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Posted on December 14, 2019December 18, 2019 by remember krishna — Leave a comment

10 Christmas Carols You’ll Love to Sing

krishna marble statue on red background with mango leaf garland candles and white lotus lamps playing flute at krishna christmas celebration the mantra room gold coast

Krishna blesses our Christmas Celebrations

Joyous Noel!

There’s so many beautiful Christmas Carols you can learn and sing with family that I wanted to share some of our favorites with you.

What we do in our family is usually a nice big Christmas lunch with all our family and then we go and join our friends for a Christmas evening kirtan celebration. I love this, so special! We always have Jesus on the altar with Krishna.

1. Bless The Lord

Let us offer our respectful obeisances to Lord Jesus Christos who dedicates his life to the Supreme Person.

Jesus made it very clear that the Supreme Lord is his heart, and that he is the heart of the Supreme Lord.

Krishna says:

The saints are my heart and I am their heart. They are always thinking of me and embracing me, and I am always thinking of them and embracing them.

Jesus Christ stands as our inspiration. He is the embodiment of love for God and all living beings, and such love should be celebration with the congregational glorification of God and His Holy Names on the appearance day of Lord Jesus Christ, and on every other day of the year!

With the most beautiful lyrics, and combined with that soul-stirring Hare Krishna Maha Mantra! Gotta watch this beautiful sound clip of the Choir of Angels with the beautiful frangipani flower wristlets and candles (battery operated thank you) Honestly this one might be my absolute favorite!

2. Prayer of St. Francis

The first and foremost commandment of Jesus is to love the Supreme Father with all our heart.

When we look at Jesus Christ we see in him what we aspire for, and what we hope and pray to acheive.

There is a saying that when you ask God for something, you will receive it.

Jesus Christ is showing us what we should ask for, what we should pray for and that is unconditional love for God and for all living beings.

Such pure spiritual love will make it so that we are happy, free and peaceful, and that the world is happy free and peaceful.

3.When Love Was Born

Christmas is a celebration of Gods love for us. From time to time, the Supreme Person, Sri Krishna, sends an empowered representative to this world to invite us back to Him.

Such was the case when the pure love, son, and servant of God, Lord Jesus Christ appeared in this world, bringing with him the greatest gift, the gift of pure spiritiual love.

He embodied a love that embraced all living beings. This song celebrates the night that such selfless spiritual love in the person of Jesus Christ was born.

4.Blessed Be Your Name

Introducing this beautiful powerful hymn, and I wanted to include it here, because it really encapsulates the very meaning of this beautiful prayer.

Pure love for God is already residing dormant in our hearts, but it is covered over by so much material contamination. By coming into contact with God I become purified of all that is keeping me from experiencing pure spiritual love. In this age the Supreme Lord, out of His Causeless mercy descends as His Holy Name, transcendental sound, and it is a very simple way to come into contact with Him through that sound.

Jaya Jesus means All Glories to Jesus.

5. Day By Day

Jesus first commandment is to love God. His second commandment is like unto it: Love our neighbour as our selves. Love for others, for our neighbours, for our enemies, cannot be separated from love for God because love for God is the unifiying factor. We pray that our love for God will grow day by day.

This beautiful Christmas carol starts beautifully solemn, and then has such a fun, swinging, getting into it upbeat sound! We love it 🙂

6. The Message

Resonating with Vaishnava’s, this beautiful song praising Lord Jesus Christ, a pure devotee of the Supreme Lord. You might never have heard this one before! It’s one I grew up with! I could sing it if I lost every other memory, I know it so well! SUPER BEAUTIFUL!

7.What Child Is This?

A beautiful soaring soprano version of this beautiful song about baby Jesus, kids love this one… I love how they have incorporated the Om Hari Om – I didn’t grow up “Christian” so I have no idea if these tunes are fresh or new or old, and pretty much every traditional carol is a revelation to me 🙂 LOVING it!

8.Happy Birthday Jesus

We only just started singing this one and I LOVE it!

I’m sure you have heard a version or two of this beautiful Happy Birthday Jesus Christmas song – it was the star of 2018 for us! Here’s my daughter with her friends signing it at a nursing home. Can you see how they are doing their earnest best? After 3 months of carol practices, they’ll never forget the lyrics or tunes of these songs!

9.Jesus Loves the Little Ones

Definitely get to throw yourself into this Christmas song! It’s so fun, we usually love to point and poke and giggle with the hand gestures!

10.O Holy Night

A classic for a reason!

This beautiful soul stirring song of praise never gets old! You know it I’m sure, but I really had to include it in this list of loveliness!

Posted on August 2, 2019November 9, 2019 by remember krishna — Leave a comment

Krishna Janmastami Advent Calender

Remember Krishna and celebrate His wonderful Appearance with your family!

My daughter has been stuck at home sick all week, but we have had such a nice time because of this craft!

