​​​​​​​​​​​​​Stressed Out or Blissed Out. It's Your Choice.

Do you want to be stressed out or blissed out? It's your choice. If you choose to misidentify yourself with your temporary material body, you are sure and certain to sooner or later become a completely stressed out, miserable, ignorant mess. However, if you take hint from the enlightened sages and learn how to fully reconnect yourself with your eternal, all-blissful, fully cognizant nature, you will be always be ever-increasingly blissing out relishing your eternal loving relationship with that Supreme Person, who is the source of all existence and with the infinite number of living beings that He is eternally manifesting from Himself for the purpose of enjoying loving relationships with them.

So now you decide what you want. If you want bliss instead of stress, I will teach you how. (The only persons who go for the stress are the ones who don't realize they have a choice or those who are completely devoid of intelligence.)

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Answers According to Vedic Wisdom

Question: Chanting with Counter Instead of Japa Beads?

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Dear Srila Gurudeva,
Hare Krishna!
Please accept my dandavat Pranam at your lotus feet.

I would like to know whether using counter instead of japa mala for chanting is acceptable? Or can we just use counter when we wish to chant when we are in public? Or when walking? Can the chanting of rounds with the counter be counted as extra rounds or can we add or include it in our fixed daily rounds?

I feel that using a japa bag unnecessarily attracts public attention sometimes, and I feel that I am trying to act like an elevated devotee by this?

Kindly clarify,
With humble obeisances,
Your aspiring disciple,
Jayakrishna

Answer: Chant Your 16 Rounds on Japa Beads

From: Solferino, Mauritius

My Dear Raman,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Srila Prabhupada instructs us that our 16 rounds should be chanted on japa beads. There is no harm chanting with your hand in your bead bag when you are in the public. In fact, this can open up preaching opportunities for you if someone is curious to know why you have your hand in a bag. You can than explain the great benefit of chanting Hare Krishna. This may inspire them to also chant Hare Krishna.

I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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