{"id":17506,"date":"2021-01-04T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/?p=17506"},"modified":"2021-01-04T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:15:04","slug":"if-you-cant-meditate-do-mantra-jap-at-least-pulkit-mathur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/if-you-cant-meditate-do-mantra-jap-at-least-pulkit-mathur\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can\u2019t Meditate, Do Mantra Jap At Least ~ Pulkit Mathur"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If You Can\u2019t Meditate, Do Mantra Jap At Least<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Pulkit Mathur<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

in\u00a0Meditation – How to Meditate<\/a>,\u00a0Sri Ramakrishna & Sarada Ma<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"\u00a0\u201cOne must cast aside indolence and put one\u2019s mind to prayer and meditation at the proper time.
\nThe conjunction of day and night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.\u201d
\n\u2013 Holy Mother Sarada Ma<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Disciple: Mother, why is it that the mind does not become steady? When I try to think of God, I find the mind drawn towards other objects.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mother:<\/strong>\u00a0It is wrong if the mind is drawn towards secular objects. By \u2018secular objects\u2019 is meant money, family, etc. But it is natural to think of the work in which one is engaged.\u00a0If meditation is not possible, do Japa.<\/strong>\u00a0Realization will come through Japa. If the meditative mood comes, well and good, but by no means do it by force.<\/p>\n

Disciple: Is it of any use to be merely repeating His Name without intense devotion?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mother:<\/strong>\u00a0Whether you jump into water or are pushed into it, your cloth will get drenched. Is it not so? Meditate every day, as your mind is yet immature.\u00a0Constant meditation will make the mind one-pointed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discriminate always between the real and the unreal. Whenever you find your mind drawn to any object, think of its transitoriness (short life), and thus try to withdraw the mind back to the thought of God.\u00a0A man was angling. A bridal party was going along the road with music. But the angler\u2019s eye remained fixed on the float. The mind of a spiritual aspirant should be steadfast like that<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Disciple: Suppose I can\u2019t do Japa of the Mantra of my chosen Deity?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mother:<\/strong>\u00a0What do you mean? You won\u2019t do Japa of your Mantra? What a suggestion! If you don\u2019t do the Japa, you lose; that affects me not in the least!<\/p>\n

The mind keeps well when engaged in work. And yet Japa, meditation, prayer also are specially needed. You must at least sit down once in the morning and again in the evening. That acts as a rudder to a boat. When one sits in meditation in the evening, one gets a chance to think of what one has done \u2013 good or bad \u2013 during the whole day. Next one should compare the states of one\u2019s mind in the preceding day and the present. Unless you meditate in the mornings and evenings along with work, how can you know what you are actually doing?<\/p>\n

Do you know the significance of Japa and other spiritual practices? By these, the power of the sense organs is subdued.<\/p>\n

Do not give up Japa even if the mind is unwilling and unsteady. You must go on with the repetition. And you will find that the mind is getting gradually steadier-like a flame in a windless corner. Any movement in the air disturbs the steady burning of the flame; even so the presence of any thought or desire makes the mind unsteady. The Mantra must be correctly repeated. An incorrect utterance delays progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepeating the Name of God a fixed number of times, telling the rosary or counting on fingers, is calculated to direct the mind to God. The natural tendency of the mind is to run this way and that way. Through these means it is attracted to God. While repeating the name of God, if one sees His form and becomes absorbed in Him, one\u2019s Japa stops. One gets everything when one succeeds in meditation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\u2013 Holy Mother Sarada Ma<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This article is from the\u00a0spiritualbee.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> It has been republished here with permission.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Image Credit : Pixabay.com<\/strong><\/span>
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Disciple: Mother, why is it that the mind does not become steady? When I try to think of God, I find the mind drawn towards other objects.<\/p>\n

Mother:\u00a0It is wrong if the mind is drawn towards secular objects. By \u2018secular objects\u2019 is meant money, family, etc. But it is natural to think of the work in which one is engaged.\u00a0If meditation is not possible, do Japa.\u00a0Realization will come through Japa. If the meditative mood comes, well and good, but by no means do it by force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":17507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1371,683],"tags":[1933,26,127,1492],"class_list":{"0":"post-17506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-meditation","8":"category-qa","9":"tag-japa","10":"tag-living-librarian","11":"tag-meditation","12":"tag-pulkit-mathur"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17508,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506\/revisions\/17508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglibrarian.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}