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We search for God as if God is far away from us. But God is within us. We are really His forms, His manifestations. We have forgotten this. By constant remembrance of God we become aware of his existence within us. When we have found Him we know we have been seeking our own true Self which is none other than God. e clutches of desire and ignorance, from the clutches of bondage, misery, pain and sorrow. This is the goal you have to reach.
If you take refuge in the Divine Name by surrendering yourself to it, and take the Name as your all-in-all, the Name will lead you to this summit of God-experience. Verily, Name is God Himself. If you have the Name, then you may boldly say you have God.
It is admitted by all votaries of the Divine Name, that the practice of chanting the sweet Name of the eternal Beloved arrests distracting thoughts, subdues unregulated desires and enlightens the intellect. The Divine Name after enabling its devotees to achieve thorough concentration of mind helps to draw the mind inward and attain complete absorption in the eternal Reality, which in its turn takes him to the supreme goal of self surrender. Self surrender is not merely a mental attitude but it is a beatific state born of the union of the soul with God.
Keeping this spiritual perfection in view, chant the Name. After a certain stage your mind will become still, repetition will automatically stop, and you will have the highest experience - experience of the Atman. Pujya Mataji took the sankalpa of a 15,500 crore Nama Yagna for Vishwa Shanti.
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