• Facilitate group chanting of Cosmic Chants and SRF Bhajans to awaken devotion and interiorize the consciousness for deep meditation

• Familiarize with and embody chanting principles taught by Guruji and SRF (including accurate melodies, rhythms, blend, effective use of tempo, dynamics, harmonies/drones/tapping)

• Provide effective accompaniment for commemorative services, long meditations, and other select services/events where kirtan is requested

• Maintain the purity and accuracy of Guruji's chanting techniques and be a positive example that other Temples and Centers can follow

• Embody a spirit of development through committee members' individual efforts at improvement as well as group rehearsals, training opportunities, and culture of regular feedback

• Develop attitude of service and harmony by honoring the organizational structure and taking direction, commensurate with a deep sense of responsibility of representing Guruji's work to the public

• Ensure effective chant leaders are scheduled to lead high visibility kirtans

• Deepening ones own practice of chanting through serving as a kirtan leader / player

• Experience the joy of serving devotees and visitors of Guruji's Encinitas Temple

• Strengthen divine friendship with other members of kirtan committee

• Occasionally introduce new approved chants & variations to the congregation

• Occasionally add instruments to kirtan repertoire to enhance sonic textures

(Note: some of these are worthy goals but are better pursued personally / informally as they aren't goals for official SRF kirtan activities)

• Expand the boundaries of the chant repertoire beyond the Cosmic Chants and SRF Bhajans

• Provide opportunities for all members who want to express their chanting/instrument styles in front of the Temple membership

• Contribute to being seen as a "chanting artist" through considering kirtan leading at SRF as a "gig" or credential toward promoting other kirtan gigs

• Personally advertising one's kirtan sessions at Encinitas Temple

• Promoting individual styles, creative approaches, eccentricities

• Lead kirtans in which an individuals' personality is strongly felt as opposed to "getting out of the way" for God and Guru to flow through

• Over-emotionalism, performance-affectation, preaching-affectation

• Provide an outlet for socializing and jamming for devotees with passion for music

• Developing and sharing one's own chant compositions or creative use of the chant medium (e.g. setting an affirmation to music, or using lyrics variations within Cosmic Chants)

• Doing things only because "we've been doing it that way" (better to evolve positively toward ever-increasing expression of Guruji's ideals for chanting)

• Distribute kirtan leading and playing opportunities equally among all interested participants

• Willingness to take feedback is a requirement for serving in roles that involve presenting Guruji's teachings to the public, such as kirtan

• In music one gets to a point of being able to accept feedback and take it impersonally/dispassionately so it's not felt as a personal affront

• Keep in mind the different spheres of expression: home alone, informally in groups of friends, performances outside of SRF, it is different from playing in the temples where we are representing Guruji's teachings