You, who bestow Your own self, to those who Chant your Divine Names in a disinterested spirit, is exceedingly compassionate.

Nama Article 31st January 2016

Srimad Bhagavatham 6:16:34

अजित जितः सम-मतिभिः

साधुभिर् भवान् जितात्मभिर् भवता

विजितास् तेऽपि च भजताम्

अकामात्मनां य आत्मदोऽति-करुणः

Chitraketu said, 徹 unconquerable Lord, You stand conquered by the righteous, those who have subdued their self and are possessed of an unruffled mind; and they too are conquered by You. You, who bestow Your own self, to those who Chant your Divine Names in a disinterested spirit, is exceedingly compassionate.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

When one adheres to Ram Nam with exclusive and genuine devotion, it becomes the destroyer of all pains

Nama Article 29^th January 2016

POWER OF 'RAM NAM' by Swami Sivananda

Ram Nam like the Ashtakshara or the Dvadasakshara Mantras, is a powerful aid in destroying the animal passions in man. Passions are agitative forces, and Ram Nam is a tranquil force. When one adheres to Ram Nam with exclusive and genuine devotion, it becomes the destroyer of all pains. But one's faith must not be divided between two or more Mantras. One should stick to 'Ram Nam' with full confidence in it. The more the faith and concentration, the quicker does the Lord's Name destroy the evils in man.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

Speaking thus, she heaved a long sigh and cried bitterly, repeating Shri Krishna's Divine Name again and again.

Nama Article 26^th January 2016

Sri Sri Krishna Premi Swamigal

Nagaridasa Charitam. Vol II Book V Chp 11 Shloka 21 to 24

गोपकुमारिकोवाच

अजानता किमुक्तं मां कृष्णदासीं त्वया पितः

वृतो हि नृत्यगोपालः पूर्वमेव मया पतिः |

स एव मम भर्तास्तु नान्यं पतिमहं वृणे

कथमन्यं पुमांसञ्च प्रप्तुमर्हति मे मनः

प्रेम्णस्तु लक्ष्यमेकं हि तत्प्रप्तुं जीवितं मम

पातिव्रत्यं नाशयितु कथमिच्छसि मे पितः   

श्रीसद्गुरुरुवाच

एवमुक्त्वाsथ कन्या सा बाष्पाकुलविलोचना

रुरोद कृष्ण कृष्णेति निःश्वसन्ती मुहुर्मुहुः 

Gopakumari said

My dear father! Don't you know my mind? Long back, I had chosen Natanagopala as my master and refuge.

Only He is my husband. How will my heart accept anybody else as my spouse now ? Love has only one aim. Only to attain that I am alive. How did you decide to make me lose my chastity talking of another man to be my husband?

Shri Sadguru continued

Speaking thus, she heaved a long sigh and cried bitterly, repeating Shri Krishna's Divine Name again and again.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

Repetition of God's Name enables the devotee to feel the Divine Presence, the Divine Glory and the Divine consciousness within himself and also everywhere

Nama Article 25^th January 2016

Name, Faith and Love by Swami Sivananda

GLORY OF RAMA NAM

Kabir says: "If any one utters RAMA NAM even in dream, I would like to make a pair of shoes out of my skin for his daily use. "

Who can describe the glory of God's Name? Who can really comprehend the greatness and splendour of the holy Names of the Lord? Even Lord Siva's consort, Parvati failed to describe in adequate terms the very true significance and grandeur of God's Name. When one sings His Name or hears It sung, he is unconsciously raised to sublime spiritual heights. He loses his body-consciousness. He is immersed in joy and drinks deep the divine nectar of immortality. He gets divine intoxication. Repetition of God's Name enables the devotee to feel the Divine Presence, the Divine Glory and the Divine consciousness within himself and also everywhere. How sweet is Hari's Name! How powerful is God's Name! What an amount of joy and peace and strength it brings to one who repeats His Name! Blessed indeed are those who repeat God's Name for they will be freed from the wheel of birth and death and attain Parama Ananda and immortality.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

