Call the Lord’s Hotline. Chant the maha-mantra 18th December 2019

18th December 2019

Call the Lord’s Hotline. Chant the maha-mantra

Hare Krishna to all the chanters.

Krishna Balarama Ki Jai!

I am in Vrndavan so the names of Krsna Balaram is coming from my mouth. You have all been chanting on Zoom and now I am getting back on track. It will be purely a chanting session with no chat option. You are free to post your realisations on Let’s Chant Together Facebook page whenever you get time.

Keep chanting. It is the yuga dharma.

harer namaiva kevalam – there is no other way. You will have to chant till you chant with love, prema purvak japa, japa filled with love. Once you chant with love for the Lord you will not leave chanting. You won’t stop chanting. You will fall in love with the holy name. Now you don’t have love for the Lord or His name. So to revive the love for the Lord we are calling ‘Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna’. ‘Where are you, Krsna? I am Yours. Please accept me.’

seva yogayam kuru

Please make me eligible for Your service.

Today when I was about to start chanting Anadi Gaura Prabhu said to me “Look at the chanters whom you are addressing. So I looked at the camera. I was thinking I am ad-dressing the devotees

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,
Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama,
Rama Rama, Hare Hare

I am addressing all of you so I should look at you so that there is eye contact.This is right that I address you and make you hear the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. But while chanting the maha-mantra we are directly addressing the Lord. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna – all these 32 letters and 16 names of the maha-mantra is addressing the Lord. We don’t say Hara Krishna, we say Hare Krishna and that addresses Radharani. She at-tracts the heart of Krsna and of everyone so She is called Hara. But when we call Hara or if we want to attract Her attention we say Hare. So for addressing Hara we say Hare.

Krsna is also addressed as Lord Krsna. Krishnah, Ramah this grammar visarga the two dots, these are names. When you read the maha-mantra when it is written in Sanskrit or Devanagari you see those two dots after Krsna or Rama. There is 4 times Rama, 4 times Krishna, its not Krishnah, Ramah. I am explaining this because I want to tell you that its sambhodan, an address to the Lord. Once you remove visarga then that is sambhodhan Krsna Rama. While chanting we are addressing the Lord directly. We are calling the Lord. Whomever we call, we have to look at him. It should not be that you are calling someone and looking at someone else. We also have to remember that person whom we are calling then only is your calling complete and successful.

When we call Radha and Krsna we have to look at Them remembering Their Rupa, Guna, Lila Dhama. The Lord is all capable.

ksipram bhavati dharmatma
sasvac-chantim nigacchati
kaunteya pratijanihi
na me bhaktah pranasyati

Translation:
He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kunti, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes. (BG 9.31)

Sri Krsna asks Arjun to boldly declare that His devotees will never perish. Remember this and chant. Lord will surely protect.

dainya, atma nivedana, goptritve varana / avasya rakshibe krishna vishvasa palana

Translation:
1.Humility, 2. self-dedication, 3. accepting Him as one´s only maintainer and guardi-an, 4. having complete conviction that Krsna will surely protect us

Draupadi also called ‘He Krsna He Krsna’. As Draupadi is calling Krsna, she is also re-membering Krsna. The Lord protects His devotees. So remembering such a Lord who protects His devotees, remembering His Rupa, Guna, Lila she called and the Lord came.

sa hovaca hiranyagarbhah |
hare krshna hare krshna krshna krshna hare hare |
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare ||
iti shodasakam namnam kalikalmashanasanam |
natah parataropayah sarvavedeshu drsyate ||

Translation:
Lord Brahma instructed Narada as follows: “The sixteen words of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra – Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare – are especially meant for counteracting the sins of Kali-yuga. To save oneself from the contamination of Kali-yuga there is no other al-ternative, but to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. After searching through all the Vedic scriptures one cannot find a method of religion for this age (Kali-yuga) so sublime as the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra.”

The 16 names with which we call the Lord and directly address Him means there is no-body in between. Srila Prabhupada would say that chanting the maha-mantra is a tele-phone call to the Lord. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna is Krsna’s phone number. Does any-body have such a long phone number? It can only be the Lord’s number. So when you call the Lord, He attends your call. His line is the hotline, enabled 24 hours a day. So chanting means getting connected to the Lord.

Hare Krishna, He Krishna, how are You? How’s Your Rupa? He Radhe, how are You? How’s Your rupa? How are Your gunas? How is Your dhama? How are Your devotees? So all these things we remember and we call the Lord. We do nama smaran. Remember-ing His name means remembering the Lord.

sri-radhika-madhavayor apara madhurya-lila guna-rupa-namnam
prati-kshanasvadana-lolupasya vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

You all must have sung this in mangala arati. So while chanting we remember Nama, Rupa, Guna, Lila of the Lord.

We will continue at 6 am tomorrow morning.
Meet you then.