On learning verses

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So each and every verse you should chant very perfectly, nicely, meditate

upon it. That is the process of progress, advancement in spiritual life. We

should get all these verses by heart, and chant, and offer prayer to the

Lord, vandanam. Vandanam. These are meant for such

purpose.------------------- HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

 

So we should try to learn, get it by heart, at least one Sloka, two Slokas

in a week. And if we chant that... Just like you are chanting so many songs,

similarly, if we chant one or two verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam, that will

make you very quickly advanced for spiritual realization. We are therefore

taking so much trouble to get this transliteration, the meaning, so that the

reader may take advanced step, full advantage of the mantra. It is not that

to show some scholarship, that “I know so much Sanskrit.” No. It is just

offered with humility to learn the mantra because one who will chant the

mantra... They are all transcendental vibration. Just Hare Krishna mantra...

This is mahä-mantra, but they are also mantras, all the verses from

Bhagavad-gétä, Srimad-Bhägavatam, spoken by Krishna, spoken by... Bhägavata

also, spoken by Krishna. Vyäsadeva is incarnation of Krishna. They’re also

mantras, infallible instructions. So try to get it by heart, chanting.

Either you chant by seeing the book or get it by heart, it is all the same.

But try to chant one, two slokas daily. Chant.----------- Srila Prabhupada

 

So if you simply think only one verse, as it is explained here, and the

pankaja, lotus, in reference with Krishna’s body, you can meditate the whole

life how Krishna is beautiful, how Krishna is wise, how Krishna's creation,

how... This is meditation. Thinking of Krishna. Dhyänävasthita-tad-gatena

manasä pasyanti yam yoginah ---- Srila Prabhupada