Writing songs for Krsna

[Bhakti Vikasa Swami]

Your question is whether you can utilize your inclination to play the guitar
and write songs about Krishna in devotional manner of activity. ... So this
playing guitar and writing of songs is not very important thing. You can write
and play, but one cannot take it very seriously. If any Vaisnava is writing
song about Krishna, he should have realized himself what is Krishna, just like
our great saints and acaryas like Madhvacarya, Ramanujacarya, Rupa Goswami, six
Gosvamis, Bilvamangala, Bhaktivinode Thakura, like that. They are self-realized
souls, therefore if they write something song about Krishna that will be
perfectly from the transcendental platform, without any tinge of mundane
influence or nonsense imagination. Unless he comes in the category of these big
Vaisnava personalities, his manufacturing some songs will be misleading to
himself and to others. And unless his writing of songs can be accepted as
gospel, like Vedas, then such writing is simply disturbance and is diverting
the attention from the subject matter only. That songs writing we cannot regard
very seriously. That will spoil the whole thing. But you can utilize your
propensity to write poems and articles for BTG, for singing in the kirtana,
like that. That will make you very happy. Now you just apply yourself for
becoming qualified to see Krishna face-to-face, then you will be able to
actually write songs about Krishna.
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From Srila Prabhupada's letter to Sankarsana -- 18 December, 1972