Monday, November 17, 2014

Hinduism-Way of Living-Repeat Naamaas

We might remember seeing our grandparents chanting Rama naamaa repeatedly.    Gandhiji started chanting Rama Naamaaa at a very young age around 13 yrs, same with Maha Perivaa too.  Rama naamaa was the first slogam that he learnt.   In one of the discourses, he tells us to train our mind to keep repeating the naamaas in between our tasks or even better in the background most of the times.   Choose any God name,   put a conscious thought in your mind to repeat it.   You might get distracted and get along with the flow of other things but slowly you will be used to repeat it often.  


Why should we repeat God names? 


In the stressful life, we process thousands of thoughts every day, most of them are unwanted.  These unwanted thoughts takes away your brain power.  We keep thinking about what happened in the past and how the future would be?  Is this of any use?   Some words are very powerful, again our Rishis/Gurus have given us a way of living to keep us happy.  When you repeat the naamaas when you cook, clean, fold clothes, drive, wash dishes, it calms your mind and cleans up the clutter.   


We should teach our kids also to keep chanting.    It will help them to stay focused and have a clean mind.   

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