Spiritual seekers are told to chant certain amount of rounds in the "beginning"but many get stuck to the routine and don't internalize-digest and make integral part of life. Internalizing chanting requires you to chant for hours (definitely not one or two hours japa) and then it is digested and imprinted on your soul. Just like a song you hear and then you singing it without even the proper music.
The cave japa: The new sadhaka is often told to read about the charitra of past great devotees but intially it is like "yes old saints chanted for long hours" and then it is forgotten. People think devotees of yesteryear did extra chanting that doesn't mean it is applicable to us. Hang on !! Goloka is not a cake walk. The sadhaka having all the comforts of life- chanting in AC room , with a milton water bottle alongside and smart watch, Paneer sabzi and the sadhaka tolerating heat and cold in the jungle cave, without any proper facilities- Huge difference!! the tapasvi sadhu chanting in cave-no comparison.
One of my favorite nam nistha saint went to jungle,full of fierce animals and snakes, without the arrangement of proper food chanted for years to internalize the naam. Are you understanding the huge difference of japa along with struggle of existence, problems of life and death and AC room Japa?? Can you imagine the intensity of japa? a serious call to god in a jungle cave and daily AC room japa? we cannot even expect "anubhuti-reciprocation" from god with that?
The unknown reasons of tasteless japa: The sadhakas are often seen struggling with no taste to chant, no intention of increasing rounds, not feeling cheerful even after chanting for decades, those sadhakas then seek pleasure in lower modes of material nature. The story goes like this, the Mahant of one ashram after chanting for fourty years didnt get any spiritual results. He then started crying and decided to meet an Acharya, the Acharya told him, there is lot of unaccounted funds coming to your ashram , that is not helping you, leave this ashram and work in fields somewhere and keep chanting while working and then he got the results.
The elevated Gaudiya I met told me remarkable incidence in Vrindavan, he said" I chanted 2 lakh nam jap of hare krsna mantra daily and still was not getting results, then I prayed to Giriraj the Goverdhan while doing parikrama and then the sacred mountain Govardhan gave me the intelligence"There is still a material tendency to enjoy sense gratification inside". It meant restricting the diet. Soon after that I reduced my diet"-The gaudiya saint said". So right from food, association of pure devotees who have got taste for chanting such kind of intelligence is required to be self realized?
The domain of Siddhas: Anarth nivritti is domain of siddhas. Though, in the elevant canto of Srimat Bhagwatam , for controlling the maya one is told to take shelter, training and superior guidance from the Guru. But the access to siddhas is one big issue for sadhaka. Then remains the ultimate option of continuously meeting naam nistha saints and inquiring to them about "how to internalise the naam". Book reading, hearing lectures is one slow way but direct sanga , face to face inquiry flows mercy from the heart of siddhas to the sadhaka. The most important thing is the dust of lotus feet of such an exalted vaishnava will change life.
Siddhas know the deep secretes to elevate on the path of devotion, they can tell you something what you cant even imagine. Serving the projects of your spiritual master and following their mission "seriously" will attract mercy as well.
The place matters: I heard these stories of how few shaivites felt after chanting near the divine mountain Kailash, the vibrations, the mercy, the pleasure , the waves Kailasha was sending is an out of the world experience !! For vaishnavas, the glorious association of Govardhan, the banks of Yamuna and Ganga and all most all places of pilgrimages in India are divine but for those who are in villages the Goshala remains the top option, remember !! Backtogodhead demands a serious endeavor.
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