{"id":4561,"date":"2019-07-17T04:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T08:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2019-07-17T04:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T08:24:21","slug":"meaning-of-the-word-abhyasa-and-smaranam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/meaning-of-the-word-abhyasa-and-smaranam\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning of the word abhyasa; and smaranam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/radhas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/radhas-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/radhas-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/radhas-364x273.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/radhas.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The word abhyasa has some relation with the word Smaranam?<br \/>\nAnother question :<br \/>\ncould smaranam be higher than Sravanam Kirtan?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Briefly:<br \/>\nIn sanskrit the word abhyasa means practice, exercise, repetition. Abhyasa-yoga therefore means the practice of the discipline of yoga in particular those practices involving repetitions.<\/p>\n<p>For instance japa, or the repeated murmurred chanting of the Holy Names of Krishna,<br \/>\nor japamala, chanting with a rosary,<br \/>\nor kirtana, chanting with music,<br \/>\nare all types of abhyasa-yoga.<\/p>\n<p>Smaranam means remembering, recollecting or meditating using your mind.<\/p>\n<p>One should definitely remember and meditate on Krishna, His qualities, activities, etc, however, according to the greatest spiritual masters, the best and most effective means for liberation is hearing and chanting.<\/p>\n<p>After all a good rememberance depends on hearing and chanting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Manonatha Dasa (ACBSP)<br \/>\n17 Jul 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question The word abhyasa has some relation with the word Smaranam? Another question : could smaranam be higher than Sravanam Kirtan? &nbsp; Answer Briefly: In sanskrit the word abhyasa means practice, exercise, repetition. Abhyasa-yoga therefore means &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/meaning-of-the-word-abhyasa-and-smaranam\/\" aria-label=\"Meaning of the word abhyasa; and smaranam\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 10:46:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}