Sravanam Kirtanam.......Really?
Well this is my first blog even though I set up the blogspot a long time ago. I really liked the name I picked Sravana Kirtana,
which means hearing and chanting. I felt like that would be a really good title and purpose for a blog. But the truth is I think I was actually in love with the "idea" about blogging about hearing and chanting about the Lord (the hearing in chanting in sravana kirtana is meant to be about God, Krishna, not just any old thing.) My reality is that I became so concerned about blogging something relevant that had to do with hearing and chanting that it wasn't really blogging. My idea of blogging is that there is some degree of spontaneity of thought to it. Even if you do some research the thought needs to come naturally not be forced. So then what, write nothing? Well that's what been happening. But then I was feeling like I wanted to express myself. Should I waste this perfectly good blogspot, that happens to have a really good name, even though the name is misleading? I chose no...obviously. I decided to just write what I thinking and feeling then try to end with my most current thoughts about the Lord. And suddenly.... here we are at the end. So what are my current thoughts about the Lord. Well I'm in a mood of gratitude. Lately I've been thinking about Krishna's mercy. It's pretty easy to look at my life and think, thank you Govinda for this or that, but recently I heard about some hard times that others are going through. The thought crossed my mind that I have no idea how many things that the Lord has sheltered me from that I don't even know or think about. In every case that is sad or terrible, there but for Krishna's grace am I. So I would like to praise Krishna for protecting me from all the things that i don't even know about and staying with me through all of my bad karma.
"You are the Supreme Lord to be worshipped by every living being. Thus I fall down to offer You my respects and ask Your mercy. Please tolerate the wrongs that I may have done to You and bear with me as a father with his son, or a friend with his friend, or a love with his beloved." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is, 11.44
