We have the divine name and we have the tongue to say it, so where is the fear says Sri Bodhendra Swamigal. Namakeerthanam is the easiest, most suitable way and will yield the greatest benefits. Ramarajyam is not far we have to constantly chant nama and make others chant everywhere! ~ HH Maharanyam Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamigal

Extract from Azhaikkindran Arangan by HH Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamigal

Periyavachanpillai beautifully says, "Kaval il pulanai vaithu", "il" - Kaval il. Let this pulanghazh run as they wish, don't bother. Let the mind run hither and thither, dont worry. Keep on performing namakeerthanam! Someone says, sir, my mind is not getting controlled. Yes, the mind will not. But you still do namakeerthanam. As you chant namakeerthanam more and more, all your sins will start to decrease rapidly and then automatically the mind will come to control. Kaval il pulanai vaithu - If at all you have the intelligence to be able to control the mind and perform namakeerthanam, the fruit will be got in an instant. Let the "pulanghazh" go on their own ways, you are unable to control them, due to its habit over the years it keeps running on its own but for this reason don't say you wont perform bhagavath bhakthi. Let the "pulanghazh" run as they used to, but you perform namakeerthanam and they will subside..

Likewise, just keep the desire that the bhagavan should come to you, that's enough. The yogyatha will come automatically from the bhagavan to you. The desire should not be an act or a drama it should be truthful. Keep on saying, "Ranganatha, please come to my heart, again and again keep calling!". Bhagavan will come to the pure heart. The bhagavan knowing the devotee's desire wants to take a place at the heart  of the devotee but he knows that if the devotee's chittam is not clean, how can he go and occupy the place. So the devotee is throbbing with the desire in his heart and its genuine so Lord Ranganathar himself gives chitta suddhi, Jnanam, Bhakthi, Vairagyam and then will come and occupy the place in his heart. Radhe Radhe

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Sri Rama Navami

Sri Morari Bapu quoting from Goswami Tulisadas Raam Janam, the famous stuti sung by Sri Morari Bapu in his ramkatha - On the Nine days of Vasanta Navratri in Chaitra Maasa, Lord Rama was born in Vasant ruthu (spring season)- Chaitra Maas, Navami Thithi, Shukla Paksha with all splendour and glory. The weather was as perfect as it can be and many auspicious.

As C.R says in the Ramayana - "A river or a hill,  a tree or a cloud, indeed any object of beauty may raise one to contemplation of the Supreme Being and silent worship of Him." Hare Rama Rama Rama Rama Ram Ram Ram, Sita Ram Ram Ram Sita Ram Ram Ram. Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare!!

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Food and the Mind - HH Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamigal

Once upon a time, there was an ashram and a sage came to this ashram to perform dhyana. Daily as he started to meditate he would begin to think what's happening in the world today, the politics etc., He wondered about this as he was not a worldly sort of person at all. Such a person being amidst the ashram surroundings, meditating, performing namasankeerthanam to get this thought. When meditating however there are two kinds of enemies - one is the enemy from outside, one from the inside - the vasanas that surface within us. If you see a thing and desire it, thats the enemy coming from the outside. When there is nothing, nothing outside but something springs up from inside and thats the internal enemy our vasanas. So when this worldly thinking distrubed the sage no end every day, he went to meet an elder there and described this problem. The elder told him to go and find out who is preparing his food daily and what his activities are. The cook who prepared his food daily would read the newspaper as he was cooking and stirring the pot. The cook had a lot of interest in reading all newspapers in the morning. So when a person like this prepares food the person consuming also will get the same, all this may sound as fun but this is true. Such gunas will come to stay in our mind. Food and body are connected, Food and mind are connected. How the mind operates so the heart acts. Sometimes when our hinduism is mentioned they would jokingly call this as a kitchen religion. Radhe Radhe

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Chant Namakeerthanam! - HH Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamigal

Whatever thoughts that rise in our mind there is a colour associated with it. Sattvic thoughts are white, Rajasic thoughts are red and Tamasic thoughts are black in colour. When an elder person and a sadhu who is always chanting namasankeerthanam visits a home and after he leaves, the inmates of the house say that after that elder visited his home the marriage of his daughter got fixed miraculously or his son got a job. Are these both our own imagination or is there a truth in it? What is in this? Say one who has lots of jealously and competition in his mind and visits our home thinks what a big house this is and how luxuriously they are living, then these convert as thoughts which spread themselves around inside the house and spreads through the cosmic. These thoughts then bring about some harm as well. If a good person visits, he thinks let these people be happy and good and get more and more things in future, these thoughts bring about lot of goodness to the house. This is the truth and this is the cosmic. If in a home there is constant namakeerthanam, visits by mahangal and satsangham happening always, that house will have the power of God within and even when bad thoughts spread inside this house there will be no ill effects. That's why our elders have done like this, in each town there is a temple and in each home there is a pooja shelf, a perumal platform to perform swami pooja because in that home there will be godly thoughts prevalent. If such divine activities are happening then in such a home, good things will happen. As much as we can we need to perform a perumal thiruvaradhanam, sahasranama parayanam, namasankeerthanam as per our strength we should keep doing. Radhe Radhe

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