In between woe and tissues, she’s loved lavishing attention and detail on the special names of Krishna and accompanying meaning of Krsna’s name on each Advent card.

These beautiful cards are created for this year – 2019 – and have 24 names of Krishna with their special meanings!

There is a version for AUSTRALIA and INDIA and one for USA and Other timezones!

Download the pdf and all instructions are set up for you.

DOWNLOAD the 24 Day Krishna Janmastami Advent calendar

You will need – 1 large sheet of craft card A2 size (light coloured or white)OR a large cork board instead glue stick watercolour paints or pencils or lead pencils and ﬁne brushes larger brush for back ground watercolour washes jute string hole punch blue tack for extra hanging support (as the card starts to warp in)print out of all the name cards and title of calendar on a 170 gsm weight white printing card (or heavier weight)

Use watercolour paints or pencils to colour all the numbers and words. You can paint your large A2 size backing card as well with a water colour wash. You can colour each card with a water colour wash also leave to dry then paint the words and numbers, or just leave the background white.

Cut and fold all the name /number cards -these hang on the ‘line’ 4 cards per line.

If you are using a large card background measure 10 cm down from the top of your backing card then start mark holes for tying the string through. You can make each hole 9 cm apart if using the same paper size we used. Use a single hole puncher to punch out all the holes then cut 6 lengths of jute to make the lines. Punch 2 holes out of the top for a hanging string.

Calender will look like this, as every day you uncover a new name of Krishna!

Calendar example after 24 days! All names are now on display!

It’s a good idea to show the kids the concept, so they can visualise what their calender will look like and how to decorate the paper with Krishna’s beautiful names on it.

Advent Calender 2019 – Krishna Janmastami FREE PDF

Download this FREE pdf for Krishna Janmastami – the advent calender is created just for you to set up an exciting count down until Krishna’s birthday!
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Posted on April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 by remember krishna — Leave a comment

A Wonderful World of Worship

Krishna deity stands with beautiful three fold bending form holding flute dressed in fuschia pink and turquoise outfit with skirt, vest and shawl

Dear Friends!

When your mind begins to become attracted to Krishna, a wonderful world opens up! The world of Love. Placing our love at the lotus feet of the Lord, where it is most lovingly received AND reciprocated, is so very perfect.

I have a 10yr old daughter, Ishvara dasi, and we are heading in to the Aussie school holidays. This time the Easter break is a 3 week break! Lots of time to fill up.

We are planning to do a special girls camp. My sister and I are hosting it, and we are co-ordinating the 2 day camping sleepover. It’s going to be last minute, because that’s just how life happens, so you’ll probably hear about it AFTER and not before.

So we are putting together a really full program for our group of girls, and we decided that the THEME of our camp is “Making Krishna your Valentine”. I can’t deny, this is probably because of Krishna’s special Valentines day outfit, and all our girls are at that nubile young age where they have not been paired off with a partner, and starting to have girlish longings for a beloved, arise in their hearts.
Don’t we all?! I do!

Krishna Krishna you are mine, and I am yours!
Please let me always remember you, and never forget you!

Ok on to what I wanted to share!

We are going to do a series of creative crafting with the girls, and one thing we will do is a class about arotik – the paraphernalia that we use on the arotik and how it’s offered as well as the meaning and intentions.

Lucky for us – and for you – we have this excellent resource available to us – a series on HOME DEITY WORSHIP as well as specifically on Arotik.

So we plan to play this excellent video & follow it up with a ghee-wick making hands on activity, and then later we will also do a super fun activity where we will use handkerchief (the cloth offered) and experiment with 3 ways to dye it! We plan to do shibori, tie-dye, and batik!

I’m so excited about this section I can’t tell you!

Found some incredible resources on SHIBORI dye techniques online. https://www.apieceofrainbow.com/indigo-tie-dye/

Our schedule is tightly packed with activities/ games/ story telling and kirtan.

We are going to tell the story of Krishna rescuing Rukmini (another incredible one you can listen to Devaki Nandana dasi telling on YouTube at your convenience! So amazing!

You will love to listen and watch this storytelling by the famous Krishna storyteller Devaki Nandana dasi! Follow her channel too.

I am so excited to share these stories with you, and for the actual camp, it’s going to be so much fun and I’m so excited about doing it!

I’ll share lots of photos! We are also going to have some quiet time activities, and all our cool Krsna doll printables and other activities are going to be super in play! https://rememberkrishna.com/shop/color-in-radha-krsna-gopi-friends-paperdolls/

Posted on March 14, 2019March 25, 2019 by remember krishna — Leave a comment

I have a gorgeous Krishna toy doll! What can I add?

swing jhula krishna toys radha krsna on swing

Krishna doll the ranchor arms move — sweet Krishna doll arms move standing tall best fun to play with

This standing Krishna with moveable arms – Krishna the Ranchor, because he looks so ready to protect everyone – has heaps of toys to fit his size!

