Soul on Fire #079 | Transcendental Art by Inmates
Namaste
Today is Radhastami which is a celebration of Radha. She is the feminine aspect of Godhead. She is who we call to when we say “Hare"
Here’s a talk by the famous Radhanatha swami about Radha
Art Talk on Today
Join Gustaf from Stockholm and I as we discuss how to make graffiti a transcendental activity and a real contribution to others.
https://www.thebigidea.nz/events/231663-transcendental-graffiti
Take me there:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83679932874?pwd=WmFUaFppWTh6R216aDhybjJqYUp4QT09
Poem
By Bhakta Carl Sheppard
He’s off to the pastures, He’s gone out of sight
Her girlfriends console Her yet She’s still not right
Her blossom is wilting, now nothing is all
She’s shadowed from His light, in darkness She falls
Her sight has no target, without Him She’s blind
He’s not there to unlock the chains on Her mind
She and He are parted, two points but no line
Her Dark Cloud is gone now, She’s lost Her sunshine
The emptiness fills Her, a hole in Her heart
Each moment an eon now that They’re apart
An ocean of sadness in anguish She swims
Her hope sinks, She’s drowning, She’ll die without Him
No notes that can save Her, She longs for His flute
No music, no dancing, Her life’s song is mute
The feeling of RADHE, the apex of love
The essence of rasa in Vraj up above
So few understand Her, for this boon I pay
To be a Manjari, to know Sri RADHE
Hip-hop
Listen to imaginary food. feat. 10DUCKETS by TREBWON.
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ZJcWq
Art from the cell.
Painting by inmate Brian B. —from California. In this particular prison, Brian didn’t have access to any art supplies. He made his own brush, and used food to produce the “paint”: ground coffee (for brown); M&M candies soaked in water (for all other colors); and toothpaste for a base. Ingenuity in the service of the Lord. Nothing can stops devotional service!
Mother Syama-priya had said that this painting did indeed smell like food! :)
Drawing by inmate Brian B. —from California—depicting an inmate chanting in his cell, in front of his altar.
Drawing by inmate Brian B. —from California—depicting an inmate chanting in his cell, in front of his altar.
Graffiti
Muchukunda Dasa
Book Distribution
One really nice young African American man, a hip hop artist with dreadlocks and tattoo, from our neighborhood walks in for lunch and says " I'm a Hare Krishna, what religion y'all practice" ?
Just to tease him I asked him what is a hare krishna ? He goes "it's the original consciousness 😁". I asked him how he became a hare krishna and he replied that he found the audio of Srimad Bhagavatam online and he is on the 9th canto now. So I pointed to the book shelf and said those are Srimad Bhagavatam Bhagavatam books. He was like " no way , you can't be serious, yall Hare Krishna too ? " All of us were laughing so hard. He says " I'm about to become free from the modes of material nature, I have some questions about that".
I requested him and his wife to come for kirtan and reading on Thursday so we could discuss more. He also was going to come back with some money to get the full set of Bhagavatam books . He didn't have japa beads at this point, he was just singing the mantra all day out loud. We gave him japa beads today.
Ps: he did come back with laxmi to get a full sb set, that's how we were able to get the picture of him with the books. Yhs Shastra krit dasa
Canvas
Hello, you are promoting the art work of a known pedophile Brian Babinski. Please take this disgusting idiots art off of your website if you have any sense of justice and compassion for his victims.
On February 9, 2011, while confined at Coalinga State Hospital awaiting adjudication of a petition to have him committed as a sexually violent predator (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et. seq.), Babinski walked through a metal detector causing it to alert. During a subsequent search of a folder he was carrying, a police officer found two memory cards that were seized and examined without a warrant and one was found to contain child pornography. On June 15, 2011, when he was arrested pursuant to a warrant that was issued based on the pornography found on the memory cards, other memory cards containing child pornography were found in a sock that was sewn into his boxers.