Bhakti SakhaYour Friend on the Path of Devotional Service
18 February 2026
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📍 Location
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⚙️ Calendar Display
Vedic Timings
Show Choghadiya, Muhurt & Hora in the calendar day details
Adds a tabbed section below Rahu Kalam when you tap any date in the Calendar. Includes three tabs:
Choghadiya — 8 auspicious/inauspicious time slots for planning travel & activities Muhurt — 30 muhurtas with nature classification for ceremonies & rituals Hora — 24 planetary hours showing which planet governs each hour
All timings are calculated for your selected location. Tap any date in Calendar and scroll down past Rahu Kalam to see them.
🏠 Home Screen Cards
Tick the cards you want on Home, above “Explore all features”. Use the arrows to change the order. Unticked cards are still there under “Explore all features”.
Calendar on Home
🎨 App Color Theme
Choose your preferred colour theme
Ocean
Midnight
Forest
Plum
Sandalwood
Cream
White
🔔 Notifications
Follow these steps in order
1Turn on the reminders you want
2Set the Day Before and Same Day reminder times
3Enable push notifications to receive them on your phone
4Let your phone deliver them (battery and permissions)
5Choose a notification sound
Step 1 — Choose your reminders
Turn on each type of reminder you want. Your selections are saved automatically.
Ekadashi Reminders
Alert 1 day before, at 7:00 am
Festival Reminders
Alert 1 day before, at 7:00 am
Appearance Days
Alert 1 day before, at 7:00 am
Amāvasyā (New Moon)
Alert 1 day before, at 7:00 am
Gayatri / Sandhya Times
Remind 5 min before each Sandhyā window opens (sunrise · noon · sunset)
Rahu Kalam
Remind 5 min before Rahu Kalam begins
Prayer Circle Alerts
Get notified about new prayer requests
My Events Reminders
Reminders for your personal calendar events
My To-Do Reminders
Remind at set time + advance alerts (1 day, 3 days, 1 week before)
Step 2 — Set timing
These apply to Ekadashi, Festival, Appearance Day, and My Events reminders. Gayatri / Sandhya, Rahu Kalam, and My To-Do have their own timing.
🔔 Day Before Reminder
Get reminded the evening before
Time
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🔔 Same Day Reminder
Get reminded on the day of the event
Time
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Step 3 — Enable push notifications
Push notifications deliver reminders directly to your phone — even when the app is closed or the screen is off. Your browser will ask for permission when you enable this.
📱 Push Notifications
Tap to enable real phone notifications
Step 4 — Let your phone deliver reminders
Many phones stop apps in the background to save battery, and then reminders don't arrive. These settings take a minute and only need doing once.
🔔Notifications on for Bhakti Sakha
🔋Battery: no restrictions for Bhakti Sakha, so the phone doesn't put it to sleep
📶Internet on (mobile data or Wi-Fi) — reminders arrive through the internet
Choose your phone
Check it works
Send a test reminder to this phone. It arrives within about 2 minutes, even with the app closed.
Step 5 — Choose notification sound
Pick the tone you'd like to hear when a reminder arrives.
🐚ShankhaSacred conch shell✓
🔔Temple BellResonant temple bell✓
Kartal ChimeGentle cymbal ring✓
🪈Kṛṣṇa's BansuriSweet flute melody✓
Singing BowlDeep peaceful resonance✓
📱DefaultPhone's built-in sound✓
Bhakti Sakha
Your Friend on the Path of Devotional Service
Explore Features
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Calendar
Ekādaśīs & festivals
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Today's Question
A daily quiz from śāstra
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Song Book
Bhajans + your own verses
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Audio Books
Bhāgavatam, Gītā & more
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Notes
Reflections & gratitude
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Prayer Circle
Request & offer prayers
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My Events
Birthdays & reminders
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My To-Do
Tasks, goals & seva
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SevaKart
Devotee services
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Sadhana Tracker
Japa, reading & hearing
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Expense Splitter
Split costs with friends
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Android App Only
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Alarms
Japa & Ārati alarms
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App Settings & Setup
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Notifications
Set up your reminders
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Google Sync
Back up & sync your data
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App Color Theme
Choose your app’s look
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Help
Need help?
