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If you have more questions please try Questions and answers (Frequently asked questions about the Hare Krishna movement).
How can I have a special puja performed for myself, a family member, or a friend?
If you call or E-mail ahead of time we can have someone to meet you and accept the offerings. During festivals and aratrikas it is customary to simply leave the offering at the altar or hand it to one of the local devotees. Please inform us if this offering for a Shraddha or other special observance. If you go to our pujari room on-line you will find a list of pujas we can perform for you.
The Nama Hatta is the International Program for training in how to practice Krishna Consciousness in your home. Please join our Nama Hatta Sanga on-line.Here you will find specific instructions, links to books, videos, classes and answers to any questions about a Krishna Conscious life style.
The mark on our foreheads is called Vaisnava (or Visnu) tilaka. It is made with a clay soil from one of the sites where Krishna Performed His pastimes, so it is considered pure and purifying. In The Nectar of Devotion we find this passage: "Persons who put tulasi beads on the neck, who mark twelve places of their bodies as Visnu temples with Visnu's symbolic representations [the four items held in the four hands of Lord Visnu-conch, mace, disc, and lotus] and who have visnu-tilaka on their foreheads are to be understood as the devotees of Lord Visnu in this world. Their presence makes the world purified, and anywhere they remain, they make that place as good as Vaikuntha." (The Nectar of Devotion, Ch. 9; quoted from the Padma Purana)
"Ishvara Parama Krishna, Sat Cit ananda Vigraha, anadir adir Govinda sarva karana karnam"( Sri Brahma Samhita)- the supreme controller is Krishna, He form is comprised of eternality, complete knowledge and full bliss, without a beginning He Govinda (Krishna) is the beginning, of all causes (subtle and gross) He is the original cause.