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Vrinda dasi leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
Varsana Swami Leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Video of Varsana Swami leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013.
Madhava dasa Leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Video of Madhava dasa leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013.
ISKCON Leadership Sanga Appreciation
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“I’m a participant and a presenter here at ILS. I’m feeling elated. I think ILS is a wonderful initiative from the GBC to take this movement forward to the next era. What we’re doing here in this process of strategic planning is enabling leaders to bring out the best in themselves and we’re giving(…)
Kirtan 101
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 January 2014, Mayapur, India, Lecture: Kirtan Academy 1) I would like to say something about kirtan since I like kirtan. There are different sides to it. There is the essential side which is the service that we render by chanting the holy name; engaging our mind and senses in chanting; and […]
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura: An Ideal Leader
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS Founder-Ācārya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda The following lecture on Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura’s Appearance Day was given by His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami in Māyāpura 20 February 2014. Hare Kṛṣṇa Kīrtana Prema-dhvanī prayers. jaya oṁ viṣṇu-pada paramahaṁsa parivrājakācārya aṣṭottara-śata śrī śrīmad abhaya charanaravinda bhaktivedanta swami prabhupāda ki jaya!(…)
Give Us The Tools And We Will Finish The Job!
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When Guru Mahārāja was young he read the Memoires of Winston Churchill. Churchill mentions there that one should travel when one is young. Together with his friend Sarvabhavana Prabhu they decided: “Let’s go and see the world”. And they travelled to Europe by hitchhiking I think. Guru Mahārāja loves so much travelling, he never stopped(…)
Loads Of Nectar – Iskcon Panihati February 2014
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Guru Mahārāja and His Holiness Radhanath Swami Mahārāja jointly gave Bhāgavatam class. The best part of the class was that whenever either of them were getting the chance to glorify each other no one was missing the opportunity and the full audience was enjoying the nectar. Then at 11h30 AM we left for ISKCON Panihati(…)
Ananta Govinda Leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Video of Ananta Govinda leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013.
Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Poem To Śrīla Prabhupāda Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja
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Song Name: Adore Adore Ye All Official Name: Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati’s Vyasa Puja Offering (1935) Author: A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Book Name: The Harmonist Language: English LYRICS (1) Adore, adore ye all The happy day Blessed than heaven Sweeter than May. When he appeared at Puri The holy place, My Lord and Master His Divine Grace.(…)
Initiation Day At ISKCON Ujjain – Nityānanda Trayodasi, 12th Feb 2014
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Hare Kṛṣṇa, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. Please read a brief report about the initiation ceremony held in ISKCON Ujjain on Nityānanda Trayodasi, 12th Feb 2014. There was an excitement in the air today morning. Today was Nityānanda Trayodasi and initiations for the 8 fortunate devotees. I got up a(…)
Gaura Vani Leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Video of Gaura Vani leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
New Vrindaban Amid “Transformation of a Spiritual Community”
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by Madhava Smullen New Vrindaban, ISKCON’s first rural community, is in the midst of a major transformation. When the community was first established under the guidance of ISKCON Founder Srila Prabhupada in 1968, it became, for many years, a shining example of the best that ISKCON had to offer. Prabhupada would often direct devotees from […]
Khoda Nitai!
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, March 2009, Leicester, United Kingdom, Lecture) One year, on Nityananda’s appearance day, I was in Sydney and something happened. We were having a long kirtan, before that we had some bhajan, aarti and abhishek, so it was getting quite long! The drummers had brought their special drums, so they were into it and […]
Beyond any dream
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, South Africa, 2010) This is the world where the dream is bigger than reality but in the spiritual world, the reality is way beyond the dream. The chanting of the maha mantra is coming directly from the spiritual world and if we place the holy name in the center of our life […]
Hari Kirtana dasa leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Jamuna dasi Leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Video of Jamuna dasi leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013.
