Well now how do we serve God ? I am caught in so many of my material responsibilities that how am I ever going to find time to achieve this? It seems out of the world.
We yearn for things to be practical and simple and tend to deride things which don't appear easy. And what's more we want to see immediate results. Well if the supreme is aware of everything, why would he ignore this and not have a solution?
Yes…the scriptures recommend different practices and methods for different ages considering the conditions applicable to each age. There are four ages prescribed, and the current age is the iron age or Kali yuga. This age is described to be full of vices. Men have short memory and not lucky. Their life span is hardly a hundred years.
Just as there are four ages, there are four methods to reinstate our relationship with God. Meditation, rituals, worship and chanting the holy name of God are the four prescribed methods. Of these four, the first three methods require considerable time and purity to enable one to achieve success. Well now, the fourth method, chanting God's name is the easiest and most sublime. The Supreme Lord appeared as Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu some 500 years ago to inaugurate this movement. He preached that chanting of God's name is possible and practical because it is not dependent on one's qualification or purification. In fact such qualification and purification is achieved by the process itself. So let us start chanting God's name wherever possible and make our lives happy and peaceful.
Please chant
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna |
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare ||
Hare Rama Hare Rama |
Rama Rama Hare Hare ||
A minimum of 108 times everyday.
By Krsna Caitanya Das
