trained music conductor. A leader of the kirtan on Harinam, she is an energetic devotee and mentor to many. Watch the Audio Only podcast...

Gadhara Pran Das was born in Greece in 1983. He studied as a Navy Engineer and he was going to build a ship, but fortunately, he joined the ship of the Hare Krishnas. He serves in Sankirtan Dham, Italy, and lives there. Watch the Audio Only podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/-6sxZWeEdok .

Viswanatha Das born in 1967. In his teens, his brother gave him Prasadam from the ISKCON temple, eventually leading Viswanatha to become a Hare Krishna devotee. He serves and stays in the beautiful place of Sankirtan Dham in Italy. Watch the Audio Only podcast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/hYNEK9Cc790 .