KIRTAN: Adaptation or Spiritual Dilution? 🙏 Here we see a kirtan festival with a rave atmosphere: girls on boys’ shoulders, stroboscopic lights, party energy... and a swami and brahmacaris leading the singing. Is this the evolution of sankirtana harina in the West? Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu introduced sankirtana as an accessible practice for everyone. Srila Prabhupada adapted external forms by bringing the kirtan to the West. But where is the line between adapting the form and changing the essence? Tradition teaches that sankirtana must cultivate bhakti-rasa (devotional feeling), not kama-rasa (sensual feeling). The kirtan is to purify the heart, not for sensory gratification. If we create prof