{"id":8670,"date":"2010-07-20T07:53:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T06:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=8670"},"modified":"2010-07-20T07:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T06:53:31","slug":"aindra-prabhu%c2%b4s-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=8670","title":{"rendered":"Aindra Prabhu\u00b4s Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Muniraja dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was somewhere in the end of March 2007 when we were fortunate enough to first time visit Aindra prabhu\u00b4s room in Krishna-Balarama mandir in Vrndavana and discuss personally with him. Aindra\u00b4s very extatic evening kirtan had just finished, and together with our Sundara Thakura were were purchasing some cd\u00b4s from him. With his friendly, yet intense manner Aindra started to preach about the importance of distribution of the holy name: (these words are from my memory, maybe not word to word correct, but the main points are there)
\n” Here in Vrndavana so many people come to the temple for darshan and we can do kirtan here. But in the west you don\u00b4t get that many people to the temple, you have to go out to do kirtan. How often do you go out?”
\n“Except winter, we go around once a week.”<\/p>\n

” Once a week is not quite enough, why not to go out every day? It\u00b4s very powerful preaching when people regularly see devotees happily chanting the holy names. By seeing you chanting there again and again they gradually start to understand that you are happy, you are convinced, they see that kirtan gives superior happiness.”<\/p>\n

So far we could not yet follow the daily program, but after these words from Aidra prabhu we have increased the number of our Harinamas. We used to have one larger Harinama procession on Saturday afternoon in Helsinki downtown, where many congregation members participate, but since 2007 we have started to go out during week days also, even if it\u00b4s only a few of us. One for harmonium, one for mrdanga, one for karatalas, what more you need? H.H.Kavicandra Swami actually told once, that you can out to chant even if you\u00b4re alone. If there are other services, it doesn\u00b4t have to be very long, after book distribution or management, you can chant for 45minutes or a hour and a half, what\u00b4s the difficulty? It\u00b4s always bit of a surrender to take the time for Harinama, but once you get out there you know that it was the right decicion. It\u00b4s especially nice if you have distributed books for some hours, it\u00b4s nice end for the day. People often come to interact, they ask where the temple is, they give some donations, etc.<\/p>\n

Of course, our minds may make up various reasons why not to go out, we have listed some of them here:<\/p>\n

1. ” It\u00b4s not my service prabhu.”
\n2. ” It\u00b4s too cold out there.”
\n3. ” It\u00b4s too hot out there.”
\n4. ” It\u00b4s too windy out there.”
\n5. ” We don\u00b4t have expert mrdanga player.”
\n6. ” We don\u00b4t have expert harmonium player.”
\n7. ” We don\u00b4t have skilled singer.”
\n8. ” We lost our karatalas”
\n9. ” We are too busy to chant.”
\n10. ” I have to finish my japa.”
\n11. ” I have to finish my reading quota.”
\n12. ” I was cooking today, I cannot go on Harinama.”
\n13. ” We\u00b4re brahmacaries, there are too many young ladies there in downtown.”
\n14. ” People are too wild today.”
\n15. ” Street musicians have taken our favourite place.”
\n16. ” I have lot of puja seva to do.”
\n17. ” I too tired to go out.”
\n18. ” I didn\u00b4t take prasadam yet.”
\n19. ” If I go out, I may get sick.”
\n20 ” I don\u00b4t have proper vaisnava clothes.”
\n21. ” I don\u00b4t feel like a wearing a dhoti.”
\n22. ” I took too much mahaprasadam.”<\/p>\n

etc.<\/p>\n

So let\u00b4s us all take into our hearts this simple but sublime formula for uplifting ourselves and the rest of the world, what Aindra prabhu told: ” Do more Harinama sankirtana.” There may be different ways to follow this, if your temple has hunreds of visitors daily, it\u00b4s important to keep kirtan going on there also. If you have only handful of visitors, go out and chant there where the people are. If you\u00b4re invited to yoga club, do kirtan there, if your seva is to do home programs, do kirtan in the homes. If you live in a muslim country, maybe you have to do kirtan indoors.<\/p>\n

In our humble opinion this is the best way to remember, glorify and serve our dear kirtan acarya Sriman Aindra prabhu, by increasing our dedication for chanting, especially by distributing the holy name in a form of nagar sankirtan.<\/p>\n

Jaya Sriman Aindra Prabhu!!!<\/p>\n

Your servant Muniraja dasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Muniraja dasa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here in Vrndavana so many people come to the temple for darshan and we can do kirtan here. But in the west you don\u00b4t get that many people to the temple, you have to go out to do kirtan. How often do you go out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}