WhatsApp the developer
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Feedback & Support
Help us improve Bhakti Sakha for the Vaishnava community
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How to Send Feedback
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• Sign in with Google first. • Pick a type: Bug Report, Feature Request, Correction or General Feedback. • Write your message (up to 2000 letters) and tap Send Feedback.
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What Happens Next
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• Your message goes to the Bhakti Sakha team with your name and email. • We aim to reply within 24 hours.
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Today's Question
A daily question from Śrīla Prabhupāda's books
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How It Works
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• A new question comes every day on Home, just below the calendar. • Tap Today's Question. Bhakti Sakha greets you, asks the question and then shows the answer choices. • Tap your answer. You then see if it is right, the answer, a short explanation and a quote from Śrīla Prabhupāda's books. • You can answer once a day. Opening it again shows your answer.
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Score & Streak
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• The score card shows how many you got right, a ring with your %, and this week (Mon–Sun): green = right, red = wrong. • 🔥 shows how many days in a row you have answered. • Your score is private. Only you can see it, and you never see anyone else’s.
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Marks on the Card
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• Until you answer, the card shows a red 1, typing dots and “New”. • After you answer, it shows Correct or Answered.
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Sign-in
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• Sign in with Google to keep your score on all your phones. Without sign-in, it stays on this phone.
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Calendar
Ekadashis, festivals, panchanga & Vedic timings at your fingertips
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Calendar on Home
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• The top of Home has a calendar. Tap it to open it, and switch between Days and Month. • It shows today’s Gāyatrī / Sandhyā times, Sun & Moon and Rāhu Kālam. • Tap any date to open it in the full Calendar, or tap Full calendar. • Settings › Home Screen Cards › Calendar on Home: choose whether it starts open or closed.
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Monthly Calendar View
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• Browse any month from 1896 to 2108. • Coloured dots on each day: green = Ekādaśī, gold = appearance day, orange = festival, purple = Purusottama Masa, blue = your own event. A moon marks Pūrṇimā and Amāvasyā. • Tap any date to see its full details. • Use the ‹ › arrows, or swipe left or right, to change the month. • Tap the month name, or the calendar icon at the top, to go to any date: type the year, turn the month dial (it shows the Vaishnava month and its Ekādaśīs and festivals), then tap the day. • The top bar shows the Masa, Paksha, Tithi and Gaurabda year of the day you chose. • When you leave the Calendar, it goes back to today. • Going before January 1896 or after December 2108 shows a short note.
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Ekadashi
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• Ekadashi dates match the ISKCON GCal calendar for your city. • On an Ekadashi day you see “Fasting:” and the Ekadashi name, with a small flag on the calendar. • It also shows the time to break the fast the next day. • On the next day, it reminds you to break the fast today, with the time window. • Fasting notes from GCal show too, like “fast till noon” or “fast till moonrise”.
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Festivals & Appearance Days
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• See all Vaishnava festivals and the appearance and disappearance days of the Acharyas. • Every event of the day is listed. • Tap an event to read “About This Day”. Use A− / A+ to change the text size, or share it. • Your own events from My Events also show on the calendar.
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Panchanga Details
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• Tithi — the lunar day. • Paksha — waxing or waning moon. • Masa — the Vaishnava month name, with the common name below. • Gaurabda — the Vaishnava year.
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Gayatri & Sandhya Times
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• See the three Sandhya times: Prātaḥ (sunrise), Madhyāhnika (noon) and Sāyaṃ (sunset). • Each Sandhya is a 48-minute window: 24 minutes before to 24 minutes after. • When a window is open now, its card glows and shows “ACTIVE NOW”. • A moving sun shows today's sun path. Tap “About Ghaṭikā” to learn more. • Times are worked out for the city you have chosen. • Turn on reminders in Settings → Notifications. One comes 5 minutes before each window opens.
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Sun, Moon & Rahu Kalam
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• See Brahma Muhurta, sunrise, noon and sunset, plus moonrise and moonset. • Rahu Kalam (☊) shows the time of day to avoid starting new work. • Turn on Rahu Kalam alerts in Settings → Notifications. One comes 5 minutes before it begins.
