Gopinath

1. Gopinath

2. Gaya Gora Madhur Svare

3. Manasa Deho Geho

4. Nrsimha Pranam

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About the Artist
Bhakti means devotion to the Supreme Lord; siddha means spiritual perfection; artha means wealth, a fortune; das means servant, and anu is a Sanskrit particle signifying the extension of a relationship, and is also a diminutive. So Bhaktisiddhartha Dasanudas means, "Servant of the servant of one who is greatly fortunate and wealthy in devotion to the Supreme Lord." Since Bhaktisiddhartha is a disciple of Abhaya Caranaravindam Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the great world teacher of devotional service to the Lord, this is a fitting name.

Bhaktisiddhartha was born in Florida and grew up near New York City. He began working with electronics and computers in high school, where he taught himself digital logic and won several science fairs with his innovative projects. After he received perfect 800 scores in 3 out of 4 SAT examinations, MIT offered him a scholarship in Nuclear Physics, but Bhaktisiddhartha turned it down to pursue his first love: music. A talented and largely self-taught musician, Bhaktisiddhartha won First Chair Flute in the All-American High School Band competition in his senior year, and toured the US and Canada with the group.

Bhaktisiddhartha went on to earn a BA in Musical Composition from Montclair University, working his way through school by playing jazz gigs and repairing early computers. While at Montclair, Bhaktisiddhartha won a gold medal in the prestigious NYU Young Composers' Contest. This exposure led to a job with New York's Ames Agency as a television commercial and film composer. At Ames, Bhaktisiddhartha wrote and produced the award-winning score for Armstrong Tire's 'Tiger Paws' spots, the longest-running advertising campaign in television history.

Not satisfied with commercial success, Bhaktisiddhartha moved to New Mexico where he worked with early analog and digital computers in research programs at Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories and White Sands/Alamogordo Proving Grounds. He also performed a series of groundbreaking laboratory experiments exploring the effects of music and sound on living beings. The results of this work inspired him to study Vedic music with Indian maestro Ali Akbar Khan in San Rafael, California. He quickly became expert in Indian raga composition and improvisation, using voice, flute, esraj, sarangi, mrdanga and other exotic instruments.

At this time Bhaktisiddhartha made a broad survey of Eastern philosophical and spiritual teachings. By great good fortune he met his spiritual master, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, a fully self-realized pure devotee and renunciant, prolific author, profound devotional musician and philosopher in the Gaudiya Vaisnava lineage of Bengal, and was inspired to study the wisdom path of teh Esoteric Teaching of the Vedas with him.

Bhaktisiddhartha became a Vedic monk, accepting formal initiation from Bhaktivedanta Swami in 1974 and ordination as a Vedic brahmana in 1976. He lived and studied in traditional Vaisnava and Tantric communities in India and various parts of the world for 20 years. He learned Sanskrit, temple music and dance, fire ceremonies, Vedanta, and different forms of yoga including hatha-yoga, raja-yoga, mantra-yoga and bhakti-yoga. Traveling four times around the world on teaching tours, he also received advanced initiations in esoteric philosophy and practices from several important spiritual teachers, including a six-week residential retreat on Madhyamika, the Heart of Buddhism with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

A powerful presenter, during the 70s and 80s Bhaktisiddhartha led classes and workshops on Tantra and the Vaisnava way of wisdom in Santa Cruz and Harbin Hot Springs, California; gave a week-long residential Tantra workshop in Waimea, Maui; presented a 3-day workshop on sacred chants in Soho, London; taught Puranic wisdom and Sanskrit in Paris, France; toured and lectured in places as diverse as Alexandria, Greece; Constantinople, Turkey; Hamburg, Germany; Bern, Austria; Belgrade

Product Description
This CD is a labor of love dedicated to my spiritual masters, Srila Prabhupäda and Srila Näräyana Mahäraja. By their blessings, may it help the listeners remember Krsna and draw closer to Him. I am not a great musician, but I have a desire to glorify the Lord by whatever skills and talents He has graciously bestowed on me. This CD is the expression of a sober, mature devotional mood in the early stages of renunciation. It has a serious, almost brooding atmosphere of regret for the mistakes and errors of life, and a deep nostalgia for the pastimes of Sri Hari in the spiritual world.

Most of the melodies on this CD were composed by Visnujäna Svämi, one of the first sannyasi disciples of A.C. Bhaktivedänta Svämi Prabhupäda and a great musician. Visnujäna composed these melodies at the request of his beloved Gurudeva, and we think they reveal his greatness. Thank you for listening. Sing along if you like!

"Gazing at Krsna's picture, Radharani said: 'O splendid transcendental youth, in this charming picture I see Your form shine like the flames of a submarine volcano, or like black moonlight. Please cool My eyes. We are simple and honest. Ah! Ah! Why is it that we do not know who You are?' " [Rupa Gosvämi, Ujjväla-nilamani]

Bhaktisiddhärtha Däsänudäs is a devotional artist whose vision of the spiritual world has blossomed under the guidance and inspiration of his gurus. His orchestrations, while dark, sinuous and masculine in the tradition of Sibelius and Shostakovitch, also shine with a kind of transcendental romantic 'black moonlight,' revealing the confidential pastimes of Goloka Vrndävan, the highest planet in the spiritual sky.

He transforms these simple Bengali bhäjans into a passionate plea for mercy from his divine Lord. The arrangements, spare and austere yet ornamented with intense spiritual feelings, convey a profound confidence born of a lifetime of sädhana.

Gopinäth This is a song by Bhaktivinoda Thäkura. It is the lament of a devotee who feels he has wasted his life in material activities and is begging for the mercy of his beloved Lord.

Gäya Gorä Madhur Svare This is an ecstatic bhäjan by Bhaktivinoda Thäkura in the mood of preaching the glories of the Holy Name of the Lord.

Manasa Deho Geho This song is also by Bhaktivinoda Thäkura. A pure devotee wants to surrender everything—mind, body and home—to his divine Master Sri Krsna.

Nrsimha Pranäm This is a traditional song of obeisance and glorification to Lord Nrsimhadeva, the half-man, half-lion incarnation of Krsna who protects His devotees. The words are in Sanskrit with free-verse renderings in English.

Tracks:

Gopinath
Gaya Gora Madhur Svare
Manasa Deho Geho
Nrsimha Pranam

Album Description

This CD is a labor of love dedicated to my spiritual masters, Srila Prabhupäda and Srila Näräyana Mahäraja. By their blessings, may it help the listeners remember Krsna and draw closer to Him. I am not a great musician, but I have a desire to glorify the Lord by whatever skills and talents He has graciously bestowed on me. This CD is the expression of a sober, mature devotional mood in the early stages of renunciation. It has a serious, almost brooding atmosphere of regret for the mistakes and errors of life, and a deep nostalgia for the pastimes of Sri Hari in the spiritual world.

Gopinäth This is a song by Bhaktivinoda Thäkura. It is the lament of a devotee who feels he has wasted his life in material activities and is begging for the mercy of his beloved Lord.

Gäya Gorä Madhur Svare This is an ecstatic bhäjan by Bhaktivinoda Thäkura in the mood of preaching the glories of the Holy Name of the Lord.

Manasa Deho Geho This song is also by Bhaktivinoda Thäkura. A pure devotee wants to surrender everything—mind, body and home—to his divine Master Sri Krsna.

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