Receiving divine grace with heartfelt kirtana

Kirtanais a valuable spiritual aid to bring the seeker closer to the SupremeConsciousness It is the singing of devotional songs, chanting creatively withheartfelt sincerity and purpose Kirtana is helpful in allspheres of life; it helps us to overcome physical troubles and tribulations aswell During kirtana many assemble together, united in purpose, andso all their collective physical energies function in unison Their collectivepsychic energies flow in the same channel, inspired by Parama.Purusa. At theplace of kirtana, not only will there be a huge concentration of physicalenergies, but also a powerful concentration of psychic energy, which will removeall the collective, accumulated miseries of the material world Kirtana isinitiation to the Divine to reveal the Supreme ConsciousnesswithinBy the inspiration they receive from Parama Purusa,practitioners acquire great power No worldly obstacles can stand before theirtremendous spiritual force Thus kirtana is helpful not only for.spiritualsadhana but also for overcoming worldly difficulties.Physicalafflictions are caused partly by nature, and partly by our own thoughts andactions Whatever might be the physical miseries – natural or man-made– if people collectively chant kirtana, calamities become easier to dealwith In case of natural calamities like flood, famine, drought and epidemic, orman-made calamities, miseries and tortures, relief is at hand through heartfeltkirtana Singing together and seeking the grace of the Parama Purusa cannot failto bring some relief, even.enable a certain movement upward towards higherconsciousness.In addition to helping redress individual challenges,kirtana makes it less difficult to remove collective psychic afflictions as well– those that already exist, and those which have not yet arrived but aboutwhich we have premonitions If we are aware of an impending negative situation,and kirtana is done in advance, those impending troubles seem to disappear They are dispelled not merely because of the collective mental force of so manypeople, but also due to the impact of so many minds.moving with tremendous speedunder the inspiration of Parama Purusa. At the place of kirtana, notonly are the people who are themselves doing kirtana getting benefited, but alsothose who are not participating – and even those among thenon-participants who are sceptics and non-believers, who don’t like theidea at all, the ripple effect of kirtana touches their lives as well, bringingpositivity and peace, engendering common benefitOne of the names ofParama Purusa is Ashutosh Ashu means “quickly, easily” Therefore,Ashutosh means the one who can be.satisfied quickly and easily. That is, the onewho is easy to please If you do kirtana sincerely and wholeheartedly even forfive or 10 minutes, Parama Purusa becomes pleased Parama Purusa does not makeany distinction between educated and uneducated, between black and white –all are His loving children Do kirtana without any consideration oftime, place and person and those who do kirtana should always remember that theParama Purusa is Grace and benevolence are made accessible Today isthe 19th Mahaprayan Divas –.departure from the worldly abode – ofShri Shri Anandamurti.