KIRTAN DAY 17.5.2025
DHARMA108COLLECTIVE
KIRTAN DAY
SA 17.5.2025
KIRTAN MANTRAS with
Lavanya Rupa, Atul Krsna,
Lara Nastasia & Clemens108
Question & Answer with Amara Prabhu
Prasadam
Full Vegan and Organic
Program starts: 18:00 until 21:30
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IRENENSTRASSE 21A
10317 BLN LICHTENBERG
PROGRAM STARTS 18:00! PRASAD: 21:00!
STRICTLY NO DRUGS! ALCOHOL! SMOKE! CAFFEEINE! ETC..
IRENENSTRASSE 21 A
10317 BLN-LICHTENBERG
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Free entry! No reservations! Come as you are and bring your friends!
Irenenstrasse 21A/ 10317 Berlin Lichtenberg
(2min walk from Station Lichtenberg)
Harinam-sankirtan means to loudly chant the holy name for the benefit of others. We should seriously consider to what extent we are benefiting others, and also to what extent we are benefiting ourselves. There is apparent kirtan and real kirtan. Only sankirtan where the pure name is chanted is real sankirtan. If someone is making offenses to the name, simply articulating the syllables “Hare Krishna,” that is not real sankirtan. One must thus carefully consider the offenses to be avoided in the matter of chanting.
Bhukti-nama means offensive chanting. By chanting offensively, you can benefit others only by increasing their material piety. Bhaktivinoda Thakura therefore states that a pure devotee should not participate in kirtan led by offenders to the holy name. Who are those offenders? Those who do kirtan for ulterior motives–who chant for money, or to augment their sex appeal, or do it for name and fame. Such chanting can at best result in material gratification.
Lord Caitanya’s movement is the prema-nam-sankirtan movement. Its purpose is to give the highest benefit, pure love of Godhead. Therefore if one actually wants to give oneself and others the highest benefit, one must awaken pure devotion to Radha and Krishna and for Sri Caitanya. To achieve that purpose we have to chant purely.
No matter what you do, no matter how you decorate the kirtan, if such chanting is not done with pure devotion, it will never ever inculcate bhakti into the heart of anyone.
All glories to Sripad Aindra Prabhu 💙🙏🏻