Re: Japa timing

Dear Swamiji,

Nityananda ! Gauranga ! Hare Krishna !

I would like to thank you from my heart for such wonderful encouragement and for opening my eyes. You are so right Swamiji, if we are serious about spiritual progress we can easily get up early by sleeping early. In fact since the last one year when I used to chant the rounds of other Gods and demigods I used to force myself to sleep early at 9 pm to get up early in the morning at 4 am. I used to fight with everyone in the house telling them that I would not go anywhere out with them after 9 pm as I was very keen to get up at 4 am. It is true it was painful to sleep so early but as I followed what you told me, no gain without pain. However recently when I started chanting the mantrajas I started thinking that Lord Nityananda is so kind, He accepted Jagai and Madhai so I started thinking that now I don't need to be as austere as before and I became very careless in bhakti. I became so careless that most of the time I have been chanting my 2 hrs of rounds at night from 9-11 pm. I am so thankful to you Swamiji, you actually opened my eyes and made me realize that I am the greatest rascal by thinking Lord Nityananda to be very cheap as I thought I can now be very careless in bhakti and I will still certainly get results. Now I have got that enthusiasm back and I will surely sleep at 9 pm today to get up at 4 am tomorrow to chant from 4:45-6:45 am. Unfortunately it is already 5:40 pm right now and I have yet got to chant 2 hrs of my rounds but I will surely finish all my work before my sleeping time 9 pm.

Thank you also Srinath. You are very right. When we chant at Brahma Muhurta ourc hanting is so effortless that we don't even realize when we finish our 2 hrs of chanting.

Jaya Gurudev ! Jaya Guru Parampara !

Sincerely,

Mihir.

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