{"id":65507,"date":"2018-08-18T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/177128559086"},"modified":"2018-08-18T15:47:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T13:47:47","slug":"from-a-recent-seminar-on-kirtan-standards-bhaktimarga-swami-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=65507","title":{"rendered":"From a recent seminar on Kirtan Standards. Bhaktimarga Swami"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From a recent seminar on Kirtan Standards.
\nBhaktimarga Swami: \u201cI am going to Montreal on Monday, June 3rd, and if I find Montreal quite suitable, I shall call you and some other students to assemble there to practice Sankirtana in a systematic way. Of course, chanting Hare Krishna does not require any artificial artistic sense, but still, if the procedure is presented rhythmically, then the people may be attracted more by the transcendental music.\u201d (Srila Prabhupada, Letter to Upendra, June 1, 1968)<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin these Vaisnava standards which I have put forward lies the spiritual strength of our movement.\u201d (Srila Prabhupada, Letter to Sudama, February 16, 1973)<\/p>\n

This is the Hare Krishna movement. Thus we are meant to move.<\/p>\n

At 26 Second Avenue, Srila Prabhupada was very liberal in allowing visitors to bring whatever instruments they had to play along with the kirtana.<\/p>\n

We are trying to reach out and include as many people as we can.<\/p>\n

Harmoniums were created by Germans in the 1800s, but the Indians really took to them, like with the British tea.<\/p>\n

Comment by Candramauli Swami: Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura said that the qualification for leading kirtana is trinad api sunicena \u2026 [humility and tolerance]\n

Smiling is important. All of the deities in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition smile. When Krishna hears of Arjuna\u2019s depression, He is still smiling.<\/p>\n

Comment by Siddhanta Prabhu: Mukunda asked Srila Prabhupada if he had any last instructions about preaching in England when he sent the three couples there in 1968. Srila Prabhupada told the story of the Charlie Chaplin film in which Chaplin dances so enthusiastically, though his coattails were ripped by a prankster, that others follow him by ripping their own coattails and dancing wildly, considering it a new fashion.<\/p>\n

Lokanath Swami says, \u201cDancing is what makes the sankirtana complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

Comment by Candramauli Swami: When you dance, you connect more and more with the spirit of the kirtana.<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada chanted at a speed that everyone could get into it from the beginning.<\/p>\n

Respect the instruments. Have the instruments ready for the beginning of the kirtana. Play them from the beginning to the end. Have a nice place for them. Learn to play them properly.<\/p>\n

It would be nice if our dress was more uniform.<\/p>\n

It is good to have a few plain-clothed devotees on harinama to encourage onlookers to take part.<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada did not give us haribol. When devotees went to India in 1974, they picked it up.<\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada was totally against \u201cjaya gurudeva\u201d and \u201cjagat guru.\u201d<\/p>\n

An occasional \u201charibol\u201d or \u201cjaya sacinandana\u201d is not the problem. The problem is introducing it as a regular part of the kirtana.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there is no harm chanting \u2018Radhe.\u2019 But sometimes it is degraded to make something new, invention. Therefore better to stick to \u2018Hare Krishna\u2019 and to \u2018Sri- Krishna Caitanya Prabhupada-Nityananda.\u2019 Otherwise \u2026 Just like the sahajiyas, they have invented: \u2018Nitai-Gaura Radhe Syama, Hare Krishna Hare Rama.\u2019 These things will come gradually. But they are not approved. They are called chara kirtana, means \u2018concocted kirtana.\u2019 But there is no harm chanting \u2018Radhe, Nitai-Gaura.\u2019 So better stick to this Pa\u00f1ca-tattva, and maha-mantra. Just like \u2018Nitai Gaura Radhe Syama, Hare Krishna Hare Rama.\u2019 There is \u2018Nitai-Gaura, Radhe Syama,\u2019 but it is not approved. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. We have to follow the mahajana. In Caitanya-caritamrita you\u2019ll find \u2018Sri-Krishna-Caitanya Prabhu-Nityananda, Sri-Advaita Gadadhara\u2026,\u2019 never \u2018Nitai Gaura, Radhe Syama.\u2019 So why should we do that?\u201d (Morning Walk, Mayapur, April 8, 1975)
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\nExcerpted from the latest entry of Krishna Kripa Prabhu\u2019s Diary, Travel Adventures of a Krishna Monk: https:\/\/goo.gl\/6Mjmis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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From a recent seminar on Kirtan Standards.
\nBhaktimarga Swami: “I am going to Montreal on Monday, June 3rd, and if I find Montreal quite suitable, I shall call you and some other students to assemble there to practice Sankirtana in a systematic way. Of course, chanting Hare Krishna does not require any artificial artistic sense, but still, if the procedure is presented rhythmically, then the people may be attracted more by the transcendental music.” (Srila Prabhupada, Letter to Upendra, June 1, 1968)<\/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":[152],"class_list":["post-65507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65507","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=65507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65509,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65507\/revisions\/65509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}