Is Chanting a Prayer or a Meditation?
Feb03

Is Chanting a Prayer or a Meditation?

It is both because it enables us to fulfill the purpose of prayer, speaking to God, and the purpose of meditation, listening to God. How chanting is the best prayer Prayer is a universal practice by which people all over the world and through the ages have connected with God. By praying, they speak their heart to God and seek his blessings for solving their problems and fulfilling their desires. Vedic wisdom reveals God in his highest...

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Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta on mechanical chanting
Feb02

Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta on mechanical chanting

"The holy name of Krishna means divine sound. It can be compared to a capsule of medicine. The capsule is not the medicine. Externally one capsule may look like another, but within one capsule maybe medicine and within another may be cyanide. The capsule itself is not the medicine. It is not the sound of Krishna’s name that is Krishna. Krishna is within the sound. The holy name must be be surcharged with the proper spirit...

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What’s Wrong
Feb01

What’s Wrong

Why do we fail to find taste, why do we lose the discipline to perform chanting and hearing as a daily duty of life? In the Harinama Chintamani, Bhakti Vinod Thakur analyzes this difficulty in regard to inattentive chanting of holy names. He states that if a neophyte devotee is not very scrupulous in taking up the practices of chanting and hearing, he will quickly grow distracted, and this will produce “a type of illusion,...

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Universal Mantra
Jan31

Universal Mantra

The chanting of Hare Krsna is universally applicable: Chanting is free and open for everyone: We are not charging anything, we are not asking for fees and giving the people some secret mantra and promising them that within six months they will become God. No. This is open for everyone — children, women, girls, boys, old people everyone can chant and see the results.   The Science of Self-Realization The holy name is readily...

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Why Are Beads Necessary For Chanting The Holy Name?
Jan30

Why Are Beads Necessary For Chanting The Holy Name?

If we chant His Holy Name without the beads, will it be less effective? Will it also be good if we continuously chant in our mind at any place and at any time? The answer to these questions is that only a highly advanced self-realized devotee can continuously chant the holy names of God within his mind in all times and places. To reach that stage disciplined, regulated chanting is required. We are in neophyte stage & the great...

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In order to see first we have to purify the senses
Jan29

In order to see first we have to purify the senses

So all our senses are imperfect. By imperfect senses, you cannot see the spirit soul. You cannot see even the spirit soul. How you can see the Supreme Soul, God? That is not possible. You have to purify your senses. Then you can see. Atah sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih [Brs. 1.2.234]. The present blunt senses, material senses, all are imperfect. Even we hear the Lord's name, namadi, atah sri-krsna-namadi… Just...

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