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May 17. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations. May 17. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: Hanging Out at 26 Second Avenue.
\nWe\u2019re in the storefront and there are noises on the street, but we\u2019re sitting and listening to the Swami. We like to chant; we like the ringing of the karatalas. Everybody chants together: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare \/ Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare. (Whoever heard of such a thing? \u2013 That you chant with a one, two, three beat and with brass cymbals? You never read about chanting in any book about Vedanta or Bhagavad-gita or yoga. It was far out.) The cymbals ring loudly, and the door is open and he\u2019s singing.
\nWhen the chanting was going on and the karatalas were ringing, that would be more likely to attract passers-by to look in. But it was a time when they really couldn\u2019t disturb because the chanting was so dominant. Their shouts and their remarks couldn\u2019t overcome the chanting.
\nThe Swami was more vulnerable when the whole audience was quiet and he was lecturing. But when there was kirtana, it was as if he had the upper hand. And yet more people did gather to look in at that time, and that was part of the adventure of going there. When you chant you are more on the Swamiji\u2019s side, you are not just observing, but you are part of the kirtana \u2013 you were what people were looking in at. Yet you did it because you wanted to experience the kirtana, never mind noises from the street.
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\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: Hanging Out at 26 Second Avenue.
\nWe’re in the storefront and there are noises on the street, but we’re sitting and listening to the Swami. We like to chant; we like the ringing of the karatalas. Everybody chants together: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare \/ Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare. (Whoever heard of such a thing? – That you chant with a one, two, three beat and with brass cymbals? You never read about chanting in any book about Vedanta or Bhagavad-gita or yoga. It was far out.) The cymbals ring loudly, and the door is open and he’s singing.
\nWhen the chanting was going on and the karatalas were ringing, that would be more likely to attract passers-by to look in. But it was a time when they really couldn’t disturb because the chanting was so dominant. Their shouts and their remarks couldn’t overcome the chanting.
\nThe Swami was more vulnerable when the whole audience was quiet and he was lecturing. But when there was kirtana, it was as if he had the upper hand. And yet more people did gather to look in at that time, and that was part of the adventure of going there. When you chant you are more on the Swamiji’s side, you are not just observing, but you are part of the kirtana – you were what people were looking in at. Yet you did it because you wanted to experience the kirtana, never mind noises from the street.
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