Are you obsessed with Harinam? Then please read!

[Suchandra dasi]

Sri Guru Gauranga Jayatah!

Please accept my dandavat pranams all Vaishnava's and Vaishnavis!


Srila Gurudev goes over the same subjects over and over again to get them hammered into our collection of transcendental samskars and subconscious. It's a very good tactic. Repetition helps put things deep into your consciousness. That is why advertisements repeat so many times, because they know you will eventually succumb.

By now, I should know, by Gurudeva's patience, mercy and grace, WHAT OUR GOAL IS. If we have been around for a few years, then we SHOULD know!!

So NOW it's time to start the Sadhan for that Sadhya, (goal), and HARINAM is the means and the end! (The sadhan and the sadhya!!!)


I will tell you all right now that I HAVE NO SADHAN!! I mean, I chant below minimum and it is disgusting! So I am petitioning Gurudeva's preaching parties, to consider this humble request.

I would now like to hear PEP talks about Harinam.

Hearing about HARINAM SANKIRTAN and getting PEP talks on Japa meditation is SUPER helpful! It's PRACTICAL!!

So just like how Gurudev repeats things again and again. I would like to hear again and again about HARINAM!

For those of you who are ADDICTED and OBSESSED with HARINAM, please help by enthusing us!


These last few days we have been hearing from Sripad Sajjan Maharaj. He says that he is accustomed to speaking to new devotees, and he says that it is humbling to come and speak before such senior god brothers and god sisters. He says that he really is not a good speaker.

But to tell you all the truth, I think his classes on the wonderful topics like Harinam, Gauranga Mahaprabhu, and Sadhu sanga, are extremely revitalizing.

We see so many devotees in large social gatherings in festivals all over the world. We dance, chant, hear, take prasadam and go home. But the most important thing is what we take home from these festivals and how did we become encouraged to practice Krishna Consciousness in our own lives on a daily and hourly basis!

A good class is judged not by how fancy you speak or how much you know, but by HOW MUCH YOU HAVE INSPIRED OTHERS TO BE KRISHNA CONSCIOUS.


I hope and pray that I will hear more of these pep talks in the future and more often. And I want to add that the best pep talks are from people who are radiating the sadhu sanga in Srila Gurudeva's line that they keep.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Stress HARINAM and speak about Harinam!!! I want to HEAR in such a way so that I will CHANT!

(and Quality chanting too! )

pranams,

Thank you for your patience,

Suchandra dasi-aspiring servant of Hari, Guru, and Vaishnvas

[Syamapada das]

JAY SRI SRI GURU AND GAURANGA!! JAY RADHA VINODE BIHARIJI!!

My most humble dandavats pranams to my Gurudev, Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja and to all senior devotes!

According to Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and our Acaryas, chanting harinam is the nitya-dharma of the jivas and it only increases as we grow. I personally have been chanting some good rounds and i can tell you it is difficult on the beginning. But i can asure you all the benefits are true! You should at first try to develop your faith, either with sadhu-sanga and sastra-reading, specially reading the vast collection of texts and classes from the pure devotees like Srila BV Narayana Maharaja, Srila BV Swami Prabhupada, and so many others... For a good bhajan you should at first avoid the deep books, like Srimad Bhagavad-Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam, you will loose yourself and will get no real benefit from reading them. Keep basic and simple. Sri Upadesamrta and Sri Manah Siksa are awesome! There you will find information of how a devote should behave, with whom you should associate and whom you should avoid from your intimacy. There is a lot of confusion on what is association, so be careful. Then you should read Sri Siksastaka and Sri Bhajan Rahasya.

You must pray for Gurudev´s mercy and his strength to chant, you must follow all the rules and regulation you can follow, you must put your life on Gurudev´s hands, you must get free from all this anxiety, afteralls we spent countless lives without chanting harinam, how do you expect to suddenly chant 64 rounds? Don´t worry! Everything is slow and difficult and everything is motivated by the power of your faith and surrender. Fix you mind on your 16 rounds and try to do it, put a real effort on it, like your life depended on it and praying for Gurudev´s and Krsna´s mercy. Chant your rounds and everything will come.

Try to look at you like a drug addicted person who tries to get free from the drugs, live one day at time and keep track of your progress daily "today i fought with my husband and didn´t chant at all, but yesterday i chanted 12 rounds and the day before i had an argue while driving and chanted 8 rounds" soon you will know what drives you to chant more rounds and what hinders you from it, and you will be able to keep a finer control over your chanting and your chanting will grow. I recommed you to re-read all the books many many times. One important thing is to don´t get neurotic over it and don´t let your daily mood affect your chanting, be pratical and simple. And slowly you will grow over time, when you start to taste "Ceto darpana marjanam bhava mahadavagni nirvapanam, sreyah kairava candrika vitaranam vidyavadhu jivanam, anandhanbhudi vardhanam prati padam purnamrtasvadanam, sarvatma snapanam param vijayate sri krsna sankirtanam" your faith in the harinam will get stronger and you grow even more. Don´t worry... Pray for Gurudev and all will be fine!!

With sincere feelings... Syãmãpada das

[Sacinandana Dasa]

Haribol Didi!

I am certainly NOT obsessed... however this PEP talk is about the BEST PEP talk I've ever heard. I play it again and again whilst chanting. Its a class by Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja, entitled... Dont Run from Mahaprabhu's Embrace. Part 1 Part 2

Lots more of his mps's here

[Sacinandana Dasa]

Sorry, I got the links above wrong. Part 2 is actually Part 1 and visa versa!

[Chiranjib Das]

Dear Suchandra, dandavats, Last year at Badger on a morning walk I asked Srila Gurudeva if it was possible to overindulge in chanting harinam. I admitted my tendency to overindulge my senses which results in my suffering. I also wanted encouragement in my chanting. That exchange was video recorded and is part of a morning walk I think June 17, 2008. He encouraged me to chant more and more but alas! i have not seriously taken up his direction yet..... Also I've been meaning to blog about the invention of the japa bucket- helmet what do you think? On one hand I would like to share more about how chanting affects me yet on the other hand I'm so much embarassed to be chanting so little. I need japa encouragement too... :( nama cintamani krsnas, caitanya rasa vigraha, purna shudho nitya muktas, binatvan nama naminoh!!!!!!!!

[Jagannatha Dasa]

Excellent reading. Mataji Suchandra dasi you are very intelligent. Haribol.