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Why do you, devotees of Krishna, dance while you chant?
\nSundar Nitai Dasa: Day 11 Surfers paradise, Gold coast, Queensland, Australia.
\nEvery evening the devotees have been going for Harinama on the main street here in surfers paradise.
\nSo many people tell me how they love the chanting and dancing when I meet them.
\nToday, two young men from a local convenience store were watching me as I was reading while sitting on the bench.
\nWhen they got a lunch break they approached me and asked \u201cwhat is the reason behind the chanting and the dancing, why do your group do that? \u201d.
\nI explained \u201cWe are signing the names of God, Hare Krsna, this is the way we connect with God and show the world how to connect with God.
\nThis is the universal religion accepted by most major faiths and thought by all prominent prophets.
\nThat is, to chant the names of god and you will be saved.
\nSome examples I gave were;
\nMuslims; recite 99 names of Allah five times a day in the direction of mecca.
\nChristians; Pray our father who art in heaven \u2018Haloed by thy name \u2019, meaning the name of god is sacred or ‘Haloed\u2019.
\nAnd the Buddhists also so have their chant for connecting with the supreme.
\nMost faiths accept this principle of calling upon the name of God to be connected.
\nSo we are doing the same thing\u201d, I explained simply.
\n\u201cOk, that makes sense, but why signing and dancing, the prophets don\u2019t recommend singing and dancing \u201d.
\n\u201cHave you ever been in love ?\u201d’I asked.
\n\u201cYes\u201d, one of them replied.
\n\u201cSo when the girl calls you back or acknowledges you, don\u2019t you feel very happy almost like singing and dancing without even thinking about it.
\nMaybe you even skip down the street singing her name in joy and anticipation of your next meeting.
\nNo one told you to do it, it just happened naturally, right?\u201d.
\n\u201cOh yeah, that is true, i know that feeling \u201d, he said, as if he was in love with a girl at present.
\n\u201cSo these people are connecting with god\/ Krsna and they are feeling His reciprocation and are very happy and excited.
\nSo naturally they sing and skip down the street in happiness, sharing their excitement with others. It is a natural thing !.No one has to tell them to do it, it is a natural progression of their relationship with God \/Krsna.
\nDoes it make sense ?\u2019’I asked.
\n\u2019’yes ! that makes sense, thank you for your explanation\u201d, he said appreciatively.
\nThey had more very interesting questions too.
\nBut that is all for now!
\nSankirtan Yajna ki! JJJJJAAAAIIII
\nHARE KRSNA!
\nAll glories to Sri Guru! and Sri Gauranga!
\nAll glories to Srila Prabhupada!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Why do you, devotees of Krishna, dance while you chant?
\nSundar Nitai Dasa: Day 11 Surfers paradise, Gold coast, Queensland, Australia.
\nEvery evening the devotees have been going for Harinama on the main street here in surfers paradise.
\nSo many people tell me how they love the chanting and dancing when I meet them.
\nToday, two young men from a local convenience store were watching me as I was reading while sitting on the bench.
\nWhen they got a lunch break they approached me and asked “what is the reason behind the chanting and the dancing, why do your group do that? ”.
\nI explained “We are signing the names of God, Hare Krsna, this is the way we connect with God and show the world how to connect with God.
\nThis is the universal religion accepted by most major faiths and thought by all prominent prophets.
\nThat is, to chant the names of god and you will be saved.
\nSome examples I gave were;
\nMuslims; recite 99 names of Allah five times a day in the direction of mecca.
\nChristians; Pray our father who art in heaven ‘Haloed by thy name ’, meaning the name of god is sacred or ‘Haloed’.
\nAnd the Buddhists also so have their chant for connecting with the supreme.
\nMost faiths accept this principle of calling upon the name of God to be connected.
\nSo we are doing the same thing”, I explained simply.
\n“Ok, that makes sense, but why signing and dancing, the prophets don’t recommend singing and dancing ”.
\n“Have you ever been in love ?”’I asked.
\n“Yes”, one of them replied.
\n“So when the girl calls you back or acknowledges you, don’t you feel very happy almost like singing and dancing without even thinking about it.
\nMaybe you even skip down the street singing her name in joy and anticipation of your next meeting.
\nNo one told you to do it, it just happened naturally, right?”.
\n“Oh yeah, that is true, i know that feeling ”, he said, as if he was in love with a girl at present.
\n“So these people are connecting with god\/ Krsna and they are feeling His reciprocation and are very happy and excited.
\nSo naturally they sing and skip down the street in happiness, sharing their excitement with others. It is a natural thing !.No one has to tell them to do it, it is a natural progression of their relationship with God \/Krsna.
\nDoes it make sense ?’’I asked.
\n’’yes ! that makes sense, thank you for your explanation”, he said appreciatively.
\nThey had more very interesting questions too.
\nBut that is all for now!
\nSankirtan Yajna ki! JJJJJAAAAIIII
\nHARE KRSNA!
\nAll glories to Sri Guru! and Sri Gauranga!
\nAll glories to Srila Prabhupada!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41296,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23467\/revisions\/41296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}