One of the benefits of H.H. Indradyumna Swami's festival program in Poland that is spilling out over the borders of Poland is the increasing number of devotees who are trained in doing harinam "Polish Festival" Style.
It's an organized festive style that evokes memories of Srila Tamal Krishna Goswami's organized harinam teams with the yellow turtlenecks and brown sweaters that Srila Prabhupada appreciated so much.
At the beginning of this year Maha-mantra das organized a flash harinam in Byron Bay, NSW, Australia during the New Govardhana festival. There were six devotees who had been to the Polish festival, and we were able to organize the harinam according to those principles. I had an accordion and played the same melodies that Sri Prahlad popularized on his Harer Nama - Volume One album. In this way we engaged the public with a pleasant festive harinam.
Personally I don't agree with people who say that Harinam can not be effective preaching in the modern western environment. I might agree that many current manifestations could be improved. It's all down to how you do it, and ultimately getting the Holy Name out there is better than not getting it out there. History will be our judge, not the small minds of persons trapped in a flickering moment of time.
The video of the harinam was shot and edited by Vrajadhama das - aka DJ Vraj. Visit the Google Video page to download a version to your computer that you can play offline. Enjoy!
Nice looking harinam. Looked
Nice looking harinam. Looked well organized and very blissful. Please keep up the good work.
There is one seminar you might really like called Kirtan Reform Seminar. It is spoken by Jayadvaita Swami and it talks about practical ways to improve kirtan. You can download it from this website, http://www.jswami.info/mp3_media and click on Seminars and then click on "Kirtan Reform Seminar"
I hope you enjoy it.
Yep, I already checked that
Yep, I already checked that one out. I recently downloaded the psychology one after I saw it on your site. Replace "psychology" with "medicine", and "mind" with "body" and see where it takes you in terms of being consistent with your approach to western sciences.... :-)
Jayadvaita Swami's seminar
Jayadvaita Swami's seminar about Kirtan Reform is humorous and enlightening at the same time. He's got a real good sense of humor, maybe a bit sarcastic, but funny nonetheless. The Psychology seminar is extremely powerful. He does a good job of showing how the values taught in modern psychology are inconsistent with the values taught in Krishna consciousness.