We all need protection. And we can have that shelter when we chant. When I met my Spiritual Master, who I always offer my respects to, he told me this is your shelter, this is your protection. Take shelter in this transcendental sound. The Holy Names, these are names of the Supreme Lord. So the Supreme Lord is the ultimate shelter. His Names are...
More2. Material mind and spiritual vision
The Name of God is no different than the personality of God. This is not possible for us to understand with our material minds. Because our material minds only know what we have been taught and have learned from experience etc. in the material world. So we are completely cut off from spiritual understanding with our material mind. So in this world the...
More3. An “absolutely” different experience
Now another thing to understand about the Holy Names: They are purifying, they clean away all the garbage in the mind, in the heart, and they alone are able to do this. So when we began our meditation sat, we sit down, ok I am going to do Gauranga, and we start chanting Gauranga. We are coming from our material activities, and all the material...
More4. Help with our material problems
So if we have this information and understanding about chanting our mantras, we can actually know, ok, this is what I am going to do for this length of time. And we get a completely different attitude towards our mantra meditation. When I first started chanting, in the early years of my chanting, there was a small group of us with our Spiritual Master. ...
More5. The real solution
A little child, small, 2 years old, where is their protection? In their parents, right? They are always hiding behind the legs of their father, or running to their mother, they venture away, then something happens, oh, they run back. Automatic, right? Because mum is protection, or dad is protection. ‘I am very brave, I am very bra… oh, I am...
More6. The most valuable gift
So it is a package which offers everything I need: Protection, shelter, strength to carry on, and happiness right here in the mantras: Gauranga, Nitai Gaur, Mahamantra, Haribol. It is all right there. All I have to do is believe it. Not blindly believe it, add it to your life, and you will see. This is the solution. We all have our problems, and we all...
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