Welfare - for the self and the world.....Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji suggests a easy way!

MASS PRAYER BY CHANTING MAHA MANTRA IN THE DIVINE PRESENCE OF

 

             HIS HOLINESS SRI SRI MURALIDHARA SWAMIJI

 

FOR WORLD PEACE, HARMONY AND A PROSPEROUS SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR 2008

WILL BE HELD ON 1ST JAN 2008 AT VOC COLLEGE GROUND, TUTUICORIN BETWEEN 6.00 PM TO 8.00 PM

 

 

Nama Article 30th December 2007

 

Source: http://www.namadwaar.org/nibbles/?p=52

 

Welfare - for the self and the world

 

Once an individual who came to have darshan of Sri Swamiji asked " Swamiji! I wish to segregate my time into two - for my self and for the welfare of the world. Please guide me!"

 

Instantly Sri Swamiji replied   "Chant the Mahamantra! It is good for your self and for the world!"

  

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan  :

 

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

How the Divine Name refines us?.............We cannot truly understand this phenomenon entirely

Nama Article 29th December 2007

 

Source: http://www.namadwaar.org/articles/bhagavatam/1.2.7.html

 

वासुदेवे भगवति भक्तियोग: प्रयोजित : ।
जनयत्याशु वैराग्यं ज्ञानं च यदहैतुकम् ॥

 

vAsudEvE bhagavati bhaktiyOga: prayOjita: |

janayatyAshu vairAgyam jnAnam cha yadahaitukam ||

 

That Bhakti Yoga which is directed towards Lord Vasudeva induces within a very short time detachment and bestows supreme knowledge (of the Brahman) which is beyond logical reasoning.

 

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

 

It is said that when we breathe, we take in oxygen and breathe out carbon-di-oxide. This natural phenomenon is so beautiful and is part of Lord's wonderful creation. We cannot truly understand this phenomenon entirely.

Similarly, when we allow the Maha Mantra to get inside either by chanting or by hearing, all the sins accumulated in the past come out . This is also because of the infinite compassion of the Lord.

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan  :

 

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

Kabir Says, Do not lose the Supreme Name, the Name of the Lord

Nama Article 28th December 2007

 

Sant Kabir

 

Sin and virtue are both the same

In the home of your own being, is the Truth; renounce your search for any other virtue.

Kabir Says, Do not lose the Supreme Name, the Name of the Lord.

 

Transliteration

 

paapa punya dhuee ek samaan |

nija ghari paarasu thajahu guna aana |

kabeera nirguna naama na rosu ॥

 

 

Doha

 

पाप पुन्य दुइ एक समान ।

निज घरि पारसु तजहु गुन आन ।

कबीर निर्गुन नाम न रोसु ॥

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan  :

 

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

I laugh within myself when someone objects chanting of Ramanama - Mahathma Gandhi

Nama Article 27th December 2007

 

Mahathma Gandhi

 

One God

 

"I laugh within myself when someone objects that Rama or the chanting of Ramanama is for the Hindus only, how can Mussalmans therefore take part in it? Is there one God for the Mussalmans and another for the Hindus, Paris or Christians? No, there is only one omnipotent and omnipresent God. He is named variously and we remember Him by the name which is most familiar to us."

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan  :

 

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

Frequently chant the name of the prophet Rama for seven days..................Lo! in one week it was so

 

Nama Article 26th December 2007

 

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramhansa Yogananda

Swami Kebalananda recounts a miracle by Lahiri Mahasaya that took place in his presence and narrates the same to Paramhansa Yogananda

 

"A blind disciple, Ramu, aroused my active pity. Should he have no light in his eyes, when he faithfully served our master, in whom the Divine was fully blazing? One morning I sought to speak to Ramu, but he sat for patient hours fanning the guru with a hand-made palm-leaf punkha. When the devotee finally left the room, I followed him.

"'Ramu, how long have you been blind?'

"'From my birth, sir! Never have my eyes been blessed with a glimpse of the sun.'

"'Our omnipotent guru can help you. Please make a supplication.'

"The following day Ramu diffidently approached Lahiri Mahasaya. The disciple felt almost ashamed to ask that physical wealth be added to his spiritual superabundance.

"'Master, the Illuminator of the cosmos is in you. I pray you to bring His light into my eyes, that I perceive the sun's lesser glow.'

"'Ramu, someone has connived to put me in a difficult position. I have no healing power.'

"'Sir, the Infinite One within you can certainly heal.'

"'That is indeed different, Ramu. God's limit is nowhere! He who ignites the stars and the cells of flesh with mysterious life-effulgence can surely bring luster of vision into your eyes.'

"The master touched Ramu's forehead at the point between the eyebrows.

"'Keep your mind concentrated there, and frequently chant the name of the prophet Rama for seven days . The splendor of the sun shall have a special dawn for you.'

"Lo! in one week it was so. For the first time, Ramu beheld the fair face of nature. The Omniscient One had unerringly directed his disciple to repeat the name of Rama, adored by him above all other saints. Ramu's faith was the devotionally ploughed soil in which the guru's powerful seed of permanent healing sprouted." Kebalananda was silent for a moment, then paid a further tribute to his guru.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan  :

 

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

He gave the right to become children of God ? For whom???

Nama Article 25th December 2007

 

 

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God

 

- John 1:12

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan  :

 

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

If you perform Nama Kirtan, the Lord will do anything for you

Nama Article 24th December 2007

 

Source: http://www.namadwaar.org/articles/powerofkirtan1.html

 

'The Senanayi Episode'

 

"In Pandharpur there lived a devotee called Senanayi.   He was a barber by profession.  He constantly sang the Name of the Lord.  Honest and straightforward, he did not know any deceit.

 

It was a royal practice that the king's hair had to be dressed before he came to the court everyday.   He was searching for the right person to to the job.  The citizens unanimously proposed Senanayi's name owing to his devotion to God, calmness and guileless disposition

 

The king gave Senanayi the job.

 

One day, when Senanayi got ready to go for his work, a group of Sadhus passed by singing the Divine Names of the Lord.

 

He saw that there was still time to go to the palace.   He instantaneously joined them.  Time flew by; he lost himself in the Nama Kirtan.

 

Those who were envious of him went to the palace and told the king, who was already restless because of the delay and kindled the king's anger.

 

The king was red with fury and ordered the arrest of Senanayi.   He decided that he will have his hair dressed some other day and rushed to the well to get a quick bath.

 

The King was surprised to see Senanayi waiting there for a long time. Senanayi took water in his hand and applied it on the king's head. Immediately, the king's body had a shiver. He had a horripilating experience. The King had a Divine sight of Lord Krishna.

 

The king was no more in his normal senses. In the court, he kept recounting the beautiful divine form he saw and talking to himself about it. The ministers suspected that the king had become lunatic and decided that he had to be treated.   Just then, the actual Senanayi arrived.

 

Immediately, the king requested him to show him the divine form again. Senanayi was confused. He admitted he had not turned up that morning as he was in the Bhajan.

 

The king said, "No! You came this morning! You touched me and I experienced that wonderful bliss!".

It was then that Senanayi realized that the Lord Himself had come and done his job that morning. That glorious One, whom the Vedas speak about, that Divine Being which can be attained only by penances over crores of births, has come down as a hair-dresser for Senanayi's sake!

 

This goes to prove that

 

"If you perform Nama Kirtan, the Lord will do anything for you."

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan  :

 

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