On chanting

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Chanting is a Privilege

 

The days have been quite busy for the last month. Maha-cleaning of the temple,

festival management, distributing prasadam in the Etno Festival, cooking,

visiting sadhus, Ratha-Yatra, Millions of e-mails and phone-calls. Basically

everyday something new and unexpected appears, hardly any time for reading.

When I am not able to chant in the morning, my quality usually goes down. When

you have less time available, good chanting is a challenge but on the other hand

you become more appreciative for good time and a place for nice chanting.

After a busy day, in the late evening when you can just sit down and chant for

20 minutes, you immeadiately feel your mind becoming peaceful and satisfied.

Chanting the Maha-mantra is the greatest blessing - chanting is a privilege.

If you have the time, please chant Hare Krishna.

 

ys

 

Mrd

Applying The Philosophy

 

We already know how difficult is to apply the philosophy to our lives....like

realising we are not these bodies, subdue our minds and acting in our

constitutional position of eternal servants of Krsna. Srila Prabhupada says in

the Bhagavad Gita As It Is in the introdution that we are meant to serve. We are

always trying to serve someone - some people who are alone they serve their

dogs, cats, cars, houses etc. We need to serve, cause unless we are not serving

the Supreme we need to get our soul engaged in serving. But why we spend our

precious time and don't realise our spiritual position. Maybe because Krsna

hasn't revealed Himself to us, we haven't got the taste of serving the

proprietor of everything, the one who lives in our hearts. We are still covered

by all the dust of births and births thinking we can be in Krsna's place. The

only way to encourage the position of eternal servant is through serious

chanting - engaging the tongue in eating prasadam

and chanting the Holy Names. We can see that described in the Nectar of

Instruction 5:

 

" When one fully engages in chanting the HareKrÌ£sÌ£nÌ£amahÄ-mantra, he

gradually realizes his own spiritual identity. Unless one faithfully chants the

HareKṛṣṇamantra, Kṛṣṇadoes not reveal Himself: sevonmukhe hi

jihvÄdau svayamevasphuraty adahÌ£. (Bhakti-rasÄmrÌ£ta-sindhu1.2.234) We cannot

realize the Supreme Personality of Godhead by any artificial means. We must

engage faithfully in the service of the Lord. Such service begins with the

tongue (sevonmukhe hijihvÄdau), which means that we should always chant the

holy names of the Lord and accept krÌ£sÌ£nÌ£a-prasÄda. We should not chant or

accept anything else. When this process is faithfully followed, the Supreme Lord

reveals Himself to the devotee . "

 

Haribol

 

Aruna dd

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