Chanting

A large part of our time here has been spent at another farm. Some of our food comes from this other farm because we go over at least once a week to help them harvest for their farmers markets (of which they go to 5 a week!).

This other farm is beautiful with something like 17 acres and 15-20 people working on it. They aren't on the WWOOF program though, they get their workers by word of mouth. If the farming was all of it, Pramod and I would probably love living there and helping with the gardening. However, the farming is only a way to sustain them. The main point of this place is that it is for spiritual growth. All free time is spent studying the Bhagavad Gita or chanting on their mala beads. They chant every morning and every night.

“Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare Hare”

We go, along with the other farm (who has the Saturday morning yoga and soccer) on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. They have chanting for over 30 minutes, dinner (which is always great! There is a professional chef living among them), then a spiritual talk led by the guy who owns the farm. Sunday is the Rama Pizza Party which is open to the public and lots and lots of people come (some just come for the dinner part).

Check out this video of the chanting, it's different than any kind of chanting either of us have ever done before. There's only one glimpse of the dancing but you can hear the music (I was trying to hide the fact that I was recording). I left in the beginning of the 2nd call and response so that you can see that with every time the leader sings he is noticably speeding it up. It's awesome. The chanting is a lot of fun! Everyone is singing at the top of their lungs and dancing like we're at a rave. At home I wind down the day relaxing, watching TV. Here we're dancing and singing like there's no tomorrow!