Jayapataka Swami: You see, I asked Srila Prabhupada, that whether we should use all the kirtana groups in Bengal, and engage them in devotional service? And he encouraged me and gave me some instructions how to do that. I didn’t know what to call the effort. See the Godruma Kalpatavi is five chapters. From the namahatta of Srila BhaktivinodaThakura. But that was published in the Gaudiya Patrika and their president was Abhay Caran Bhakti Vedanta Gaura Vanacari. Srila Prabhupada when he was in vanaprasta. So I was very inspired that this was something that Srila Prabhupada had authorized. So I called the effort as namahatta. And so we have urban namahattas, small groups, which we call bhakti vrksas and the original namahatta was in the village called Namahatta. So I translated this, because it was both Srila BhaktivinodaThakura’s work plus it was given by Srila Prabhupada. So although there are many books, but this one, because we wanted to do congregational preaching, because this was approved by Srila Prabhupada, we thought that this should be our priority for now.
21-June-2020 SRI DHAM MAYAPUR, INDIA