Tag: meditation
What was your experience when you first heard Hare Krishna chanted?
Question to Radhanath Swami : I was curious to know how your experience was like when you first heard the Hare Krishna mantra chanted by the Hare Krishna monks.
Radhanath Swami Answers : In the book The Journey Home I tell the story of how I first heard the Hare Krishna mantra. I didn’t hear it in the Hare Krishna movement. It was given to me in a way, by what I believe, was a profound grace. I was fasting and sitting on the bank of the Ganges in the Himalayas, in Rishikesh. After weeks of meditation I heard in the current of Mother Ganga this beautiful mantra being sung.
What is the least we should do for our spiritual life?
Question to Radhanath Swami:What is the least we should do for our spiritual life?
Radhanath Swami Answers: Our concern is to tell you what the most is, not what the least is. We should be meditating on how we could do the most, not on how we could do the least. ;
How to keep the mind steady
Question to Radhanath Swami: I wanted to know how to keep the mind steady; usually we have contradictory ideas and thoughts going in mind.
Radhanth Swami answers:The nature of the mind is like that of a monkey, it jumps from branch to branch……
How does Mantra Meditation Work? Radhanath Swami Shares the Secret
Question to Radhanath Swami: How exactly does this chanting of God’s holy names work?
Radhanath Swami: It begins by regular chanting, like treatment begins with regular intake of medicines. And then we try to go deeper into the holy name by living according to the qualities of a true devotee.
If God is omnipresent, why worship a Deity? Radhanath Swami tells why…
Question to Radhanath Swami : If God is omnipresent, why worship a Deity?
Radhanath Swami : If God is omnipresent is he not in the Deity too? Be honest and realistic, not to me, but to yourself. Are you able to fix your mind in love and devotion on God present everywhere and in everything? Difficult, isn’t it?
During meditation, the mind wanders here and there. What to do?
Question to Radhanath Swami : During meditation, the mind wanders here and there. What to do?
Radhanath Swami : Krishna explains in Gita, “From wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self.”. The mind is a small child. The nature of small children is to get into trouble.
