Shantipur - Haribol!!!!
Sita-nath Advaita charan aravinda bhavanam!
At Advaita Acharya's house, we all literally went insane with delight. The loud kirtan was reverberating, and we were dancing like there was no tomorrow...
The bhajan kutir there was small and looked inviting for someone who wants solace to chant and meditate in.
An old woman there was dancing to harinaam with us, and I marveled at her enthusiasm. Her skin is hanging down from her face, and here she is dancing happily with us! Harinaam Sankirtan ki Jay!
She spoke in Bengali saying that there is no other place in the world where you can recreate such magical sankirtan, she says this is the mercy of pure devotees, and I know what she is saying is true. Here Mahaprabhu and His associates had many tumultuous harinaam sankirtans. The energy of the place is self-evident.
We all sang Sri Advaita's glories there, and I still have the song print-out with me. The song is so majestic. Hu Hunkar Garjanadi ... so powerful, so much energy in this song. It's so compelling. I loved it! This is love. Sri Advaita is Mahavishnu, and He compelled Sri Krishna Chaitanya to descend here for the upliftment of the lost souls of Kali Yuga who are engrossed in economic development and sense gratification (artha and kama).
I felt while dancing there that everyone was not on the same plane, some people were dancing consciously, some were dancing enviously (pretending to be ecstatic), some peacefully, and some ecstatically. I moved away from the group feeling like it did not match my energy, and I danced separately. One of the girls tried to dance with the old woman, but she was in her own mood, and did not reciprocate. The girl then gave up. I felt at that time, that if I had the whole room to myself I would dance like a lion and fill the space up with my frenzied dancing. But I had very little space, so I simply closed my eyes and jumped on the spot as high as I could, feeling very light.
I was not bothered about anything, where are my shoes, my belongings, what time is it, when will we eat, I am a girl, I am alive, I have feet, there are all these people, it is day time, nothing. I lost all sense of the present. I was not thinking of any thing. I was just hearing, singing and dancing. It became me. I was engulfed. And I was happy. Haribol!!!
As we walked out Hara Prabhu said - "Kisko bhagvat prem nahi mila?", I said "Mujhko". So he asked suprised "Maine tto le liya, apne nahi liya?". And I understood what he was saying - the ecstatic chanting of the Holy Names is bhagvat prem.
At Advaita Acharya's house, we all literally went insane with delight. The loud kirtan was reverberating, and we were dancing like there was no tomorrow...
The bhajan kutir there was small and looked inviting for someone who wants solace to chant and meditate in.
An old woman there was dancing to harinaam with us, and I marveled at her enthusiasm. Her skin is hanging down from her face, and here she is dancing happily with us! Harinaam Sankirtan ki Jay!
She spoke in Bengali saying that there is no other place in the world where you can recreate such magical sankirtan, she says this is the mercy of pure devotees, and I know what she is saying is true. Here Mahaprabhu and His associates had many tumultuous harinaam sankirtans. The energy of the place is self-evident.
We all sang Sri Advaita's glories there, and I still have the song print-out with me. The song is so majestic. Hu Hunkar Garjanadi ... so powerful, so much energy in this song. It's so compelling. I loved it! This is love. Sri Advaita is Mahavishnu, and He compelled Sri Krishna Chaitanya to descend here for the upliftment of the lost souls of Kali Yuga who are engrossed in economic development and sense gratification (artha and kama).
I felt while dancing there that everyone was not on the same plane, some people were dancing consciously, some were dancing enviously (pretending to be ecstatic), some peacefully, and some ecstatically. I moved away from the group feeling like it did not match my energy, and I danced separately. One of the girls tried to dance with the old woman, but she was in her own mood, and did not reciprocate. The girl then gave up. I felt at that time, that if I had the whole room to myself I would dance like a lion and fill the space up with my frenzied dancing. But I had very little space, so I simply closed my eyes and jumped on the spot as high as I could, feeling very light.
I was not bothered about anything, where are my shoes, my belongings, what time is it, when will we eat, I am a girl, I am alive, I have feet, there are all these people, it is day time, nothing. I lost all sense of the present. I was not thinking of any thing. I was just hearing, singing and dancing. It became me. I was engulfed. And I was happy. Haribol!!!
As we walked out Hara Prabhu said - "Kisko bhagvat prem nahi mila?", I said "Mujhko". So he asked suprised "Maine tto le liya, apne nahi liya?". And I understood what he was saying - the ecstatic chanting of the Holy Names is bhagvat prem.
posted by Lotus at 5/24/2007 06:49:00 AM
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