Whomsoever chants nama all his sins will be wiped out - HH Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamigal
Bhagavan in the Gita
said "tasmAt shAstram pramANamtE kAryAkAryavyavasthitau". Don't make
the decision in your mind whether this is right or this is wrong - mind is
prone to doubt and if mind involves with wrong doing, it will pick up the wrong
samskArams. So mind cannot be the ultimate authority (pramAnam) in deciding
good or bad, only sAstram can be pramAnam. sAstram is anantham, its ever full.
You cannot just read all the sAstram and decide which is right and which is
wrong. So if you want to be at peace with what is right or wrong, do follow the
sampradAyam, the achArya and perform your duties without fail. The achArya
would have done the same, he would have followed in the footsteps of his
achArya. If we follow this method, we can, without any fear have no doubts
about our rights and wrongs. We need not identify new ways of doing things and
worry about right and wrong if we just follow the path laid by our periyaval. So yamadharmarAja said that ajAmila had done several bad deeds and so he has to
be taken to yamaloka. The sAstram which claimed that if one does wrong deeds,
he begets hell, one does good deed begets heaven, one does tapasya begets
boons, one does upAsanam begets the appropriate worlds, the same sAstram has
also said an other thing.
"WHOMSOEVER CHANTS BHAGAVANNAMAM ALL HIS SINS WILL BE WIPED OUT".
Chithragupta is the person in yamaloka who is responsible for taking stock of all bad deeds and good deeds and keeps exact note of that. He has a big and huge ledger book and in that he has jotted down very correctly the good and bad deeds of one from morning till night every day of his earthly life. He has written down the name of the person, his address, his identification all this is in the books of Chithragupta. But what happens is that if one even without his own knowledge says "NARAYANA" all the sins that are recorded in the book of Chithragupta vanishes in an instant.
When we store and load
lots and lots of data in our hard drives or computer in the good feeling that
everything is safe with us, just when we accidentally press the DELETE key all
data is lost in an instant. Similarly if the word "Narayana" is said,
all the bad deeds are washed away. Thus the same sAstram which dictated what
are our good deeds and what are our bad deeds also dictated that with
"Bhagavannamakeertanam" all our sins will be washed away completely.
WHY THEN DON'T WE BELIEVE THIS? Is it because its so EASY? or
DO WE THINK THAT OUR
SINS NEED NOT BE WASHED AWAY SIMPLY or the WORRY LEST OUR SINS
LEAVE US!
Whether your sins will be destroyed or not, its not for you to worry - "tasmAt shAstram pramANamtE", no need for us to have a second thought - the pramANam is sAstram. God is there, sAstram is the authority. Do we know Good or Bad? sAstram is the authority. Who has seen heaven or hell, sAstram is the authority. Only on the authority of the sAstram do we say that God is there, there is a world of devAs, devAs have the power to bless us, there is life after death all this has meaning for the asthikA (the believer). Who has seen? sAstram is for the asthikAs. The Maharishis without any discrimination, without any omissions or commissions have left all this entirely for us to follow as well as God has blessed us with this sAstram.
This sAstram tells you that, "IF YOU CHANT NAMA, ALL YOUR SINS WILL DISAPPEAR", WHY THEN DONT YOU HAVE BELIEF IN IT? DONT JUST USE THE MIND AND CONFUSE YOURSELF!".
In a certain home,sudarshana Homa is performed. All the Homa ingredients are added into the fire, do we see the Sudarshana Azhwar come in person and take the offering? If a Homa is done in the method of purushasUktham, did we see the Lord Narayana himself come and accept the offering. Yet we still continue to perform these homas and beget benefits. Did we then have a disbelief in that homa that we did this according to the sAstram and nothing happened in front of our eyes. Likewise if we say the namasankeerthanam, will our mind get control, will this remove our sins, will our sushumnA nAdi come up - we dont need to worry about all this.
IF YOU DO NAMASANKEERTHANAM WITH BELIEF AND FIRM FAITH, ALL YOUR SINS WILL BE REMOVED.
ONE MAY ARGUE, OUR SINS ARE HUGE BUT THE NAMASANKEERTHANAM IS SMALL, WILL THIS
NAMA REMOVE THESE HUGE SINS..."IT SURE WILL!". Radhe Radhe
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