Keep Your Mind Engaged in Krishna

Krishna and His names are not different from each other

abhyasa-yoga-yuktena           cetasa nanya-gamina
paramam purusam divyam   yati parthaanucintayan

He who meditates on Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his mind constantly engaged in remembering Me, undeviated from the path, he, O Partha, is sure to reach Me. (Bhagavad-Gita 8.8)

 In this verse, Lord Krishna stresses the importance of remembering Him. One’s memory of Krishna is revived by chanting the Maha-Mantra, Hare Krishna. By this practice of chanting and hearing the sound vibration of the Supreme Lord, one’s ear, tongue and mind are engaged.

 

This mystic meditation is very easy to practise, and it helps one attain the Supreme Lord. Purusam means enjoyer. Although living entities belong to the marginal energy of the Supreme Lord, they are in material contamination. They think themselves enjoyers, but they are not the supreme enjoyer. Here, it is clearly stated that the supreme enjoyer is the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His different manifestations and plenary expansions as Narayana, Vasudeva, etc.

The devotee can constantly think of the object of worship, the Supreme Lord, in any of His features – Narayana, Krishna, Rama, etc – by chanting Hare Krishna. This practice will purify him, and at the end of his life, due to his constant chanting, he will be transferred to the kingdom of God.

 

Yoga practice is meditation on the Supersoul within; similarly, by chanting Hare Krishna, one fixes his mind always on the Supreme Lord. The mind is fickle, and therefore it is necessary to engage the mind by force to think of Krishna.

(Purport to the above verse has been given by Srila Prabhupada in

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (page 372-373)