Firstly you really need a bed! Select one of the suitably sized beds from all the lovingly handmade sweet sleeping places for Krishna.

rocking cradle for Krsna dolls painted blue with daisy and blueberry folk art style and blue flowery bedding wooden cradle on pink background
Baby krsna doll blue boy krsna tucked into a wooden rocking cradle painted red with folkstyle art flowers in gold on the sides of the cot and a pink sheet
Baby krsna doll blue boy krsna tucked into a wooden rocking cradle painted red with folkstyle art flowers in gold on the sides of the cot and a pink sheet

Offer Ornaments for His sweet head with a Crown – Various styles of mukut available for His Size!

opulent and princely, this crown has the shape of a turban and unique falling fringe of studded gemstones.
Adorn Radha & Krsna in this sweet pair of custom Mukut pink crowns. Perfect for your Remember Krishna dolls

Srimate Radharani - Radhika! She who brings pleasure to Sri Krishna
What could be sweeter than Radha to play with Krishna?!

tall radha doll made from plastic with pink clothes and a garland for krsna doll

Lord Balaram – the protective elder brother of Sri Krishna

standing balaram doll with his arms in the air

Give Krishna butterpot!

butterpots gaily painted decorated with jewels minature butter pots for Krsna and balaram multi color indian diwali — Butterpots of all shapes and colors suit sweet Krishna

These adorable butter pots are perfect for offerings, whether you add tiny foodstuffs, flowers or other things for sweet Krishna, they will give so much fun to your playtime.

A Waterpot – made from pure Vrindavan Silver

silver waterpot with embossed decorative details indian heritage style waterpot or butterpot for krishna dolls and krsna deities

lei garland from ribbon for krishna deity

Garland or flower mala / lei Decorate Sweet Krishna and Radhika with these darling ribbon and bead flower mala.

Throne or Vyasasana for Sri Krsna

There are multiple throne options which suit this beautiful Krsna – have a browse through Krishna’s Accessories category to see which one you like, as well as nice decorated cloths and cushions or swings.

Animal friends! What is sweeter than playing with Krishna and His friends?

After all, Krishna is never alone! Add more friends to your collection of Krishna toys.

Radharani and Rangini
peacock friend of Krishna
Darling Deer suits larger Krsna and Radha dolls
baby monkey from the front with big eyes cute ears and curling tail

Posted on January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 by remember krishna — Leave a comment

Janmastami! Invite Krishna into your heart & your home!

A beautiful tradition in India to celebrate and decorate for Sri Krishna Janmastami is to use Rangoli paste and decorate from the entry, all the way into the altar, with little footprints, inviting little sweet Krishna in.

rice flour traditional rangoli decoration stencil on marble floor colorful yellow magento and green marble — rice flour traditional rangoli decoration

We have celebrated and decorated in this way since my marvellous sister suggested it 10 years ago!

Always in rentals, with rarely any options to actually use anything messy like riceflour paste, we have had to be creative!

How you execute this idea will depend on your floor type, and time/money factor.

You can buy removable/reuseable wall decals in the shape of little gorgeous footprints online. I did a quick search for sources and found the following options:

I have seen these in plain white at my local craft shop so cheaply. They work reversable coz they are blank.
foam and glitter foot prints from amazon
order online wall decal easy
Order online from amazon

The wall decals work best if you have a tile or wooden floor. Alternately you may choose to run them along the sides of the wall to the altar, rather than the floor. When we have them on the floor the kids love to run after them following the foots, which is fine because it leads them to the altar!

When we ordered a set of these, I painted on the symbols. But to be totally frank they did not last removal and my 1yr old’s determination to destroy. They may be better these days!

You can also order little paper cut craft feet from the craft stores, maybe you can pick it up instore, or maybe you can order it online.

They are easy and cute!

We of course went the whole CHEAP and LABORIOUS HOG.

What we did was cut stencils, and then used the stencil to create a huge amount of little lotus flowers with Krsna’s lotus feet in them. I’m sorry to say I did NOT get Krsna’s lovely markings on the correct feet, I realized a few years later (sigh and cry).

You can contact paper the lotus flowers with Krsna’s feet on them, to protect them, and then use bluetack to adhere the lotus feet to the ground.

But with all our effort, it was well worth it, because we have used them for years.

Have fun at home setting up beautiful festive decorations for Janmastami, and celebrate it as a true festival, it really is the best time of the year!

lotus of feet of krishna stencil with symbols

These have been used repeatedly over the years, and we use them to decorate the walls up the stairwell to lead into the party for Krishna’s appearance day too.

More ideas on celebrating Krishna Janmastami coming up – this is going to be a 14 day series of blog posts for you, and I’ll link them all here. Be sure to sign up to the newsletter to see all the ideas.