(Continued from Issue 227)

   To awaken and experience spiritual emotion rapidly, initially one needs to make constant efforts at the level of the mind and intellect. In the last Issue, 227, we discussed regarding efforts of chanting* The Lord’s Name to develop and increase spiritual emotion. We will continue to discuss this effort in this Issue

Efforts to repeat (chant) The Lord’s Name with spiritual emotion

    One should harbor the spiritual emotion that God / the Guru is getting the chanting of The Lord’s Name done from oneself.

    Mrs. Garud, a seeker in the Sanatan’s ashram in Dhamse, India would not fall asleep till 2 a.m. for almost two to two and a half months. She expressed gratitude unto The Lord for this saying that God must be doing this to increase her chanting of The Lord’s Name.

    A seeker who harbored the feeling that the Guru Himself was getting chanting of The Lord’s Name done from her, experienced the following:

    Becoming aware that chanting along with the mala (chain of beads) continued throughout the night, after having the spiritual emotion that H.H. Dr. Jayant Athavale is getting the chanting done from her:

    Once in March 1998, before retiring for the day, I was offering obeisance to H.H. Dr. Jayant Athavale with folded hands (namaskar). It was at that moment that I had an intense feeling that He was none other than The Lord Himself and I experienced spiritual emotion. I said to H.H. Dr. Jayant Athavale, ‘You Yourself are chanting The Lord’s Name through me as a medium for the spiritual progress of Your devotee, seeker and disciple’ and I fell asleep with the mala in my hand. When I awoke at 5 a.m. I realized that I had been chanting The Lord’s Name with the mala all night.