If this life is covered with raga, ragini, and tune, then the kirtana is useless. It will cover our whole thing and the result of kirtana is gone. So try to realize this thing. If your attention is on raga, ragini, the life and soul of the kirtana will go away and if your attention is on mood, then your heart will melt. Your heart will melt and tears will come…
Srila Gurudeva: Once, there was a brahmana in South India. Caitanya Mahaprabhu was on a tour of South India and went to Sri Rangam. This brahmana had not attended any class, no school, nothing. He did not even know the alphabet, ABCD of Sanskrit, Hindi, or anything. But, he used to go daily to the temple of Ranganatha, and at that place, he used to sit and read Gita. He could not utter the pure words of Sanskrit, not anusvara and no visarga. No anusvar or visarga, grammar, nothing. He only used to carry the Srimad Bhagavad-Gita and read, anyhow, something. He always used to weep and weep, tears streaming from his eyes. For one hour he used to read Gita like this. All the learned persons used to ridicule him, “He doesn’t know the ABCD of Sanskrit but yet he is weeping, how? He is a foolish person…
Here’s a glimpse of the four hour midday kirtan in Radhe Kunj today!
The disguised Krishna said, “Krishna is a very bad person. He killed a lady, a cow, an innocent calf and a snake.”
Srimati Radhika replied, “No, it is not like that. Aristasura was not a bull, Bakasura was not a crane, Vatsasura was not an innocent calf and the snake Aghasura was Sin personified…
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given instructions on ten types of tattva to the faithful jivas. This is the Dasa-mula Tattva as written by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in Jaiva-dharma. Note down these principals in your heart and when needed, you can boldly say, “This is our philosophy.”
1. Chastisement by guru and vaisnavas is highly beneficial for me.
2. I am willing to be humiliated and beaten by maya thousands of times, but I cannot accept the affectionate discipline of guru and vaisnavas. In this way I commit spiritual suicide…
Certain forms of jnana and karma are integral parts of bhakti. Pure jnana is present within bhakti as the search for one’s worshipful deity and as knowledge of the reality of God, bhagavat-tattva-jnana. Pure karma is present within bhakti as serving the Supreme Lord by cleaning His temple, cooking for Him and so on. These activities are included among the nine limbs of bhakti…
1. Hearing harikatha is also seva.
2. Sadhus travel only for the welfare of others, to distribute harikatha.
3. Simply by hearing with faith, harikatha enters the heart.
You think, ‘What is the use of wearing tilaka? I can chant within my mind, so what need is there of beads? One’s diet has nothing to do at all with bhajana. So don’t think that you have to give up eating meat, fish or eggs. Don’t think that you must stop drinking wine or tea and taking intoxicants such as pana, tobacco, marijuana, hemp or opium…’