Chanting of God's name

[yagna_narayana]

Is the Chanting of God's name knowingly or unknowingly is a step forward for heaven? Or the chanting shall be in a known state concentrating on the God?

[ranjeetmore]

The chanting should always be coupled with smarana or rememberance of the lord with the mind.

The mind is the sole cause for conditioned existence.

 

"Yena kena prakarena manah Krshna niveshayet."

 

By ANY possible means your mind simply gets attached to God,His Names,His pastimes,His Form,His parikar/associates, and Harijan/your guru,that is real bhakti.

 

Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu has classified Bhakti into two forms:

 

Sasanga Bhakti

and

Anasanga Bhakti.

 

Sasanga bhakti is that bhakti which involves favourable and loving rememberance of the lord with the MIND along with any,some or all of the 9 devotional practices.

 

Anasanga Bhakti is considered as ONLY 8 kinds of devotional services with the exclusion of MIND/REMEMBRANCE of the Lord.

 

He further goes on to explain that Sasanga Bhakti is the best form of Bhakti there is.

 

Padma Purana states,"You should always remember Sri Krsna and you should never Forget Him.All the vedic,shastric and puranic injunctions should be the servants of these two principles."

 

Sri Gauranga has also stated that,"Manera Smarana praan."

Smarana by the MIND is the Praana/life force of Sadhana Bhakti.Without it,sadhana bhakti cannot be called sadhana bhakti at all.

It is physical drill.

 

Those following the tradition of unconditional prema towards Sri Bhagavan HAVE to follow Bhakti Rasamrt Sindhu Bindu.

It is the final word.

 

Bhakti Rasamrt Sindhu outlines three most important principles to be followed by sadhakas.

The first and the most important of these 3 principles is:

 

To ALWAYS remember the Supreme lord Shyamasundara alongwith His Name,Pastimes,Abode,Paraphernalia and His Associates.

It further states that the mind should LITERALLY REMAIN amongst Hari,Harijan and these above outlined features.Everything that relates to or contributes to the above principles is to be accepted,everything else is to be discarded for everything else is kusanga.

 

Sri Mahaprabhu has clarified that PAAPA / heinous karma,ALSO FALLS UNDER the category of PUNYA.

That means PAAPA,PUNYA both are PAAPA,for they are not favourable to Sri Hari Bhakti.

Moresoever,MUKTI / liberation and the yearning for it is to be discarded like a filthy cloth from the mind.

 

From revelations of transcendentalists of the highest kind we have this information :

 

"If you take Brahmananda/bliss experienced in brahmjnyan state, MULTIPLY that bliss by half of Sri Brahmdeva's life i.e. around 150 trillion times, EVEN THEN, the resultant Bhramananda or bliss cannot even match up to a DROP of bliss experienced in premananda."

 

We should understand the implications of such a statement.

 

There are only 3 paths towards Brahm or atleast the vedas are divided into 3 sections:

The largest section pertaining to Karma Kaanda.

The second section concerning Jyana Marga.

The third section describing the Bhakti path.

 

"Kanda traya atmako vedah,Jnyana,karmach,bhaktis ca."

 

KArma Kanda is accepted as useless by both Advaitins and Bhaktas.

But many are stuck up on the path towards kaivalya.

 

There are only a handful of cases of persons who were completely liberated from birth itself.Such persons are known as Atmaramas,amalatmas,paramhamsas,etc.

Four such personalities, Shaunak,sanaka, and other two.

These four paramhamsas are wandering in their unbreakable samadhi and they come across Sri Narayana.

 

As soon as the fragrance of tulsi leaf on the feet of NArayana enters their nostrils,they immediately come out from their samadhi just like a miser who is sleeping in deep sleep comes to know that he has won the lottery.

 

They compose such verses that are impossible for materially conditioned souls to relish,yet one point is of use.

"Sri Narayana ! The fragrance of the tulsi leaf on your divine feet has broken our samdhi in no time! I declare that Brahmananda is like a hoofprint full of water in fron of this Bliss We are experiencing."

 

Sri Shankaracharya only agrees in full vigour when he,in prema samadhi of Sri Krsna,declares that he doesn't want svarga/heaven or even MUKTI/liberation.Those are fools who want all that,he says.

 

"I want only to be immersed in thinking about my lord Sri krsna's Lotus feet."

 

Now such a statement is common for shankaracharya to make.He says so about all the Gods.

Is that so ?

Please verify.

He DOES NOT.

 

He's either asking for good health(falls under bhukti)

or he's asking for liberation(mukti)

in kanakashtakam(praise of Mahalaxmi) he asks for prosperity and good health(bhukti)

and in many other praises he asks for putting a halt to the cycle of birth and death.(mukti)

 

BUT.in the end,he comes upon real bhakti,the one which is of the highest form.

This is THE REAL DEAL.

 

There is nothing higher than this.

 

And now no one can even say that Sri Krsna was a form of sattva guna.

If He were under sattva guna,He would have never attracted the minds absorbed in samadhi...like those of Sanaka parmahamsa and Shankaracharya !

Even a person who has realised atma,through his own effort,kicks away Indraloka.

The one situated in Brahmjyana is Atmarama,Purna kam,Nishkaam.He is fully content.

Now if such a person says that "I want to smell Sri Krsna's feet" there is only one possibility :

That Sri Krsna is Purna Param Brahm,Who exists BEYOND all the three modes of nature,with a Form,Features,Name and abode which make even Brahmananda look like a miserable condition.

 

Thus Sri Krsna prema Bhakti is established as the Supreme transcendental achievement.

There can be no debate on this point for obvious reasons.

 

 

"I dont want MUKTI and i don't want BHUKTI.Those who do,are the biggest fools."

 

SO BE IT.