To truly love the Name (of God), one must have deep sincerity.
Many people ask, “Why don’t I feel love for the Name?” But if we reflect a little, we’ll realize that this question itself is incorrect. It’s like a woman who hasn’t had a child asking, “How can I feel a mother’s love?” The truth is, when a child is born, a mother’s love naturally follows. Likewise, instead of asking how to feel love for the Name, we should be asking, “How can I bring the Name to my lips?”
What is stopping us from chanting the Name? No one else is responsible—only we ourselves. In reality, once we decide to take the Name and begin chanting, everything else follows. If love doesn’t arise, the fault is not with the Name, but with our own effort. Taking the Name is our responsibility; love will follow naturally, just as a mother’s milk flows for her newborn child.
Thus, the real answer to “Why don’t I feel love for the Name?” lies within us: we are not truly chanting it. Someone might argue, “But I do chant the Name, and still, I don’t feel love.” That’s a valid question. However, we must then examine how we are chanting. Do we take the Name with the same intensity and longing that a mother feels for her long-awaited child? Or do we simply chant because saints or our Guru have told us to, or because we have nothing else to do? Even if we chant in this way, it will eventually bear fruit. But before questioning why love isn’t arising, we must first ask ourselves, “Am I chanting with true devotion and eagerness?”
Just as our physical body grows without us realizing it, our spiritual progress should also happen effortlessly. If we become too aware of our own progress, there’s a risk that everything will be lost. In spirituality, sustaining what we have attained is far more difficult than attaining it in the first place. A person who thinks, “I have achieved something” has actually achieved nothing. Such a person must be extremely cautious.
Lastly, if a woman’s husband does not believe in God, that is no reason for her to abandon her own spiritual practice. If she continues chanting the Name, it will not harm her duties as a wife; on the contrary, it will bring harmony and happiness to her household.
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