Taking The Next Step


This week in the Japa Room we discussed about the importance of really diving into the sound of the Holy names - we may have reached a stage where we are avoiding external distractions and to some degree listening to the sound vibration but there is another step.
This could be compared to a telephone call - one person speaking and the other hearing but not really feeling the emotions or empathising with the person about what they are talking about - we can do this with our Japa, we may be hearing the names, but we're not going deeply into the spiritual energy as much as we can and we are not feeling the spiritual emotions.
If we really try hard to make this next step into total absorption in the sound vibration, then Krsna will reciprocate with us and we will feel his spiritual energy in a much more meaningful way.

The individual soul is situated only within the heart of one body. But the Supreme Soul or Krishna is seated in everyone's heart. This is the distinction between the individual soul and the Supreme Soul. At the present moment due to our blunt material vision, we cannot directly perceive the presence of the either the individual soul or the Supreme Soul. But the presence of both of them can be understood by their symptoms. So even though in our present state of consciousness we cannot directly perceive them, there is tons of circumstantial evidence to confirm the existence of them both.

Krishna is everywhere. He is omnipresent. But due to our eyes being covered by the cataracts of lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion, and envy we cannot see Him. The beauty of the purificatory process of Krishna consciousness is that if we adopt it conscientiously, in due course of time we will become fully qualified to fully realize our own eternal spiritual natures and to see God face to face, eye to eye.

Chant and Be Happy:

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