The Name- Glorification 262
Rammohan G
Complete concentration is necessary. Otherwise your rounds are done, but they aren’t done well. You are just trying to get the job done, like a factory worker. You get the credit that “I chanted my rounds,” but there will be far more credit if you chant with the right quality. Attentive doesn’t mean only that you don’t fall asleep or that you don’t leave off a “Hare,” but it means being attentive to how Krishna may reveal within your heart more understanding of the holy name. But you have to concentrate. Anything that you want to do well, you have to think about it, and you have to put other things out of your mind in order to do it. That’s very basic definition of concentration. Concentrated is only one thing, nothing diluted, nothing impure – just the essence. So when you concentrate on anything, it’s like that – one thing. The karmis concentrate so that they get the most out of sense gratification. Any worker has to concentrate to do something right. So a yogi, a bhakti yogi, has to concentrate also with all his senses and his mind.
We actually chant japa just a couple of hours, but it should be done like that – with concentration. Everybody knows this, but we have to do it. It’s an easy process. It’s not a hard process, it’s an easy process – you just have to chant and hear. You don’t have to sit in a certain place and control your breath and give up food. But it’s an easy process for somebody who’s not very austere – meaning the average soul in the Kali-yuga – but it’s the topmost process. So if this easy process, if you can’t do this even, then literally there’s no hope for you. What other hope is there if you can’t chant.
- Japa Reform Notebook
Chant
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Ram Hare Ram Ram Ram Hare Hare
and make your life sublime
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