Hare KrushNa ~
Found myself - a mere writing instrument - pen this in another thread:
The Lord has kept us well-equipped with the hammer (mind), to be put to good use, as ONkArJi has summed up - remember Holy Names : So,
Moral of the story: Do not snip the mind off of the oNkAr (AUM) , rather, purify it and dovetail it to the Infinite Lotus Eyed One. Sing O mind, sing : Govinda DAmodara MA ~ dhaveti ~
By increasing sattva to the point of shuddha-sattva.
Misconception: The mind has to be shut-down, killed or annihilated.
The nature of the jeevAtmA is activity, and love of the ParamAtmA, love of BhagavAn. It cannot remain inactive for long.
The mind when purified to shuddha sattva, is best kept in Leelas with BhagavAn ...
... but...How does one purify the mind ?
In VaishNav language: engage in Leelas with the Divine - in other words - shravaNam kirtanam vishNoh smaraNam vandanam archanam sakhyam dAsyam Atma-nivedanam - navadha bhakti (see posts #1 and #12 - Shrimad BhAgvatam 7.5.23-24 ).
Pick any one or more of the nine. The process feeds back into into the goal. The goal is to stay KRshNa-Conscious, the method is to stay conscious of KRshNa ( defN of KRshNa Consciousness from Krishna.com).
The one which is wrongly engaged is the material mind, the one engaged in service to and/or Leela with the Supreme Lord is the spiritual mind.
Service to the Supreme Lord includes sva-dharma.
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Has anyone played the "potato" game as a child ? Take up the challenge to respond to each question and statement with "Potato"
What is your name ? Potato
What time is it ? potato
are you crazy ? potato
So there is no favoring, yes, no, for, against, just potato.
I think i am going to do just that - albeit with "Govinda Damodara Ma~dhave~ti ~" (just kidding). You may go ahead and play the game using "Hare KRshNa ~" or "Om namo nArAyaNAya ~" or "Om namo bhagavate vAsudevAya ~"
Govinda ~ DAmo ~ dara Ma~~dhave~ti ~
go~~vinda~dAmodara~~mAdhaveti
govin~~dada~modarama~~dhave~~ti
govindadAmo~~darama~~dha~~ve~~ti~
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