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Vedic Timings
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• Off by default. To see them: Settings → Calendar Display → Vedic Timings. • Then, in the calendar, tap any date and scroll below Rahu Kalam. • Choghadiya — good and bad time slots of the day and night. • Muhurt — the 30 muhurtas of the day. • Hora — the planet ruling each hour. • The slot you are in now fills with colour and shows how many minutes are left.
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Purusottama Masa
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• In this extra holy month, a purple banner shows its dates. Tap it to read about the month. • Each day has a reading, a practice and a prayer, marked “Day X of Y”. • Write your own notes for the day. They stay only on your phone.
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Your City
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• All times are worked out for the city you choose. • Tap your city name (above the month) to change it. • Pick from 70 cities, or type any town name to find it. • For a town not in the list, Ekadashi dates follow the nearest listed city. • Daylight saving time is handled for you, all over the world. • Changing city also updates your reminder times.
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Search Calendar
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• Tap the 🔍 at the top and type a name to find an Ekadashi, festival or appearance day. • Before you type, it lists the next 20 upcoming days. • Use the buttons to show only Ekadashi, Festivals, Appearance, My Events or Purusottam. • Results cover 5 years back and 5 years ahead, with upcoming ones first. • Tap any result to jump to that day. “Jump to Date” below takes you to any day.
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Song Book
Sacred Songs for Every Heart
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Folders, Categories & Authors
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• Over 1,000 songs in 7 folders — Vaishnava Bhajans, Astakams, Stotrams, Brahma Samhita, Bhagavad Gita Verses, Srimad Bhagavatam Prayers and Nṛsiṁhadeva Prayers. • Each folder shows a picture or icon and how many songs it holds. • Switch to Author to see songs grouped by Acharya. • Each song shows its author, number of verses and number of audios. • Srimad Bhagavatam Prayers are grouped by Canto (1–12) — tap a canto to open it. • Bhagavad Gita Verses has all 18 chapters — 700 verses. • At the end of a Gita chapter, tap “Go to Chapter” for the next or previous one, or “All Chapters” to go back. • Each Gītā chapter has a fold, “The Glories of Chapter N”, to read its glories.
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Search
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• Type at least 3 letters to search song names and lyrics. • Accent marks don't matter — “radha” finds “Rādhā”. • Tap any result to open that song.
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My Favorites & Most Visited
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• Tap the bookmark icon at the top of a song to add it to My Favorites. Tap again to remove. • When signed in, your favorites are kept in your account. • Most Frequently Visited shows the top 10 songs opened by all devotees. A visit counts after 10 seconds on a song.
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My Categories
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• Sign in, then tap ＋ New category to make your own, like “Sloka Memorization”. Only you can see it. • Open it and tap Add a verse: a verse number (optional), the verse, and a translation (optional). • You can paste many verses at once. A blank line goes between verses, and an empty verse number is filled in for you, like “SB 7.6.1-28”. • Translations stay folded: tap Translation under a verse, or Show / Hide for all. A− / A+ changes the text size. • Search inside a category, and use ↑ ↓ to change the order. • Tap ✎ to rename it, change its icon or delete it. Deleting asks three times. • Your categories are saved to your account and appear on your other phones.
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Devanagari Script
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• On a song page, tap “देवनागरी में पढ़ें” to read the lyrics in Devanagari script. • Tap “Read in English” to switch back. Your choice is remembered. • If there is no Hindi translation, a note says so. Tap “English Translation” below it to read the English. • Tap the Translation heading to open or close it. • Songs that have a Hindi translation show a देवनागरी tag.
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Audio
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• Many songs have recordings by different singers — the number shows on the song card. • If a song has more than one singer, pick one from the list above the player. • A Now Playing bar stays at the bottom, so you can keep listening on other screens. • Tap the Now Playing bar to return to the song. Tap ✕ to stop. • The playing song shows moving bars in the song list.
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Text Size, Brightness & Colours
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• Use A− / A+ at the top of a song to change the text size. It is remembered for every song, even after you close the app. • Use the brightness slider at the top to make the lyrics dimmer or brighter. • Choose a colour for the lyrics and for the translation — Warm, Pearl, Mint, Rose or Gold. (Not in the Cream or White themes.)