Only chant this simple prayer, Hare Rama ||

Nama Article 24th January 2016

Sant Samartha Ramdas

Rama Mantra Sloka

नको फार मंत्राग्निच्या मंत्रदीक्षा |

नको जारणामारणादी अपेक्षा ||

कळायुक्त चातुर्यता वीकळा रे |

हरे राम हा मंत्र सोपा जपा रे ||

Meaning

Long not for initiation, by the side of the sacred fire,

Long not for the powers of deathly and evil incantations,

Deceitful cleverness is no better than vomit,

Only chant this simple prayer, Hare Rama ||

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

In the case of a man who repeats Rama Nama from the heart, discipline and self control will come to him.

Nama Article 23^rd January 2016

Source: Importance of Rama Nama by K.C. Patnaik

A friend of Gandhiji versed in religious lore who read Gandhiji's remarks on Rama Nama some time ago wrote to say that Rama Nama is an alchemy which can transform the body. Recitation of Rama Nama is also a means of assuring purity. In the case of a man who repeats Rama Nama from the heart, discipline and self control will come to him.

Therefore as Gandhiji Says that a man should preserve and ceaselessly repeat Rama Nama during all his waking hours.

Ultimately it would remain with their even dying their sleep. God's grace would fill them with perfect health of body, mind and spirit.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

The Divine Name is not merely a sound; it is a force which can overcome all the destructive forces in the human system and render it pure

Nama Article 22^nd January 2016

POWER OF 'RAM NAM' by Swami Sivananda

The idea of the Divine Being generated in the mind at the time of the repetition of the Name, gives a direct fillip to the mind in its attempt to unite itself with the Divine Being. The nervous system is in a state of perfect harmony when the vibration produced by the chanting of the Divine Name pervades it with a force of integration. 

The Divine Name is not merely a sound; it is a force which can overcome all the destructive forces in the human system and render it pure and make it fit for the experience of Sattva, the highly transparent medium through which the Immortal Being is reflected.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

நாவினால் உன் நாமம் பாட வேண்டும் மனதினால் உன்னயே நினைக்க வேண்டும்

Nama Article 21st January 2016

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji's Kirtan

ராகம்: கல்யாணவசந்தம்
தாளம்: ஆதி
பல்லவி

உன்னைப் பாடாத நாவினால் பயனுண்டோ ?
பாண்டுரங்கா ! பாண்டுரங்கா !    (உன்னை)

அனுபல்லவி

ஊமையாய் செவிடாய் குருடாய்
எத்தனையோ பேர் தவிக்க
இத்தனை அருள் செய்யிதும்
உன்னிடம் பக்தி இல்லையே !    (உன்னை)

சரணம்

நாவினால் உன் நாமம் பாட வேண்டும்
மனதினால் உன்னயே நினைக்க வேண்டும்
என்றும் உனக்கே சேவை செய்ய வேண்டும்  ..விட்டல   (என்றும் உனக்கே..)
எங்கும் எதிலும் உன்னயே காண வேண்டும்
முரளீதரனுக்கு இதையே அருள வேண்டும்     (உன்னை)

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

The whole nervous system of the chanter of the Mantra is set in vibration—a vibration which brings about rhythm, harmony and equilibrium in it.

Nama Article 18th January 2016

POWER OF 'RAM NAM' by Swami Sivananda

The Mantra Sakti or the power generated by the juxtaposition of the letters of the Mantra and by the utterance of the same, the whole nervous system of the chanter of the Mantra is set in vibration—a vibration which brings about rhythm, harmony and equilibrium in it.

When the nervous system is in such a harmonized state, the breath, too flows rhythmically and the mind rests in a state of tranquillity. It is in this peaceful state of the mind that the divine Consciousness is reflected and the supernal joy of the Eternal is experienced.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

Such is the power of God's Name. My dear friends, my educated college youths, my dear barristers, professors, doctors and judges, don't be puffed up with false, worthless college learning.