Iskcon Brisbane Temple Lecture By His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami Saturday 21 April 2007
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS Founder-Ācārya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Lecture given by His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami in Brisbane temple, on Saturday 21 April 2007
KIRTAN – JAN 23rd ’14
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A Picture (of New Vrindaban) is Worth a Thousand Words
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“Know More About New Vrindaban”- a picture story Please click on the link below for a very favorable picture story with captions of New Vrindaban, very informatively entitled by the author “Know More About New Vrindaban”. Know More About New Vrindaban Hare Krsna.
OB Kirtan Yoga Experience
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EVERY WEDNESDAY (3pm-sunset) in Ocean Beach Park.
Dhanya dasi leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Video of Dhanya dasi leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013.
Ajāmila Got A Second Chance / Appearance Day Śrīla Jayadeva Gosvāmī
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS Founder-Ācārya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda The following lecture on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 6, Chapter 2, Verse 17, was given by His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami on 22 January 2014 in Iskcon Juhu – Mumbai, India. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Today was Śrīla Prabhupāda’s class. We just listened to the Śrīla […]
Krishna Kishor dasa Leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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KIRTAN 101: Śrīla Prabhupāda’s style of kirtan–the magic is in the mantra
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Śrīla Prabhupāda’s kirtan leading was always very meditative, deep, and focused. He would often end in a crescendo but it was steady, long, and unrushed.
“Gaura Gopala: I was right next to Prabhupada through the whole ceremony, playing the drum. He particularly liked to sing one tune through the whole time. He put his hands up in the air. He was dancing.” Ref. VedaBase => SPL 44: Let There Be a Temple
”It was clanging and banging. Kīrtana should be sweet and melodious.”
We had a kīrtana at the Rāma-līlā grounds, 1976 March, and Dīnanātha was leading, and tens
of thousands were attending and chanting. After the program Śrīla Prabhupāda and I were alone
in the back tent waiting for his servant and the car. As you know, he would often ask rhetorical
questions, and he asked me, “So, what did you think of the kīrtana?” Understanding this was
just a lead-in to his giving me an instruction, I answered with a bland “It was OK.”
Śrīla Prabhupāda’s definition to me then was as follows: “No, it was not nice. It was clanging
and banging. Kīrtana should be sweet and melodious. Come let us go to the ashram and have
kīrtana.”
And so we went — Śrīla Prabhupāda, his servant, Baradrāj, and myself. Except for his servant,
the three of us sat in his room and Baradrāj played harmonium on the request of Śrīla
Prabhupāda, and we had a long kīrtana. . . . On Śrīla Prabhupāda’s signal, the kīrtana ended. He
looked at me, smiling, shaking his head a little, and said, “So . . . sweet and melodious.” And
then he moved on with the rest of preaching and hearing. I had heard him say, and heard that
he also said, sometimes stopping kīrtana, “No screaming and shouting.” [remembrance by
Tejiyas dāsa, 12 Nov 2002]
I personally feel that if one becomes more focused on the Holy Name of Krishna with love and worry less on changing the melody their leading of kirtan will become more and more ecstatic. This is especially in the case of those who are new to leading kirtan or who are not regular kirtan leaders. In their nervousness or anxiety, they change the melody, perhaps thinking that others are bored. This changing of melody may happen over 6 times in just a 15 minute period. (BTW I not talking about the different parts of a melody but rather changing to completely different melodies) Whereas kirtan stalwarts such as Indradyumna Swami, BB Govinda Swami, Madhava Prabhu and others keep it very steady and focused.
Once I noticed a devotee chant Hare Krishna for the 30 minute Sandhya Ārati for a total of 2 minutes. First he sang the standard Gaura Arati song and then the Hare Krishna Mantra for 2 minutes. (he also completely changed to different melodies within that 2 minute period) Then he stopped chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra because he wanted to leave enough room for Jāya’ing at the end of the kirtan. Śrīla Prabhupāda never was Jāya’er himself, so it is not actually necessary to do a Jāya session at the end of kirtan. But the main thing is not to Jāya at the expensive of the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra. It is called the Maha Mantra for a reason, it is the greatest mantra. So my basic advice to new kirtan leaders is to keep steady the melody, even the parts of the melody should be steady, don’t shift it back and forth every few mantras and then run out tricks 2 minutes later.
