Enough is Enough

Sense gratification is like salt. One should not take too much or too little. For example, we require a certain amount of eating to stay healthy. If we eat too much or too little, in either case it is not good for our health. In this materialistic age of Kali our tendency is to take too much. So we have to train ourselves to curb our sense gratification. We have to be sufficiently intelligent to recognize that enough is enough and to then curb down our overly voracious senses. We must train ourselves to s simply take what is required to keep good health. In this way our pathway to the spiritual world will be unobstructed. We'll be able to peacefully take shelter of the Lord's holy name.

Overeating is the Gateway to Hell

Overeating is the Gateway to Hell

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Question: How to Chant?

I would like to thank you for replying my questions on a regular basis. I have a few more questions, if you could kill my doubts.

a. What is mechanical chanting ?

b. One devotee said you have been ignoring Krishna, you are keeping yourself in the center. How can I ignore Krishna? If Krishna is in His words, and I am trying to hear, I should automatically get realization and grow. Is that not the right way ?

c. I have been reading a lot on the internet, so I am in really confused. I read that chanting should be done to please Krishna. Then I read that you should try to listen one mantra at a time. And then I read that it is a relation between ourself and Krishna, that we should chant with love, that chanting should be done in prayerful mood. But when you focus on any such things, you lose the focus on hearing. So how should chanting be done?

Please help me.

Vishal

Answer: Lovingly Beg for Service

Mechanical chanting is when we chant only on our lips and not from our heart. This means that we are only making a show of chanting, that we are not sincerely begging Krishna to engage us in His service.

For millions of lifetimes our tendency has been to ignore Krishna and keep ourselves in the center. Even as we sincerely begin the path of Krishna bhakti we have to fight with our minds to curb down this tendency to keep ourselves in the center.

Combine all the advice you have heard about chanting into one sincere attempt to please Lord
Krishna by calling out His names with love that He may engage you in His service.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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