Wake Up, Sleeping Soul!

"Wake up sleeping soul!" This is the plea of Lord Caitanya. This human form of life which you have achieved with great difficulty over millions of lifetimes of evolution through the lower your species is currently slipping through your fingers soon to be lost unless you seriously utilize it starting right now to awaken your eternal enlightened blissful consciousness as a servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of all existence. Do not be lulled into the sense of material sense gratification, either subtle or gross. Utilize this human life for what it is meant for, and experience the supreme benefit of an eternal life, full of knowledge, and full of bliss.

Lord Caitanya Has Mercifully Come to Awaken Us

Lord Caitanya Has Mercifully Come to Awaken Us

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Can One Become Realized through Silent Meditation?

Dear Gurudeva,

What is the Sanskrit term for silent meditation on the mantra? Also, it is possible to become realized in this manner? I ask because I experience more bliss meditating in this manner as opposed to japa.

Is the bliss felt during meditation the same feeling as when others say one is "high on meditation"? Also, will the bliss eventually become more profound over time? (It feels like a swelling in my head of positive energy).

Yours in Krishna,

M.K.S.

Answer: Chanting Breaks through Silence into Unlimited Bliss

The Sanskrit word for silence is mauna. But mauna is not applicable when chanting a mantra. Chanting means that the mantra must be audibly vibrated. According to the Brihad Naradiya Purana, in this age audible chanting is required for spiritual realization. The bliss of mauna or silent meditation is exceeded millions of times over by the bliss of pure chanting.

The bliss of silent meditation is in detaching oneself from the sufferings of material existence. But unless there is full time positive engagement on the spiritual platform one must sooner or later come out of that detached position to interact once again with the biting material energy. However, the bhakti yoga system, based on chanting the holy names of God, activates positive ananda, or spiritual bliss which is tasted and experience far, far beyond the bliss of detachment. The bliss of pure bhakti, the fruit of dedicated serious chanting, is so powerful that one can remain 24 hours in an ecstatic, detached, meditative state even while engaged in ordinary household and occupational duties. This is exemplified by Arjuna when he fought for 18 days on the battlefield of Kurukshetra in an uninterrupted trance of pure spiritual bliss. When you become fully Krishna conscious, i.e. truly and fully illuminated in perfect spiritual enlightenment, you will be situated billions of light years away from your material body while at the same time acting perfectly within it. This cannot be compared with a mere swelling of positive energy within the head because such a comparison does not even close to describing the bliss of pure devotional service. In short, chanting breaks through the limits of silent meditation and carries the chanter-meditator into the spiritual sky of unlimited bliss.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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