Subject: Re: Baba Story: Power of Kiirtan
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:01:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ananda Mayii
To: AM-GLOBAL
Baba
Here are some of my thoughts on the those two kiirtan stories.
The whole story of how Baba first created kiirtan was not known to me, so it was really wonderful to read how He prepared for it and took the occasion away from the Organisational WT vibration, to the devotee margiis area in a remote place. So subtle and beautiful this very thing seems to me, and meaningful.
The way the story is told by the young LFT who took his home children along with him to that place is full of meaning too. Those young participants will always carry that experience in their hearts and influence many others to sing and dance this new Mantra. To sing it in their homes and villages and towns throughout their lives.
To realise the siddhis Baba bestowed in this kiirtan mantra and the effect of that singing on the people, the environment, and other beings on that occasion, helps one to realise Baba's awe inspiring powers to bring a new wave of spiritual vibration to the planet through the singing and dancing of this Baba Nam Kevalam mantra. How it could uplift the minds of anyone and everyone.
I am sure that every Margi has stories to tell where they have experienced this. I certainly have several such stories from the days when Baba was in jail and where I lived, a group of us used to go to the city to do kiirtan through the streets at lunchtime amongst all the people, or at evening when people were leaving their work to catch buses home, we would be in a park with our Ananda Marga banner, and they used to gather mesmerised, and many would join in.
One time while engaged in singing and dancing, I opened my eyes and saw that everything, the bricks in a big building some distance away that was within my vision, seemed to be vibrating in the rhythm, and the trees nearby, were moving also in this mystic rhythm, somehow pulsating with our flow as we moved round and round. I can never forget seeing this phenomena, though i kept it to myself at the time. It seemed too difficult to describe this thing in a way people could catch the experience I had felt.
Another time we had a pracar stall at an education Fair and some of us went upstairs to this big empty room in this very old building and started up a strong kiirtan. Our singing attracted many people to come up and see what was going on. After an hour or so of this, I looked around and their were hundreds of people singing and dancing and looking so blissed out, and more and more people kept coming until the huge space was full, and the whole building started to sway to the rhythm and the mood became so ecstatic. I doubt any of those people there that day, total strangers, would ever forget that experience. That would have been in the mid seventies, when His blissful vibration was extremely intense in the world and many were attracted, but didn't know what to make of it at the time. Some stayed and some went on with their lives, but were affected somehow.
In your story about making their way home after the time with Baba and discovering the bliss of kiirtan, in the part about the bridge being flooded on the way home, I had the feeling that under ordinary circumstances it would be simply madness to attempt such a crossing, having seen the absolute power of a river in flood, but under the spell of that kiirtan vibration the feeling came that while thinking of Baba and His Love, absolutely everything is possible, and with surrender to Him our own fears disappear, not because we expect miracles , but having full trust in Him, we can proceed unafraid. It is simply Baba's grace.
in His ever blissful kiirtan flow,
Ananda Mayii
I find the articles are very much more clear in their purpose and expression. I appreciate this very much, because your content is so important and helpful to think about, and in my case, i feel this is where my own thinking gets some clarification and confirmation and i get ideological education, i really long for. Such discussions add so much to my own thinking processes as i know i need to understand so much more of Baba's intentions for us all through our Ananda Marga if we are to carry it forward in our life time.
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:01:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ananda Mayii
To: AM-GLOBAL
Baba
== RE: BABA STORY: POWER OF KIIRTAN ==
Namaskar,
I read the two recent posts, "History of Kiirtan" and "Baba Story: Power of Kiirtan", that wonderfully describe when Baba first gave kiirtan in Amjhariya on 08 October 1970.
I read the two recent posts, "History of Kiirtan" and "Baba Story: Power of Kiirtan", that wonderfully describe when Baba first gave kiirtan in Amjhariya on 08 October 1970.
Here are some of my thoughts on the those two kiirtan stories.
REFLECTIONS ON THOSE BABA STORIES
The whole story of how Baba first created kiirtan was not known to me, so it was really wonderful to read how He prepared for it and took the occasion away from the Organisational WT vibration, to the devotee margiis area in a remote place. So subtle and beautiful this very thing seems to me, and meaningful.
The way the story is told by the young LFT who took his home children along with him to that place is full of meaning too. Those young participants will always carry that experience in their hearts and influence many others to sing and dance this new Mantra. To sing it in their homes and villages and towns throughout their lives.
To realise the siddhis Baba bestowed in this kiirtan mantra and the effect of that singing on the people, the environment, and other beings on that occasion, helps one to realise Baba's awe inspiring powers to bring a new wave of spiritual vibration to the planet through the singing and dancing of this Baba Nam Kevalam mantra. How it could uplift the minds of anyone and everyone.
OUR OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
I am sure that every Margi has stories to tell where they have experienced this. I certainly have several such stories from the days when Baba was in jail and where I lived, a group of us used to go to the city to do kiirtan through the streets at lunchtime amongst all the people, or at evening when people were leaving their work to catch buses home, we would be in a park with our Ananda Marga banner, and they used to gather mesmerised, and many would join in.
One time while engaged in singing and dancing, I opened my eyes and saw that everything, the bricks in a big building some distance away that was within my vision, seemed to be vibrating in the rhythm, and the trees nearby, were moving also in this mystic rhythm, somehow pulsating with our flow as we moved round and round. I can never forget seeing this phenomena, though i kept it to myself at the time. It seemed too difficult to describe this thing in a way people could catch the experience I had felt.
Another time we had a pracar stall at an education Fair and some of us went upstairs to this big empty room in this very old building and started up a strong kiirtan. Our singing attracted many people to come up and see what was going on. After an hour or so of this, I looked around and their were hundreds of people singing and dancing and looking so blissed out, and more and more people kept coming until the huge space was full, and the whole building started to sway to the rhythm and the mood became so ecstatic. I doubt any of those people there that day, total strangers, would ever forget that experience. That would have been in the mid seventies, when His blissful vibration was extremely intense in the world and many were attracted, but didn't know what to make of it at the time. Some stayed and some went on with their lives, but were affected somehow.
WITH BABA'S LOVE EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
In your story about making their way home after the time with Baba and discovering the bliss of kiirtan, in the part about the bridge being flooded on the way home, I had the feeling that under ordinary circumstances it would be simply madness to attempt such a crossing, having seen the absolute power of a river in flood, but under the spell of that kiirtan vibration the feeling came that while thinking of Baba and His Love, absolutely everything is possible, and with surrender to Him our own fears disappear, not because we expect miracles , but having full trust in Him, we can proceed unafraid. It is simply Baba's grace.
in His ever blissful kiirtan flow,
Ananda Mayii
Note 2: REFLECTION ON LETTERS
I find the articles are very much more clear in their purpose and expression. I appreciate this very much, because your content is so important and helpful to think about, and in my case, i feel this is where my own thinking gets some clarification and confirmation and i get ideological education, i really long for. Such discussions add so much to my own thinking processes as i know i need to understand so much more of Baba's intentions for us all through our Ananda Marga if we are to carry it forward in our life time.
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