Name: 08 Songs by the Gopis by Gopi Vegan
Duration: 13 min 9 s
Description: Indradyumna Swami in USA / Prayers to the Lotus Feet of Krishna

Lugansk Concert 2009

Sivarama Swami Melody In Lughansk

We could get lost in this world
Like footprints in the sand
Been out here for a while
No sign of any plan

Feels like waiting for someone
Like when you're waiting for someone
Waiting for someone

People’s heads up in the cloud 
look both ways before you cross
the sadness of wasted time - 
and time’s a vengeful boss

Feels like waiting for someone
Like when you’re waiting for someone
Waiting for someone

Go on, light up all your lights 
Your windows shine into the dark
But when you go outside…
In the still of the night

It feels like waiting for someone
Like when you’re waiting for someone
Waiting for someone

All tangled up in this world
Spinning circles in the sky
Nothing to hold you
You can feel it unwind

It feels like waiting for someone
Like when you’re waiting for someone
Waiting for someone

On my way home
We all want to walk the line 
It's the weight of what we carry,
the loss of what we’ve left behind

It feels like waiting for someone
Like when you're waiting for someone
Waiting for someone

Unwind

Musician Jahnavi Harrison explores why chanting the name of God can be such a powerful devotional practice.

Drawing on her own bhakti yoga tradition, she recalls hearing her parents chanting and how important it became to her from an early age. "The name of God," she explains, "is said to be the panacea for whatever ails the mind, body and soul. It was the ever present soundtrack to my life - night, day, birthdays, funerals, weddings and road trips."

Her experience at a Christian school also showed her that other religious traditions say and sing the God's name. She notes that she was "thrilled to discover this common thread, and the myriad ways that this praise was expressed."

Using the words of the Psalms, the Sufi poets and a number of Hindu saints and mystics, Jahnavi celebrates the power of chanting in different ways and locations and, alongside the music of Vivaldi and Rachmaninov, she relishes in the most famous of all Hindu songs, My Sweet Lord by George Harrison, who is quoted in the programme:

"My idea was to sneak up on them a bit. The point was to have the people not offended by 'Hallelujah' and, by the time it gets to 'Hare Krishna', they're already hooked."

Presenter: Jahnavi Harrison
Producer: Michael Wakelin
A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4.

08 Songs by the Gopis

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