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Chanting with a Backing
It was with great satisfaction
that I conducted a Kirtan Standards course along with the Bhakti
Academy students. The feedback that I received from this three hour interactive
workshop/presentation were words like “informative,” “educational” and
“clarification on things.” It was felt that before these students develop some
habits regarding Kirtan (chanting) that fall in the realm of divergent,
why not get it right in the beginning?
It was the founder-acarya of the
movement, Prabhupada, who establish standards for when we are engaged in the
culture of chanting. He once said there are two drums, or mridangas. One
is the literature that goes far and wide and the other is the incarnation of
sound vibration, or God in sound.
The idea behind this kirtan
course is to know the mood, the execution and the preservation of its sanctity.
Chanting, after all, is at the heart of the movement. Sharing this treasure
with integrity is the mandate of all followers of the ISKCON movement. Somehow
or other, we are meant to deliver the goods and those goods are the pure sound
of mantra. There is a need.
Have you all heard some of the music of today? Some of it is not very enlightening for sure. It’s time to offer an alternative and that alternative has the backing of sages and saints from ancient times.
May the Source be with you!
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