Some Notes On Real Kirtan (with one 't')

So, what should a devotee do? Let all the non vaisnava non sampradaya non initiated non pure bhakti kirtan performers go to hell? Very nice. Very compassionate. Very prthivite ache jagat adi gram sarvatra pracar haibe mor nam.

Fortunately, the above sentiments were not the sentiments exhibited by the one true, pure vaisnava who had enough compassion and faith in guru and parampara to come to yavana-mlecca land, the land of the demons, the land of the killers of cows and brahminical culture, the land of the people totally written off by the neophyte vaisnavas in India of the time.

True, impure kirtan is not pleasing to Krsna and its effect not readily discernible. However, to make it pure and discernible is easy: just try to make a sincere attempt to connect it to Srila Prabhupada in some way or another. I see that Satyaraja Prabhu is doing this in his Yoga of Kirtan Book and I applaud him for it. I offer him my most humble obeisances and pray that he may give me a modicum of the expertise he has shown over the years in bridging the gap between pretentious gurus and sincere sweepers in Prabhupada’s “House in Which the Whole World Can Live."