Radio Mayapur Podcasts

Jaya Krsna Das from a large family of ISKCON devotees originally from Kenya became an important producer and artist in the famous Bhaktivedanta Players at the Bhaktivedanta Manor outside of London. A family man, with a lifetime of devotion to Krishna and Srila Prabhupada, Jaya Krsna has lectured on Krishna Consciousness all over the world.

Tamal Krishna Kripa Das, a local Mayapur graduate of the ISKCON gurukula and the Mayapur Institute with degrees in Bhakti-Sastri and Bhaktivaibhava, is a Vedic yajna priest and devotional leader. Ganga Das from Radio Mayapur discusses with Tamal Krishna Kripa his growing up both in Israel and here in Mayapur and the good times he had in gurukula.

Amedeo DeSantis is an acclaimed Italian mountain guide, world traveller, a visitor to Mayapur and an old friend of Ganga Das, our Radio Mayapur podcast manager. Amedeo and Ganga both speak fluent Italian, and to make this interview with Amedeo easier, we did the entire podcast in Italian.

Navina Nirada Dasa joined ISKCON in 1984 in Zurich, Switzerland, at the age of 15 and soon became one of the world's top book distributors. He is a spiritual entrepreneur. Navina Nirada travelled the globe more than twenty times and served as ISKCON Minister of Book Distribution. Since 1996, he has been part of a team who successfully taught thousands of devotees courses on outreach and leadership...

Bhagavatamrita Das is originally from a conservative religious family in Brazil, South America. Somehow through divine intervention, he found his way to a path of Bhakti Yoga which his family embraced. This set him on a lifelong quest to serve his guru, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami and be a responsible person within the devotee community. Today more than fifty years later, Bhagavatamr...

Hari Sauri was born in England on November 17th 1950. In May 1971, he emigrated to Australia, where he met the members of the newly emerging Krishna Consciousness movement on the second day of his arrival. He was duly accepted as an initiated disciple by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in Sydney on April 9th, 1972. In August 1975, he moved to the newly opened ISKCON Krishna Ba...

Tulasi Das is originally from Bulgaria. This is his story of how someone from an ordinary background develops a love of yoga, a desire for simple living, and high thinking. He has been a devotee of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness for twenty years. Tulasi liked being with the Hare Krishna devotees when he was a young man. He overcame his parents' doubts of being with the devotee...

As a young man, Joe from Philadelphia met his best friend on the streets of Philly more than forty years ago. He was taken aback that his best friend had shaved his head and was giving him a book on reincarnation. Now coming up a half-century later, Joe has been Jivanath Das, a Vaishnava Brahman in ISKCON, for a long time. He is an exciting and inspirational leader here in Mayapur for kirtan, prea...

Born in New Jersey, USA, in 1947, HH Candramauli Swami came in contact with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 24. In 1973 he began practicing Krishna Consciousness in New York City and shortly thereafter began serving at the New Vrindavan farm comunity in West Virginia. That same year he received initiation from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedan...

NrsimhaCaitanya Das from Melbourne, Australia is a credentialed sound engineer with a great background in performance venue sound engineering. Now visiting Mayapur for his Vaishnava education at the Mayapur Institute, he sat down with our podcast host Ganga Das for an interesting review of how one becomes a Bhakti Yogi.

Visvambhar is the lead singer of the internationally acclaimed group The Mayapuris, a headlining Kirtan group that has rocked stages from India to Florida, Australia to South Africa. From age 5, Vish has spent his life leading Kirtans in the Vaisnava tradition. He is a multi-instrumentalist, a master of the Mridanga drum, and performs in traditional and fusion styles. Vish started performing in th...

Ganga Das from Radio Mayapur interviews Fabio Giudice from Italy, the internationally famous classical mandolin teacher, and performer. Giudice's life has been dedicated to the study of plucked instruments and he acquired a diploma in Mandolin at the Conservatory of L’Aquila with M° Fabio Menditto. He specialized as an executor of Mandoloncello (Liuto cantabile) and attended specialized courses wi...