BY K.B.GOPALAKRISHNAN

MASTERING PRAYER WITH OUT CEASING

by Chennai based K.B.Gopalakrishnan

5th march,2007 10:40 AM

Once I met a house wife who told me that could not do meditation. I remembered the words of my teacher due to god’s grace. "Master prayer in action. Even at the time of death this will be useful".

First of all make the path, deity and guru clear. Then one can use the techniques. The key point is, at the beginning, middle and end of all actions remember the mantra and consecrate all the actions to the deity. Start with the mantra and chant as you work with end that activity with the mantra. For example

before bath ,after the bath, and as you bath,
Before defecation after and middle of it.
Before you sit for your work, as your work and at the end of the work.
before and the end of conversation and middle of pauses.
Before one get up or after or in the middle
Before one goes to sleep or after when one awakes.
Before u eat after and in the middle as chew u very morsel.
Before wearing shirt or keeping objects.

If this order is followed then it will be easy. My wife enquired Swami shantananda as to why he cracks up so many jokes. For that he replied “I crack jokes because when people laugh I remember the divine in the gaps” what a level of awareness!

While traveling, do not allow your mind in idle chatter. Normally the mind gets bored and wants to talks on some thing. My teacher calls it as inner dhun. He said every one has inner sound but then it is confused, automatic and not clear. Keep focused on mantra. Keep this dhun in god. You can also bless every one who has any kind of suffering in the road like the beggars, the invalids, the elderly, the children, the healthy for better health and the egoistic for transformation.

If I go in for long distant travel, I keep minimum mantra chanting. Let us say if the journey is 8 hours then at least chanting of 50 malas of short mantra can be done. Personally I will chant 10 malas, if it is a long mantra. When bus stops or in between some conversation arises I deal with it in a positive manner. I will also do it with minimum sound which is called as upamasu. Avoid a bus which has video and audio facilities.

Before starting the conversation in telephone or with people chant your prayer. – Your silence will improve, sensitivity will be sharp, you will be less prone to fights and detachments will happen automatically. You will be kind in words and this will happen automatically. Awareness alertness and witnessing will happen. Repetitions may not be needed.

When you have problem, first pray and try to act. Then you will have sense of peace, objectivity and clarity to solve or accept any problems. Normally people do it other way round. They act then they get frustrated when things do not happen. Only then people turn towards god for the problem to get solved.

Start with 3 times then slowly increase the frequency to 10 – 12 chants. One can also do with only bija akshara. Om aum etc.

When you realize that every moment is precious and death can happen any moment, using every action, words and meeting of people as the way to remember god becomes easy. maya means not remembering divine gnana means remembering name of god which is the very essence of all religion.

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