Nama Article 5th July 2012
Question: When we repeat the Name of God, should we do it with the sense that we are going nearer to God, or should we do so in a sense of unity with God and with the world, or should we do so in an attitude of surrender to God, or should we unite all the three?
Swami Papa Ramdas
When we are repeating the Name of God we must be conscious that we are repeating the Name of One who is within us, who is our true Being and existence. We must keep this central fact in our mind when taking His Name. Then the practice will gradually make us aware of His existence within us. At the beginning we are not aware of this, but we intellectually accept the idea that God dwells within us and we take His Name. The association with Him is there mentally, and it grows into an experience when we actually feel His presence, by constantly hammering into the mind that God whom we aspire to see is within us and that the name we repeat is His Name.
The object of repeating the Name is to purify the mind and thereby get the awareness of Him within us. God then becomes not a matter of mere intellectual acceptance but an object of intimate and close experience. Because our communion with Him through the Name becomes so perfect that, gradually, we lose the distinction between ourselves and Him and, freed from all desires and outgoing tendencies, find union with Him. We then realise that the light of God is nothing but the light that comes from our own soul. Actually, when the light dawns on us, we cannot but see Him everywhere. As we become aware of Him within us, we become conscious of Him without us also. We feel His presence everywhere. We see a strange all-pervading light wherein all beings and creatures seem to be so many bubbles appearing and disappearing.
Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
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