The Sweetness of the Name KUSUMA HARANATH

The Sweetness of the Name KUSUMA HARANATH

Everything is rooted in you o Lord, you are present in everything and cannot remain even for a moment away from your devotees. You make your nearness felt in so many ways. Nityananda is always moving near us – sometimes he manifests himself but we take it to be a dream.The more we come away from our small self through repetition of your holy Name and selfless service, the Ego gets thinner and thinner and the mind purified and more expansive.Then we reach a state in which we  see you in ourselves and others. 

By repeating  your  Name and thinking of your Lilas  we dwell continuously in your presence. Success in meditation comes when we feel that it is you yourself who  repeats the Name in us, that you are verily in front of us and aware of all our thoughts.  You perform Kirtan of your own Name in order to sanctify our unclean hearts and to make us fit for Seva.  From our side must come yearning, extreme restlessness, piteous prayer and unfathomable faith. We have to become like a vessel, emptied of the Ego,  waiting  for the divine influx to come when and how it will. Constant remembrance of the Lord and His Name is as good as associating with Him. Without the power of the holy Name  its sweetness and  holy love is impossible to experience. So sweet is the Name that it dances on the tongue and creates a desire for having millions of tongues and ears as it enters the domain of the heart and stops all sense-activities.*) It is the Name itself which spreads its glories within the heart. This  sweetness arises from within as result of  the hearts melting. The Lord resides in the hearts, it is by His will that mystic vibrations or waves of love and bliss are generated therein. When the Lord’s Name finds place in the soul oceans of sins of darkness will be crossed as it were in a life-boat or as the sun once risen all darkness vanishes. So it is with sins when the holy Name is uttered.

Chanting or mental repetition of the divine Name Kusuma Haranath with an  attitude of profound and exclusive devotion initiates in the soul  powerful  vibrations that unlock many doors, chief of which being the door of the heart, in which the Lord eternally sports. His Name dissolves the human personality and brings to birth a Bhav Deha (transcendental sheath) for the soul with the thinnest possible Ego.The physical body is then made so light that it becomes virtually without weight.**) When the physical body has been re-fashioned in this divine substance then only is it able to enter the secret bower called Krishna Kunj. Then days and nights are spent in singing His praises and hearing His glories. One remains merged in the Lord, is no more conscious of the external world, laughs, weeps, cries, sings  aloud, dances. Through excess of joy  horipulation is experienced or one sits motionless. This is the state of identification or union with the Lord in which one has no own will, no separate existence.It is His Name which brings Him to our reach, by taking His Name we are sure to get back our ability to recognize Him.The power of Name is infinite, it can even bring the dead back to life. Without the mercy of the Name one can neither achieve Prema nor enter the realm of the divine Lila. Once Prema is generated the Jiva swims in an ocean of unfathomable bliss, something active, not mere dead bliss. It makes the Lord and the devotee actively flow towards each other in form of a Rasa. Prema is a saturation of the heart. By its very nature it overleaps all bounds and reaches the Jiva to the feet of the Lord. The Lord watches our movements at all times. When we totally surrender we come under His influence and protection and Maya affects no longer. As our love and faith in Him grows, as we surrender mind, ego, body totally, by constantly repeating  His sweet Name, He will destroy our ego, which separates us from Him. For as long as the ego-sense persists spiritual effort can’t be fruitful. Even the slightest assertion of the Ego frustrates all made progress. We have to forget every egoistic pleasure, become simple in mind and heart and contemplate constantly and joyfully of that abode of abiding joy. All thoughts must be only on Him. The more we try to eliminate the “I” the more life becomes enjoyable. An egoless mind is full of love. His pleasure, not ours should be always foremost in the mind. We have to give up all ideas of agency to Him who alone acts.

Here I quote what Lord Krishna said:” All souls are my favorites. I play many games with them till they forget all that is selfish, till they love me for the sake of love alone.”

And Thakur Haranath said:” May the Lord’s Name be in everybody’s mouth, such is my desire and prayer. You are each a limb of mine, I want you to remain supremely pure. Do not take the Name for Name’s sake. Bear in mind that it is His Name. The Name generates love and love leads to the Lord of Love. Name is more efficacious than Mantra as the latter requires a prescribed place, time and method and hard training. Mantras are related to the doctrine of the head whereas the Name relates to the doctrine of the heart. Name is infinitely more fruitful than sacrifices, austerities, penances. By itself it is always pure. Even once uttered it has the power to blow away such a heap of sins as no Jiva could ever dream of accumulating through a whole lifetime.You will realize after I pass away what potency the Lord has kept in the Name Kusuma Haranath. Love the Name, then you will be happy in loving me also.”

*) ex Chaitanya Charitamrita

**) Whoever witnessed during Bangalore Namsapthahams  Sri Sade Poli Reddy dancing, leaping in joy of divine bliss, has seen a wholly wonderful manifestation of the human spirit transformed into a body of PREM

Ruth Baur

^28.09.2015