Satsang 1 Nov 2020
Channel: Anandashram Kanhangad
Date: 01/11/2020

We must plead with Him, “you are making me chant your Name...now make me aware of Your presence. As soon as the chanting session is over, we are back to square one”

Unknowingly we are misleading ourselves by holding on to superficial methods...the unlocking is not taking place...

Papa---if we are not reaching any where even after chanting, it means we do not know why we are chanting. When we tune ourselves with the Name, we tune ourselves with God..we must knowingly repeat the mantra and become conscious of God

These words of Papa are for us and not for novices.....Papa is telling us about the perspective with which we must chant...

Reading alone will not help us...

Papa—call on the Lord with all Love...concentrate all your longing in it...the language of love is irresistible...just as a child draws the attention of the mother with its innocent words , so also a devotee with his plaintive ways attracts the Lord..Heart is the veena, devotion is the fingers , that play upon it to cast  the magic spell in the call...

We don’t know if we are right in telling this...when one is alone and is chanting with his or her own tune – it has better effect  from other forms of chanting...

A  devotee pleads, “I am calling and you are not heeding”....

Many of us are satisfied with collective sadhana....but to have His acknowledgement we must call him intensely which is possible only when we do it alone...registering with AD to ensure it has reached there.....

God will see, if we are expecting a reply from Him or are we just superficial

SIGNS OF SELF- SURRENDER..
Ecstasy rises in waves in heart
Love overflows in eyes
Peace permeates his entire being
He places his entire life at the feet of the beloved
He uses music to tune his heart with the heart of the Lord...

Papa---The beloved awaits you....
Papa-----DIRECT YOUR THOUGHT WITHIN ...LISTEN TO THE CALL OF YOUR OWN VOICE...AND THE RESPONSIVE WORD OF THE BELOVED WILL COME TO YOU...

Difference between Trust and superficial faith ---Rajagoplachari was a highly evolved soul. He was the governor – general of India and then he was the central minister...then he was made the chief minister of west Bengal and then the chief minister of Tamil Nadu...retired in the end...Once a singer with lot of bhakti was to sing the AMRITAVARSHINI raga...when such a one sang, rains had to definitely come. All assembled in the decided place. It was only Rajagopalachari who came with the umbrella and he was surprised that others had not brought. ....

Papa says that tuning the mind with Name is tuning with God. Suppose we have no clarity about the word GOD then tuning cannot be done...our chanting is just like the alarm ringing...

EACH WORD OF THE MANTRA MUST BE CHANTED KNOWINGLY....PAPA WANTS US TO CONSIOUSLY CHANT..

HOW TO CHANT CONSCIOUSLY...HOW TO BECOME CLEAR ABOUT THE OBJECT OF CHANTING...
When we chant absent mindedly , there is cessation of usual thoughts..but when we chant consciously, not only there will be cessation of usual thoughts but also positive feeling...

Once when a devotee was singing, tears were flowing and at the end there was a total pause...telling effect...because it came from the heart...

EKANTA VAASA ENNEAALUM EESHA EN KURAL ETTAMILLAYO
We do  not ask DO YOU NOT HEAR MY VOICE
MS Subbulakshmi was singing RANGAPURAVIHAARA. ...the audience was filled 90% with non-Indians...yet the whole audience was merged in that...MS used to become one with the theme...one with Ranganathaswami....the audience was initiated into devotion , a different thought, across which they had never come...

Are we applying devotion when we are chanting....a slight adjustment is all that is needed...it is for our own joy we are going to the session....not to satisfy anybody else..probably only a small adjustment has to be made while chanting...



Devotion greater than learning----While Narayana Bhattathiri was composing Narayaneeyam in Guruvayur temple, Poonthanam, another great devotee of Lord Guruvayoorapa and also a poet who wrote many great works about Lord Guruvayoorapa including the njanappana in Malayalam, had also come there to worship Lord Guruvayoorapan. One day he took some of his poems of the njanappana to Bhattathiri in order to correct them and improve them, but this was dismissed by Bhattathiri with a haughty remark that Poonthanam didn't know the correct meaning of words and he didn't want to waste his time on such silly works.Later that night lord Guruvayoorapan himself appeared in Bhattathiri's dream and criticized him by saying that he preferred Poonthanam's bhakthi than Bhattathiri 's knowledge. And then the next day itself Bhattathiri apologized to poonthanam and corrected mistakes then they became friends.