Re:progress with sankalpa- to Rick and everyone

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Namaste Rick

 

Driving and chanting is a great sadhana. I chant to and from the

Mandir, as that is my longest daily jaunt. I work out of my home.

 

The verses at the end of your post state the truest reality, the

highest goal, of the sankalpas we are a part: repeating the mantra,

and speaking truth. They are interconnected and each supports the other.

Our lives on Earth are short, and every moment we have a choice: do

we think about the highest ideal of perfection, i.e.: the mantra and /

or speaking truth, or do we listen to the car radio and waste time?

Life requires on-going discrimination: how should I spend my time,

what will help this world, what will further the cause of peace-both

my peace and world peace?

Personally, for me to live in this world, I have to have a huge,

overarching sankalpa, one which I can refer to whenever I "drift" away

from the divine, and into worldly thoughts/actions/emotions: let Maa

and Swami take over, get the ego out of the way, and their THEIR WILL

BE DONE.

The verses you wrote state it perfectly.

We are so blessed that Maa and Swami give us these tasks. They know

we need all the help we can get keeping our minds and hearts busy.

Repeating the mantra is one of the many techniques they have bestowed

upon us.

WOW Thanks brother for reminding me too. See, she even give me you,

and all our brothers and sisters, to help keep me on the straight and

narrow.

 

Jai Maa Jai Swami

 

vishweshwar

 

 

 

 

, "Rick Veda" <rikveda wrote:

>

> Namaste Sundari,

>

> Thank you for sharing you're your experiences with chanting this mantra

> sankalpa. Your thoughts are the experience of many of us, and it is such

> a delight to share those experiences!

>

> I began the sankalpa this weekend. I was so happy that Maa picked a

> mantra from the Atha Sapta Sloki Durga because it is a most dear and

> precious passage to me. I wondered how I could ever keep track of 1000

> malas, and decided to see how long it actually took to chant it. I

> chanted through two times and it took just under twenty minutes. My

> commute time is one hour each way. For two days now I have chanted only

> the sankalpa mantra continuously going to work and coming home from

> work. I am not counting, just chanting, sometimes at a whisper,

> sometimes singing it to Maa at the top of my lungs.

>

> Because of Vish's comments, I am also visualizing a wave of loving and

> healing energy flowing out in all directions that I am helping to

> support as it moves over the world. I chant a mantra for the car in

> front of me and the car behind me, for the hawk on the telephone line

> and the school bus children and the ambulance workers and patients. I

> chant for Shree Maa and Swamiji, and for family members (both blood

> relatives and faith relatives). I am no longer concerned how I will keep

> track of 1000 malas. If I do this each day for the remainder of the year

> I will have done over 3000 malas. Those two hours of commute time are

> now a special gift I can give back to the world because of Shree Maa's

> magnificent blessings.

>

> With love,

>

> Rick Veda

>

>

>

> Let my every word be a prayer to Her,

> Every movement of my hands a ritual gesture to Her,

> Every step I take a circumambulation of Her image,

> Every morsel I eat a rite of sacrifice to Her,

> Every time I lay down a prostration at Her feet;

> Every act of personal pleasure and all else that I do,

> Let it all be a form of worshipping Her.

>

> Adapted from Verse 27 of Shri Aadi Shankara's Saundaryalahari

>