Nama Article 16th January 2016

Name, Faith and Love by Swami Sivananda

GLORY OF RAMA NAM

Kabir sent Kamal to Tulasi Das. Tulasi Das wrote Rama Nam on a Tulasi leaf and sprinkled the juice over five hundred lepers. All were cured. Kamal was quite astonished. Then Kabir sent Kamal to Surdas. Surdas asked Kamal to bring the corpse that was floating in the river. Surdas repeated 'Ra' only once (not the full name Rama) in one ear of the corpse and it was brought back to life. Kamal's heart was filled with awe and wonder.

Such is the power of God's Name. My dear friends, my educated college youths, my dear barristers, professors, doctors and judges, don't be puffed up with false, worthless college learning. Repeat the Name of the Lord with Bhava and Prem from the very bottom of your hearts with all your beings and realise the supreme bliss, knowledge, peace and immortality right now, this very second.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

The Lord who has said ‘in the Age of Kali I AM attained only through Namakirtan’ will positively appear before those who perform Namakirtan

Nama Article 15th January 2016

Wish you all a very happy Pongal / Makara Sankaranti

Source: Madhuramurali December 2015

மஹாரண்யம் ஸ்ரீ ஸ்ரீ முரளீதர ஸ்வாமிஜி :

எத்தனையோ பெரியவர்கள் கூட இந்த ஆன்மீக வாழ்க்கையில் உயர்ந்த நிலையை அடைய முடியவில்லை. நம் போன்றவர்களால் என்ன செய்து விட முடியும்? என்று நாம் எண்ணலாகாது. நாம் செய்ய வேண்டியது பகவந்நாமத்தை சொல்லிக்கொண்டே இருப்பதுதான். அதை நாம் தளராமல் செய்து கொண்டே இருக்க வேண்டும். பலனை எதிர்பார்க்காமல், இதை செய்து கொண்டே வந்தால், ஒருநாள் பலனை நாம் அடையாமல் போய் விடுவோமா என்ன?

"கலியில் நாமகீர்த்தனத்தால் மட்டுமே என்னை அடைய முடியும்" என்று கூறியுள்ள பகவான், விடாமல் நாமசங்கீர்த்தனம் செய்து வருபவர்கள் முன் வந்தே தீருவான்.

HH Maharanyam Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

'So many great ones have failed to reach the high state in spiritual life. How then can one like me attain?' one should not nurture such thought. What we have to do is just keep chanting the Lord's Name. We should keep doing this without tiring. If only we kept at it without focusing on its fruit we shall certainly attain its fruit one day.

The Lord who has said 'in the Age of Kali I AM attained only through Namakirtan' will positively appear before those who perform Namakirtan

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

How is this possible? Well! Chanting His (the Lord’s) Name incessantly is the only way.

Nama Article 14th January 2016

Source: Madhuramurali January 2015

மஹாரண்யம் ஸ்ரீ ஸ்ரீ முரளீதர ஸ்வாமிஜி :

ஒரு தளர் நடை நடக்கும் குழந்தையை எப்படி தாயார் கையை பிடித்து அழைத்து செல்வாளோ, அதுபோல், அடங்காமல் தான் நினைத்த போக்கில் போக அடம்பிடிக்கும் மனதை பகவானிடம் பூரணமாக ஒப்படைத்து அவர் இஷ்டப்படி நடத்தி கொண்டு போக வேண்டும். அது எப்படி முடியும் என்றால், அவர் நாமத்தை எப்பொழுதும் சொல்லிக்கொண்டே இருப்பதுதான் அதற்கு ஒரே வழி.

HH Maharanyam Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

Just as the mother holds the hand of a toddler and leads him, so too, should the adamant, uncontrollable mind that wanders as it fancies should be totally placed in the hands of the Lord and be led as He deems fit. How is this possible? Well! Chanting His (the Lord's) Name incessantly is the only way.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Ram Nam is the supreme purifier of the mind of man, the bestower of perennial joy, the giver of peace and the key to the gate of Immortality.

Nama Article 8th January 2016

POWER OF 'RAM NAM' by Swami Sivananda

'Ram Nam' is a blessing which millions of Hindus have treasured in their hearts since ages past. It is the supreme purifier of the mind of man, the bestower of perennial joy, the giver of peace and the key to the gate of Immortality. 

