Pundarika: I’ve heard some devotees say that wild ecstatic dancing is not the right way to perform kirtan but that the “Prabhupada step” is the ideal way. But once when our Nama hatta sankirtan party was in Hawaii with Srila Prabhupada, there was a big kirtan one evening. I remember Yasodanandan Swami jumped like a mile high as he pounded his mridanga almost into dust. He was leaping so high and the Nama hatta devotees and all the Hawaii devotees were dancing like mad men in that kirtan. Srila Prabhupada was on his vyasasana and at the end of the kirtan Srila Prabhupada began to say the “Jaya Om” prayers. When he got to “All glories to the assembled devotees,” he changed it to “All glories to the assembled dancers, all glories to the assembled dancers.”
Reference: Remembrances by Sidhanta Das- Folio Vedabase
