Recall all that Guru has done for us. Anything seen around us should in some way or the other remind us of Him

Nama Article 18th March 2010

 

Excerpts from a discourse by our Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

 

A boy thinks of his mother - how she used to care for him, how on every occasion she would prepare certain dishes for him, etc. Similarly, friends think of each other. They recall the loving acts of their dear and near ones.

 

In the same way one should be in Guru bhava. Recall all that He has done for us. Anything seen around us should in some way or the other remind us of Him. To think of the Guru/God like this is 'Bhakti' (devotion). One should forever be in such thoughts. Read Prahlada's, Dhruva's lives. God has been their protector. It is full of Guru Prabhãva (the glory of Guru).

 

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

 

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2008/08/is-there-any-need-to-count-numbers.html

 

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2009/07/3rd-july-2009-is-special-day-ashada.html

 

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2008/10/child-is-laid-down-in-cradle-its-mother.html

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Human birth is meant only for the purpose of attainment of Bhagavan

Nama Article 15th March 2010

 

Excerpts from a discourse by our Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji

 

"Human birth is meant only for the purpose of attainment of Bhagavãn."

 

Let's say you are on a hijacked aircraft. What are your feelings then? Does anything other than your life matter to you then? Is anything - your wealth, your learning, family and friends of any help to you then? A fervent prayer is on your lips and in your heart. The intensity of your prayer is at its deepest, for, you are in the most precarious situation.

 

Well! Your life is similar to this. Even as we look around we find the world filled with various kinds of sorrows - diseases both physical and mental, financial problems, strained human relationships even amongst immediate family members, poverty, corruption, disloyalty, dishonesty. Countries wage war with each other. There is distrust between nations. Thus this material world is not of much worth. Anyone of the above can hit you any moment Yearn for freedom from this shackle of life just as you would yearn for safety/freedom while caught in a hijacked aircraft.

 

The intensity of your prayer should be that of a person on hijacked aircraft who has no other thought but the one thought of getting out of that particular situation.

 

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

 

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2009/07/glory-unto-theeoh-mind-i-salute-thy.html

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/search?q=You+desire+to+lift+me+out

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2010/03/who-is-never-seen-to-have-worries-and_12.html

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

With the grace of the Lord protecting you, you will be least affected by the world

Nama Article 14th March 2010 

 

Source: http://www.namadwaar.org/articles/BhavasInBhagavatam4.html

 

Grace of God for the worldly

 

One should get the grace of the Lord before entering into worldly affairs. 

 

With the grace of the Lord protecting you, you will be least affected by the world, just like the kid who holds a pole tightly and spins around it does not fall.

 

This is shown in the life of Dhruva in Srimad Bhagavatam.

 

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

 

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2010/01/gods-grace-we-receive-this-by-chanting.html

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2009/11/when-mind-is-completely-filled-with-his.html

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2009/10/t-is-by-grace-of-guru-alone-that-one.html

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Let everyone be as he/she is. Why should they change? Let us transform ourselves.

Nama Article 13th March 2010

 

"You cannot correct the world. Each one has his own vasana; hence, will act only as per his vasana. You cannot correct others. You should correct only yourself. Of what use is it in advising others to correct themselves without correcting ourselves? Your expectation of this one or that one to behave in a particular way as you deem fit is a grave mistake. Let everyone be as he/she is. Why should they change? Let us transform ourselves."

 

What does the Prahlada charitra show in Srimad Bahagavatham?

 

Prahlada did not lament about the sufferings inflicted on him by his own father, did not expect the persons making him suffer to change. Instead he accepted the situation he was placed and was steadfast in His devotion of Chanting the Divine Name. That was verily the solution as he overcame all the sufferings and attained the purpose of life purely by the Grace of Lord.

 

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

 

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2007/04/nama-article-15th-march-2007-excerpts.html

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2010/01/one-who-loves-life-succeeds-in-life.html

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2009/12/you-should-not-only-accept-from-bottom.html

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Devotion to Lord Hari is the only method in helping to transcend Maya

Nama Article 12th March 2010

 

Vaishnava Samhita: Vol. I, Book 2 Chapter 3 Shloka 1 & 5

 

Devotion to Lord Hari is the only method in helping to transcend Maya

 

The mind should be drawn away from sensory experiences like hearing and the resultant pleasures. It should be drawn within, purified and focused firmly on Lord Madahava, the Ultimate Being.

 

Devotion to Lord Hari is the only method in helping to transcend Maya.

 

Hence one should surrender heart and soul to Lord Krishna who activates Maya.

 

Transliteration

Hari Bhaktim Vinaa Noonam Tasya Maayaati Dustaraa

Tasmaan Maayaavinam Krishnam Sarvathaa Sharanam Bhajet

 

Shloka

हरिभक्तिं विना नूनं तस्य मायातिदुस्तरा ।

तस्मान्मायाविनं कृष्णं सर्वथा शरणं भजेत् ॥

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Who is never seen to have worries and sorrows of any kind

Nama Article 11th March 2010 

 

Vaishnava Samhita: Vol. I, Book 1 , Chapter 21 Shloka 01 to 07

Who is never seen to have worries and sorrows of any kind

The man lacking in true wisdom suffers developing a feeling of `mine' [attachment] towards all perishable things and mortal kinsmen.  The husband becomes grief stricken at the death of his  beloved, soft hearted and amicable wife, who has given birth to many children. The parents experience untold sorrow when their intelligent, humble and most beloved son becomes a prey to Yama (the God of Death). When the parents who dutifully protect and take care of the child die leaving him alone, he undergoes limitless sufferings in the world. No man of the world can prevent or control or check `kaala; (death) applying any tool like chanting of mantras or practising 

tantra or utilising his knowledge that has been acquired so far.

 

Thus, the earth is the asylum of countless sufferings and sorrows and is ever waiting to be swallowed by Yama. Consequently, the realized ones ignore this world concentrating on the Absolute Being, Bhagavan. Those who nurture in their hearts loving devotion to the Lord of the universe, who is the Eternal, Absolute Being, Lord Shri Vasudeva, are never seen to have worries and sorrows of any kind.

 

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

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2010/01/that-love-can-sprout-only-by-his-grace.html

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2010/03/true-purpose-of-our-existence-is-to.html

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-is-real-happiness-true-happiness.html

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2010/01/to-think-what-is-purpose-of-my-creation.html

http://guruandnamakirtan.blogspot.com/2009/06/true-purpose-of-existence-can-be.html

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

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

Preamble of Namadwaar, Nama Dwaar - Purpose and Plan

Nama Article 10th March 2010

 

Srimad Bhagavatham 9:19:15

यदा न कुरुते भावं सर्व-भूतेष्व् अमङ्गलम्

सम-दृष्टेस् तदा पुंसः सर्वाः सुखमया दिशः 

When a man does not harbour any bad (or unauspicious) thought about any creature, to that man of uniform outlook (view) towards all, happiness is there all around.

 

Click here to read - Preamble of Namadwaar

 

A group should not attack another. We should have compassion towards all. How would we feel if someone attacks us or inflicts pain on us? We should not cause pain to others. We should lead a life acceptable to the Almighty

 

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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