Kirtan Rasa 2023 Day 2

Hari Kathā

Later

Gaura Vani - Param Vijayate Sri Krsna Sankirtanam - Atlanta Kirtan Mela Day 1 - 22.4.23

Playing Mridanga: Ananta Gauranga Das
Kirtan starts at 4:00

Acyuta Gopi Devi Dasi · Holy Name Immersion Evening Kirtan · 5.19.23

Amala Harinam Das · Capital Kirtan Day 3 · 6.2.24

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Acyuta Gopi | Day 2 Kirtan Rasa 2023

..even if it's on the tip of their tongue, just one time, Hare Kṛṣṇa. Everyone, say Hare Kṛṣṇa. So, if someone one time says Hare Kṛṣṇa, then you have to say, "Oh, this person—they've already gone through law school and they've graduated," because they've come to this level. They've been able to say Hare Kṛṣṇa even one time, even just a little bit chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.

In the commentary of the verse, our Ācāryas talk about how all reformation takes place by chanting of The Holy Name. There are two points—more than two points, but one is that if somebody's chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, we can understand that they've already made this huge progress. So, like if you go in the court and you see your friend as a judge, then you can understand, "Yeah, he went to law school, he's already been there." And the other point is that if you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, then you'll be elevated to the highest position just by chanting.

So, what we're doing here by taking time to associate, as Bhagavat Āśraya Prabhu so articulately pointed out with our best friend, then we become transformed. We're elevated by the chanting of the holy name. Also, we can appreciate that anybody who has the inkling to do such a thing, or even just to say Hare Kṛṣṇa—like the people last night who were stopping at the Harinām, and they just stop and they go, "Hare Kṛṣṇa"—these people are exalted souls. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that if one time I hear somebody say Hare Kṛṣṇa, then I can understand they're the best out of the whole population.
So, we can reform ourselves. We can rise to a position where we can control our senses, where we can love Kṛṣṇa, where we can taste the nectar of life, just by engaging in heartfelt and regular practice, or even if it's not heartfelt—even if it's just dutiful chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa every day. What do you think? Haribol!
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Organize Your Life Around Chanting & Taste The Nectar of Life | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | 21 May 2022

The Bhakti Shala final kirtan of 2024. Recorded live on the Gold Coast, Australia.

Maha Mantra | Madi Das at Bhakti Shala

Jaya Radhe | Madi Das at Bhakti Shala

Jay Govinda Jay Gopala | Madi Das at Bhakti Shala

..and if you can learn to appreciate where you are right now and all the assets that you've been given, you get a spring in your step. It's less likely that you'll be overcome by this high expectation you have on yourself, or you think other people have on you.
I personally like to make expectations in any of the saṅgas I'm working with, any of the teams, any of the projects, that are more natural. For instance, as you know well, in one of the teams you're on, I say the purpose for this team is for association and service. Do I not say that regularly? And how do you feel when you find out that's what it's about? It's just an opportunity, an excuse if you like, to have more association and more service. I find it helpful.
As far as book distribution goes, I'm just giving this as an example. Devotees think, "I don't want to go out." Well, if I analyze why they don't want to go out, it's because they think they have to perform some magic, and "What's everybody going to think of me if I don't perform magic?" So we just say, "Don't worry about it. Don't even go out to distribute books. Just go out because it's fun to go out with others, or it's a nice feeling, exhilarating feeling to walk out into the great unknown. Don't put any expectation on yourself—just go out there and stand around and see how it feels to be out there." And I find that mostly then devotees say, "Really? That's not true. We do have to do a circus trick, right?" Like, "No, I'm not going to. I'm just going out. I don't even know what's going to happen. I'm just here. I just feel lucky to be part of this." And then when everyone goes out in that spirit with no expectation, then they overperform and feel fine.
I think we can help ourselves by redefining what our expectation is every day. And if you have a coach, a significant other, or you have association with devotees that are confidential, you could say, "I need some encouragement. How am I looking? How am I doing?" And they can say, "You? You're fantastic." It's helpful for somebody to remind us of what we've done and how we're doing. So it's a common experience, and Kṛṣṇa warns us not to become overwhelmed by it in the verse : SB 11.20.27-28

jāta-śraddho mat-kathāsu
nirviṇṇaḥ sarva-karmasu
veda duḥkhātmakān kāmān
parityāge ’py anīśvaraḥ

tato bhajeta māṁ prītaḥ
śraddhālur dṛḍha-niścayaḥ
juṣamāṇaś ca tān kāmān
duḥkhodarkāṁś ca garhayan

There He recognizes there's this stage in which most people are in. Because they've started devotional service, it seems really exciting, and then they say, "Oh, I have to swim across the ocean of anartha-nivṛtti," and that swimming across an ocean takes a while. And then He says, "But don't worry, just keep swimming. Even if you don't have the power to do what you think you should be doing, keep swimming." 

https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/11/20/27-28/

Link to the entire lecture: https://youtu.be/d8BSS3TA4mQ
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