Bhurijan Prabhu on our desire and Krishna's desire

[Guest guest]

"Prabhupada, we have been holding kirtans using guitars. Is that all right?"

 

"Kirtan means khol (mrdanga) and karatala. That's all."

 

"But it is so difficult to preach in Hong Kong, and the Chinese people like

kirtanas better when they are soft and with guitars. They don't like loud

kirtanas with many instruments."

 

Prabhupada acceded to my pushing and gave us permission to also use guitars

in our kirtans along with the standard khol and karatala.

 

Our spiritual master may sometimes agree to our requests because we present

them forcefully, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is Krsna's desire. We

should be careful that our own enthusiastic vision does not cover our

ability to recognize our guru's actual desires.

 

>From My Glorious Master, p.201