Do Not Cheat Yourself

Do not cheat yourself by misidentifying yourself with your material body, which is temporary, full of ignorance, and full of misery. Your actual identity is that you are an eternal spiritual being full of knowledge, and full of bliss. You can revive your actual identity by chanting the Hare Krishna mantra under the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master. So instead of cheating yourself, reward yourself.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

You Are Not That Body

You Are Not That Body

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: The Japa of Haridas Thakur

Dandavat pranam, Guru Maharaj,
Please accept my humble obeisances.

I read that Namacharya Haridas Thakur was chanting 300,000 of Hare Krishna mantra daily. So there are 864,00 Seconds in a day. Even if I consider if he were chanting without any break then he must be chanting at speed of 3.5 mantra per second. How is this possible? Is there is any method to chant at this astronomical speed? Please guide me how because it takes me good 3 seconds per mantra chant. Of course I am tiny devotee don't want to compete with that speed but just for my knowledge.

Thank you for your kind guidance.

Your humble servant,
Prakash

Answer: 300,000 Sacred Names Daily

My Dear Prakash,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Haridas was not chanting the Mahamantra 300,000 times daily. He was chanting 300,000 sacred names daily. Since each repetition of the Mahamantra contains 16 names and there are 108 repetitions in each round, he was chanting 174 rounds per day. If he was chanting at the speed of 16 rounds in 2 hours, it would take him 22 hours to chant the 300,000 names.

I hope this meets you in the best of health.
 
Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Sankarshan Das Adhikari is a bona fide spiritual master with tens of thousands of students and disciples all other the world. Blessed by his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, with the formula for solving all of the world's problems both individually and collectively, he is thus endeavoring to attract the whole world to pay serious heed to these teachings, which if followed will usher in a most glorious new enlightened era in global history.

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