Guest guest Posted April 11, 2003 Report Share Posted April 11, 2003 > The latest in the ever expanding repertoire of ISKCON speculative chants > is "susvagatam jagannatha", "susvagatam baladeva", "susvagatam radha" etc. > > Following in the tradition of such popular favorites as "jaya jaya radha > ramana haribol" this is adapted from a popular Hindi bhajan cassette. > > "Susvagatam" (welcome) is offered to a guest when he enters a person's > home. But Jagannatha is the Lord of the Universe -- it belongs to Him, not > us. We should be fortunate if He welcomes us to His spiritual abode. This > chant is thus particularly inappropriate when sung in the Lord's temple. > It is like going to someone's house and on arriving there greeting him > with "Welcome!" Such an utterance could be taken as an illegal attempt to > falsely establish one's own proprietorship. > > It could be stated that in bhaava-seva a devotee may welcome the Lord, but > this chant is adapted from a commercial cassette, not from the bhaava-seva > of genuine acaryas. I keep hearing "svagatam jagannath"... not "susvagatam"... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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