Again the suggestion is: chant like this, do this meditation on a regular basis, not just these few days we’ve been together. It takes a little determination on your part. It’s easy here when we’re all together and everyone’s doing it. To not do it, you would be the odd person, but when you leave here and you’re in the everyday world, you are the...
More4. Intelligence
It is very important to actually see clearly what’s going on. In the Bhagavad-gita it describes intelligence as the ability to see things in their proper perspective, to understand things in their proper perspective. If I am the most materially intelligent person in the world and I don’t know that I’m spirit soul, I am very ignorant. It is declared...
More5. DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE
Properly using the human form of life is the most valuable thing. So let’s continue with our meditations – chanting on beads, Japa yoga. We talked about how important this is yesterday, regulating our life in such a way that we come in contact with spiritual sound every day. Remember we will start with ‘GAURANGA’ on the head bead. For those...
More6. Sankirtan
Ok, now let’s have our sankirtan, our congregational chanting. Maybe we can have some drum, some guitar? We’ve got some instruments here. We have musicians. Now all we have to do is to put the two together, use the intelligence. Sankirtan
More7. TO PRAY OR TO CHANT HARE KRISHNA?
Question: What should we do primarily – to pray in church or to chant HARE KRISHNA? Answer: I will say something. Lord Gauranga (Lord Chaitanya) was Krishna Himself, God Himself, and He came and He said, “Chant HARE KRISHNA!” So you decide.
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