Chanting vs Seva

There is no better service than serving the vaisnavas. I experienced this during this Radhastami and for me it was an amazing experience. I was on the farm near my city and all the devotees needed someone to cook...others to decorate the temple, others for garlands and even to be a messenger and take information from one devotee to another....I managed to do a little bit of everything and I felt so complete. You may ask what has this to do with chanting and I can say that during the festival you chant after mangal arati...the ones who are supposed to help for the festival need to do other services and chanting needs to be done later.

So it came to my mind "Wow what can I do now?"..... I need to chant in the morning and I also want to do some seva, since it's a great occasion to serve the vaisnavas and the Deites.

I went for doing service but didn't miss any of the program and whenever I had time I chanted....that's what many devotees were doing, since nobody had much time.

Another thing I was thinking about is how can I concentrate on my chanting....having many other things to do and devotees doing bhajans...other friends coming to me to talk - so I had to surrender to the Lord and ask Him to help me to concentrate.

The atmosphere of a temple is perfect for chanting, but we have always to have in our mind the proposal of having attentive and good chanting otherwise it's so easy to talk, forget to hear the mantra and then our devotional life can lose  quality because it all depends on this basis. The most important thing is that the Lord shows us the way, anytime you want to get advanced and also surrender to Him.

Hare Krsna

Aruna dd

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