Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Very nice hearing your voice on the phone the other day. Been feeling uplifted ever since. I want to answer your question a little deeper here perhaps..what is your place in the Sankirtan movement?!?:
Maybe finding the answer to this question will take a lifetime or many but I’m starting to realize more and more that I want to make songs for Krishna and I also want to help create a wonderful environment for young people to practice KC. Not sure how these two things harmonize yet. They seem pretty separate. What would you like me to do?
HpS-ASA - Do, agtSP, what you are doing, but do it better.
As we wake up we realize our Sankirtan position.
Thank you so much for your pervious response to my letter and I apologize for taking so long to write again. There has been too much travel and over endeavoring for mundane things. We need the temple and devotees to make any progress. Rugged individualism is slowly dissipating.
Anyway, I really appreciate you sending the links to Abraham Lincoln quotes about power. I’ve always liked Bhakta Abraham since I was very young, thought he was cool. And that other quote about power is something that really struck me when I heard you say it years ago: “Great men are almost always bad men..” thank you for sending that link!
And thank you for letting me share these songs with you. Music for a long time has felt like a separate thing to KC. My desire is for there not to be duplicity in my endeavors. So offering and sharing songs with you is a huge help in that. Also, extremely humbling. There has been some nice and natural preaching opportunities in interviews about the album.
Just wanted to share two more songs as they both have been very inspired by you.
Transitional Phase
Just a transitional phase
He’ll be back soon
Says he’s gotta learn this way
And It’s fine
It’s alright
It’s alright
It’s alright
Did you hear the sermon
It was written for you
You stood with your head down
In the back of the room
Guess all your old dreams are coming true
Is it too much? (Karma and mode of passion; working so hard for something and then not being satisfied)
It’s all a mess anyway
We’ll sort it out
We’re in this together you say
But what now
What now
What will God allow
Are you really happy(false merriment)
Don’t get lost in the waves (Maya)
What’s buried deep down
Is on its way(anarthas)
Look he’s running for help
But there’s no one around
Can you relate?
Transitional phase (the reins being given to Radha)
In-between words and dreams
There’s only a line
And you’ve crossed over it
So many times
It’s been alright
It’s alright
It’s alright
Just run through the curtains (running to Krishna)
And out the gate
Completely sober for many days(sober in the subtle sense)
What a shock to the system (going against the norm/materialism)
What brilliant way to celebrate(kirtan)
Transitional phase
It’s only a phase
Transitional phase
And this one:
Brave New World
Hoping for hope
There must be some hope
Show me the way
It’s a brave new world
It’s a brave new world
There’s blood on the streets
George said “I can’t Breathe”
Now we believe
It’s a brave new world
It’s a brave new world
So much work to be done (devotional service)
For good change to come
Love wins
Love(Krsna)is supreme
Locked up inside
Staring at the mirror
Looking in (seeing one’s short comings and potentials)
It’s a brave new world
It’s a brave new world
There must be
More then I can see
Looking out (sastra)
It’s a brave new world
It’s a brave new world
So much work to be done
For good change to come
Love wins
Love is supreme
Hold on to hold on (sadana)
Breathe deep and keep on fighting (the good fight, keeping vows to you also the battle of Kurukshetra!)
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
Oh Govinda
Hallelujah
Jaya guru dev
So much Love(Krsna/mercy)is needed
It’s a brave new world
It’s a brave new world
Love wins
Love(Krsna)is supreme
Thank you Maharaja. A few temple updates that I will give in my next letter.
I am excited to see and hear this next movie based in Tennessee that you are making. We would like to add it to our movie night at the temple roster. Starting this Fall. Mocktails, popcorn and discussion after showing. First Saturday of every month. More on that later too.
Hare Krishna!
Your aspiring servant,
-Nitisara das
P.S. we had a wonderful Ratha Yatra at Fourth of July parade. I think we were the best one lol here are some photos:
HpS / Thank you!!!!
Many attractive songs that are not directly, obviously KC. Eg."One Toke Over the Line".
Yet all attraction is from Krsna.
One Toke... is about going beyond the mental platform?
