Upcoming Events in May 2026 at the Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas

A month of kirtan, divine grace, and sacred celebration — and you're invited.

April Showers Bring May Flowers of Divine Grace at Radha Krishna Temple Dallas

They say April showers bring May flowers. And this May, at the Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas in Allen, Texas, something far more beautiful is blooming in every corner of this magnificent white marble temple - a month filled with devotion, grace, and inner transformation.

Every day, the temple comes alive not just with rituals, but with opportunities to reconnect, to soften, to experience something deeper than the noise of daily life. You don’t just attend these moments, you are gently changed by them.

Imagine beginning your every Sunday morning at 10:30 AM, opening your heart in Sunday Satsang. As the week unfolds, each day carries its own sacred rhythm - the stillness of Shiv Abhishek, the uplifting power of the Hanuman Chalisa, the gentle grace of Ganesh Abhishek and the collective longing of Bhajan Sandhya, where voices dissolve into one shared prayer.

And then come the rare moments — Sita Ram Abhishek, Radha Krishna Abhishek, Sunderkand, Satyanarayan Katha — each one not just an event, but an experience that draws the heart closer to the Divine.

Some days carry even deeper significance — Sri Srinivasa Kalyanotsavam [the divine wedding of Lord Srinivasa] on May 9 and the four powerful convergence of sacred observances on May 16 - Jyeshtha Amavasya, Mata Ki Chowki, Vat Savitri and Shani Jayanti.

And at the heart of it all, a very special opportunity to learn directly from Swami Mukundananda ji himself during the Youth Leadership Workshop on May 28 and 29.

This is a garden of grace, in full bloom, waiting for you. It is an open invitation to come closer.

An entire month where the temple doors swinging wide open and the Divine quietly calls, “Come in… I have been waiting for you.”

Because, as Swamiji often reminds us, it is not the outer act, but the inner turning of the mind toward God that transforms these moments into true bhakti.

But what truly happens in these gatherings?
Why does the Hanuman Chalisa stir the heart so deeply?
What is Roopdhyan, and why do people leave Satsang feeling lighter than they have in years?

Come — let us explore.

Sunday Satsang — The Heartbeat of the Week

Every Sunday at 10:30 AM | May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31

If you could choose just one practice to anchor your entire week, let it be this.

Every Sunday morning at the Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas, something quite powerful unfolds. Not just a gathering but a realignment. A remembering.

Swami Mukundananda ji teaches that the mind takes the shape of whatever it repeatedly dwells upon. Left to itself, it circles the same anxieties, the same fears, the same restless thoughts. But place, that same mind in satsang—the company of truth—and something begins to shift.

Slowly and then suddenly.

Kirtan — Where the Heart Opens Without Effort

The satsang begins with kirtan—the collective singing of the Lord’s names.

Voices rise together. Strangers become one rhythm. And something extraordinary happens: tears appear without warning, and hearts open without effort.

The scriptures—the Vishnu Purana, Padma Purana, and Bhagavata Purana—are unanimous: in this age of Kali Yuga, naam bhakti is the sovereign path.

Swamiji explains why: the name of God and God Himself are not different.
To sing His name, even with a fraction of sincerity, is to be in His presence.

Roopdhyan — Where the Soul Recognizes Its Love

Then comes Roopdhyan—the jewel of the Kripalu Bhakti tradition.

Close your eyes and you are gently guided into the presence of Shri Radha Krishna by Swamiji's voice.

Their lotus feet. Their divine ornaments. The soft curve of Krishna’s flute. The golden radiance of Radha Rani. The Yamuna flowing through the eternal pastimes of Vrindavan.

This is not imagination. This is remembrance.

Swamiji teaches that the highest meditation is not emptying the mind but filling it with the most beautiful, most sacred reality that exists.

Many weep during Roopdhyan without understanding why. Swamiji explains: it is the atma recognizing the object of its deepest love and perhaps for the first time in this lifetime.

