Praising the Lord at Lake Ella
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Channel: Krishna Kripa Das · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism
Just as we just began chanting at Lake Ella in Tallahassee, an eccentric old man came by, singing the nursery rhyme “Itsy Bitsy Spider” and collecting donations for his presidential campaign. As he had a purple “jesus is lord” sticker on his guitar, I doubted I could get him to chant “Hare Krishna,” so I asked him if he knew the Christian spiritual “Amazing Grace.” He smiled, and said, “Yes. It is one of my favorite songs!” And so he played it on his guitar and sang, and Nama Kirtan Prabhu played the mrdanga, I played the karatalas, and Carl, the didgeridoo. A young Afro-American couple took pictures, and I stopped playing the karatalas to take this video. He was very happy and felt that God had directed him to come to Lake Ella that day, as he usually sings elsewhere. I felt victorious as I got him to go from singing nursery rhymes to praising the Lord. You never know what will happen on harinama.
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