The Ramarahasyopanishad says that the letters 'Ra' and 'Ma' are the essence of the two most important Mantras, viz., Ashtakshara and Panchakshara, which, when the letters 'Ra' and 'Ma' are removed from them, respectively, not only lose their primary meaning but give the opposite meaning. When Ram Nam is chanted, a significant change takes place in the entire organism of the person chanting it. There is a twofold effect product by the utterance of the Divine Name.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

Angad stamped his one feet firmly on the ground reciting the divine name 'Sri Ram and threw a challenge

Nama Article 7th January 2016

GLORY OF RAMA NAM

Sri Ram said, "Oh Angad! Go to Lanka and negotiate with Ravan to achieve our objective and enemy's welfare." 

Angad entered the court of Ravan. Angad tried his best to clarify and pacify Ravan but in vain. At the last, to show the power of the divine name 'Ram', Angad stamped his one feet firmly on the ground reciting the divine name 'Sri Ram and threw a challenge;

समुझि राम प्रताप कपि कोपा। सभा माझ पन करि पद रोपा॥

जौं मम चरन सकसि सठ टारी। फिरहिं रामु सीता मैं हारी॥

If any one of you is powerful enough to lift my foot from the ground, I shall loose Sita and Sri Ram shall go back. All the powerful demons in the court came turn by turn to lift the foot but failed even to stir the foot of Angad. Then, King Ravan himself got up from his throne. He came close to Angad and bent down to catch the foot of Angad. At this very moment, Angad said- Oh King Ravan! You will not get liberation by surrendering at my feet. Why not go and surrender at the lotus feet of Sri Ram, by whose grace and power I had put a challenge to all of you. Ravan felt ashamed and went back.

Angad again tried to make Ravan seethe power of Sri Ram but it fell on deaf ears. Angad left the court of Ravan and returned to his camp. At the camp, Angad fell prostrate at the lotus feet of Sri Ram, on whose faith, Angad had thrown a challenge putting Sita at stake. Angad narrated the whole episode to the delight of the entourage.

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

I am giving you a name worshipped since the beginning of time by the people of this land, a name familiar to the very animals and birds, the very stones of Hindustan through so many thousands of years

Nama Article 4th January 2016

Name, Faith and Love by Swami Sivananda

GLORY OF RAMA NAM

What is that thing which is superior to Rama even? It is RAM NAM. How? Sri Hanuman told Sri Rama: "O My Lord, there is something superior to Thee. " Sri Rama was quite astonished. He asked Hanuman: "What is that thing, O Hanuman, which is superior to Me?" Hanuman replied: "Hey Prabho, Thou hadst crossed the river with the help of a boat. But I crossed the ocean with the help of (and the power and strength of) Thy Name only. Name is indeed superior to Thee. "

Mahatma Gandhi says: "You must learn to take the name of Rama with full devotion and faith. When you study the Ramayana, you will learn from Tulsidas the divine power of that blessed Name.

"You might ask me why I tell you to use the word RAMA and not one of the many other names of the Creator. True, His Names are as many as and more than the leaves on the yonder tree and I might for instance ask you to use the word God. But what meaning, what associations would it have for you here? In order to enable you to feel anything when repeating the word God, I should have to teach you some English. I should have to explain to you the foreign people's thoughts and associations.

"But in telling you to repeat the name of RAMA, I am giving you a name worshipped since the beginning of time by the people of this land, a name familiar to the very animals and birds, the very stones of Hindustan through so many thousands of years. You all know the story of Ahalya? No, I see you don't. But you will soon learn it when you study the Ramayana. You will learn how a stone by the roadside sprang to life at the touch of Rama's foot as he passed by. You must learn to repeat the blessed Name of Rama with sweetness and such devotion that the birds and beasts will pause for a moment to listen to you; the very trees will bend their leaves towards you, stirred by the divine melody of that Name. And when you are able to do this, I tell you, I will come all the way on foot from Bombay as on a pilgrimage to hear you. In His sweet Name lies a power which can cure all our ills. "

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

தாரக நாமமே கதியென்று சொன்ன ஆராதன ஸுலபருக்கு நமோ நமோ பதிதனுக்கும் கதி ஒன்றுண்டென விதி செய்த குருவிற்கு நமோ நமோ

Nama Article 3rd January 2016

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji's Kirtan

ராகம்: தன்யாசி                                               தாளம்: ஆதி

பகவன் நாம சித்தாந்தம் செய்த

போதேந்திர குருவிற்கு நமோ நமோ                           (பகவன் ..)

