a) Lord Sri Krishna is Purusottama, and it is the Lord’s favorite month.
b) As Krsna is the supreme among all incarnations, Purusottama is the supreme among all months.
c) It is the holiest month, far superior to the pious months of Magha, Vaisakha and Karttika.
d) Purusottama month is worshiped all over the universe by devotees, sages, demigods and even Laksmi Devi Herself.
1) Keep celibacy for one month. (Sleep on the floor – optional).
2) Bathe daily before sunrise (best in a holy place, or at least 3 days in a month).
3) Chant Hare Krsna Mahamantra and meditate on Krsna’s forms, qualities and pastimes. Daily chant extra rounds: 24, 32, or 64 rounds.
4) Daily offer ghee lamp to Radha-Krsna Deities or picture. 33 lamps daily or at least 1 day in the month.
5) Daily offer aratika and perform parikrama around Tulasi Devi.
6) Daily perform parikrama around the temple (4 times).
7) Daily offer Radha-Krsna Deities or picture roses, lotus flowers and 100,000 Tulasi leaves or as many as you can.
8) Daily read Srimad Bhagavatam, especially Lord Brahma’s prayers to Krishna (Canto 10, Chapter 14), and Bhagavad-gita (Chapter 15).
9) Recommended to daily chant Sri Jagannathastakam, Sri
Cauragraganya-purusastakam, Sri Nanda-Nandanastakam, Jaya Radha Madhava, and other Radha-Krsna bhajanas and prayers.
10) Take a vow to remain peaceful and truthful throughout the month.
11) Be careful not to blaspheme any devotees, brahmanas, saints, cows, sastras or people who follow this vrata.
12) Try your best to please Radha and Krsna by performing devotional austerities according to your abilities.
13) Eat on leaf plates sitting on the floor (optional).
14) No cutting of hair or nails (optional).
15) No cooking in oil or rubbing of oil on your body.
16) No eating or rubbing of mustard oil.
17) Diets: Best to eat once a day after sunset or noon the following diets:
i) only milk
ii) only fruits (no milk, no vegetables)
iii) no grains (selected vegetables, fruits, nuts, milk)
iv) selected foods (all categories as per caturmasya standards).
18) Hari-bhakti-vilasa: “During Purusottama month, one should remember Lord Krsna and then donate thirty three milk cakes cooked in ghee to grhastha brahmanas, who are well versed in sastras. Failing to do so, one loses all the piety he accumulated in the previous year.”
19) Recitation of the following mantra of Kaundinya Muni is recommended:
govardhana-dharam vande, gopalam gopa-rupinam
gokulotsavam isanam, govindam gopika-priyam
20) Daily offer 33 dandavats to Bhagavan Sri Krsna or the Vaisnavas.
21) Bhaktivinoda Thakura: Perform the Nirapeksa Vrata, which means 30 days of concentrated, one-pointed worship and service to Radha-Govinda by
- hearing,
- chanting,
- remembering Their divine names, forms, qualities, pastimes.
- All day and night, hear about Bhagavan Sri Krsna, chant the Hare Krsna Mahamantra,
- take only mahaprasada.
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