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Verse Count
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• Each song shows how many verses it has. • For a Bhagavad Gita chapter, it shows that chapter's full verse count. • For Srimad Bhagavatam prayers, verses are counted from the SB references.
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Share Songs
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• Share any song through WhatsApp, Telegram or other apps. • The message has the song details and a link that opens the song directly.
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Works Offline
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• Songs are saved on your phone, so the Song Book opens even without internet. • New songs arrive by themselves when you are online. • Audio needs internet.
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My Notes
Reflections on Your Spiritual Journey
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Folders
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• Three folders are ready for you — Gratitude Journal, Spiritual Notes and Personal Notes. • Each folder shows how many notes it has. • Tap ＋ New Folder to make your own. Use ✏️ to rename it and 🗑 to delete it.
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Writing Notes
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• Tap + inside a folder to write a new note. • Notes save by themselves a few seconds after you stop typing, and again when you close them. • Tap 📌 to pin a note. Pinned notes stay at the top. • Sort notes by date or title. • A deleted note goes to 🗑 Recently deleted on this phone for 30 days. Open it and tap Restore.
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Writing Tools
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• Make words bold, italic or underlined, and add headings, lists and highlights. • Add a link 🔗 or a photo 🖼️ to your note. • Tap 🎨 to give a note a background colour. • Use A− and A+ to make the text smaller or bigger. • Align text left, centre, right or justified. • Tap 💾 to save now, or 🗑️ to delete the note.
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Gratitude Journal & PIN Lock
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• The Gratitude Journal is protected by a 4-digit PIN. You make the PIN the first time you open it. • Each entry has its own date. • It locks again after 5 minutes without use. • You can lock any other note too — tap 🔒 inside the note. • Forgot your PIN? Tap Forgot PIN and choose the same Google account you signed in with, then set a new PIN. • After 5 wrong tries, wait a little before trying again. • You can change an entry’s date with the date picker.
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Search
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• Inside a folder, search notes by title or text. Results change as you type. • For a locked note, search looks at the title only.
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Share a Note
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• Tap Share inside a note. • Send it as text, as a picture card, or as a PDF. • Picture cards have 11 devotional backgrounds, such as Lotus, Tulsi and Peacock.
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Sign-in & Backup
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• My Notes needs Google sign-in. Your notes then back up and appear on all your devices. • Tap ↻ Sync to sync now. • Export saves all your notes to a file. Import adds notes from that file — nothing you already have is removed.
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My Events
Keeping You Close to Every Sacred Moment
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Today
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• See all your events for today at a glance. • Below, see your events for the next 7 days, with a countdown for each. • Your next events also show on the My Events card on Home.
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Adding an Event
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• Sign in with Google, then tap ＋. • Choose Birthday, Anniversary, Appointment or Spiritual. • Tap 🎂 Bday, 💍 Anniv, 📋 Appt or 🙏 Spiritual at the top to see all events of that kind. • Tap an event to see its details. Tap ✏️ to change or delete it.
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
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• Add the name, day and month. The year is optional. • Choose a relationship — Family, Friend, Guru, Devotee, Colleague or Other. • They repeat every year unless you choose not to repeat.
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Appointments
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• Add a title, date and time, or mark it All day. • Choose a category — Spiritual, Health, Work, Personal or Travel. • Add an end date for trips or retreats. They can repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. • You can add a place and notes.
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Spiritual Events
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• Add a spiritual plan, like extra rounds or a fast. Add a start date, and an end date if it lasts several days. Time, repeat and notes are optional.
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Calendar View
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• A monthly calendar with coloured dots on days that have events. Events lasting several days show as a bar. • Tap any day to see its events below. • Your events also show on the main Vaishnava Calendar. • Events of several days show “Day X of Y”.
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Reminders
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• Birthdays and anniversaries: choose on the day, or 1, 3 or 7 days before (in the evening). You also get one on the day. • Appointments: choose 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 1 day before. You also get one the evening before; all-day ones remind you in the morning. For a trip of several days, turn on “Remind every day”. • My Events Reminders are on at first (Settings › Notifications). The evening and morning times are set there. • Reminders come even when the app is closed. • Spiritual events remind you the evening before and on the day.
