Portland Bhakti Center

BHAKTI FAMILY:

Excited for this 3-day/3-night bhakti immersive retreat just an hour outside of Portland!

Be sure to register today! We’re limiting attendance to 50 people.

Come enjoy kirtan, prasadam, workshops, guest speakers, more kirtan, a special address by Srimati Syamarani Dasi, campfires, yoga, hiking, a little more kirtan and community!

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Hari! Hari!

Excited to start hosting MANTRA MONDAYS every Monday eve at 7 starting on the 20th!

We’ll start with a short 15 minute discussion on Bhagavad-Gita and other sacred Vedic texts, followed by an hour-or-so of kirtan (meditational call-and-response chanting with instruments) and then enjoy a vegan potluck 🙏

This is not just for Krishna folks. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate!

Bring an instrument! Bring a friend! Bring some food! (I just ask that if you bring a food offering, please make sure it’s vegan, so everyone can eat it, and sattvic - no onions or garlic - and can feed 20ish people).

Blackthorn Mercantile is located at:

3954 N. Williams Ave.

Please enter through the side gate or come early and peruse the store while they’re open for some thoughtful holiday gifts, incense, home goods, etc.

In service,
Govardhana das 🙏

WEEKLY KIRTAN UPDATE!

Hare Krishna y’all 🙏
Just wanted to give a quick update on the kirtans starting in November.

I’ve decided to switch venues. The ballroom I was planning on renting doesn’t have any accessibility for disabled people or older folks with bad knees (and I’m quickly becoming one of ‘em). Super steep stairs (say that 3x quickly) and no elevator.

I believe kirtan should be accessible to everyone!

So we’ll be holding weekly kirtan in the auditorium space Blackthorn Mercantile on N. Williams. This is my wife’s shop and it’s a great space.

I’ll be visiting my gurumata’s ashram in Miami mid-November, so it may have to wait until the 3rd week or so in November, or we can potentially bust out a kirtan before I leave. Keep ya posted 🙏

Excited to do this thing!
Hari Hari!!

ys, Govardhana

Greetings, everyone! Long time, no speak.
Govardhana here 👋

BIG NEWS!

Starting in November, I’ll be renting out a vintage ballroom in NE over near PCC every Thursday night and hosting a short Gita class, kirtan and vegan prasadam potluck!

Super stoked to get our community together again and build from there!

More details to come.

Here’s a pic of the place we’ll be meeting in 🙂

Kirtan at the Park led by Jamil Apostol!
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Please join us Sunday
August 14th, 4-6pm
@ Laurelhurst Park
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We will meet near the SW corner (33rd and Oak). Please bring cushions and blankets to sit on.
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Vegan chai and muffins will be served. Please bring a cup!
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HARI BOL

Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra are coming home with .vraja and will manifest again soon ❤️
Portland Bhakti Center is so grateful to have had the chance to grow and nurture our community at our Hawthorne space and we’re looking forward to phase II of our service.
Portland Bhakti Center will now be known as the Portland Bhakti Community, because that’s what we are. Bhakti is found in the heart, not in the building.
But, stay tuned….
Special things are coming to Portland 🙏

THE FINAL KIRTAN 🪘
Please join us for the final kirtan at the Portland Bhakti Center this Wednesday 7/27/2022 at 6pm.
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We will be closing this location next week. For anyone who came and sang, ate, read, prayed, chanted in this space we are so grateful. Please come and join us for THE FINAL KIRTAN.
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There will be a sale of items at the center after the kirtan and meal. Please stop by if you are interested in purchasing anything.

Meet the Team:

Govardhāna Das | Justin King

Govardhāna is the founder/director of Portland Bhakti Center. He was introduced and initiated into the bhakti tradition in the early 1990s and served as a full-time monk and pujari (priest) for many years.

Govardhāna enjoys kirtan and cooking and is an accomplished entrepreneur, investor and advisor. He opened Portland Bhakti Center as a personal offering to Srila Prabhupada.

He does not wear a dhoti 💁‍♂️

Justin King (Govardhana dasa) strategizing with his spiritual teacher Hridayananda dasa Goswami on ideas for Portland Bhakti Center 🙏

Stay tuned….

Kirtan in the park!
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Summer is here! Let us cheer… the names of God in the park! 🌻
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WHEN: Join us July 2, 2022 (this coming Saturday) from 4-6pm.
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WHERE: Laurelhurst park. We will be meeting in the Southwest corner of the park (SE Oak/ 33rd).
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WHO: Christopher Lionheart () will help guide us through the kirtan, but all are welcome and ENCOURAGED to lead kirtan 😀
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FOOD: A vegan feast will be served at 6pm. Free.
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COST: FREE (however $5-10 dollar donations are greatly appreciated)
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Blessed be! I hope you can join us! 🌞

Bhagavad Gita book club 6.23.22

Kirtan, lecture and prasadam with Bhodayan Maharaj 🙏
Beautiful singing by