The Discourse — Not Motivation. Transformation.

And then come the teachings.

Drawn from the Bhagavad Gita, the Bhagavatam, and the Vedas—shared through Swamiji’s discourses—these are not motivational talks. They are precise. Illuminating. Transformational.

People walk in carrying grief too heavy to hold. And they walk out not with quick solutions but with something deeper:

The understanding that the soul is eternal.
That grace is real.
And that no darkness is beyond the reach of the Divine.

Come Once and See

Walk in carrying whatever the world handed you this week.
Walk out carrying something entirely different.

Come once this May. Just once. And see what happens to the week that follows.

A Gentle Invitation

Mother’s Day falls on May 10.

Bring the most important woman in your life - Your Mother.
Let the morning become something deeper than a celebration - a moment of gratitude, offered at the feet of the Divine.

The Sacred Abhisheks — Bathing the Divine in Love

If there is one practice that brings a devotee closest to the Divine—not thinking about God, not reading about God, but serving God with your own hands—it is Abhishek.

Swami Mukundananda ji teaches that every act of devotion performed with genuine bhav—genuine feeling—creates a direct exchange between the devotee’s heart and the Divine.

In Abhishek, you are not standing at a distance.
You are close. Serving. Offering.

The water is not just water.
Each drop carries your love, your surrender, your longing.

And in that sacred exchange, the antahkaran—the inner instrument of mind, intellect, and heart—is gently purified.

The water does not just touch the deity.
The grace touches you.

Shiv Abhishek — Sundays & Mondays at 6:15 PM

May 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, 31

Nine evenings this month to stand before Mahadev and simply pour.

Shiva is Ashutosh—the one who is pleased easily, whose grace does not demand years of qualification.

Swami Mukundananda ji teaches that even a single sincere offering of water over the Shivlingam, poured with Om Namah Shivaya, is received as completely as any great yajna.

The Shivlingam is the meeting point of the nirgun and sagun—the formless infinite agreeing to receive worship in form.

And what does Shiv ji destroy?

Not your life.
Not your world.

He dissolves whatever within you stands between you and the Divine—ego, pride, restlessness, inner noise.

Come on Sunday evenings or Monday evenings after work.
Mahadev is waiting and He is never in a hurry.

Ganesh Abhishek — Wednesdays at 6:15 PM

May 6, 13, 20, 27

Four evenings to begin again properly.

Ganesh is not merely the remover of external obstacles. He is the presiding deity of the mooladhara—the very foundation of spiritual growth.

Before the path can open, the ground must be cleared.

Swami Mukundananda ji explains that the real obstacles are within: the self-doubt, the scattered mind, the deep-rooted samskaras pulling us back into old patterns.

Ganesh Abhishek is an act of quiet spiritual intelligence.

You are placing your entire inner world before the one whose purpose is to make the path clear.

He does not judge what you bring.
He receives it with a parent’s patience and begins the work.

Sita Ram Abhishek — Thursday, May 7 at 6:15 PM

One sacred evening to encounter the highest ideal of love.

Lord Ram and Mother Sita are the living embodiment of maryada—a life of perfect integrity, perfect devotion, and complete surrender to God’s will.

Swami Mukundananda ji teaches that their story answers the deepest question of every seeker:

How do I hold on to God when life takes everything away?

You hold it the way Mother Sita held it— not dependent on circumstances, but rooted in the eternal.

When you perform their Abhishek, you are not just offering water. You are asking for that steadiness.

That love which no loss can shake.
No distance can weaken.
No trial can burn away.

Come on May 7 and ask for that strength.

Sita Ram Hanuman Abhishek — Tuesday, May 19 at 6:15 PM

A rare and powerful convergence of grace.

Hanuman joins Lord Ram and Mother Sita in one sacred offering.

The steadfast love of Sita Ram.
The fearless surrender of Hanuman ji.

Devotion and service flowing together.

