Baraka hosts special guests in Bloomington! The traveling monks HH Vishnu Swami, HH Avadoota Swami, Pankaj, Krsna Prem Das and more came into Bloomington on May 8th. First we did kirtan together at Global Gifts for World Fair Trade Day. The kirtan was ecstatic and many people on the Btown streets were awed and amazed by the surprise of loud kirtan on the central city square on this sunny Saturday! Then we went to The Tibetan Cultural Center of Bloomington and met many Tibetan monks (for the Dali Lama was just about to make his yearly visit to Bloomington), there were monks everywhere and Dali Lama buzz all around.
We did more kirtan in the main temple room at the Cultural center and then a friend David Haberman aka Prem Das (IU Prof of Hinduism, and fellow Vaishnava) met us at the Center and we spoke much about his scholarly books and topics about India, Vrndavan, Sacred Rivers and Trees, Kirtan, and Krsna! Then we did another ecstatic kirtan in which Prem Das led with HH Vishnu Swami on Mridanga. Video of this is below!
And finally Sakshi-I had the monks come into his late-night Radio show on 91.3 WFHB for interviews with the monks and more Kirtan!!!! Needless to say it was a fun and kirtan-filled day and evening!
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