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Collect Dates from Friends
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• Tap 📤 Share Form Link and send it to family and friends. • They add their birthday, anniversary and other dates, like an initiation day. • Tap 📥 Review Submissions to accept or reject what they send. • In ⚙️ you can stop taking answers, or make a new link.
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Backup
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• Tap ↻ Sync to sync now. • Export saves your events to a file. Import adds the events from that file — ones already here are skipped. • A deleted event cannot be brought back.
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SevaKart
Devotees Supporting Devotees
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Browse Categories
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• There are 8 categories: Deity Services, Prasadam, Kirtan & Events, Products, Education, Professional, Temple, Yatra. • Each category shows how many listings it has. • Tap a category to see only its services. Tap it again to see all.
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Search
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• Search by service name, city, category or short description. • Results change as you type, and work together with the category you picked.
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Contacting a Service
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• Tap a listing to see its photos and full details. • Use the WhatsApp, Call, Email or Website buttons to contact them. Tap Catalogue to open their PDF, if they added one. • A ✓ Verified badge means the team has checked the listing. • Tap Share this listing to send it to others.
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Listing Your Service
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• Sign in, then tap “List Your Service”. • Step 1: confirm your service follows Bhakti values. • Step 2: fill in the service name, your name, mobile, WhatsApp, email, city, category, a short and a full description, and years of service. A website link is optional. • Add 1 to 5 photos. • Step 3: check the preview, agree to the terms, and tap Submit for Approval.
Only Bhakti-aligned services — no alcohol, meat, gambling, MLM or political campaigns. • You can add a PDF catalogue (optional, up to 5 MB). • Short description: up to 100 letters. Full description: up to 2,000.
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My Listings
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• See all your listings and their status: Pending, Approved, Rejected or Suspended. • To make changes, open your listing and tap ✎ Edit My Listing. Changes to a live listing are checked again, and it shows again once approved.
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Reviews
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• Open a listing and tap ⭐ Write a Review. • Give 1 to 5 stars and a few words (up to 300 letters). • You can review each listing once. Sign-in is needed.
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Safety
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• Tap 🚩 Report this listing and choose a reason (for example: not Bhakti-aligned, misleading, spam, fraud). • SevaKart only connects devotees — all payments happen directly between you. • Share and Report show only on approved listings. Reporting needs sign-in.
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Prayer Circle
United in Prayer, Bound by Grace
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Asking for Prayers
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• Sign in, then tap Submit a Prayer Request. • Choose whether it is for yourself or someone else. • Add a short title, details and a category: Health, Family, Career, Spiritual Growth, Crisis or Other. • Mark it Urgent if needed. You can add a photo of the person (optional), or post without your name. • Tick the consent box to share it with devotees. • Your request appears after an admin approves it.
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Praying for Others
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• Tap 🙏 Offer Prayer on any request. Each devotee counts once. • Each card shows how many devotees have prayed. • Tap ✍️ Write to send a prayer in your own words. • React to written prayers and updates with 🙏 🙇♂️ 🙇♀️ 🩷. • Open a request to share it, or to change the text size with A− / A+. • Sign in to pray, write or react.
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Filter & Search
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• Tap a category to see only that kind of request. • Tap the filter button to switch between All, Urgent, Answered and Needs Prayer. • Search by words in the title, details, category or name. • Urgent requests come first.
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My Prayer Requests
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• Tap My Prayer Requests to see each request's status — Pending Review, Rejected or Answered — and how many have prayed. • Open your request to tap ✅ Prayer Answered, or 💬 Post Update. • After it is answered, you can post gratitude, or tap Still Need Prayers.
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Prayer Alerts
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• When a new request is approved, you get a notification within a few minutes. Tap it to open Prayer Circle. • To turn it off: Settings → Notifications → Prayer Circle Alerts.
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Safety
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• All requests are checked by admins before they appear. • Open a request and tap 🚩 Report this request. • Rude words are hidden automatically.
