2021 - 08 - 28 The Source Of All - HG Vaisesika Dasa

Soulful Sunday Kirtan ft. Raghav Charan Das | Kirtan Utsav | Jaipur | 12 Sep 21.mp3

If we're in a particular specific role as a leader, where people are under us, sometimes like a parent, we have to correct. But when we're just looking in all directions and finding, you're gonna find if you look for. Srila Prabhupada and all of our acharyas  taught us how to appreciate also, because in this world not everything is don't go the way we want them to go and that's Krishna’s grace because if it did, we would make no progress. We are meant to relate with other vaisnavas on a higher level. Srila Bhakti Sidhanta Sarasvati Thakur, when he would see devotees finding faults with each other, he would sit them in front of each other face to face and order them tell me the good qualities of this person. Very difficult! When you're having this kind of conflict and you're a leader and you have other people following you, you have a big ego, ‘oh that's pretty bad.’ But when Bhakti Sidhanta Saraswathi Thakur orders, “I want you to speak the good qualities of this person.” You have to and after a while they're speaking, they realize actually the person has a lot of good qualities and yes! There's things I don't like but that's not what we're focusing on unless that's our specific service to do that for that person. So, for our community to really grow, we must be very very strong and empowering each other to perform our sadhana properly, to perform our service with enthusiasm but that's not really going to happen unless we empower each other to give up our fault-finding tendencies, in other words to be grateful.

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The Hare Krishna Mahamantra performed by bhajan duo "Prema Hara".
About Prema Hara:

Attracted by Bhakti Yoga, the path of devotion, Kamaniya and Keshavacharya Das have spent many years living in ashrams, searching for the divine through devotional service and singing. Seeing the impact of chanting on people, they were inspired to commit their lives to sharing the universal spiritual practice of kirtan with the Western world.

Known for her joyful expression, Kamaniya’s love for sacred chanting is apparent. As well as leading her own kirtan for the past decade, she has accompanied eminent devotional singers such as Shyamdas, Jai Uttal, Girish, Durga Das and Gaura Vani & As Kindred Spirits.

Keshavacharya Das’ search for a deeper meaning to life led him to a little Indian town amongst shrines and sadhus, where kirtan became his life. For years as a monk his every breath was spent in meditating on and celebrating divine sound. He spent the last few years traveling across the USA performing kirtan at many yoga studios and retreat centers.

The sixteen sound syllables of the Mahamantra follow...

HARE KRISHNA MAHAMANTRA

Hare Krishna 
Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
Hare Hare
Hare Rama
Hare Rama
Rama Rama
Hare Hare

Srila Prabhupada says:

Rama and Krishna are names of God, and Hare is the energy of God. So when we chant the maha-mantra, we address God together with His energy. This energy is of two kinds, the spiritual and the material. At present we are in the clutches of the material energy. Therefore we pray to Krishna that He may kindly deliver us from the service of the material energy and accept us into the service of the spiritual energy. That is our whole philosophy. Hare Krishna means, "O energy of God, O God [Krishna], please engage me in Your service." It is our nature to render service. Somehow or other we have come to the service of material things, but when this service is transformed into the service of the spiritual energy, then our life is perfect.

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Der Heilige Name Gottes - gesungen von Radha-Govinda das Babaju Maharaj

Der Heilige Name ist ein Avatar, ein Herabsteigen Gottes in diese Welt hinein. Es ist das direkteste Hinzugehen Gottes auf eine Seele hin. In der Berührung mit diesen heiligen Namen werden die Identifikations-Schichten, welche die Seele bedecken, überflüssig und vom Heiligen Namen selber verbrannt. 
Der Heilige Name wird nun seine wunderschöne Gestalt offenbaren, seine Eigenschaften, Seine ewige Welt mit all den unendlichen Gefährten. 
Durch diese Gemeinschaft erkennt die Seele auch ihre eigene Svarupa, ihre ewige Gestalt in der Welt Gottes. 
Dann wird der Heilige Name der Seele selber Seine lila, Seine ewigen Spiele in der spirituellen Welt offenbaren.. und die Seele auch dort nie wieder verlassen. 

Die Begegnung mit dem heiligen Namen ist ein sukzessiver Offenbarungsweg.

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This beautiful recording of the traditional bhajan Bhaja Hure Mana was recorded by Ramdas Abhiram Das (Kevin Yee) at his painting studio in Florence, Italy.

He sang and played all the instruments on this piece - flute, santoor, sarod, tabla and more, and recorded it himself layer by layer on a simple 8-track recorder.

This beautiful recording has never been publically released, but is uploaded with a desire to share the lesser known, but no less sublime, creative work of this lifelong devotional artist, who passed away in July 2020.

I feel extremely indebted to Ramdas and his wife Dhrti, for their many decades of artistic service. Their paintings have offered inspiration and spiritual connection to countless people all over the world, and as teachers, they have gifted their students with instructions to be treasured for life.

I was grateful to study with them for a month in India in 2007. Though many years ago, the experience is one I have returned to time and time again for fresh inspiration and guidance.

More on Ramdas:
Born in 1951 in Maui, Hawaii, as Kevin Albert Yee, Ramdas Abhiram Das, graduated with a degree in Fine Art from California State University at Fullerton. He began his career by doing illustration work, first for an international publishing company and later for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT). In 1980 he relocated to Florence, Italy, where he studied at the Academia de Siena and the Academia de Arte Firenze and learnt the art and techniques of fresco and egg tempera. He was the Art Director for the Italian BBT for six years. Though trained initially in classical art and illustration, over the years he has developed his own style, marked for its spontaneity and mystique. Narratives set amidst nature, he has painted more than 300 oil paintings and his work has been exhibited in Italy, France, Belgium, England, South Africa, and India.

Teaching in India: vimeo.com/58238789

To view more of the artistic work of Ramdas and Dhrti: www.sosacredart.com

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