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Sher Agrawal

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[sadhaka] On Chanting and Reciting God's Name (June 16)

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sadhak_insight Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:00 PM
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:Shree Hari:

16th June, 2008, Monday
Jyeshtha Shukla Trayodashi, Vikram Samvat 2065, Somvar

If you turn to God, all the sins of previous births will be washed
away.

"Sanmukh hoyi jeev mohi jabhi, Janam koti agh naasahin tabhi."

You commit sins only when you turn away from God. Therefore seek
refuge at His lotus feet saying "O Lord, I am only Yours and only
You are mine." This feeling that you belong to God and God belongs
to you is the essence of true devotion. God cannot be easily
attainable by performing rituals. However He is easily attainable
by those who develop love for Him. Performing good deeds like -
sacrifice (yagnas), doing charity, visiting holy places
(pilgrimage), studying the scriptures are all useful, but none of
these are as powerful as the feeling of belonging to God - God is
mine and I am His.

Let us take the example of a millionnaire simply to illustrate this
point. The millionnaire has a manager who gets a decent salary each
month. The millionnaire's son is a useless and does nothing. He is
incapable of earning even minimum wages. But when the rich man
dies, his riches will be inherited not by the able manager, but by
the worthless son, for the simple reason that the later is the
millionnaire's son. Thus in this matter the inheritor's abilities
do not count. What really matters is that the inheritor is the rich
man's own son. Like the millionnaire's son, we are all the children
of God, irrespective of our ability or inability. It is an
established fact that we belong to Him. God always regards us as
His children.

"Mamaivaansho jeeva loke jeeva bhoota sanaatanah." (Gita 7:19)

The only requirement is that we accept this relation with God and
develop the feeling that we are His very own.

This world will deceive you in the end. It will desert you and this
body that you consider your own will not live forever. That too
will desert you. It is sheer ignorance to regard this world and
this body as your own. Turn away from them, say to God, "O Lord, I
am Your very own and You are mine". If you develop this feeling,
you will attain Eternal Bliss.

Practice chanting /reciting His name "Nama-Japa" with a feeling
that you belong to God. Whatever name you like of God, whether it
be "Ram Ram" or "Radhe Radhe" or any divine / holy name and form of
God that you believe in. Whether you are literate or illiterate,
sick or healthy, you have equal right to chanting His name "Nama
Japa", just as we have a right to inherit our father's property.
Similiarly, we are entitled to the property of our Divine Father,
i.e. we are entitled to chant His Holy Name.

This has been described in details in the Upanishads when Saint
Narada approached Lord Brahma and enquired on how one could achieve
salvation in Kali yug (age) ? and Brahmaji's reply was - through
chanting / reciting God's Divine Name.

From "The Divine Name" by Swami Ramsukhdasji in English pg 36

Ram Ram

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