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Notifications
Setup & customize your reminders
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Step 1 — Allow Notifications on Your Phone
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• Open phone Settings → Notifications. • Find Bhakti Sakha (on iPhone, the Bhakti Sakha icon you added). • Turn notifications ON, and allow “Show on Lock Screen” and “Sound”.
Without this, the app cannot send any notifications.
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Step 2 — Turn Them On in the App
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• In the Android app, reminders turn on by themselves. If you see “Turn on reminders”, tap Allow notifications. • On the website or iPhone: Settings › Notifications › Step 3 › Enable, then tap Allow. • It then says “✅ Active”, and the button changes to “Disable”.
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What You Can Choose
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• Day Before Reminder — the evening before (7:00 PM at first). • Same Day Reminder — on the day itself (4:30 AM at first). • Each one can be turned off, and you can set its time. • 🟣 Ekadashi · 🟠 Festivals · 🔵 Appearance Days · 🌑 Amāvasyā (New Moon) • 🟢 My Events Reminders • 📝 My To-Do Reminders — at the task's time, plus 1 week, 3 days and 1 day before • 🙏 Prayer Circle Alerts — when a new prayer request is approved • 🌅 Gayatri / Sandhya Times — 5 minutes before each window opens • ☊ Rahu Kalam Alerts — 5 minutes before Rahu Kalam begins • Ekadashi, Festivals, Appearance, Prayer, My Events and To-Do are ON at first. Amāvasyā, Gayatri and Rahu Kalam are OFF.
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Notification Sounds
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• Choose a sound: Shankha (conch), Temple Bell, Kartal Chime, Kṛṣṇa's Bansuri, Singing Bowl, or your phone's default sound. • Tap the play button next to a sound to hear it first. • In the Android app, your sound plays for all Bhakti Sakha notifications.
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Opening a Reminder
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• Tap “Open App” on a reminder to go straight to the right screen. Tap “Dismiss” to close it. • To-Do opens To-Do, My Events opens My Events, Prayer Circle opens Prayer Circle, and the others open the Calendar.
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If Notifications Stop
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• To check, tap “Send a test reminder” in Settings › Notifications › Step 4. It should arrive within 2 minutes, even with the app closed. • 1. Phone permission — phone Settings → Apps → Bhakti Sakha: Notifications ON, lock screen and sound allowed. • 2. Turn off and on — in the app, Settings → Notifications: tap Disable, wait 2 seconds, then Enable. • 3. Internet — notifications need internet. Try Wi-Fi and mobile data. • 4. Battery and phone settings — Settings › Notifications › Step 4: choose your phone and follow the steps. Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo and Realme phones often stop reminders to save battery. • 5. Clear cache — phone Settings → Apps → Bhakti Sakha → Storage → “Clear Cache” (NOT “Clear Data”), then open the app and turn notifications on again. • 6. Reinstall — on Android, install it again from the Play Store. On iPhone, open in Safari → Share → “Add to Home Screen”. Then turn notifications on again.
Still not working? Tap Need help? at the bottom of Settings, and tell us your phone model.
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Google Sync
Backup, sync & restore your data
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Signing In
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• Go to Settings → Google Account and tap sign-in. • Once signed in, your photo and email appear at the top of Home. • Notes, My Events, My categories, Expense Splitter, prayer requests and SevaKart listings need sign-in.
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What Gets Saved to Your Account
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• Notes — all folders and notes. • My Events — birthdays, anniversaries, appointments and spiritual events. • To-Do — tasks, projects and spiritual goals. • Sadhana — your daily entries. • Song Book — your favourites and My categories. • Settings — colour theme, city, Home cards and notification choices. • Changes save to your account by themselves.
A backup copy is kept in a hidden app folder in your own Google Drive. Locked notes and your Gratitude Journal are scrambled so only you can read them.
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Using More Than One Phone
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• Sign in with the same Google account on any device. • Tap the sync button at the top of Home, or ↻ Sync Now in Settings → Google Account, to sync now.
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Export & Import
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• Notes and My Events each have Export and Import buttons to save a backup file. • Importing adds to what you have. For a note that is in both, the newer copy is kept; events already there are skipped.
