Now, so far I’ve referred a lot to ourselves. I sit down, we receive the benefit. And this brings us to the next topic. This is the topic of identity. I talked about this last night but we’ll go over it again for those who weren’t here, and also it’s good to hear this many times. In the Vedas it says that this is a very important topic. And it comes...
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So our mantra will be GAURANGA NITAI-GAUR. All right, let’s practice saying that now. Everybody ready? We’re going to practice saying that. First I will say it and then you repeat. Like this. OK. Ready? GAU-RA-ANG-GA NI-TAI-GAUR (audience repeats twice) All right, very good. At this point you may ask, “Well, exactly, what is a mantra?” Of course, a...
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OK. The next mantra we’re going to learn is on the other card. This is known as the maha-mantra. The word “maha” means great. And “mantra” means mind deliverer. And mantra actually has the power to deliver our minds from the material realm to the spiritual realm. And of all mantras this is the greatest one. This is the mantra that Lord Gauranga...
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If everyone will take your beads, we’re going to learn a meditation called japa meditation, and sometimes it’s called japa yoga. You’ll notice one bead is different than all the rest. It’s bigger, it sticks up, it has a tassel on it. This is called the head bead. We do not chant the maha-mantra on the head bead. This is an indicator bead that lets...
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The third meditation we’re going to learn is called sankirtan. Sankirtan means congregational chanting: two or more people come together and chant the mantras. Normally it’s done with the accompaniment of a musical instrument, but it doesn’t have to. Tonight we’ll use guitar. It’s done in a method called shravanam-kirtanam. ‘Shravanam’ means...
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