Guest guest Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Today ends the official World Holy Name week....there have been many wonderful events around the world to celebrate this....extra Harinama in various countries, many nice bhajans and kirtans being broacast on the internet etc. We also had a Global Japathon where devotees vowed to chant a certain number of rounds....I also set up the Japa Report so that devotees can come each day to record their progress and see the results of all the others. We will continue with the Japa Report as if the World Holy Name week actually becomes World Holy Name year. Why not continue from this platform of extra effort with the Holy names and make it our lifetime dedication to Krsna that we will increase and improve our chanting. After all, at the time of death we want to be prepared so that we can think of the Lord and this is achieved when we seriously apply ourselves to chanting His Holy names. I heard this story one time.....if you can imagine you have been given notice of death that will occur in 10 minutes time....just enough time to chant 1 round of Japa. How good would that last round be? How concentrated would you be and how serious would your chanting be? For most of us it would be the best round we could chant....and this is how we should try to think before each mantra, because one day it will actually be our last round in this body. -- Take advantage of this rare opportunity of this human form of life. There are 8,400,000 different species of life through which we are rotating lifetime after lifetime. So getting a human body is not an every day affair. This most auspicious opportunity only comes after many millions of lifetimes in the lower species. Anyone who does not utilize their human life for self-realization is making the greatest mistake. When this happens it is the greatest tragedy, and unfortunately today this neglect of the human form has become the standard behavior for the entire human society. What can be done? We must first ourselves become solidly situated in Krishna consciousness and then do the highest welfare activity of spreading to everyone else all over the world. Chant:Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare HareHare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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