Nama Rock in India

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Hare Krishna dear Prabhu´s

Please accept my most humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

We are two brahmacaris in Pandharpur Dham who are forming a Nama rock band

for touring Maharastra and the rest of India.

 

We have a small rehursal studio here in Pandharpur with Keyboards, drums,

guitars, mixer, etc.

 

We would like to invite devotee musicians from around the world to come and

visit us here at this nice place and have some jam sessions for inspiration

and future nama rock concerts.

 

The jam sessions are scheduled to take place from the 20'th of November to

the 18'th of december 2006 here in Sri Pandharpur dham.

 

We can facillitate your accomadation and Prasadam for the whole month or how

long you should choose to stay.

 

Please also let us know if you have any good contact to devotee musicians

that you can recommend us to contact.

 

Thank you very much.

 

All the best.

 

Your servants Ekalavya das and Gaura Krishna das

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> We are two brahmacaris in Pandharpur Dham who are forming a Nama rock band

> for touring Maharastra and the rest of India.

 

Its rather sad that in India we have now come to this. Instead of

forming a nama-bhajan band we now have a rajasic India brahmacari rock band.

Don't mind but I think this just reflects the increasingly fallen state of

Indian society, which is more and more madly pursuing anything western.

 

Your humble servant,

Hari-sauri dasa

[Govardhan Giri Dasa]

But we can look at it this way too... The modern Indian youth is more interested in this rock stuff, so let us try and make them hear the Holy Names this way at least....

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Sri Pandharpur Dham

 

Dear Hari Sauri Prabhu,

 

Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Hare Krishna.

 

> Its rather sad that in India we have now come to this. Instead of

> forming a nama-bhajan band we now have a rajasic India brahmacari rock

> band.

 

We appreciate your concern that we now have a rajasic India brahmachari rock

band in India.

 

We are writing to attempt to clarify the "Nama Rock" situation.

 

We beg your permission and blessings in order that we can attempt to clarify

matters.

 

Perhaps "Nama Rock" is too heavy a title. Better we call it "Hare Krishna

Orchestra" - kirtan with instruments from around the world.

 

Our vision is to offer Krishna consciousness in a modern package to the

youth of India.

 

Gaura Krishna Prabhu (Originally from Denmark) and I are serving under the

guidance of HH Lokanath Swami. He is encouraging us to package "old wine in

a new bottle" - To offer the same eternal message of Srimad Bhagavatam and

Bhagavad Gita, and especially the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra packaged to

appeal to the modern youth of India.

 

In the interests of preaching to India's youth, Gaura Krishna and I are

attempting to put together a kirtan party to perform kirtan for specialized

occasions like the National Youth Festival we had in Pune a couple of years

back.

 

Titiksava Karunika Prabhu also performed there, as well as at the Cross

Maidan Festival in Mumbai organized by Shyamasundara Prabhu. Titiksava

Kurunika Prabhu performs "Naamrock". His program is exclusively rock and

blues based music. We are hoping for a more varigated presentation.

 

We hope it won't be too much rajasic as Gaura Krishna and I are both aging

brahmacharis over the age of 40. We hope to put something tasteful

together, more of an "East meets West" fusion, with Indian classical ragas

played on trumpet and other instruments, and put to a modern beat, as well

as traditional Bengali mrdungas. We are hoping for a wide variety of

musical styles in order to offer different flavors and moods to the

audience.

 

We are not planning to replace the traditional "Bhajan Band". We love

bhajans and traditional kirtans and strive to perform traditional Gaudiya

Vaisnava expressions of devotion whenever we get the opportunity. The

program that we are developing is just an occasional suppliment according to

time, place and circumstance.

 

> Don't mind but I think this just reflects the increasingly fallen state of

> Indian society, which is more and more madly pursuing anything western.

 

We agree with you 100%.

 

As our target preaching audience - India's youth, is getting more and more

westernized, and "more and more madly pursuing anything western". We hope

to experiment and see what kind of Krishna conscious preaching tools we can

employ to connect India's modern youth to Krishna consciousness. We have a

hope that our plan of a Krishna conscious musical performance and multimedia

presentation can facilitate their access to ISKCON.

 

We have received appreciations and encouragement for our previous services

of performing kirtan including western instruments from HH Jayapataka Swami,

HG Shyamasundara Prabhu, HH Giriraja Swami, HH Navayogendra Swami, HH

Indradyumna Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HH Lokanath Swami, HG Bhaktivinode

Prabhu, HG Radheshyam Prabhu, and others.

 

Of course, any sort of ISKCON preaching program is incomplete without the

distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books and prasadam. Therefore, any

performance that we do in the future would certainly include these essential

aspects of preaching.

 

We are planning to do a recording of our first piece, "Krishna Jinaka Nama

He". We would be honored if you would take some of your valuable time to

listen to it, and give your comments.

 

We only hope that you continue to shower your blessings and unconditional

mercy upon these most undeserving souls. Your mercy is all that we are made

of.

