Krishna’s Kirtan
// Jason & Pia, vocalists & percussionistsKRISHNA’S KIRTAN are a devotional chant group from San Diego, California. They have played at Raw Spirit Festival 2009 in Santa Barbara, and at Bhaktifest 2009 in Joshua Tree. The group’s leader and primary vocalist Jason Rotman has also sung with world-renowned kirtan singers and chanters such as Vaiyasaki Das, Temple Bhajan Band, Wah, and Wynne Paris. Krishna’s Kirtan are highly inspired by the message of bhakti yoga delivered by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Jason and Pia are also the Founders of We Love Superfoods, providing the finest selection of healthy and high-nutrient foods on the planet.
Websites: www.krishnaskirtan.com and www.welovesuperfoods.com
Photo: Jason & Pia
Interview:
The spiritual significance of music for us is that singing kirtan is an expression of the pure love of the soul towards God. The Supreme Person, the Supreme Being – God – is called Krishna in the yoga tradition. Krishna means the all- attractive One. Krishna says that great souls are always chanting His glories [Bhagavad Gita, 9.14]. Singing, or spiritual music, is a very natural expression of a soul who wants to express the glory of God, or wants to contact God, or who wants to cry out to God, or who loves God so much that the blissful chanting of the Holy Names of God is the inevitable action due to single- pointed focus of the individual heart and consciousness on God.
The Maha-Mantra: “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare”, this is the suggested mantra for this age of Kali in which we live. This mantra is actually Krishna and Radha, and all of their pastimes. By chanting this mantra, the individual soul becomes purified by the inherent spirituality of the Maha-Mantra. The soul is always active, and there is infinite variety in Spirit, in God. The sphere of music allows us to express our love with many different melodies and rhythms. The spiritual significance of music is that the melody of our soul’s love for God is always playing, it is up to us to recognize it and express it. This touches other people and creates more love in everyone’s heart.
“The spiritual significance of music for us is that singing kirtan is an expression of the pure love of the soul towards God.” – Jason & Pia, vocalists and percussionists in Krishna’s Kirtan
