Chanting to Satisfy Krsna

Hare Krsna everyone. I hope you have had a nice weekend by the Lord's mercy. For sure that for the one's who dedicate their lives to spread the Holy Names of the Lord, he has a certain protection that is valuable to mention here. The Lord is always supplying every living entity but the ones who preach His glories are very dear to Him. May the Lord bless all the sankirtan devotees who are engaged this December on the marathon and distributed books for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Chaitanya. Thank you!

Coming back to chanting this weekend in japa room sessions we could feel the strength of devotees' association, how important is when one devotee shares a question you wanted to know also, or when we see there are devotees with the same obstacles in chanting and by hearing from them we feel more comfortable to share ours too. There were many questions and the one I can remember now is that if its ok to chant the Holy Names on our minds, so Rasa Prabhu replied that we must chant audibly, chant and hear the words we are chanting, pronoucing them very well, in order to get purified by hearing. Its ok to chant on our minds, but it may be done apart from japa, during the day, when we are performing other kinds of service and then we can chant on our minds. The devotees who joined krishna.com site for the live broadcast received some  homework - they may take notes and write down their obstacles on chanting during the week because they will be discussed next weekend. Wow, these sessions are becoming more and more interesting every weekend. These days I was thinking to myself and just realised that here we are praising Nama Prabhu, we are taking our Japa seriously - the cornerstone of our lives. What can we do without japa...well we'd rather forget the bad things we may face without chanting, however we should list here endless changes in our lives when we do serious chanting, I am sure we all have....we can see that Krsna really controls our lives in such a way that we would never feel apart from Him anymore.
I really wish we all have a nice week of chanting and can experience all the good things nice japa brings to us.

Hare Krsna.

your servant,

Aruna dd