For free can you chant (God's) Name, and yet you do not. Why do you not chant this simple prayer " Hare Rama"

Nama Article 3rd December 2012

 

Sant Samartha Ramdas

 

बहू इच्छिसी कीर्ति सन्मान कांहीं |

सुखाचा तुला अंतरीं लेश नाहीं ||

फुकाचें मुखीं नाम तें का न ये रे |

हरे राम हा मंत्र सोपा जपा रे ||

 

You desire more and more fame and honor,

Yet happiness does not dwell in your heart,

For free can you chant (God's) Name, and yet you do not,

Why do you not chant this simple prayer " Hare Rama"

 

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

 

Everyone in the world desires to study higher and higher, attain high fame and status and earn a lot.  This is in accordance with the nature and understandable to the senses.

 

People perform actions for the sake of happiness; but they neither attain happiness nor succeed in ending their sorrow thereby

 

Lord Rama says, "Any accumulated wealth will dissolve in due time. Any position of power attained will come to an end. All the relations (children, wife) come to an end in death. There is nothing in this world that is permanent."

 

What is real happiness? True happiness lies within you. By merely removing ignorance this can be realized. The easiest way towards this goal is by chanting the Mahamantra.

 

Happiness comes when the mind catches hold of the Divine Name without a break

 

Only God and uttering His Name is the true source of happiness. With out God all others are the accumulation of sorrows

 

As long as you search for peace outside yourself, you will not attain it. To find the peace within you, please chant the Mahamantra always, thinking of Lord Krishna and surrendering to Him.

 

The secret that will help you realize happiness

 

Everyone desires peace. But it does not come by easily. Neither the rich nor the poor enjoys peace

 

The true purpose of our existence is to realize God in ourselves. No other purpose is equal to or more significant than this.

 

To think 'What is the purpose of my Creation' is the very purpose of Lord's Creation

 

The true purpose of existence can be understood only if one attains a Guru

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Only the two letter supreme Divine Name Rama Nama would grant liberation.

Nama Article 2nd December 2012

 

Manusmriti

 

सप्तकोटि महामन्त्राश्र्चित्तविभ्रमकारकाः ।

एक एव परो मन्त्रः श्रीरामेत्यक्षरद्वयम् ॥

 

There are various 7 crores of so called mahamantras which would only lead your mind to illusion. Only the supreme two letter Divine Name Rama Nama would grant liberation.

 

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

 

Glory of Rama Nama

 

Rama Nama is the very essence ('saram') of all Epics, Shastras and the Vedas

 

Our ancient Sages and Rishis have glorified the Rama Nama

 

Glory of Rama Nama - The Name that Lord Shiva always Chants

 

Is it enough if I do not try to assimilate Rama's qualities but just surrender to Him?

 

Ritualistic sacrifices which has prescribed rules to follow do not match even the part of the benefit derived by Chanting the Divine names of the Lord

 

One can attain the highest goal only through dedicated endeavors of japa

 

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Rama Nama can grant all wishes at all times. Rama Nama can relieve you from any difficulty. The supreme Rama Nama could bestow all auspicious things. Let this Rama Nama be hailed everywhere.

Nama Article 1st December 2012

 

Sri Bhagawan Nama Bodhendra Saraswati Swamigal

सदा सर्वेष्टदं जन्तो सर्वारिष्टनिवारकम् ।

श्रीरामनाम जयतु श्रेयोहेतुशिखामणिः ॥

 

Rama Nama can grant all wishes at all times. Rama Nama can relieve you from any difficulty. The supreme Rama Nama could bestow all auspicious things. Let this Rama Nama be hailed everywhere.

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

Nama Article 30th November 2012

Nama Article 30th November 2012

 

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

 

"Even now the slightest thing awakens God-Consciousness in me. Rakhal used to repeat the name of God half aloud. At such times I couldn't control myself. It would rouse my spiritual consciousness and overwhelm me."

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

The way to realize God in the Kaliyuga is the path of bhakti as prescribed by Narada

Nama Article 29th November 2012

 

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

 

MASTER : "I said to Keshab: 'Chant the name of Hari. In the Kaliyuga one should sing the name and glories of God.' After that they began to sing the name of God with drums and cymbals.

