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Chanting

• Subject: Chanting
• From: Josh
• Date: Fri Mar 15 13:35:05 1996
• Message-Id: <199603200811.SAA23110@magna.com.au>
• Reply-to: madhudvisa@krishna.org

> 

> thanks for the quick response.  to be honest i feel a little silly

> if i am chanting in public.  i know its foolish but its how i feel

> so i repeat it in my head and chant it when i am alone.  i know i

> shouldn't worry as a practitioner will have to be tolerant.  in fact

> sometimes i just feel plain foolish like there is this voice crying

> out "look how strange you have become, offering your food and

> chanting"  it sometimes makes me worry that i have gone overboard, i

> know this is just fear and doubt and it seems each time i shrug it

> off i go a little further.  i mean i only learned about krishna

> consciousness for the first time a couple months ago and here i am,

> i am not far but it seems like a long way to me.  well anyhow thanks

> again. haribol

> 

> 





Hello. Hare Krishna!



Yes. It's fantastic. You've come a long way. Krishna consciousness is

an incredably poweful thing. In a few months you can become a

completely different person. So stick with it. It is the only

worthwhile thing.



I understand your feelings about chanting in public -- what the 

other people might think, but actually in this age most people are so

caught-up with themselves that they won't even notice  that you are

chanting. And even if they do what does it matter? Personally I just

chant Hare Krishna wherever I go. I always have my beads and I just

chant Hare Krishna. It is the best thing to do. You don't have to

chant very loudly or make a big thing about it and you will find that

sometimes people will ask you what you are doing and you can tell them

something about Krishna, give them one of Srila Prabhupada's small

books, etc. It is a very nice way to start talking to someone about

Krishna.



We want to organize our lives so we always remember Krishna, never

forget Krishna, so the best way is to always chant Hare Krishna, it

will be very quickly effective and just as you have seen so much

change in the last couple of months you will look back and see how

much further you have come. It is really worth it to try and chant all

the time. Particularly the time that we would otherwise be wasting. If

you are walking along the street or siting in the bus what loss is

there in chanting Hare Krishna. It costs you nothing and you don't

waste any time, but the spiritual benefits are very great, not only

for you also, but by chanting Hare Krishna you will purify the whole

atmosphere so other people will benefit also. It is a very powerful

thing. So it is worth getting over out little fears about what other

people might think.



And we do have to become very tolerant. The world is full of demons

and as soon as we try to become Krishna conscious there will be so

much opposition, so many problems, but we have to be tolerant, we have

to remain fixed in our vows, and most importantly we have to keep

chanting Hare Krishna. So give it a try. See what happens..



Haribol!! Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!



Your servant



Madhudvisa dasa

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