PIERRE EDEL BRINGS KRISHNA CONSCIOUS MESSAGE TO MILLIONS

A HARE KRISHNA DEVOTEE PARTICIPATES AS CONTENSTANT OF RUSSIAN ' THE VOICE' TV SHOW.
THIS CONTESTANT BRINGS KRISHNA CONSCIOUS MESSAGE TO MILLIONS.
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By: Madhava Smullen ISKCON News on Oct. 9, 2014

Pierre Edel (Premamaya Vasudeva Das) a beautiful soul carrying French and Russian origins started his journey at the Russian 'The Voice' programme. Having Lord Jagannath upfront and kanthimala on his neck, he started sharing his loving heart with hundreds of thousands of people.

ISKCON devotee Premamaya Vasudeva Das (Pierre Edel) has reached the third stage in Season 3 of the Russian version of TV singing competition show The Voice, an international phenomenon.

At every opportunity along the way, he’s sharing what he knows about Krishna Consciousness, vegetarianism, and sacred mantras with judges, contestants, and journalists.

But Premamaya, 27, is not proselytizing – he’s speaking from the heart. For him, Krishna Consciousness is part of a very personal journey – a discovery that turned around a troubled life.

To the materially-inclined, it would at first seem that Pierre Edel was living the dream. Born in Paris, France, to a French father and Russian mother, he grew up in a very wealthy family. He started playing the piano at six, and bought his first guitar at thirteen. At seventeen, he and his band Argentum Mori had already been signed to French label Wild Palms.

But the band was dropped by the label, and although Pierre went on to self-release ten albums, play over 300 gigs and produce many of his own videos, he never broke out in the French music scene.

Immersing himself deeper and deeper into the “rock ‘n’ roll” lifestyle, he tried to find happiness in drugs and alcohol. “Because my mother was very rich, I could have practically anything I wanted,” he says. “And that wasn’t a good thing for me.”

By 2009, at only 22, he was so unhappy and disappointed with his life that he was feeling suicidal.

That was when he met his future wife, Maria, and the two moved to her native Moscow to live together. For the next year, Pierre continued to smoke, drink, take drugs, and live in depression. But somehow, although he “gave her a hard time,” in his own words, Maria always seemed happy. Finally, he begged her, “How are you so happy all the time?”

“There are other ways besides drugs to find happiness,” she said. And she revealed to him that she was a Hare Krishna devotee.

“Even though I was still smoking, taking drugs, and eating meat every day, she hadn’t been preaching to me, because I was very atheistic and didn’t want to hear anything about religion,” he recalls. “But for one year, she had been feeding me prasadam, praying for me, and asking the devotees in her Bhakti Vriksha group to bless me. And it worked.”

Chanting japa for the first time brought such a powerful wave of relief over Pierre that he broke down into tears.

“It was like waking up from a bad dream,” he says.

Inviting devotees to his house for the first time, he began singing the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra with them and immediately felt that Krishna wanted him to use his talents for Him.

Today, he and his wife are married, with a beautiful two-year-old girl, Radha. And on the occasion of Gaura Purnima in 2014, they were initiated in Mayapur, India by His Holiness Jayapataka Swami as Premamaya Vasudeva Das and Maharani Radhika Dasi.

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