 

"Do you know how my faith in the name of Hari was all the more strengthened? Holy men, as you know, frequently visit the temple garden. Once a sadhu from Multan arrived. He was waiting for a party going to Gangasagar. (Pointing to M.) The sadhu was of his age. It was he who said to me, 'The way to realize God in the Kaliyuga is the path of bhakti as prescribed by Narada.'

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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

By the very hearing of Lord’s holy Name one is totally purified.

Nama Article 28th November 2012

 

Srimad Bhagavatham 9:5:16

यन्-नाम-श्रुति-मात्रेण पुमान् भवति निर्मलः

तस्य तीर्थ-पदः किं वा दासानाम् अवशिष्यते

By the very hearing of Lord's holy Name one is totally purified. What could there be impossible for those devoted to the Holy feet of the Lord ?

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

Hearing whose glory all are cleansed of their impurities at once.

This shloka in Srimad Bhagavatham explains that one gets many auspicious benefits immediately even on hearing the Divine Names of the Lord.

If you are not able to perform Nama Sankirtan, at least listen to Nama Sankirtan. Hear the Nama regularly or go and sit in a place where Nama is being chanted.

 

To awaken us to the state of Truth, we need sounds which are above this worldly plane and are established in Reality.

 

Even if one is not able to Chant the Divine Name of Rama, one should hear others Chant of Divine Name Rama.

 

However, he concludes, 'only due to merits earned in crores of births does Bhagavan Năma come on our tongue.'

 

Of all the various people who are physically challenged, I get extremely moved when I come across people who are deaf and dumb. This is because they cannot hear or utter the Divine Names.

 

 Those people who take pleasure in continuously hearing, chanting and remembering Your activities, certainly very soon will see Your lotus feet, who put the recurrence of rebirths to an end.

 

Saintly persons (sadhus) hear, sing, and recite a literature, of such a writing describes the glory of the names of God.

 

If you think of one God , sing and hear his glories only , mingle with HIS devotees and do service only to him, your mind would attain one-pointedness

 

Why did he say that one should dance about on the streets (singing the glory of the Lord)?

 

Immediately that dumb boy gained divine knowledge and started dancing, singing the Divine Names, `Rama' and `Krishna'

 
  
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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The holy places themselves owe their sanctity to this confluence (the Lord, the Devotee and the Name). Auspicious, indeed, is every moment spent at the Saints' feet.

Nama Article 6th november 2012

 

Sant Tukaram

 

कथा त्रिवेणीसंगम देव भक्त आणि नाम ।

तेथींचें उत्तम चरणरज वंदितां ॥1॥

जळती दोषांचे डोंगर शुद्ध होती नारी नर ।

गाती ऐकती सादर जे पवित्र हरिकथा ॥

तीथॉ तया ठाया येती पुनीत व्हावया ।

पर्वकाळ पायां तळीं वसे वैष्णवां॥

अनुपम्य हा महिमा नाहीं द्यावया उपमा ।

तुका ह्मणे ब्रह्मा नेणे वणूप या सुखा ॥

 

 

Satsang is the confluence of the Triveni* of the Lord, the Devotee and the Name.

The very dust of satsang is sacred and hallowed.

Who sing the praises of the Lord and listen to the tale of His glory,

The mountain of their sins is consumed and they become pure.

The holy places themselves owe their sanctity to this confluence.

Auspicious, indeed, is every moment spent at the Saints' feet.

Without compare is the glory of the Lord, the Saint and the Name,

Which even Brahma cannot describe, says Tuka.

 

*Triveni: the confluence of the rivers Ganga, Jamuna and Saraswati at Allahabad, regarded as a place of pilgrimage.

 

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

 

oh! mind! Taking the water which is sanctified by the touch of holy feet of devotee who is immersed in the Singing of Divine Name will suffice; why do you have to go to Bhagirathi (Ganges river)?

 

He has been to the Sacred River Ganga, to Gaya and Kashi, as well as to Pushakaram, on whose tongue reside these two alphabets: HaRi

 

The three holy names — Rama (Ganga) , Krishna (Yamuna), Govinda (Saraswathi) — constitute a Prayag, a most holy and venerated confluence.

 

The house where daily Krishna kirtan is done is verily Kasi, Gaya, Kurukshetram, Pushkaram and all the holy places

 

"Have faith in the name of God. Then you won't need even to go to holy places."

 

Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :

 

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