 

Please communicate with me and let me know if you would be kind enough to

give us any guidance and suggestions on this topic. If we could be at your

service to attempt to provide further clarifications on the subject, please

do not hesitate to contact us.

 

We beg for your guidance, blessings and corrections.

 

Ananta Koti Dandabat at your lotus feet.

 

Thank you very much.

 

Hare Krishna.

 

Always hoping to remain,

 

servant of the servant of your servants,

 

Ekalavya Das

and

Gaura Krishna Das

 

www.pandharpur.org

www.padayatra.com

www.lokanathswami.net

[Srimanta]

 

Sri Pandharpur Dham

 

Dear Hari Sauri Prabhu,

 

Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Hare Krishna.

 

> Its rather sad that in India we have now come to this. Instead of

> forming a nama-bhajan band we now have a rajasic India brahmacari rock

> band.

 

We appreciate your concern that we now have a rajasic India brahmachari rock

band in India.

 

We are writing to attempt to clarify the "Nama Rock" situation.

 

We beg your permission and blessings in order that we can attempt to clarify

matters.

 

Perhaps "Nama Rock" is too heavy a title. Better we call it "Hare Krishna

Orchestra" - kirtan with instruments from around the world.

 

Our vision is to offer Krishna consciousness in a modern package to the

youth of India.

 

Gaura Krishna Prabhu (Originally from Denmark) and I are serving under the

guidance of HH Lokanath Swami. He is encouraging us to package "old wine in

a new bottle" - To offer the same eternal message of Srimad Bhagavatam and

Bhagavad Gita, and especially the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra packaged to

appeal to the modern youth of India.

 

In the interests of preaching to India's youth, Gaura Krishna and I are

attempting to put together a kirtan party to perform kirtan for specialized

occasions like the National Youth Festival we had in Pune a couple of years

back.

 

Titiksava Karunika Prabhu also performed there, as well as at the Cross

Maidan Festival in Mumbai organized by Shyamasundara Prabhu. Titiksava

Kurunika Prabhu performs "Naamrock". His program is exclusively rock and

blues based music. We are hoping for a more varigated presentation.

 

We hope it won't be too much rajasic as Gaura Krishna and I are both aging

brahmacharis over the age of 40. We hope to put something tasteful

together, more of an "East meets West" fusion, with Indian classical ragas

played on trumpet and other instruments, and put to a modern beat, as well

as traditional Bengali mrdungas. We are hoping for a wide variety of

musical styles in order to offer different flavors and moods to the

audience.

 

We are not planning to replace the traditional "Bhajan Band". We love

bhajans and traditional kirtans and strive to perform traditional Gaudiya

Vaisnava expressions of devotion whenever we get the opportunity. The

program that we are developing is just an occasional suppliment according to

time, place and circumstance.

 

> Don't mind but I think this just reflects the increasingly fallen state of

> Indian society, which is more and more madly pursuing anything western.

 

We agree with you 100%.

 

As our target preaching audience - India's youth, is getting more and more

westernized, and "more and more madly pursuing anything western". We hope

to experiment and see what kind of Krishna conscious preaching tools we can

employ to connect India's modern youth to Krishna consciousness. We have a

hope that our plan of a Krishna conscious musical performance and multimedia

presentation can facilitate their access to ISKCON.

 

We have received appreciations and encouragement for our previous services

of performing kirtan including western instruments from HH Jayapataka Swami,

HG Shyamasundara Prabhu, HH Giriraja Swami, HH Navayogendra Swami, HH

Indradyumna Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HH Lokanath Swami, HG Bhaktivinode

Prabhu, HG Radheshyam Prabhu, and others.

 

Of course, any sort of ISKCON preaching program is incomplete without the

distribution of Srila Prabhupada's books and prasadam. Therefore, any

performance that we do in the future would certainly include these essential

aspects of preaching.

 

We are planning to do a recording of our first piece, "Krishna Jinaka Nama

He". We would be honored if you would take some of your valuable time to

listen to it, and give your comments.

 

We only hope that you continue to shower your blessings and unconditional

mercy upon these most undeserving souls. Your mercy is all that we are made

of.

 

Please communicate with me and let me know if you would be kind enough to

give us any guidance and suggestions on this topic. If we could be at your

service to attempt to provide further clarifications on the subject, please

do not hesitate to contact us.

 

We beg for your guidance, blessings and corrections.

 

Ananta Koti Dandabat at your lotus feet.

 

Thank you very much.

 

Hare Krishna.

 

Always hoping to remain,

 

servant of the servant of your servants,

 

Ekalavya Das

and

Gaura Krishna Das

 

www.pandharpur.org

www.padayatra.com

www.lokanathswami.net

 

Why you are targeting all mad cows? Let them to dance for a while and break their horns. Target calf, mild, not so young or old cows who are interested for Krsna's melody and soft grasses.

 

Krsna is not for band but flute. Those who want sweet melody of flutes from heart of Krsna they will be attracted. Too much banding is mode of passion.We don't want Kurukestra in Vrindavan. Vrindavan is for enjoyment with soft mild melody of Krsna on the bank of Yomuna.