Wherever the chanting of Năma is performed, wherever a japa is done, a wave is created. The atmospheric wave here is very calm.

Nama Article 2nd December 2009

 

Excerpts from a discourse by our Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

 

In a home where is there is always a quarrel, where people do not meet eye to eye on any matter, hate each other, are not united, the atmospheric waves are negative. When anyone visits the place, he feels restless and desires to get out of the place.

 

Wherever the chanting of Năma is performed, wherever a japa is done, a wave is created. This is the reason that we say that it is peaceful, joyful in a place. What is so peaceful? The atmospheric wave here is very calm.

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

You should not only accept from the bottom of your heart the situation that the Lord keeps you in but also be grateful to Him for that because it is verily the Lord's blessing!

Nama Article 1st December 2009

 

Bhagawan Yogiram Suratkumar

 

You should not only accept from the bottom of your heart the situation that the Lord keeps you in but also be grateful to Him for that because it is verily the Lord's blessing!

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Adi Shankaracharya's humility

Nama Article 30th November 2009

 

Excerpts from a discourse by our Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

 

Adi Shankaracharya shows his humility by singing,

 

"My effort to sing your praises is akin to showing camphor light to the Sun; offering water to the ocean; placing a crown on the head of a huge mountain!"

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

When the mind is thus perfectly still through the power of the Name, you attain to a state of self awareness or witness consciousness

Nama Article 28th November 2009

 

Swami Papa Ramdas

 

When you chant the Beloved's Name, your mind gets enchanted by its sweet music and will take up the refrain. The mind is now inebriated with a strange and rare joy. Whenever it wanders, by the repeated infusion of this joy, it becomes immediately steady and placid.

 

It is the waves of lower desires arising in it that cause the disturbance. When the mind is thus perfectly still through the power of the Name, you attain to a state of self awareness or witness consciousness.

 

In a subtle way, you are made to transcend the relative nature of your life, with which you had identified yourself through ignorance, and come to realize that you are one with a vast, illimitable and eternal Truth or Life.

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Mahatma Gandhi won over British rule by the sheer power of Rama Nama and by virtue of truthfulness sans any weapon and got us independence

Nama Article 26th November 2009

 

Source: http://www.namadwaar.org/diary/?action=entry&id=1208963645

 

Ram Nam and Truthfulness

 

At such a time when even the mighty rulers of the princely states of India bowed down to the British rule, Mahatma Gandhi won over them by the sheer power of Rama Nama and by virtue of truthfulness sans any weapon and got us independence.

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

It is no exaggeration to say that prayers alone are real, all else is unreal.

Nama Article 24th November 2009

 

Mahathma Gandhi

 

Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

 

Such worship or prayer is no flight of eloquence; it is no lip-homage. It springs from the heart. If, therefore, we achieve that purity of the heart when it is 'emptied of all but love', if we keep all the chords in proper tune, they 'trembling pass in music out of sight'.

 

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. I have not the slightest doubt that prayer is an unfailing means of cleansing the heart of passions. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Nama is definitely more significant than ‘Rupa’

Nama Article 23rd November 2009

 

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

 

It is said that the true form of God is unimaginable and for this reason, a few great spiritual masters (like Kabir, Guru Nanak, Shankaradeva etc.) worshipped Nama alone. Is 'Nama' more significant than 'Rupa' (form)?

 

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji:

 

Yes, Nama is definitely more significant than 'Rupa'.

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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