Dear devotees,

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

So we had a friend who asked us why we chant mantrarajas when there is pancha tattva mantra available? It’s true that Pancha Tattva are so powerful just 3 of them carry right through the Hare Krishna rounds making them offenseless. But the sheer amount of mercy of the Nityananda Gauranga mantrarajas at our level is unbelievable and can only be experienced directly and I could personally see people’s spiritual advancement turn from a bullock cart into a rocket ship (Cheers…).

If one can ask how or why Nitaai Gaura when there is pancha tattva, I say that although logic may argue many things, it can never explain the personal experience we have all felt with them. Best proof of the pudding is in the eating itself and these names are chanted by even the perfect souls in the spiritual world.

In any case the Lord has so many infinite names among which there are so many varieties in each of His names, and whichever name we chant we align with the unique features of that name. When we chant Nitaai Gaura we align with the mercy feature, when we chant Pancha Tattva, they give us the complete picture of the Lord in all His manifestations and they give us the Hare Krishna maha mantra. And when we chant the Hare Krishna maha mantra — we align with His Absolute sweetness feature!

So we must never refuse another variety that the Lord offers to us because the names are full of all the forms, abodes, pastimes, qualities, etc…

Although all conceptions of Godhead are included in the Hare Krishna maha mantra, still the sheer mercy of the Nityananda Gauranga mantrarajas on the fallen souls as well as the eternally perfect souls is also there and is significant — the direct experience can show this — so how can that be explained? Actually this is achintya bheda-abhedha — simultaneous oneness as well as difference, beyond the reach of the mind and the senses.

I chanted Hare Krishna maha mantra for 5 years with Pancha Tattva all wavery and totally offensive — but they were so kind to lead me to the mantrarajas, who in turn changed my whole life and revealed the Pancha Tattva and Hare Krishna maha mantra again to me, this time they were in their proper pure form and they allowed me to chant them properly. So it comes full circle.

Although this is my own intimate realization, I just share it here for your benefit. Of course this cannot be forced on anyone, but the door is always open for everyone to enter. Although spiritually there is no difference between these 3 mantras, nevertheless there is still a massive difference on the material level in terms of mercy. And even spiritually chanting the respective Holy names, we see that the 3 mantras are not different from each other — and yet each name also has the Lord’s own variety and own unique stamp as well. And so this is the simultaneous oneness and difference between them and it is something that has to be experienced to be understood and cannot be argued by any logic.

So instead of all unnecessary arguments, I pray that people should just embrace the Lord as He reveals Himself to everyone in all His variety and appreciate the achintya bhedha-abhedha that inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference that describes the Supreme Lord perfectly in a nutshell. What is so difficult about this bhakti that is so plain and simple love and mercy? Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!