MANTRA JAM NIGHT!
for singing and playing instruments
Musicians and people who love music like to go to places where they can play and sing. You can invite them all! You can lead, they can join.
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TECHNIQUES
JUST START CHANTING!
Kirtan is an experiential activity. So, in an informal gathering, get everyone to participate. Invite musicians, just like Srila Prabhupada did at the beginning. Encourage them to try this new music style… if new people are shy… sing louder than them! Everyone is experiencing the Holy Name on their own level. Some of them will dance, some will meditate. A family of devotees is attractive when a couple is doing kirtan together and the kids are participating. And music, stories, pictures is a good combination for kids and new people!
EXTRA OPTION
GO TO YOGA STUDIOS & CULTURAL CENTERS
Every city, every town, every village is waiting for you. Offer them kirtan sessions & vegetarian classes: tell them: “I just wanna share what I love to do!” If you do a kirtan presentation, have high standards.
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TOPICS
THE POWER OF THE SACRED SOUND
Speak about how this sound affects our consciousness and our mind. Be gentle; don´t push anyone. Just share your love for kirtan and prasadam: “These are the things that I love to do in my personal practice”. Be in a humble mood but proud of tradition: “I am just here to share and to purify my own heart”. Receive them without judgment: kirtan is something that everyone can easily participate in.
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TECHNIQUES
JUST START CHANTING!
In an informal gathering, get everyone to participate. Invite musicians, just like Prabhupada at the beginning. Encourage them to try this new music style… Some of them will dance, some will meditate. A family of devotees is attractive when a couple is doing kirtan together and the kids are participating.
TOPICS
THE POWER OF THE SACRED SOUND
Speak about how this sound affects our consciousness and our mind. Just share your love for kirtan and prasadam: “These are the things that I love to do in my personal practice”. Be in a humble mood but proud of tradition: “I am just here to share and to purify my own heart”.
EXTRA OPTION
GO TO YOGA STUDIOS & CULTURAL CENTERS
Every city, every town, every village is waiting for you. Offer them kirtan sessions & vegetarian classes: tell them: “I just wanna share what I love to do!” If you do a kirtan presentation, have high standards.
GIVE INSPIRATION →
Best LIVE KIRTAN playlist for sharing. Here you will find the best “Kirtan Heroes of ISKCON”
GIVE ART →
Amazing VIDEOCLIPS PLAYLIST for sharing. You can also use some of these videos as visual aid, so during the program they can enjoy them on a TV or projected on a wall/screen.
THE PERFECT MANTRA JAM NIGHT
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Learn, with the guidance of our Complete 14 Videos Playlist, how to do it, for new people
Kirtan is an experiential experience
JUST START CHANTING
If you invite guests to your home who have never experienced a Bhakti yoga program before, or you find yourself in a yoga studio, just start chanting because everyone loves to sing.
in informal gathering
MAKE THEM PARTICIPATE
When we are doing kirtan in a small gathering, in a home, then it is very wonderful to include everyone and to have everyone sing as much as possible
Just Like Prabhupada!
INVITE MUSICIANS
in the early days when Srila Prabhupada would do his kirtans, there would be people with small flutes, trumpets, drums, and everyone joined in.
When a couple is doing kirtan together and the kids are participating
A FAMILY OF DEVOTEES IS ATTRACTIVE
I want to make sure that my family and my children can also participate in and be in it, and that way it is a joyful experience for everyone.
How that affects our consciousness and our mind
THE POWER OF THE SACRED SOUND
When introducing kirtan to first timers you can speak about how the sacred sound vibration of kirtan is the primary activity of Bhakti yoga or devotional service.
“These are the things that I love to do and I do in my personal practice”
SHARE YOUR LOVE FOR KIRTAN AND PRASADAM
“I am sharing that I love to chant, I am sharing that I love to worship this particular form of the Lord”
Don´t push anyone
BE GRADUAL
“Now my agenda is very clearly that I will love for them to chant with me. There are many topics that can come later on“
“I am just here to share and to purify my own heart”
HUMBLE MOOD & PROUD OF TRADITION
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu advises us that if we really wanna chant we should approach chanting in the mood of humility; of course, there is pride there of my parampara
kirtan is something that everyone can easily participate in
WITHOUT JUDGMENT
Philosophy is at the head and deity worship is something you can observe, but kirtan allows community – building to happen immediately in a beautiful way
Everyone is experiencing the holy name on the level that they are
DANCING IS NATURAL
Usually there will be a group of people who can’t stop themselves from dancing and others will say: “I am okay I am sitting here just in a meditative way relishing the kirtan”
Every city, every town, every village is waiting for you
GO TO YOGA STUDIOS & CULTURAL CENTERS
Most of those studios would be open to someone coming in and saying “hey I do chanting, I do kirtan. It might even be possible to develop a regular Bhakti yoga program there.
“I just wanna share what i love to do!”
OFFER KIRTAN SESSIONS & VEGETARIAN CLASSES
People will be interested in such things. “I am not trying to convert anyone, I just wanna find a way to share with those people that may resonate with my message”
in kirtan presentations
HAVE HIGH STANDARDS
When we are doing more of what I would call a presentation of kirtan or Bhakti yoga for a large group of people, only those who are competent to play specific instruments are invited to play.
good combination for kids and new people!
MUSIC, STORIES, PICTURES
When people ask me to share more of the philosophy, I love telling stories. I tell my kids stories about Krishna. We look at pictures and try to do as much as we can together.
