Naama Sankeerthanam

Hello friends, Continuing my previous post on "Constance Remembrance" of the Lord, I am gonna further my thots over the means to THAT divine and most wanted state , where everything else in this world would seem superfluous. For all these times I have been talking about just one thing . TRUE BHAKTHI ( The only means to get liberated ) Srimad Bhagawatham talks about nine forms of Bhakthi as mentioned below: sravaNam keerthanam VishNO : smaraNam paadha sevanam archanam vandanam daasyam sakhyam aathma nivedanam These are hearing, touching the feet, singing , remembering, worshipping, serving, friendship and offering the self. According to Kali-SantharaNa Upanishad, singing or naama sankeerthanam is said to be the easiest ways to reach the Lord especially in this Kali yuga : Hare Raama HarE Raama , Raama Raama HarE HarE Hare Krishna HarE Krishna , Krishna Krishna HarE HarE ithi shiodasakam naamAm kali-kalmasha nAsana naata : paratarEpyeya : Sarva VedEshu drisyathE TRANSLATION: The sixteen holy names of the Lord in unison are particularly potent to counteract the contaminations (dhoshams) of Kali Yuga . All the vEdas consistently declare that the chanting of the sacred names of the Lord is the only path to cross the ocean of nescience . There is no other alternative to reach parama padham Nama sankeerthanam is one of the easiest ways to get rid of egoism. How else can we combat the ever accruing ego ? Our thoughts always have the tendency to revolve around us..or things that are related to us . These thoughts can never fetch us eternal happiness coz these thots are centered in the sense plane and we experience both pain and pleasure thru the senses. ..So, the less we think about ourselves , the less egoism we'll have and we'll show more respect to fellow beings. We'll become kind. U know how effortlessly we can get onto a fight when we get offended . Dont u??:) . The easiest way to get ourselves not 2 think about ourselves is by invoking thougts about the creator of all of us thru chanting and singing about his divine qualities. Thus, Nama Sankeethanam is a short route 2 become the highest of three types of devotees of the Lord ,BhagavatOtthamA ,who sees the glory of the BahgavAn reflected in all beings , high and low , and also perceives all beings as dwelling in Him I encourage the interested reader to come up with questions on any of the thoughts presented above if he/she thinks that doing so will be of help . Krishnaarpanam... B4 Quitting, sing along with me ..:) Hare Raama HarE Raama , Raama Raama HarE HarE Hare Krishna HarE Krishna , Krishna Krishna HarE HarE Credits to http://sadagopan.org 4 providing excerpts and translations of sanskrit verses.