Emphasizing Individual Words

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Emphasizing individual words – gradually build up:At the beginning of each round, decide on a particular word or words in your mantra to emphasise, e.g. the first " Hare " of the first half, or every " Krishna " , or the two " Ramas " in the last line.

You will see how the words you emphasise start to stand out more.With each round, add to it: the double " Krishna " and the double " Rama " .Again, these words in the mantra will stand out more.

Keep adding to it, never take a step backwards, or allow an emphasis you have already established slip away, until finally you are emphasising every word of the mantra.Taken from Iskcon.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Call Out For Krsna

 

 

 

Hare Krsna my dear devotees, I hope you have had a nice week and you can chant nicely this week. I brought something nice from H.H.Sacinandana Swami maharaja today, he mentions about how important is to have Krsna as our best friend and address Him while chanting, this also means being attentive and concentrated in japa because by doing that we will be developing a real relationship with the Lord.

Question: Why is it so difficult to call out for Krishna?H.H. Sacinandana Swami: One can best call out for Krishna when not calling out for so many other things as well. Go to one address. Krishna wishes to see how we make ourselves more and more dependent on Him. We should try to become exclusively His devotee.

Srila Prabhupada writes: “The beginning of ecstatic love of Godhead is basically faith....” (NOD 19)“Never expect any good from the so called society, friendship and love. Only Krishna is the genuine friend of all living beings and it is He only who can give us all benediction. The more you advance in Krishna Consciousness chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna the more you become spiritually advanced and happy in all respects.” (Letter to Balabhi, April 22, 1967)

“We should learn to depend on Krishna more and more. Actually, Krishna is always guiding us as Supersoul, but due to our forgetfulness, we do not understand that Krishna is friend everlasting. With advance of Krishna Consciousness one is able to realize that Krishna is always with His devotees—not only with His devotees, also with the non-devotees, but the devotees can recognize His Presence and the non-devotees cannot. The more you make advancement in Krishna Consciousness you will see Krishna everywhere. Not only on the bank of the river, but also on streets, trees, lampposts, and so on. The more you see like that you know you are making tangible advancement in Krishna Consciousness. Actually, there is nothing but Krishna all around us. This is explained in the Gita. He is the taste of water, light of the moon, the fragrance of the flower, light of the sun, sound of the sky, the power of the strong and so on. So one who is actually making progress in Krishna Consciousness, he can see Krishna everywhere. At every stage of life, who can avoid the sunlight, the moonlight, the fragrance of the flower, the taste of the water, the sound of the sky, and so on; but one has to learn it, that there is Krishna in all these varieties of existence. Without Krishna there is nothing. It is simply by the influence of Maya that we forget the relationship of Krishna with everything that be.” (Letter to Krsna devi, December 21, 1967)

“Anyone can understand that behind the beauty of nature, behind the succulent fruits and vegetables, and behind the wonderful heat and light of the sun, there is a friend. So we should contact that dearmost friend, Krsna. Any reasonable man will accept this argument. That is rational thinking.” (Letter to Vyasa, August 6, 1970)

In our everyday life of chanting we need to try to develop this individual relationship with the Lord through chanting and also become his best and exclusive servant in this way all our lives will be blessed in every area and we will feel Him closer to our heart

May you have a wonderful chanting and you be able to concentrate and feel the deep sound of the Lords names.your servant,Aruna devi

 

 

 

 

-- At the present moment our minds are polluted with the dirt accumulated over millions and millions of lifetimes of sense gratification. Even though our original pure nature is eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss, due to our mental contamination we are presently suffering in the realm of temporality, ignorance, and misery. By the purificatory process of chanting the holy names of God we can revive our original, pure nature and thus relish the sweetest happiness at every minute.

Chant:Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare HareHare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare