also, a hollywood thing and a ny thing (suzy again)
in lighter, other news: alex, i thought this may interest you
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/business/media/17blog.html?th&emc=th
and…
why havent i build a pandora radio station around beatles music like my friend’s computer has? whoa! its grand.
and… can i talk for a moment about the nyc subway experience i just had? hari krishnas singing and playing guitars and being all devoted and selling that krishna vegetarian cookbook they always sell and asking for change i guess by having a box w coins in it in front of them. and an overly-well dressed indian couple, who i understand probably has nothing w this religion, but it just struck me as a funny moment, holding their numerous prada and so on shopping bags and just Glaring! at the musicians. seriously glowering. the girl says ‘what an annoying sound’ to her husband/bf/sugar daddy who had way too much bling on, and i just couldnt get over how much i preferred people like the krishnas to people like her. although both are fanatic and, yes, annoying in their own right, i feel her type is the worst of all of em. end of rant, story, small nyc experience.
thanks for your post. Clearly those who haven’t an ounce of spirituality think of it as “annoying” ..there’s a reason for the chanting…An Indian Saint named Chatanya started the public chanting as a civil disobedience action against a Mogul Governor of the area..500 years ago! So many westerners do not know the true meaning…and it’s “weird” especially for white people do don Indian apparal etc etc…tolerance!….and no, we’re not fanatics…just practicing a bonafide religion (Vaisnavism -google it!) thanks for your sweetness tho…
hare krishna Suzy!
ox your servant, Jaya Madhava Das
dandavat pranams to all (please accept my respectful obeisances)
1. Every living being is an incarnated soul, so everyone has at least ‘1 ounce’ of spirituality. I guess it’s exactly that dormant spirituality that made those people feel ‘annoyed’. Just because they felt some resonance in their hearts, in the loooong self-forgotten realms of their beings.
2. Harinama Sankirttan (Chanting the Holy Names of God) was not only a civil disobedience act. It is the YUGA DHARMA, the truthfully ideal religious action for the era we live today. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, An Avatar, God Himself, came to teach it to all souls wishing to devote themselves to God, the Ideal of the Ideals. He faced a government against it, but it wasn’t because of the social thing that He did what He did.
3. Fanatism as action is generally on the same side that it is as word. Explaining, generally the fanatics are the ones that feeling a small glimpse of the Truth, and all the consequences It WILL bring to their lives, just shut their ears and disagree. Everyone has the right to be respected if doesn’t want to listen. But no one has the right to DISAGREE of something that WASN’T listened.
speaking about the ‘annoyance’. Wouldn’t you be annoyed if someone came to awaken you while you still wanted to sleep and dream the illusions you were dreaming?
Haribol
ksdas