Thursday, April 2, 2009
Re: Jaya Radha Madhava
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!
Dandavats and obeissances.
When Guruji was talking about the offenses of accepting money to sing the holy names, I thought how George Harrison had some devotional songs like My Sweet Lord on his album All Things Must Pass and he accepted money for his album. I then thought how My Sweet Lord was the #1 song in the world for over a month and really helped spread Krishna Consciousness worldwide. I also remembered that there was a court ruling against George where he had to surrender the majority of his royalties from My Sweet Lord and the album All Things Must Pass and I never understood why Krishna would put George through this ordeal from that song and album, but now I understand. Krishna wanted to save George from the offense of making money off the holy names...The Lord was showing him mercy by taking away the money. Here is a snippet I got off some website:
Following the song's release, musical similarities between "My Sweet Lord" and The Chiffons' hit "He's So Fine" led to a lengthy legal battle over the rights to? the composition. Billboard magazine, in an article dated 6 March 1971, stated that Harrison's royalty payments from the recording had been halted worldwide. In the U.S. federal court decision in? the case, known as Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music,[2] Harrison was found to have unintentionally copied the earlier song. He was ordered to surrender the majority of royalties from "My Sweet Lord" and partial royalties from All Things Must Pass.
Sincerely Jagannatha Gauranga dasa
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