Giriraj Swami and Bhurijana dasa spoke at a program at the home of Vrindavan Bihari dasa and Prema Manjari dasi.
“Whether we are just beginning chanters or the most expert chanters chanting on the platform of prema-nama, we still should chant Krishna’s names. And we should chant the best we can, on the highest level we are able to. So, the first principle is to chant Krishna’s names. The second principle is that when it is time to chant japa we have to make a determination—a sankalpa—‘At this particular time while I am chanting my japa, I have nothing else to do.’ We have to make that decision: ‘I have nothing else to do now’. Because, if we don’t make that decision, when our mind starts accepting and rejecting so many things, we will fall into thinking that ‘This—whatever my mind tells me—is what I have to do right now. But now we have to make the determination—the sankalpa, decision—that I have nothing else to do right now but chant japa.”—Bhurijana dasa
Talk by Bhurijana dasa and Giriraj Swami
Kirtan by Giriraj Swami