Sunday, January 8, 2012

Hollywood Sankirtan Party 1/7/2012

Last night was totally awesome. So far it was the best sankirtan party I have been to here in Los Angeles. We were in Hollywood again last night. It was not as busy as it was for New Years but it was still quite full of people walking the streets.

We started our kirtan around 6:45pm. It ended at 8pm. This time I noticed a lot of other people liked our chanting and dancing. Some of the people joined in with dancing with us. A few of the Prabhus handed out books. I decided to just chant the Holy Names this time. I tried a little dancing but some of the matajis then did a little bit of fast dancing which I cannot do due to my back so I have to be careful until I get it checked out then maybe after that I can dance faster.

There was almost one incident however with this older guy. We were all trying to be transcendental and chanting the Holy Names to this guy who seemed totally intoxicated. He kept moving up too close to us women and getting in our faces. So a couple of the Prabhus stood in front of us to protect us from this gentleman who was severly intoxicated. He still tried getting past the Prabhus to get up in our faces until finally we had to call a security guard to remove him. I felt sorry for the intoxicated man but he at least got some benefit of hearing the Holy Names. Then there was this other gentleman who kept talking with one of our matajis I felt a bit uneasy about that and stayed a bit of distance. I stayed in the middle with the matajis so that the Prabhus were near by. I was wary of some of the people out there. It made me realize just how scary Kail Yuga really is because people are really losing their minds out there. They need to hear Krishna to stay sane. I kept my mind focused on Krishna the best I could while I was out there. I felt so much better by the time we got back to the temple and felt a lot safer there. But anyways our kirtan went on even after that short incident. I did make a few recordings. I got two recordings of cartoon characters dancing with us while we were chanting the Holy Names and I thought that was great and funny. I also got some pictures as well which I will post here for you. I will upload the videos later for you to see. I want Maharaj to see the videos if he's got time. He'd love it.  I will email them to my godsister and see if she can have him watch them.

Anyways I still had a great time! Here are some photos.









Daily Darshan Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarkadish


Today's Darshan Sri Sri Rukmini Dwarkadish 1/8/2012