Chanting (japa) will lead to dhyana (meditation) and it is the means for realising the Self.

Nama Article 19th October 2012

 

Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

Chanting (japa) will lead to dhyana (meditation) and it is the means for realising the Self.

 

Please check these: Excerpts from a discourse by our Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

 

What is real meditation?

 

If you develop love it is meditation. If you chant you shall develop love. So chanting is nothing but meditation.

 

'Similarly, my friend,' the master says, 'you can sit like that forever, but you'll never be meditating or understanding truth.'

 

Chanting continuously in the mind, without a gap of even a microsecond – that is meditation

 

Repetition of the Lord's name is really a meditation on Him

 

How Meditation is made simpler and enjoyable?

 

When japa is the predominating tendency, vocal japa becomes eventually mental

 

The utterance and then remembrance and later meditation are the successive stages finally ending in involuntary and eternal japa

 

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare