Benefits of Chanting

Chanting the Naama of the Lord is yoga. Yoga means “linking up with the Supreme,” or Sri Krishna and Krishna is present in His name so if you chant Yugal Nama or Hare Krishna, you’re doing the ultimate yoga. You’re in direct touch with Lord Krishna.

       Actually, the original purpose of yoga exercises was simply to quiet the mind and senses so that the yogi could meditate on the Supreme being in his heart: Now opportunists have watered yoga down and turned it into a health fad. 

Chant it anytime and anywhere. Stay “linked up” with Sri Krishna. That’s real yoga.

That’s fine, If you chant the naama, you’ll enter the ultimate interpersonal relationship. Sri Krishna, the Supreme, is present in His name. So by chanting His name purely, you’ll rediscover your unique relationship with Him.

In the spiritual world, some liberated souls relate to Sri Krishna as the Absolute and meditate on Him with awe and reverence.

Others relate to Him as master and serve Him with a sense of duty and respect.

And still others relate to Him as a friend and joke and play with Him. Some even relate to Him as their child and take care of Him. And others relate to Him as their lover. ( madhurya bhaava )

If you think about it, you’ll begin to see that whatever relationships you’ve experienced in this material world are feeble, short-lived imitations of the lasting relationships that the residents of the spiritual world enjoy with Krishna. The way to revive your own relationship with Krishna is to chant His names.

Here are four good reasons:

• Birth,
• Old age,
• Disease, and
• Death.

Sooner or later, we all have to face old age, disease, death, and birth and the rebirths. Of course, in our modern world we’ve managed to push these miseries fairly well out of sight. We’ve isolated the old people in the nursing homes and the diseased, dying, and newborn in the hospitals.

And our TV screens, feature films, newspapers, and billboards bombard us with images of youth, beauty, and health.

But we can fool ourselves only so long. Our turn will come. And then we’ll have to trade in our present body and get another, and on it will go, life after life. India’s Vedic literatures call this phenomenon the cycle of birth and death.

But if we chant the naama everyday regularly, we’ll revive our long-forgotten relationship with Lord Krishna. And Sri Krishna promises He’ll be our swift deliverer.

It would be a great idea. The Vedic literatures say, पुंसामन्ते नारायणस्मृति: remember Sri Krishna at the end of your life and you’ll go to live with Him in his abode. And the best way to remember Sri Krishna is to chant His names.

What you’re thinking about when you pass away will determine what happens to you in your next life.

If you’re thinking about your pet dog, you might come back with four legs instead of two. But whatever you come back as, you’re sure to get old and diseased and die, and, you’re sure to get another material body- unless you remember Sri Krishna, The Supreme Being.

If you chant Sri Radha Krishna’s names, you’ll return to the spiritual world and live there forever ( getting out of the clutches of karma & births & deaths )

How do you know, you’re not old already?

Actually, “old” just refers to someone who’s about to die, and who can be sure the “someone” isn’t him? You don’t have any guarantees that you’ll live to be 90? Better to start chanting the naama now and from today.

Another thing to consider: when you die, your mind and body will be going through all kinds of changes ( all senses gets weak & one has the less endurance physically as well as mentally ) and it will be impossible to chant unless you’ve been practicing from the young age.

You’re right. We all want happiness here and now. But we have to know where to look for it ?

Trying to find happiness in satisfying your body is like trying to eat pudding that has sand in it.

Whatever bodily happiness you experience is temporary; it won’t last.

And besides, it comes mixed with old age, disease, death, and rebirth. So when you opt for bodily happiness, you get a huge quotient of sand.

But the spiritual happiness you’ll find in your relationship with Krishna is 100% pure, and it lasts forever.

And if you chant the naama regularly, you can experience this lasting spiritual happiness for yourself, here and now.