May 19 is a Tuesday like no other this month.
Come and let three of the most beloved forms of the Divine receive your love at once.

Radha Krishna Abhishek — Thursday, May 14 at 6:15 PM

Mark this in your heart before you mark it in your calendar.

This is the crown jewel of the month.

At the highest peak of bhakti stands madhurya rasa—the divine love of Radha for Krishna.

Total.
Consuming.
Without remainder.

Swami Mukundananda ji teaches that Radha Rani is the hladini shakti—the very capacity of the Divine to experience love.

Her love is not something She feels. It is what She is.

Every breath… every thought… every moment—Krishna.

And when you pour this Abhishek, you are making the most audacious prayer a human soul can offer:

“Radha Rani, Please teach me to love Krishna the way You love Him.”

Not halfway.
All the way.

The water that touches Their feet becomes tirth. And the heart that offers with genuine longing feels Her grace.

Bring everything at Their lotus feet.
Leave transformed.

Hanuman Chalisa — Forty Verses That Move Mountains

Every Tuesday at 6:15 PM | May 5, 12, 19, 26

If there is one practice that can lift the weight of fear, doubt, and heaviness from the heart and remind you of your inner strength—it is this.

Every Tuesday evening, the Hanuman Chalisa fills the temple with forty verses of courage, devotion, and unwavering faith.

Swami Mukundananda ji teaches that Hanuman is the ideal for every devotee in this age not because we are meant to perform impossible feats, but because he embodies the one quality that makes everything else possible: complete, unconditional surrender to the Lord.

He had no personal agenda.
No ego.
No fear.

And because nothing stood between him and Lord Ram, the full power of the Divine flowed through him at every moment.

That is the teaching: the degree to which we surrender - is the degree to which grace can work through us.

Not a Recitation. An Invocation.

The Hanuman Chalisa—forty verses composed by Tulsidas—is not merely something we chant.

It is an invocation.

Each verse is a precise tuning of the mind and heart to the qualities of Hanuman ji:
his strength, his wisdom, his fearlessness, his unshakable devotion.

Swami Mukundananda ji explains that Hanuman ji is not a distant figure of the past. He is present.

Wherever the name of Lord Ram is sung…
wherever a heart calls with sincerity…
there, he comes.

He responds to need. He responds to faith. He responds to the devotee who says, quietly: “I cannot do this alone.”

Whatever Feels Impossible

Whatever feels impossible this May—whatever ocean seems uncrossable— Hanuman ji has crossed greater ones.

Let his name enter the space where fear has been living.
Let his strength awaken something already within you.

Come once.
Sit. Listen. Chant.

And feel what begins to shift.

Bhajan Sandhya — Where the Heart Finds Its Voice

Every Friday at 7:00 PM | May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

There is something about a Friday evening at the temple that the rest of the week cannot prepare you for.

As the sun softens and the day begins to quiet, the temple transforms not into an event, but into a space of return.

Swami Mukundananda ji teaches that naama bhakti—the path of the Divine Name—is the most powerful practice in this age of Kali Yuga.

Not because it is easy.
But because the Name itself carries the full power of the Named.

Krishna and the name “Krishna” are not different.

To sing His name with even a drop of sincerity is to be in His presence.

The scriptures—the Vishnu Purana, Padma Purana, and Bhagavata Purana—declare this without exception.

When Devotion Overflows

The great saints—Mirabai, Tukaram, Surdas, Kabir—did not sing because they were poets. They sang because love of that depth has to go somewhere.

The bhajan is that overflow made sacred.

The harmonium begins.
The first name rises—Radhe… Ram… Govinda…

And something shifts.

The person beside you—a stranger, carrying their own week—is singing the same name.

In that shared sound, the boundaries dissolve.

You Already Know the Words

You do not need a trained voice.
You do not need to know the bhajans.

Before the evening ends, you will know the words.

Not because you memorized them but because your heart already knew them
and was simply waiting for permission to sing.