முக்தி தரும் காஞ்சியில் அவதரித்த

மோஹன மூர்த்திக்கு நமோ நமோ                              (பகவன் ..)

சுகுணா தேவி சுந்தர புதல்வன்

இந்திர சரஸ்வதிக்கு நமோ நமோ                               (பகவன் ..)

ஆத்ம போதேந்திரரின் ஆப்த சிஷ்யராம்

ஆனந்த மூர்த்திக்கு நமோ நமோ                                 (பகவன் ..)

ஞான சாகரனின் ஆத்ம சகா

ஞான வசிஷ்டருக்கு நமோ நமோ                               (பகவன் ..)

காஷாய தண்ட கமண்டலம் தரித்த

சுந்தரமூர்த்திக்கு நமோ நமோ                                     (பகவன் ..)

காமகோடி பீடத்தின் காருண்ய மூர்த்தியாம்

ஜகத்குருவிற்கு நமோ நமோ                                       (பகவன் ..)

தாரக நாமமே கதியென்று சொன்ன

ஆராதன ஸுலபருக்கு நமோ நமோ                      (பகவன் ..)

காசி நகரில் கங்கை கரையில்

துறவறம் பூண்டவர்க்கு நமோ நமோ                          (பகவன் ..)

சிவ நாம பிரியராம் ஸ்ரீதரர்

சேவித்த குருவிற்கு நமோ நமோ                                 (பகவன் ..)

சம்பிரதாயம் ஸ்தாபிக்க வேங்கடராமரை

ப்ரேரணை செய்தவர்க்கு நமோ நமோ                        (பகவன் ..)

ஊமை குழந்தைக்கும் ஞானத்தை அருளிய

உன்னத குருவிற்கு நமோ நமோ                                 (பகவன் ..)

பதிதனுக்கும் கதி ஒன்றுண்டென

விதி செய்த குருவிற்கு நமோ நமோ                       (பகவன் ..)

ஊரூராய் சென்று பாகவதம் சொன்ன

கருணாமூர்த்திக்கு நமோ நமோ                                  (பகவன் ..)

காவேரி கரையில் கோவிந்தபுரத்தில்

வீற்றிருக்கும் குருவிற்கு நமோ நமோ                          (பகவன் ..)

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

Nama Article 2nd January 2016

Nama Article 2nd January 2016

1. Jan 1st - Mass prayer in the Divine Presence of HH Maharanyam Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji at Madurai were attended by 10000+ devotees at the venue and the live webcast was viewed by tens of thousands of devotees in 27+ Countries

Report in Dinamalar

Report in Dinathanthi

 

2. Jan 2nd - Global Nama relay 2016 is happening 24 hours today GMT time in 17+ countries where hundreds of GOD satsangs are participating with thousands of devotees Chanting Mahamantra Namakitran now…..

Source: http://www.namadwaar.org/answers/questions.html

I used to chant the Maha Mantra even when I circumambulate the Ganesha temple. Even if I start with Ganesha Pancharatna, automatically I would end up chanting the Maha Mantra. The same is with Shiva Temple etc. Why does this happen? This is confusing me. Please help!

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji:

The Mahamantra is the most invaluable and precious gem in the world and not to be taken lightly and discarded on the streets. You are indeed fortunate and blessed to be chanting the Maha Mantra all the time. The Lord will be definitely happy at your steadfastness. There is nothing to worry. You are definitely on the right track, or shall I say, you are only on the right track!

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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