Kirtan Mandli

12/11/2025

Due to popular demand, and missing the November Kirtan, we bring you our last kirtan for the year in December.

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12/11/2025

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26/10/2025

On a rainy Saturday, what to do?

26/10/2025

From our dear friends a Warburton Kirtan

21/10/2025

No day trip to Perth is complete without a divine lunch

20/10/2025

A few bhajans from our Dewali celebrations.

19/10/2025

A few snippets from, a moody, Warburton Kirtan

10/09/2025

Our very lovely friends Vicki and Ron at IndiaJiva have just posted Shunyata.

Discover the Shunyata mantra, a meditation on purity, spaciousness and inner peace.This ancient chant, “oṃ svabhāva śuddhāḥ sarvadharmāḥ svabhāva śuddho ‘haṃ...

08/09/2025

Meanwhile, at Kirtan and Cookies

05/09/2025

Why is Ram called Ramachandra?

In sanskrit, Rama translates as “dear”, or “beloved”, “The god of love”.
Chandra translates as Moon.

Many seem to equate this to meaning Ram has a face which shines like the moon, or other similar qualities.
However, there is a deeper meaning to the name Ramachandra.

When we look through the first few verses of Ramayana, this becomes clearer.
Narada asks Valmiki to pen an epic about a great person who was living on the earth at the time. Valmiki then lists the qualities a great person ought to have

The qualities of greatness, as given by Valmiki, are as follows:

1. Gunavan: Approachable / mixes with one all
2. Viravan: valor
3. Dharmagya: Knows Dharma
4. Krutagya - knows to repay /remember the help he received
5. SatyavAkya - Who only speaks the truth
6. DrudaVrata - One who is fixed on his goals
7. Charitrena Yukta - One who is legendary
8. Sarva bhoota hita: One who thinks good for all living beings
9. Vidvan - one with deep knowledge
10. Samarta - intelligent/ Street Smart
11. riyadarshana - looks pleasing
12. Atmavan - knows the self
13. Jitakroda - One has won anger
14. MatimAn - Always conscious
15. Anasyuka - devoid of jealousy
16. JataRosha - one who is feared even by the great devas (kasya bibyati devascha jata roshasya sayuge)

These sixteen qualities of greatness are called the Sixteen Kalas (Kalā (कला) portion)
In vedic astrology, the moon also has 16 Kalas, or phases.
Each Kala is a unit of the moon's waxing,or waning, and holds symbolic meaning, with the full moon (Purnima) being the point where all Kalas are fully manifest,
Although born in Surya Kula as the 8th Rudra, Rama is called Ramachandra as he represents the sixteen Kalas of the Moon.

27/08/2025

Happy Ganeshachaturti