Come and Experience

Come once this May.

Let the music carry what your mind has been holding.
Let the Name fill the space where restlessness has been living.

Five Fridays.
Five invitations.

Do not let all five pass.

Special Events — The Rare Jewels of May

If the weekly gatherings are the steady rhythm of devotion,
these are the moments when grace gathers and overflows.

Not frequent.
Not ordinary.
But deeply transformative—each one carrying a unique doorway into the Divine.

Sri Srinivasa Kalyanotsavam — Saturday, May 9 | Beginning 7:30 AM

One of the most complete and magnificent offerings of the entire month.

A full morning of divine seva to Venkateswara and Goddess Padmavati—unfolding not as a ritual sequence, but as a living experience of devotion.

From the sacred waking of the Lord in Suprabhata Seva to the gentle adorning with fragrant garlands in Tomala Seva to the offering of His thousand names in Archana..

And then, at 9:00 AM—
the divine wedding.

Not a remembrance.
An eternal lila, enacted again and again out of love for His devotees.

Vedic hymns fill the air.
The Lord moves among His devotees in Pallaki Seva.
And finally, darshan for all, without distinction.

Arrive at 7:30 AM.
Stay for the full journey.

This is the kind of morning that changes something in you quietly, permanently.

A Rare Convergence of Grace — Saturday, May 16

Some days carry more than time.
They carry power.

May 16 is one such day where multiple streams of grace converge into one.

• Jyeshtha Amavasya — a rare alignment where even a single prayer carries extraordinary merit
• Shani Jayanti — a chance to make peace with karma itself
• Vat Savitri — honoring love so steadfast that even death could not break it
• Mata Ki Chowki (5:30 PM) — when the presence of the Divine Mother fills the temple through bhajans

Swami Mukundananda ji teaches that what we call difficulty is often purification.

On this day, that truth becomes tangible.

Come early.
Stay fully.

Sunderkand — Saturday, May 23 at 10:30 AM

The most beautiful chapter of the Ramcharitmanas.

Not because of poetry alone—
but because of what it reveals.

Hanuman did not cross the ocean because he was fearless.
He crossed it because he was so full of Lord Ram…
there was no room left for fear.

That is the teaching.

Swami Mukundananda ji explains that listening to Sunderkand works where worldly solutions often fail because it touches the level of the soul.

Come with what feels impossible.
Leave with Hanuman ji’s wings.

Satyanarayan Katha — Friday, May 1 & Saturday, May 30

The month begins with this blessing and closes with it.

When the sage Narada asked Vishnu the simplest path in this age, the answer was clear:

Gather together.
Tell My story.
Listen with love.

No austerity required.
No complexity.

Just sincere hearts…
a sacred katha…
and the quiet presence of the Divine, who comes wherever His story is told with devotion.

Come to one.
Come to both.

Youth Leadership Workshop with Swami Mukundananda Ji — May 28 & 29

Of all the events this month—this may be the most transformative.

Swami Mukundananda ji personally mentors young leaders (ages 13–35) in a rare 2-day immersive experience.

Not just skills.
Not just knowledge.

Direction.

He teaches that the world can give you a career but only inner clarity can give you a calling.

Through workshops, discussions, mentorship, and real-world insights,
this is where young people walk in uncertain and walk out with purpose.

Seats are limited.
Register early at rktdallas.com.

Senior Citizen Appreciation — Saturday, May 16

A quiet, beautiful moment of gratitude.

For the ones who carried dharma across oceans…
who preserved traditions through decades…
who passed down faith in whispers and example.

On May 16, the temple bows to them.

Bring the elder in your life.
Let the temple do the honoring.

Call To Action

May 2026 — Monthly Calendar

Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas  ·  1450 N Watters Rd, Allen, TX  ·  https://www.radhakrishnatemple.net/upcoming-events

Visit this May. Even once. Let the experience speak.

