...On the riverbank, sitting cross-legged, Shyamsunder rocked slowly back and forth."It was in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, January 1967. My friends and I had put together this big rock and roll dance at the Avalon Ballroom. We called it Mantra Rock Dance. Everyone was there to welcome 'The Swami' to the West Coast - the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Quicksilver and Moby Grape, they all played. Even Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey were there. All the hippie heroes came." Shyamsunder became excited and his body rocked faster. "Picture this scene. The whole place is pulsating with strobe lights and rock and roll, packed with wild, long-haired kids, most of them on acid. Then, about midnight, Srila Prabhupada walks quietly onto the dark stage and sits down cross-legged on an elevated seat. The place falls silent. Srila Prabhupada begins humbly chanting the Hare Krishna mantra. A spotlight finally locates him, and gradu...
And the Bauls came
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they sang
And they disappeared
in the mist...
and the house was left empty...the house...
in the mist...
Song murmured by Ramakrishna shortly before he passed away
Why are you unhappy?
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Of everything you think,
And of everything you do,
Is for yourself -
And there isn't one.
-Wei Wu Wei
On the point of death
ReplyDeletePapaji said:
‘Where is the Buddha?
Bring him in! Bring him in!’
The disciples heard
Not one more syllable from him.
Did the Buddha come in?
How could he?
He was never not there.
Its sound is love
ReplyDeleteThe flute of the Infinite is played without
ceasing, and its sound is love:
When love renounces all limits, it reaches
truth.
How widely the fragrance spreads! It has
no end, nothing stands in its way.
The form of this melody is bright like a
million suns: incomparably sounds the
vina, the vina of the notes of truth.
- Kabir