Re: Jaya Radha Madhava

Nityananda!! Gauranga!! Hare Krishna!! However sweet the voice, the only problem is that it is not very internally spiritually beneficial to hear from one who is not exactly a Gaudiya Vaishnava and thus not be following the regulative principles and may be professionally singing other mundane romantic songs for money. However, I do think that one may still have feelings towards Lord Krishna and one may try to put in a lot of efforts to try to invoke devotion within onseself while singing though that will still remain superficial unless one accepts Lord Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and as Master of all the demigods in one's heart and then accepts Lord Gauranga as Lord Krishna Himself. One symptom of a true devotee singer would be that he or she would never ask money for singing the Holy Kirtanas and Songs about Lord Gaura Krishna. The singing of non-devotee but pious singers may sometimes be used to attract new souls to Bhakti as it creates a somewhat entertaining and attractive situation with some spiritual value but serious and advanced spiritual practitioners should try to hear the singing and speaking from only those souls who chant the Holy Names daily, follow the regulative principles and Ekadashi, worship the Tulasi plant and are in faithful knowledge about Nitaai, Gaura and Krishna Tattva.

Shrila Prabhupada writes in this regard:

"...One should not hear the statements of Srimad-Bhagavatam from professional reciters, or else they will not be effective. Quoting from Padma Purana, Sri Sanatana Gosvami has strictly forbidden us to hear about the activities of the Lord and His devotees from the mouths of non-devotees:

Padma Purana states:
avaisnava-mukhodgirnam, putam hari-kathamrtam
sravanam naiva kartavyam, sarpocchistam yatha payah

�One should not hear anything about Krsna from a non-Vaisnava. Milk touched by the lips of a serpent has poisonous effects; similarly, talks about Krsna given by a non-Vaisnava are also poisonous.� One must be a bona fide devotee, and then he can preach and impress devotional service upon his listeners. [SB 6.17.41]

Daaso'smi, BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada.

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