Question: Mota, why does the effect of the Naam-Smaran is not manifested in life even if it is done for a long time?
Pujya Shree Mota; The tools like Japa will be effective only if we get to reduce love (attachment) and hate from our lives. If our nature is still sentient, Naam-Smaran cannot be done for a long time and can not be maintained. Then how can it be there all the time? So while practicing any tool, one should work to cleanse the mind (ચિત્તશુધ્ધિ, reducing attachments and hate etc,).
Pujya Shree Mota
Shree Mota Sathe Vartalap
Edition 2; Page 157.
