I am going to India for the month of February for some of the Chhattisgarh state bangaladeshi refugee villagers' Nam Jagya season. I'll have a couple of day's at the end of my visit and I'd really love to stay a couple of nights in Radhakund instead of Vrindavan before flying from Delhi back to London. Where could I stay? Are there guesthouses or could I stay in an ashram. What are the best places for kirtan? A kirtan ashram would be great.
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A couple of nights are probably best spent in Mira Manoranjan Dharamshala on the parikrama road near Shyama-kunda. For longer visits, you are better off renting a room from somewhere else. Not that there's anything wrong with the dharamshala.
Places for kirtan? There isn't really a kirtan ashram per se as far as I know, but certainly there are a couple of places with akhanda-kirtan going on. Raghunath Das Goswami's samadhi for one, then there's Gadadhar Chaitanya Mandir near Krishnadas Kaviraja's bhajan kutir at Shyama-kund near Manasa Pavan Ghat, and kirtan seems to be pretty much akhanda at Radha Vinod Mandir overseen by Prana Krishna Das Baba on the parikrama-road, too.
To see the "official" Radha-kund kirtaniyas at work, you'll probably want to schedule your visit for some particular occasion. Do you have any specific dates in mind as of yet?
QUOTE(Madhava @ Oct 30 2005, 05:04 PM)
To see the "official" Radha-kund kirtaniyas at work, you'll probably want to schedule your visit for some particular occasion. Do you have any specific dates in mind as of yet?
My flight leaves Indira Ghandi International Airport at 12.45pm on Sunday 26th February 2005, so I would need enough time to recover from a 22 hour train journey plus a bit of time to soak in the glories of Sri Radhakunda