Koti
Japa Yagna

A whole world of devotees welcomed Krishna this Janmashtami by chanting His holy names.

From 1 August to 4 September 2026, devotees at home, at Hare Krishna Hill and at Vaikuntha Hill chanted the maha-mantra together, Koti by Koti, and offered it all to Lord Kṛṣṇa on His appearance day.

See the offering → Learn to chant
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Names offered
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of our 100 crore goal
0% of the way there goal 100 crore by Janmashtami
1,85,569
Total rounds
Today +498
3,184
Chanters joined
Today +41
41
Locations
across India & beyond
Koti Japa Yajna 2026 · the consolidated offering
·crore

holy names of Lord Kṛṣṇa, offered together

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·% of our 100 crore goal

Where the names came from

Where each devotee began

Portal registrations only

The pledge each devotee took when registering. These figures come from the Koti Japa Yagna portal registrations alone. They do not include the visitors who chanted at the two temple mantaps, the Chanters Club, or the full-time missionaries.

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Sri Sri Radha Krishnachandra, ISKCON Bangalore
Sri Sri Radha Krishnachandra · Bengaluru
Why we chant
harer nāma harer nāma
harer nāmaiva kevalam
kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva
nāsty eva gatir anyathā
"In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way."
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta · Ādi-līlā 17.21
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder-Ācārya of ISKCON
Founder-Ācārya of ISKCON

A.C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupāda

He carried the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra from a single room to millions of hearts across the world. In his own words:

“Live peacefully, chant Hare Krishna and be happy in your life.”Letter to Gurudāsa & Yamunā · 5 May 1967
“If you chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra you'll get all perfection, all perfection.”Lecture on Caitanya-caritāmṛta · Madhya 23.14
“Chanting is so nice that as soon as you take to chanting … immediately the cleansing process begins.”Lecture on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.1 · New York, 19 April 1973
The Holy Names

The mantras you'll chant

Chant the Pañca-tattva mantra once to begin, then the Hare Krishna maha-mantra on your beads.

To begin, the Pañca-tattva mantra

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya
prabhu-nityānanda
śrī-advaita gadādhara
śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

First we offer our respects to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His associates, praying for their mercy to chant the Holy Names purely and with love.

The maha-mantra

Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare

“These three words, Hare, Kṛṣṇa and Rāma, are the transcendental seeds of the mahā-mantra. The chanting is a spiritual call for the Lord and His energy … like the genuine cry of a child for its mother's presence.”Śrīla Prabhupāda · The Science of Self-Realization

Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa, President, ISKCON Bangalore
A word from our president
"When we chant the Holy Name together, we are not counting numbers. We are welcoming Krishna repeatedly, bead after bead, into our hearts. Let your voice be one of the crores that invite Him not only to your home this Janmashtami, but into this world at large, to usher in the much-needed peace on this earth."
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Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa
President, ISKCON Bangalore
New to japa?

Learn to chant

Short guides to begin, and to chant along with us, one round at a time.

Koti by Koti

The road to one hundred Koti

Every Koti is one crore, ten million holy names. Each milestone lights up as the offering rises toward our goal of 100 crore by Janmashtami.

Questions & answers

Everything you need to begin

New to chanting? These cover the essentials. Still stuck? Reach us any time.