In the past I have given advice to new kirtan leaders for the arati as follows. Chant the first part of the melody at least 10 times, then second at least 10 times. Then you can go back to the first part and pick up the tempo. The rest is up to you but starting if off like this is a good foundation.
So all the best to you. One simple item to test the efficacy of the one’s kirtan is to see if it creates smaraṇaṁ, even on a material level. Will those who have heard it have it dancing through their minds throughout the rest of the day? From śravaṇaṁ & kīrtanam comes smaraṇaṁ, rememberance.
BTW here is a link to the Harinama Sankirtan Handbook by Indradyumna Swami
The thrills in Krsna consciousness
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Leicester, UK, Pandava Sena Program) There are thrills in the material world and there are many thrills in Krsna consciousness but the difference is that thrills in material life are all about the thing itself. Let’s say – a party, “Hey, hey, party, party! Ok! Ready! Gonna have a good party now!” We […]
Manorama dasa leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Video of Manorama dasa leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013.
Non-stop chanting!
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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 September 2013, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.2.36) I stressed the importance of hearing and the question is, “Is it even beneficial to hear even while we are sleeping?” Yes, it is! There are devotees who do that. They play a tape very softly. Some even play it too loud when they […]
New Year’s Eve Party at New Vrindaban
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by Lilasuka dasi The small, but sweet celebration at the Radha Vrindaban Chandra temple this New Year’s Eve welcomed 2014 in a gentle, melodious way. The evening began with a beautiful swing ceremony – “Jhulana Yatra”- where the guests and residents present took turns gently swinging the festival RVC deities, accompanied by a kirtan of […]
Gaura Purnima 2014 Sponsorships
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With great pleasure, ISKCON Mayapur invites devotees worldwide to celebrate the Gaura Purnima festival 2014 at Sri Dham Mayapur. On the 27th of February Kirtan Mela will begin, followed by the festival inauguration, various festivities, Navadwipa Mandala Parikrama, and the grand celebration of Gaura Purnima on the 16th of March. Gaura Purnima 2014 Festival Schedule […]
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New Vrindaban’s Transcendental “Throwback Thursday” – 12/19/13
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It’s time for New Vrindaban’s Transcendental Throwback Thursday! Each week we highlight an earlier era in the history of ISKCON New Vrindaban and ask our readers to identify devotees in the photo. This week there are ten people who can be named. Extra credit if you spot the special “accessories” one of them is wearing. Post […]
Ramdas leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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New Vrindaban’s Festival of Colors 2013 – Ghosh Brothers!
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The Ghosh Brothers, accompanied by the Mayapuris, perform their song, “Radhe Radhe” at the 2013 Festival of Colors outside Srila Prabhupada’s Palace in New Vrindaban.
Jagannath Kirtan dasa leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Winter Bus Tour Photo Essay
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A big silver bus outfitted with bunkbeds and filled with youth will head out to Mexico tomorrow for the 2013 Winter Bus Tour. Two years ago I had the honor of going on the Tour to perform bharatanatyam dance, sing kirtan with Madhava Prabhu, and connec…
Madhava dasa leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Krishna Prasad dasa leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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Audio Albums – Support Kadamba Kanana Swami & KKSBlog
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Kadamba Kanana Swami has been attracting people everywhere with his empowered singing for years. Since 2000, several recordings have been made and the first CD produced was an album called Vaisnava Seva. The latest albums from 2013 are “Waves of Mercy” and “Live at Heart & Soul Yoga“. But did you ever hear about “Kirtana […]
Rupa Vilasa dasa leading New Vrindaban’s 24 Hour Kirtan – June 15th, 2013
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340. Harinam Planning
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Attended a super exciting and well prepared presentation by Nanda Mandir on the importance of Harinam in Melbourne city. Although, there have been a few devotees who roam the main city centre once or twice a week, the intention now is to step up with a more coordinated, well orchestrated, well-presented, better organized and covering […]