How can we make our chanting purer and better?
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nadami buddhi yogamtam, Krishna will reveal the position in which you can best serve Him.
There is no such one thing, because our mind comes up with two kinds of impurities in this fashion. So, it’s a periodic cleansing process. The chanting itself cleanses us.
But we cannot put our heart into chanting if we are not at least rightly motivated. That’s why regularly hearing about the glories of the holy name and selecting, based on our inspiration, certain verses and certain thoughts and meditations, which inspire us with the right attitude, and maybe making a small pocket diary of them and referring to them when we start chanting, that is very helpful. Because although the process of bhakti is a matter of the heart, very often for us the head is the way to the heart.
That means when the head is convinced that I should do this, then we put the heart into it. So, if we can, before our chanting, intellectually convince ourselves that chanting is extremely important, this is the means to purification, liberation, liberation, then we will put our heart into it. Krishna also talks about this in the Bhagavad Gita.
Since it’s not important, he is talking about mind control. And there he says, how can one control the mind? Gradually, step by step. And then? Buddhi is intelligence, bhakti is conviction.
So, intelligence sustained by conviction. So, it’s good that before we chant, if we have some our own selected verses, or our own selected thoughts which we have heard from different places, and refer to them, and use them to move towards the right frame of mind. On my website, on a daily basis, I upload whole day meditations.
Like what I did today for some of the Prahlad Maharaj’s prayers, I have done them for many of the prayers in the 9th chapter. And these are 5 to 6, 5 minute meditations. So, I take some prayers from the scriptures.
I have spoken of Guru Maharaj’s prayer, Guru Narayana’s prayer, and many other scriptures like that. So, this helps me when I contemplate on these prayers, and reflect on them. And that helps me to chant properly, because it moves us towards the right frame of mind.
So, you may find that useful. And you can even, it’s not that you will find something that inspires me, it will not inspire you. But this can give you a start in the direction where, based on whatever you find inspiring, you can collect that, and then you can use that for making your chanting more intense and meaningful.