When you're chanting, you're no longer where you appear to be. You're no longer in that city, or that state, or that country. You're in God's Country. You're covered by the Kingdom. Srila Prabhupada said it's like being in a foreign embassy in a foreign country. So long as you are within that embassy, you are not living in the foreign country. They can't touch you. So long as you are chanting,   feeling this Love,  Maya can't touch you, the illusion is seen as an illusion. It still appears, but the Truth is now seen.  And that Truth sets you free.  "You have been set apart as holy to the Lord your God, and He has chosen you from all the nations of the earth to be his own special treasure." - Deuteronomy 14:2 I  Love You I  Am You nik p.s. I have some special mantras left from my personal stash, HERE, if you need one to chant on! To claim your free gift, leave a review on Apple Podcasts, screenshot it and send it to me at nikki@curlynikki.com!  Join us on Patreon to support the show, and tune into and participate in live video Q&As with me!  Support the show राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम Today's Quotes: "You're not set aside, you're set apart."- Lysa TerKeurst "Love is the cure, for you pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent." - Rumi  "Have the name of God on your tongue, in your breath, ever. That will invoke His form, as the inner core of every thing, thought,or turn of events. That will provide vou with His company and contact with His unfailling energy and bliss. That is the Satsanga (good association), which give you maximum benefit. Converse with God, who is you; derive courage and consolation from Him. He is the Guru most interested in your progress." (S.S.S.Vol.VIlI.p.48)"- Satya Sai Baba "Krishna means the most attractive. He is the Divinity that pulls everything to it...Krishna is the formless centre that is everywhere.  Be clever like Radha… Krishna couldn't escape from Radha, for her whole world was filled with Krishna. If u can see that whereever there is an attraction, there is Krishna, then you have become Radha. Then you are always in your center." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Srila Prabhupada: Forgetfulness of relationship with Bhagavan, Krsna, is materialism. Actually, everything is Bhagavan, but when we forget the relationship of this world and Bhagavan, Krsna, that is materialism. Just like we are offering some foodstuff to Krsna. So Krsna is eating matter? No. Krsna cannot eat matter. He is spirit. Then how we are offering the same rice and dal to Krsna which is also being cooked in the hotel? The thing is that here is the sense that "This rice or dal is given by Krsna." There is remembrance of Krsna; therefore it is spiritual. And there, in the hotel, they do not know Krsna; therefore it is matter. That is the difference between matter and spirit. Actually, everything is emanation from Krsna, so there cannot be anything matter. But the forgetfulness...What is this material world? The material world everyone is forgetting Krsna. Their only business is to forget Krsna. Therefore it is material. But if Krsna consciousness is there, no more material world. Just like this temple. This temple is spiritual, Vaikuntha. It is not Los Angeles. Don't think like that. It is Vaikuntha, because here every second the remembrance of Krsna is there. Therefore it is not Los Angeles. Or anyone who remembers Krsna always, twenty-four hours, he is living in Vaikuntha. He is not in the kingdom of maya. That is required. [Bg. 9.14]: "Always thinking of Me." So if you keep this practice, always thinking of Krsna, then you are not in the material world; you are always in the spiritual world. For practical example: just like there are foreign embassies in foreign countries. So long they are within the embassy, they are not living in the foreign country. That is the law. Suppose I belong to some foreign embassy. So I have done something c