The heart where kindness dwells, has mindfulness of God. That heart is full of fragrance of flowers.

“The heart where kindness dwells, has mindfulness of God. That heart is full of fragrance of flowers." (Dariya Sahib)

Simran -- The Power of Repeating God’s Name

Simran -- The Power of Repeating God’s Name 

Repeating a Name (or Names) of God with love and devotion, called in the east "Simran", "Manas Jap", or "Zikhr," is one of the key spiritual exercises used to cultivate love for God and to invoke the Positive Power in our daily lives, making it possible to live a life of love. Simran is a mental repetition of a Name of God done during meditation, and this spiritual practice is also done during available moments throughout the day and night as a way to remember God all the time. Says Sant Tukarama:

"Such is God’s Name 

that it heals the disease of the world.

Whosoever repeats the Lord’s Name 

while engaged in earthly duties, 

remains ever in a blissful state of divine communion. 

One absorbed in the Lord’s Name, O Tuka, 

has truly attained liberation while living."

This spiritual exercise of repeating God's Name helps to uplift our day, to bring some of the heaven and bliss of meditation into our down-to-earth daily experience, and is a way to remember in a world of forgetfulness, to remain awake in a world of spiritual slumber, to abide in Truth, no longer dominated by the forces of illusion. Be who you really are wherever you go!