Shadows and Fire is the surreal glam-rock odyssey of Shadow Face — a concept album inspired by the clash between light and darkness, hope and despair, the eternal promise of Romans 8 against the power of the Kingdom of the North. Across twelve tracks, the band weaves anthemic choruses, sudden key changes, cinematic instrumentals (Luminaria and Tenebra), and ballads of resilience (Smoke & Starlight).

This is not just music — it’s a vision of spiritual battle made sound: surreal, theatrical, and unrelenting, where every riff feels like a flame, and every silence like a shadow.

Smoke and Starlight

Some tracks to help inspire devotion to Krishna

Spiritual Spoken Word

Krishna's sweetness - Dina Bhandu Das

Narayan Hari Om

Govind Bolo Hari Gopal Bolo

Hare Krishna Mahamantra

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna Hare Hare

In the situation you are speaking out, if you are not associating with devotees very-very regularly, hearing from them, doing some seva, doing sadhana, you are finished, your consciousness will definitely be washed away by illusion. But if this is the service they were asked to perform, we have to do it as Priyavrata had to do it. But we have to be very careful. The first thing is we must regularly associate with devotees, understand how desperate we need to and have good sadhana. And the second thing is we are working so hard, we are competing so ferociously, what are we going to do with the results? We have to give it to Krishna; we have to make that sacrifice. Then, Krishna sees that we are actually doing it for Him and then He will actually really protect us.

How To Be Krishna Consciousness When We Are Busy At Work?

It was just a couple weeks after that the closing pastimes of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur’s lila took place. He was in the Bagh Bazaar Temple in Calcutta and there his devotees from all around were having beautiful kirtan around him. On the morning of December 31st 1936, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati asked one of his disciples Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Maharaj to sing for him the beautiful song of Narottam Das Thakur – ‘Sri Rupa Manjiri Pada’, which is the eternal aspiration, the mood of the song is eternal aspiration of all true gaudiya vaisnavas. And then he asked another of his devotees to sing the beautiful ‘Siksastakam’ prayers and then he told his devotees that they must serve one another, love one another, preach together, co-operate and he told them to divide the management under a authority called GBC, Governing Body Commission of about 10-12 men who will help to develop preaching strategies for his worldwide movement.

Final Instruction of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur

บ่อยครั้ง แรงผลักดันให้เราเริ่มลงมือทำงานก็มักจะเกิดขึ้นเมื่อใกล้ถึงเส้นตาย เนื่องจากกลไกป้องกันตนเองกำลังส่งสัญญาณเตือนให้กลไกอื่นๆ ของร่างกายตอบสนองต่องานชิ้นนั้นอย่างเร่งด่วน เพื่อไม่ให้มีปัญหาตามมา ดังนั้น หากอยากสร้างแรงจูงใจและสมาธิอันแน่วแน่ ลองกำหนดเส้นตายเทียม เช่น  ไทม์ บ็อกซิ่ง ขึ้นมา

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Chaitanya mahaprabhu said, “Krishna is non different than his name, nämnäm akäri bahudhä nija-sarva-çaktis, all of his powers are within his name. But then my lord said, if a devotee is chanting the holy names but offends Vaishnavas, Krishna is so displeased, that Krishna through his name may destroy you out of mercy. Krishna’s name is Krishna, he is a person. It is not something mechanical, we ,must chant in a way that pleases the holy name. The seventh offence to the holy name is to commit sinful activities on th trength of chanting. If we think let me chant and then I can do any thing sinful and then I will rectify it by chanting again, if that is our mentality you are offending god in his name and the first of all offences is to blaspheme devotees of the lord. Why are these offences? It is not just something mechanical. It must be understood in a very personalized way. These are offences because they displease Krishna substantially.

The Crucial Principles of Bhakti

คนจำนวนมากมักเชื่อว่าสมองของเราสามารถเก็บความทรงจำเกี่ยวกับประสบการณ์ที่เจอไว้ได้อย่างแม่นยำ ซึ่งในความเป็นจริงกลับไม่เป็นเช่นนั้น (Illusion of Memory) แต่จะด้วยเหตุผลอะไรนั้น ลองไปฟังสถานการณ์ของบ๊อบบี้ ไนท์ โค้ชกีฬาบาสเกตบอล ที่ทำผลงานได้อย่างยอดเยี่ยม และถูกไล่ออกจากพฤติกรรมหัวร้อนกันก่อน

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Hare Krishna Mahamantra

Nityananda Charan Das