"Mating, eating, fighting, sleeping
These are four principles of this world.
Such are people's motivations,
Such are people's inspirations,
Such are their goals!
Birth, diseases, old age and death
These are four sufferings of this world.
Such are people's enemies,
Such are people's adversaries,
Such are their fears!
Truthfulness, purity, mercy, austenity
These are four forgotten rules of this world.
Such is people's antidote,
Such is people's only hope,
Such is their victory!"
Omkara 'Victory'
Video Clip of 'Maya' (13MB Quicktime)
"Good and bad
Right and wrong
Hot and cold
Big and small
Soft and hard
Brightness and darkness
Black and white
Happiness and distress
Get free from dualisms
Find your spiritual nature
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare"
Omkara 'Maya'
BIOGRAPHY
Omkara came into being during the holidays of 1998 in a town in the South of Poland. For one and a half years they played as a band of four and after this period of time the lead-singer Mukunda-Priya left and was replaced by Nityangi (Natalia). After two years of playing, in 2001 Dominik quit, and a year later Jajko and Rufa also left the band. Two new members - Bartek from Eksmisja (bass) and Szpara (guitar) - took their place. After about a year they parted with Bartek, as he was replaced by Pluton of Nyshynga (guitar). After a few months we said goodbye to Szpara (Marcin Parcia), who had stolen their equipment (!) and fled the country. At the beginning of this year Rufa (bass) had come back to them.
Omkara played at the Polish Woodstock festival, where the Krishna's 'Village of Peace' tent is set up each year to bring the message of Krishna consciousness to the youth of the country. Omkara continue to teach the philosophy through their song lyrics and through articles written on their website.
ARTICLES
Our way
We all wonder why, despite so many revolutions, protests and warnings, this world still remains such a rotten place. What is worse, we observe it consist in increasing degradation. More and more people ask themselves this question.
It seems that the answer is as simple. It happens like this because everyone wants to change the world except himself. So many manifestos, so many pointing the others.... so many hypocrisy.
We
think that the change of the society for the better is possible, in
spite of the history has been teaching us
something completely different since the beginning. As young people
we have committed many mistakes and we will still commit them for a
long time, but at the present moment we perceive the role of humility
towards all what surrounds us. We believe that it is possible to live
happily in this dominated by material desires world.
To fulfill it however, we have to derive pleasure from different source; we have to look for it inside us. First change yourself and world will take benefit of it for sure.
Omkara - that's just a few persons who try to concentrate on their inside development. Our signpost is the studies of ancient Wed and instructions form people more or less realized internally. This process is almost a foundation of what we are building with Omkara, because our texts touch up on many more particular elements of life.... and death.
So,certainly one of them is vegetarianism and setting free from stimulants or clearing our life starting from the outside. The next important subject is internal investigating, that is who we are and where can we possibly head to. This is a spiritual zone, which we would like to cast light on, because we know haw many people, thanks to false propaganda, feel disgust hearing only the words "soul", "religion" or "God".
We
also witness how people from the other environments judge us, looking
through the prism of our membership to Hare Krishna. We have already
managed to hear dozens of accusations about sentimentality, sexism,
blind faith, fanaticism and membership to a kult. Okay, if the symptoms
of these phenomenons really occur in members of Omkara we will try do
everything to correct it. Meanwhile we suggest all those people to concentrate
on their own way and their own shortcomings.
Yoyo