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My To-Do
To-do's, Spiritual Goals & Seva Commitments
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Tasks
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• Add a title, notes if you like, a due date and time. • Set the priority — Low, Medium or High. • Choose a category — Spiritual, Personal, Family, Health, Work, Temple Seva or Custom. • Type naturally, like “Call Prabhu tomorrow 4pm” — the date and time fill in for you. • Words like today, tomorrow, Monday or “on 15th” set the date. “On 31st” picks the next month that has a 31st.
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The Most Auspicious Month
What is Purusottama Masa?
The Vedic lunar calendar has approximately 354 days — 11 days shorter than the solar year. To keep the lunar and solar calendars aligned, an extra month is added approximately every 32-33 months. This extra month is known by various names: Adhika Masa ("extra month"), Mala Masa ("impure month"), or most importantly, Purusottama Masa — the month of the Supreme Person.
When the demigods refused to preside over this "extra" month, considering it inauspicious, Lord Sri Kṛṣṇa — Purusottama, the Supreme Personality of Godhead — personally accepted it as His own month, transforming it into the most sacred and auspicious period in the entire Vedic calendar.
"This extra month is most dear to Me. One who observes vows, performs worship, and engages in devotional service during this month receives unlimited spiritual merit."
— Sri Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna, Padma Purana, Uttara Khanda
Spiritual Significance
Purusottama Masa is considered even more potent than Kartik month for spiritual advancement. Any devotional activity — chanting, reading scriptures, performing austerities, giving charity — yields results multiplied thousands of times compared to ordinary months.
It is said that the merit one obtains from bathing in all holy rivers, performing all sacrifices, and giving all charities during all the months of many lifetimes, can be achieved by worshipping Lord Purusottama during this single month.
"One who fasts, worships, and chants the holy names during Purusottama Masa attains the supreme abode of Lord Vishnu, which is very difficult to achieve even by great yogis and sages."
— Narada Purana
Recommended Practices
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Increase japa — chant extra rounds of the Hare Kṛṣṇa Maha-mantra
Even one extra round daily yields immense benefit
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Daily reading of Srimad Bhagavatam or Bhagavad Gita
Especially the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa
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Offer ghee lamps (deep daan) to Lord Vishnu daily
Especially in the evening during sandhya arati
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Perform charity and selfless service (seva)
Feeding devotees, supporting temples, helping the needy
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Attend or organize extra kirtan and bhajan sessions
Congregational chanting is especially powerful this month
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Observe fasting or eat simply — once a day, sattvic food
Some devotees follow Ekadashi-like fasting throughout
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Rise early, bathe before sunrise, offer tulasi to the Lord
Brahma-muhurta is especially auspicious during this month
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Worship with tulasi leaves and offer tulasi garlands
Tulasi is most dear to Lord Purusottama
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Avoid material ceremonies — no marriages, grihapravesh etc.
This month is exclusively for spiritual advancement
What Makes This Month Special
Unlike regular months presided over by various demigods, Purusottama Masa is directly under the shelter of Lord Sri Kṛṣṇa. Therefore:
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All devotional activities bear fruit multiplied thousands of times
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It is the easiest path to attain love of Godhead (prema)
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Even unknowing observance brings tremendous spiritual benefit
"O Arjuna, one who follows the vow of Purusottama Masa with faith and devotion is freed from the cycle of birth and death and returns to My eternal abode, from which there is no return."
— Lord Kṛṣṇa, Padma Purana
Historical Context
The concept of Adhika Masa has been part of Vedic astronomy (Jyotish Shastra) for thousands of years. The great acharyas — including Srila Sanatana Gosvami and Srila Rupa Gosvami — observed this month with great reverence in Vrindavan. Srila Prabhupada also encouraged devotees to take advantage of this spiritually potent period.
This month appears approximately every 2.5 to 3 years. It takes the name of the month it precedes — for instance, if it appears before Jyestha, it is called "Adhika Jyestha" — but its spiritual character is always that of Purusottama Masa, the month of the Supreme Lord.
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These short Japa talks by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu are meant to inspire and deepen your chanting practice. Each day features a fresh talk on the glories and practice of chanting the Holy Name — listen while you chant or just before, to set the right mood for your Japa. To hear a different talk, tap the list button next to (i).
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