How to learn and try to do Bhajan ..within ISKCON or outside, and the examples of other acaryas

In ISKCON,  the idea is to understand how Prabhupada sings bhajans..it is not just singing but deep meditations,  like jappa , he spends 25 mins.. on just one bhajan at times , repeatedly singing over and over the same trancendental words of our acaryas .The point being , we should learn to do bhajans the way he teaches by his example , it’s not a melodious song for our enjoyment but these bhajans are full of prayer and a hankering for perfection,  or in higher states , deep separation and a feeling of helplessness .

So in our line we follow in the footsteps of the acaryas,  we do our prayers through their prayers,  and in our bhajans , we place ourselves beneath them , they are actually doing the pure bhajan , and we worship those who do bhajan , not thinking ” we are doing bhajan ” as Srila Bhaktisiddanta Goswami taught we place ourselves under those great souls and worship the worshiper , or those who wrote the bhajan , or can sing it , as Prabhupada can .

More on Bhajan later ..

Spiritual bhajan , live for the moment.

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur used to say live in the moment and progress ye will call .
Spiritual silence means living for the spiritual moment in the land of the ever new …..
And being silent to material hankering and lamentations .
In the spiritual ever new realm, there is unlimited varigatedness , and its far from being silent . Although there is a silence of material hankering, they are conspicuous by their absence…
Have you experienced listening to your favourite music …is it not a reflection of the ever new .
Or your favourite sweet ..is it not a reflection of ever new..
Spiritual consciousness is ever new ……and increasingly attractive
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