Author Archives: Sacinandana Swami

Sometimes, when we make a mistake and we regret it, that very feeling improves our relationship with the Holy Name.

“In chanting you want to be so absorbed that you touch Krishna, that you touch the spiritual world and that when you have completed your chanting you will have a Krishna conscious fragrance or influence around you.”

One of the greatest problems of materialistic society is the tendency to compare yourself with others. What is envy? It means to feel a slight pleasure when you see others suffering.

When something upsets us, we can remind ourselves: “Yes, this is the material world, and this is bound to happen. When a stone drops into water, it will get wet. When a soul drops into the material world, it will experience miseries.”
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Have you heard kirtan leaders say“Chant from the heart!”? What do they mean by this?