Guest guest Posted October 16, 2002 Report Share Posted October 16, 2002 Dear devotees please accept my humble obeisances all glories to Srila Prabhupada i came across an essay or a composition on kirtan some time ago. It starts like this... Kirtana is not part of our movement- practically it is our movement. Our Krishna Consciousness movement is practically based upon music and dancing. Letter to: Mr. Levine, 25 January, 1969 Kirtana is our first duty. Letter to: Palika, 13 November, 1975 Lord Caitanya's movement of Kanëa consciousness is full of dancing and singing about the pastimes of Lord Kanëa. CC Adi 2.2 purport Kirtana means glorification of Lord Krsna. All activities in the Hare Krsna movement are meant for Krsna-kirtana-glorification of Lord Krsna. Although this glorification takes many forms, kirtana is particularly understood to mean chanting Krsna's holy names. This is also called sankirtana. The prefix "san" means "complete" or "in association." So sankirtana means "complete glorification" or "congregational chanting." ....and goes on explaining about the rules and regulations in performing kirtan, which tunes and mantras tu use, the importance of mahamantra, on and on from a-z. About 70 pages long. Now the question is if anybopdy knows who the honourable author of this work is? Thank you very much, your servant Parasurama das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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