{"id":53840,"date":"2017-12-04T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/168183700536"},"modified":"2017-12-04T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:22:29","slug":"aligning-body-mind-and-heart-in-the-process-of-chantingby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=53840","title":{"rendered":"ALIGNING BODY, MIND AND HEART IN THE PROCESS OF CHANTING\nBy…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ALIGNING BODY, MIND AND HEART IN THE PROCESS OF CHANTING
\nBy Sacinandana Swami
\nStep 1:
\nALIGN THE BODY AND YOUR IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT
\nWatch your posture and more important your pronunciation. Sit in a supportive environment (before the deities, sacred pictures, tulasi, in the company of the devotees and whoever and whatever else helps). Make sure you chant the entire mantra without missing even one syllable. If you chant on your prayers beads (japa), make sure you complete each round in the proper time, not missing any mantra.
\nStep 2:
\nALIGN THE MIND
\nIn order to concentrate on the sound vibration of the holy name, \u201center\u201d or totally connect with the mantra through the first \u201cHare\u201d. After bringing the mind back to the first \u201cHare\u201d again and again, you will find that your mind has developed the ability to stay with the entire mantra\u2014each single name! Be patient – it will work! Give it your best\u2014the Lord rewards those who try and surrender.
\nStep 3:
\nALIGN THE HEART
\nAttentive chanting can bring blessings to your life that are hard to imagine. By such chanting all obstacles to the pure name (shuddha-nama) can be effectively removed if one more thing (the most important) is added. Namacharya Haridasa Thakura says (Hari-nama-cintamani, chapter 12):
\nSimply by one\u2019s own endeavor, no one in this world can overcome distractedness. Such victory can only come about by your merciful blessings. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to beg for your grace.
\nAfter all, deep experiences can only happen if the heart is involved. Thus chanting in a devotional and prayerful mood will attract the mercy of the Lord in his magnanimous form of the holy name. Please don\u2019t be hesitant to give your heart to the chanting.
\nIn one of his songs, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura praises the mercy of the holy name by saying that just like the sun which rises in the East destroys all darkness, the holy name in his mercy, continuously rises on the horizon of the heart of the chanter and thus removes the beginningless avidya (inner darkness), which is the source of material existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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ALIGNING BODY, MIND AND HEART IN THE PROCESS OF CHANTING
\nBy Sacinandana Swami
\nStep 1:
\nALIGN THE BODY AND YOUR IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT
\nWatch your posture and more important your pronunciation. Sit in a supportive environment (before the deities, sacred pictures, tulasi, in the company of the devotees and whoever and whatever else helps). Make sure you chant the entire mantra without missing even one syllable. If you chant on your prayers beads (japa), make sure you complete each round in the proper time, not missing any mantra.
\nStep 2:
\nALIGN THE MIND
\nIn order to concentrate on the sound vibration of the holy name, “enter” or totally connect with the mantra through the first “Hare”. After bringing the mind back to the first “Hare” again and again, you will find that your mind has developed the ability to stay with the entire mantra—each single name! Be patient – it will work! Give it your best—the Lord rewards those who try and surrender.
\nStep 3:
\nALIGN THE HEART
\nAttentive chanting can bring blessings to your life that are hard to imagine. By such chanting all obstacles to the pure name (shuddha-nama) can be effectively removed if one more thing (the most important) is added. Namacharya Haridasa Thakura says (Hari-nama-cintamani, chapter 12):
\nSimply by one’s own endeavor, no one in this world can overcome distractedness. Such victory can only come about by your merciful blessings. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to beg for your grace.
\nAfter all, deep experiences can only happen if the heart is involved. Thus chanting in a devotional and prayerful mood will attract the mercy of the Lord in his magnanimous form of the holy name. Please don’t be hesitant to give your heart to the chanting.
\nIn one of his songs, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura praises the mercy of the holy name by saying that just like the sun which rises in the East destroys all darkness, the holy name in his mercy, continuously rises on the horizon of the heart of the chanter and thus removes the beginningless avidya (inner darkness), which is the source of material existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53841,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53840\/revisions\/53841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}