Daily Aarti & Kirtan every evening at 7:00 PM  ·  Darshan: Weekdays 9:30am–1pm & 5:30–8:30pm  ·  Weekends 9:30am–8:30pm

Why You Are Really Here — The Darshan Philosophy of the Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas

"Raso vai sah" — He Himself is Rasa. He is the very essence of bliss. — Taittiriya Upanishad

Let this land fully.

Most people think they come to the temple to see God.
The scriptures say something far more intimate: you are being seen.

At the heart of the Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas through Prana Pratishtha, the living breath of the Divine is established within the murti.

He was always there.

He simply begin to look back at you.

Darshan is not one-directional.

You do not merely see the Divine.
The Divine sees you—completely, quietly, without condition.

Every grief you carried in.
Every prayer you forgot the words to.
Every longing too deep to speak aloud.

Seen.
Held.
Received.

And now—before you close this page—there is one more truth.

You think you came here by your own will.
Perhaps you stumbled across this blog.
A friend shared it.
It appeared one morning on your screen.

You think the impulse stirring in you now—to visit, to attend, to come—belongs to you.

Swami Mukundananda ji teaches something that quietly overturns that idea: the longing you feel for God is not yours alone. It is His longing for you reflected back through your own heart.

The impulse to seek…
the ache for something real…
the turning toward the temple…
the fact that you are still reading these words right now—

none of it began with you.

It was He who moved you.
He who arranged the moment, the path, the pause that brought you here.

The One who is being seen…
was always the One who was seeing.

Long before you arrived.
Long before you knew you were searching.

You are not searching for God.
He has already found you.

May 2026 is 31 days.

31 days of every form of grace the tradition has ever discovered—gathered in one place, offered freely to anyone who comes.

The scriptures say the Lord waits for the devotee the way the ocean waits for the river—
with the absolute certainty that what is His will return to Him.

You are His.

Not a belief.
A truth the rishis staked their lives on…
that Jagadguru Shri Kripaluji Maharaj embodied completely…
and that Swami Mukundananda ji teaches with every breath.

In the kirtan that opens your chest…
In the Roopdhyan that reveals a beauty beyond this world…
In the Abhishek where your hands pour water and something within you softens…
In the satsang that answers questions you didn’t know you were carrying…
In the aarti where the flame is offered—and received…

this eternal exchange continues:

your love…
and His grace.

The One who is Rasa itself is waiting for you.

The door is open.
You have already been invited.

All that remains…
is to walk in.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What happens during Sunday Satsang at the Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas?

Sunday Satsang includes kirtan (devotional singing), Roopdhyan (guided meditation on the divine form of Radha Krishna), and a spiritual discourse based on scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita and Bhagavat Purana. It helps calm the mind, deepen devotion, and bring inner clarity.

2. What is Abhishek and why is it performed in Hindu temples?

Abhishek is a sacred ritual where devotees bathe the deity with water, milk, and other offerings as an expression of love and surrender. According to bhakti traditions, it purifies the mind (antahkaran) and creates a direct devotional connection with God.

3. Why is the Hanuman Chalisa considered powerful?

The Hanuman Chalisa, composed by Tulsidas, is believed to invoke the presence and blessings of Hanuman. Regular recitation helps remove fear, build inner strength, and deepen surrender to Lord Ram.

4. What is Bhajan Sandhya and how does it help in spiritual growth?

Bhajan Sandhya is a devotional evening of singing God’s names through music and kirtan. Scriptures state that in Kali Yuga, naama bhakti (chanting the Divine Name) is the most effective spiritual practice, helping devotees experience peace, unity, and connection with the Divine.

5. What special events are celebrated at the Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas in May 2026?

May 2026 includes major events like Sri Srinivasa Kalyanotsavam, Sunderkand recital, Satyanarayan Katha, Hanuman Chalisa evenings, and a Youth Leadership Workshop by Swami Mukundananda ji. These events offer opportunities for devotion, learning, and spiritual transformation.