Welcome to SMYHL
Sankirtan Maha Yajna Harinam Lifestyle
Your Krishna conscious, community-centered path for deeper belonging, clarity, support, and integration across all ten dimensions of life.
Where would you like to begin?
Choose the path that feels right for you right now. Each of these is a doorway into your SMYHL community and its resources.
Start Orientation
Begin with a simple introduction to SMYHL
Explore Community
Connect with the free SMYHL community board
SMYHL Resources
Explore key devotional support materials
Find a SMYHL Circle
Find live events, online and in person, and new ways to connect
Why SMYHL
You sincerely want to progress in Krishna consciousness, but often face real challenges in bringing that desire into steady daily life. Daily responsibilities, relational pressures, lack of practical structure, and unclear pathways can make devotional life feel harder to sustain, integrate, and grow.
Often, the struggle is not a lack of sincerity, but a lack of support, clarity, connection, and practical integration. You may need help not only with inspiration, but with knowing how to move forward, where you belong, and how to build a devotional life that is grounded, supported, and livable.
SMYHL exists to support that journey by offering a more connected, practical, and community-centered path for steady progress in Krishna consciousness.
More Clarity
A clearer sense of direction and purpose in your devotional life
More Support
Real encouragement and guidance as you move forward
More Connection
Meaningful relationships within a caring community
More Freedom and Resourcefulness
Practical structure that makes steady devotional life more possible.
More Integration and Balance
Krishna consciousness woven more fully into your life
What the Heart Is Longing For
At heart, you want to awaken love of God and live a devotional life that becomes steadier, more sincere, and more fully lived. This is the deepest purpose and meaning of life, and it grows through three lived principles: Jīva Dayā, Nāma Ruci, and Vaiṣṇava Sevā. These are not merely ideals to admire, but practices meant to be lived.
Jīva Dayā
Compassion and mercy toward all living beings
Nāma Ruci
Deep, authentic taste and relish for the Holy Name
Vaiṣṇava Sevā
Serving and honoring those dedicated to the Lord and His devotees
When lived sincerely, these principles help cultivate the deeper fulfillments the heart is longing for:
Freedom and True Volition
The freedom to live, choose, and serve in a way that supports you, your aligned association team, and others
Resourcefulness
The time, capacity, and practical resources needed for devotional life and service to flourish
Supportive Association
A real community that strengthens your sincerity, steadiness, and progress in devotion
What SMYHL Is Built Around
SMYHL is rooted in essential elements of Krishna conscious life and expressed through practical pathways that help bring them into steady daily experience. Together, they help devotional substance become clearer, stronger, and more integrated in your life.
Core Elements of Krishna Conscious Life
Association
Books
Chanting
Deities
Prasadam
Outreach
Outreach includes caring for others, meaningful service, community building, and helping support devotees and families in devotional life.
Expressed Through Three Primary Pathways
Holy Name
Helping you deepen your relationship with Krishna through kirtana. The Holy Name is the foundation, living center, and most direct path of devotional connection.
Srimad Bhagavatam
Helping you become grounded in devotional wisdom, hearing, and philosophical understanding. The Bhagavatam nourishes both intelligence and heart with the wisdom, vision, and essence of Krishna consciousness.
AMHYA
Helping you live Krishna consciousness more steadily, meaningfully, and joyfully in daily life through simple, practical, and structured frameworks.
Devotional life is meant to be lived through the whole of life.
T.H.E.10 (Total Health Empowerment 10) is SMYHL’s holistic model for cultivating greater balance, alignment, and wholeness across ten dimensions of life. It is not about improving isolated areas alone, but about supporting a more integrated, purposeful, and devotional way of living.
The first eight dimensions are meant to support the soul in serving Krishna and caring for His children and beloveds. As these dimensions become healthier and more aligned, life becomes more supportive of peace, purpose, joy, and steady progress in devotion.
The 10 Dimensions of T.H.E.10
1. Financial
Developing greater stewardship, stability, and resourcefulness so your material life can more fully support devotional purpose
2. Physical
Caring for the body with greater strength, health, energy, and sustainable habits so it can better support steady living and service
3. Mental
Growing in clarity, focus, and healthier patterns of thought that support peace, steadiness, and forward movement
4. Intellectual
Developing understanding, discernment, and wisdom so you can engage life with greater depth, insight, and responsibility
5. Emotional
Cultivating honesty, maturity, and resilience so the heart can become steadier, healthier, and more available for devotion
6. Social
Nurturing meaningful connection, healthy relationships, and supportive ways of relating with others
7. Environmental
Shaping your surrounding conditions and way of life so they better support balance, health, and devotional purpose
8. Locational
Ensuring that your outer world reflects and supports your inner values, identity, purpose, and way of life
9. Spiritual
Strengthening your relationship with Krishna through sincere practice, remembrance, alignment, and devotion
10. Transcendental
Deepening in your eternal identity and loving relationship with Krishna beyond the temporary conditions of material life
Your Next Steps
Wherever you are in your journey, there is a clear and simple place to begin. Choose the next step that feels right for you.
Start with Orientation
Begin with a simple introduction to SMYHL and what this path offers