1. Quotes from Anantasri Thakur Sitaramdas Omkarnath
"Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare"
These sixteen divine names destroy all sins in the kali yuga. No means superior to this is to be found in all the Vedas. The chanting of these removes the sixteen sheaths enshrounding the self(jiva) and reveals the self (Brahma).
2. The singing of the sixteen holy names eliminates the sixteen sheaths covering the self. These sheaths
Are life(pran), reverence (shradhwa), space(Akash), air(Bayu), Fire(Tej), Water(jal), earth(kshiti), organs(Indriya), mind(mana), matter(anna), vitality(Birja), austerity(Tapaswa), incantation(Mantra),Work(Karma), the worlds (Loksakal) and Name (nama).
3. All things visible are transitory-non-existent in the past and in future(It was not there, nor it will be).
Name of God is alone eternal. Try utmost to live with his name(Nama).
4. Live with his nama and you live with Him.
5. Glory to his Nama, Glory to his nama, All glory to his nama.
6. If you want to keep me with you, sing my nama unceasingly.
7. Only by singing My nama all the time, you can be My devotee.
8. Chant My Nama constantly. If you cannot do that, listen to it and that will do.
9. He who sings My nama, gets me surely.
10. Singing My nama is the only fine and sure way to Me. This path is made of bliss and love.
11. Wherever you are and however you may seek Me, by singing My Nama, I will hear your call.
12. I will remove all mthe sins of one who sings My Nama.
13. I always embrace him who utter My Nama with reverence or with indifference.
14. I am leading ahead of you, always clearing the way in front of you. Utter My Nama and follow Me gazing at Me.
15. Chant My Nama always and you shall not be born again.
16. “Nama” is the chief guide to God-realisation.
17. He who sings the two syllable “Hare”, attains the supreme state that can be won by extreme Efforts through millions of lives.
18. By uttering His Nama alone, realisation of god can be achieved.
19. Chant his Name always. Do it with faith or indifference, with devotion or neglect. Do it with faith
Or indifference, with devotion or neglect; do it sitting or standing, lying or walking or while eating;
Do it in distress or in happiness, in joy or in sorrow, in want or in affluence, in illness or in health, in
Sadness or in delight, in mental poise or in restlessness, do it while you are alone or in the midst of
Crowd, in light or in darkness, do it when you are calm or distracted and do it with rhythm or without.
20. Oh My beloved, don’t be afraid of loss and injunction of Vedas or a million birth. If you get the
Chance to utter My Nama Forever I’ll make it worth.
21. Detached from worldly affairs you may not be. What is the harm in that? Chant His Nama without
A break. Detachment by itself will hasten you and lead you beyond life.
22. I tell you hundreds, thousands, nay/many millions of times that one who adheres to His Nama
Alone sees Him in this life reaching his goal and attains the supreme state after death. It is not enough
To say that if one utters only once the Nama Rama even with indifference, one is freed from all sins.
Even one who follows no code of good conduct and suffers from evil and adverse state of mind will
Realize the eternal self by singing the nama of “ Rama”.
23. Shastra quates, “One can not break the bonds of work by living through billions of ages”.
Let this not drown you in despair. I will wear down all the bonds of work accumulated through
Millions of your birth, (active in the present life and what may grow in future births).>br>
Sing My nama, My Nama and my nama alone.
24. Nama is God. If once you can hold on to it, you have no worry.
25. Discrimination, Non- attachment, desire for liberation and the six accomplishment (Continence,
Self-restrained, endurance, abstinence, concentration, self-confident theism) are the fourfold
Spiritual practices, these follow in the footstep of one who is devoted to Nama.
26. One who sings His Nama has not to long for liberation, liberation serves one has a hand maid.
27. Blow up petty worldy sufferings with the canon ball of divine Nama and murch to the supreme State of bliss.
28. Glory to My preceptor, glory to the Nama and glory to the company of saints.
O Hari, thy playfulness! Makes lotus blossom on rocks-chant Nama, chant Nama, chant Nama only
2. Quotes of Kinkar Vitthal Ramanuja
You must follow your own dharma even if it is at the cost of your life.
Everyone acts according to one’s vrittis or tendencies. There are so many students in a college, but some take up science, and some opt for arts, yet others opt for commerce. It’s a matter of taste, each to his own. Whatever one has chosen, often one has to ride along that path. It’s not that these tendencies and preferences won’t change. As time passes, one switches interests, swings from one thing to another. The karma and therefore dharma thus changes.
How can you determine what is good for you? Only a Guru can tell you that. Just like a teacher can tell you which academic stream to opt for, only a Guru can tell you for sure which way to go. This is true of spirituality as well. This bhajan, in general, is good for all. But it’s possible that’s not the path meant for you. A Guru will tell you if it’s so.
Some people encounter an even greater dilemma. Should I opt for samsara or not? Shall I be a householder or a saint? A Guru might tell you: the path of a householder is best for you, the life of a renunciant, and life of tyaga, is difficult. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. This is a general answer. But there are a couple of them who have been dispassionate from very childhood and unaffected by worldliness, never swayed and firmly rooted in spirituality. Do you understand? To them, the Guru says pursue sadhana. Look at luminary chelas (disciples) like Vivekananda, Abhedananda, or great souls like Chidananad Maharaj! These people worked for the welfare of the world, but they did not lead a worldly life. They served the world, strove to achieve welfare for the people, tried to give them methods of gaining peace.
Happiness and sorrow are nothing but the two feet of the Almighty God. If happiness comes your way, think that He has extended His right foot before you, and if sorrow comes your way, welcome it thinking He has put the left foot forward. Bow graciously and offer your obeisance at both the feet accepting both happiness and sorrow gladly. This is the only way you will be at peace fully. Then you will win supreme bliss that lies above all happiness and sorrow.
Remember one thing—he who always remembers God, even he will encounter unhappiness according to his prarabddha (fruition of past deeds), but his experience of sorrow will be much lightened
The point is happiness and sorrow will confront everyone, but for those who take refuge in chanting the name of God, the worldly afflictions will pale considerably. Secondly, he who takes shelter at the lotus feet of God, sings His Names, and meditates on Him naturally enters into a Kingdom of Heaven where there is only joy and no sorrow. At that divine stage no material loss or worldly grief can touch his mind or diminish his immense joy and peace. Here is an example.
A boy who has most delicious sweets preserved for him at his own sweet home, will he go abegging like a street beggar from one shop to another for a piece of sweets? Surely not! And the inner joy (spiritual experience) is a hundred times sweeter and deeper than the materialist pleasure. Similarly the seeker who has got the taste of spiritual bliss within will not definitely hanker after mundane pleasure. Hence, make provisions for either thinning or completely eliminating the sorrows by taking refuge in Hari Naam in the happy times.
Naam, in Kaliyug is of utmost importance, especially Hari Naam! There are eight Gopis, all dear to Krishna but Radha is the ultimate. You can sing Ram Ram, Krishna Krishna, Radha Radha or any name dear to you but Hare Krishna Naam is the ultimate. Hence Ramakrishna Bhagawan underlined the fact that in Kaliyuga, it is not ahara shuddhi or samyama but “Naam” which is of prime importance. The only help a seeker has in Kaliyuga is Naam Kirtan (singing, reciting, panegyrising the sports and legends of God). Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Ramakrishna Dev, Omkarnath Baba— everybody has mentioned this. They were all avatarapurushas.