Issue No. 229 • June 13, 2004
Editor: Mr. Pruthviraj Purushottam Hajare

Articles

Need For Spirituality

Saints' Blessings
to the Sanatan

Clarification of Doubts

Did You Know?

Messages to Seekers

Practical Guidance

Spiritual Practice for Awakening Spiritual Emotion

Children's Corner

 Religious Festivals

Spiritual Practice for Destroying Ego

Spiritual Experiences

Experiment of the
Subtle Dimension

Holy Verses

 
Actions/efforts to awaken spiritual emotion in an individual

(Continued from Issue 228)

  To awaken spiritual emotion rapidly, initially one needs to make constant efforts at the level of the mind and intellect. Since Issue 227, we have been discussing efforts that can be made to chant* The Lord’s Name with spiritual emotion. In this Issue, we will discuss some more efforts to chant The Lord’s Name with spiritual emotion.

Efforts to chant The Lord’s Name with spiritual emotion

    One should harbor the spiritual emotion that The Lord’s Name is a protective armor against all evil. The spiritual emotion of a seeker in this context is described below:

    An inner feeling that chanting when ironing clothes would create impressions of The Lord’s Name on the clothes turning them into (divine) armor:

    On October 27, 2002, the Guru suggested to me from within that I should chant when ironing clothes, because this helps in transmitting The Lord’s Name to the clothes, which can later be used as a protective armor.

- Mr. Rajesh Sadanand Gavkar,
the Sanatan organization’s ashram in Phonda (Goa), India.
If one uses a tool such as a japamala to chant The Lord’s Name, considering it as a deity, one should offer obeisance to it before commencing the chanting. For spiritual experiences in this context refer to this section in Issue 212.
Chanting should be interlaced with meditation, because the two qualitatively enhance each other.
·One should listen to a recording (audiocassette, downloaded tune, etc.) of the chant off and on (to learn the tune and chant accordingly to derive maximum benefit and to chant with spiritual emotion).
·One should listen to recordings (audiocassettes, etc.) of devotional songs (bhajans) composed by Saints and of Their spiritual guidance off and on.

    In the next Issue we will see a spiritual experience after chanting of The Lord’s Name was done with spiritual emotion.

*Constant remembrance or repetition of The Lord’s Name. When done mentally, it can be done anywhere and anytime, as it does not need purity of body, time or place. However, in the initial stages it is recommended that one start by sitting in one place for at least half an hour daily and repeat (chant) The Name of one’s Kuldevata or per their religion (refer to Issue 3, Clarification of Doubts section for details on what Name to repeat according to one’s religion.) Those in the advanced stages and who have been doing regular spiritual practice for over one year are advised to determine The Name appropriate for them from the experiment given in Issue 124, Messages to Seeker section.


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