It is enough if you keep chanting the one Mantra that you feel attached to or that you have been initiated into by your Guru.  If, there happens to be a need to chant two or three different Mantras, allocate specific times or counts for each Mantra everyday and chant them accordingly. If your mind wavers to chant many different Mantras in the short span of time allotted to chant one, it will end up being counter-productive.

Japa Yoga is like getting by heart hard-to-memorize lyrics of a song or a difficult mathematical formula.

Jnana Yoga is akin to intellectually understanding how to solve a difficult mathematical problem.

A son puts in a lot of effort to thrive in business and repeatedly fails. When he appeals to his benign father, the father gladly gives a portion of his wealth to make the son tide over his problems.

If the son had not put in any efforts, and just demands money from the father, the father would not straight away given his wealth to his own son!

Likewise, only when a devotee after clearly realizing that putting any more efforts in realizing the Lord is not going to help, surrenders totally to His lotus feet, the Lord delivers him from transmigratory existence.

Let us assume that a person named Gopal is walking on the street. You are in your house and call out 'Gopal' to summon your own brother named Gopal who lives with you. This Gopal(stranger on the road) responds to your call though he does not know you at all, does not care about you or is not expecting to be called by you at all. Such is the power of the 'Name'!

When this is the case, God knows us better than anyone else, cares about us more than we do oursleves  and is waiting eagerly for us to call Him.

So if we throw our hands up in the air, call out His Divine Name with faith and surrender, will He not rush to us in a flash... So the easiest way to reach God is to call out His Divine Name - the Holy 'Hare Rama' Mahamantra.

Imagine the intensity with which one would pray, if he was given an opportunity to perform a prayer when he knows that his life were to end in a few moments...  Your everyday prayer should carry that intensity.  That is true prayer.

A Vishnu Bhakta attains to Sri Vaikuntam, the abode of Lord Vishnu; a Siva Bhakta attains to Siva Loka, the abode of Lord Siva; a Devi Bhakta attains to Sri Puram, the abode of Devi; and, so do  Bhaktas of other deities -- each to the abode of the Deity that he worships.

Where does a Guru Bhakta go? He verily mingles in the Paduka of his Sadguru!

In general, we pray to God for something and promise to do something in return. We end up fulfilling our promise only if our prayers are fulfilled and at our own convenience!

 On the contrary, in Ramayana, we see that Lord Rama first showered Sugriva with whatever he required and then patiently waited in anticipation for Sugriva's assistance in His work.

Maya is the most formidable opponent on the road to God realisation. It takes different forms and shapes in different ages to lure the minds of people away from the very purpose of life.

Despite the obviously undeniable  manifold advantages, in this modern age of science, it does appear that  internet, mobile phones and television are the three latest incarnations of Maya!

Once there lived a man who had a unique pastime. Whenever he found information about organised tours to  Kshetras or  Thirthas, he would immediately join the group. By doing so, he had visited almost all important kshetras hundreds of times. He once narrated all this to his neighbour, who was heartbroken to hear the same. He cursed his illfate that prevented him from visiting kshetras and thirthas. He was heartbroken and was crying inconsolably. He told his neighbour 'How fortunate you are! You must have earned countless punyas by your yatras.'

To this, he replied, 'I will give you all the punyas i earned from all these yatras! in return, will you give me those tears that you are shedding ?'

Very true indeed! What purpose is achieved by travelling to all Kshetras mechanically. All and sundry go on trips to holy cities! Our hearts should melt in devotion when we think of the Kshetras. Only then, the true purpose is achieved.

When someone steals an insulator or small piece of equipment from an electrical transformer, he cannot be branded as stealing electricity.  Likewise, one stealing idols from the temple cannot be branded as stealing God or the divinity that it contains.

Electricity does not impact a technician who wears gloves and other insulating equipment. The impact of the electric shock is directly dependent on the strength of the insulator; the weaker the insulator, the more the impact of the electrical shock.  Likewise, so long as one wears a gear of disbelief in God, he cannot perceive the divinity even when he touches the idol of a deity.  The moment he starts faintly believing the existence of divinity, it is manifested to him to that extent.  The degree of manifestation of divinity only grows with one’s strength of faith and belief in God.