The heading sounds very vague as you as the reader must be wondering what I am taking about? Yeah once again I will say “short form of Krishna Conscious terms” to make sure that you got my point.

This morning while I was in the bathroom I had a conversation with my friend Dayananda (my neighbor & friend in need and deed) who was shaving even before I got there.

We began the conversation with our own terms like ” What’s up dwag! (Dog). [For the sensitive and minor readers…this is the language used in New York City to call out a friend in a friendly manner, so don’t get upset that I am using a profane language and calling someone Dog! (Oops I did it again)]

He replied back and asked me if I attended today’s “Guru Puj (spelled as goo ru pooj)” instead of “Guru Puja” One I would like to touch few corners on this issue and then go back to the main one. It has become a trend in the western Krishna Conscious societies to make every term used in our day to day life in a short form. For instance they would call ” Govardhan Puj” instead of “Govardhan Puja” and ” Mangals” instead of Mangal Arotik”. I wonder why is it so difficult for some people to add extra “a” and call it in the proper way how it is taught to us by the great Vaishnavas. I have debated on this topic with many friends and always insisted them to use the proper and full term. How vague will your name sound if I call you ” Shyama” or “Shyams” instead of “Shyam Pandey” or “Shyam” ? I mean I am open to ideas that people call me with different names but at least don’t try to do a remix on my real name people! For what so ever reason I love my name as its Krishna’s name.
So coming back to where we were…yeah in the bathroom taking to Dayananda…I
tried to correct him like I always do for people who forget that they have to use “a” at the end of it. Dayananda pointed out that I should have been a teacher then a IT guy. I told him that I love to be a teacher, in fact I wanted to start a Hindi speaking class in New Vrindaban for the people who would like to sound like me or rather like us Indians like ….”I am actually wanting to know what time it is?” (People see lots of English movies and if they find an Indian actor in that movie saying something, they find that he is cracking jokes in each statement and laugh to their eternity even though the actor is seriously trying to play his part. Also for some or other reason these film makers always try to portray a “Gujarati” or “Punjabi” with a turban to show a Indian actor. I wonder if these people have only known about 2 places in India and forget to know about the rest part of it.)

A thought came to my mind that at this point people are just forgetting or omitting to use just a “a” from the word and how will it sound if it would get short to just using one letter from each word. I and Dayanada tried to come up with few short forms of some popularly used Krishna Conscious terms.

For example:
“GP” for Guru Puja.
Statement: Did you go for GP today?

“MA” for Mangala Arotik
Statement: Did you attend “MA” today?

“GOD” for Greeting of Deities.
Statement: Did you go for “GOD” today?

Similarly many short forms can be framed out like:
“SBC” for Srimad Bhagvatam Class
“MP” for Morning Programs.
“EA” for evening Arotik.
“SP” for Shyam Pandey or Shyam Prabhu (just trying to be humble)

I wonder how many more such short forms could be formed from every word we use
in our daily Krishna Consciousness.

Anyway, I am not here to teach you to strictly use those terms all time but I will say  that if you try using them, you would derive more sense of completeness and will get the same feeling what I feel in educating people about it.

Thank you very much,

SP
(oops…am I not suppose to say a full word “Shyam Pandey”…anyway this is my blog, I can call myself anything I want, its none of your business…just kidding)