Today a very simple and natural thought occurred to me – why don’t I try to chant one round keeping my mind firmly on Holy Names?
It’s nothing special, I must have tried this hundreds of times before, but what made this attempt memorable is that I finally managed to pull it off. I can honestly swear that during this one round I kept my mind focused firmly on listening to Holy Names and there wasn’t even one Maha Mantra where it was somewhere else, at most my mind has got an odd Name here or there, hardly even one, I think.
It was magical.
Not the result, to be honest (twice in the same blog post), I didn’t get even a glimpse of feeling for Holy Names themselves, but it was magical in a different way. I’ve managed to exert enough power to forcefully keep my mind concentrated on listening to
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without missing a beat.
Don’t tell me it wasn’t an effort. It was, and a very hard one.
Whole day since then I was thinking how I’m going to deal with it tomorrow. Will I have enough power to repeat it? Repeat it sixteen times in a row?
I honestly can’t answer that (three times honest?). What I do know is that I, personally, have absolutely no control over how these things play themselves out. The idea just popped up into my mind at the last round today. Tomorrow I might forget all about it when I start chanting, or I might remember and give up before I even started. I just don’t know and I don’t dare to predict.
The truth is – I might pretend to be the lowest of the lowest but the fact is that my body, and it means my mind and my soul*, are firmly in the hands of the Lord. He decides what I can do and what I cannot, not me. If He decides I* can do a round, I* do it(not will, just DO it), and if He decides I* can do all sixteen, I* do it, too.
In reality all I can do myself is to scurry His plan, and I wholeheartedly pray He stops me from doing it.
* By “I” I mean the combination of the mind, intelligence and the false ago, all of which are also influenced by the gross material senses, not “I” as a spirit soul.