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rila Haridasa Thakura is our worshipable Namacharya. Naama means the Name - Name of the Lord Krisha, Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, and acharya means great spiritual master who is preaching. Shrila Narottama dasa Thakura preached by his nonparallel example of constant chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rana Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.
He was so effective in the process of chanting that Mayadevi personally came to test him, but he was so advanced that she became a devotee and started to chanting Hare Krishna sitting in front of tulsi plant. She became his disciple.
Therefore there is no greater authority in the process of chanting Hare Krishna than Shrila Haridasa Thakura.
There are ten dangerous offenses in this process. They are just like borders, walls that are stopping us from our goal - Krishna and pure love for him.
In the Hari-nama-chintamani, Namacharya Shrila Haridasa Thakura explains how we may surpass such offenses:
avisranta name nama-aparadha jaya;
tahe aparadha kabhu sthana nahi paya.
"Only by continuous chanting of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra day and night can the ten offenses against Krishna's Name be obliterated. By the constant chanting of Krishna's Name, the ten offenses will not be able to again implicate the chanter."
That is the medicine prescribed by Shrila Narotama dasa Thakura. There are several important points that we must realize in order to understand how we may surpass mountain of offenses.
The first thing is avisranta nama - a devotee must chant continuosly in order to attain goal of pure chanting. Not only that, but Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura explains that only one who chants the name with great feeling all the time, constantly, is able to destroy the ten offencess.
Constantly means non-stop, except the time needed for fulfilling the basic bodily necessities like a little sleep or drink a glass of milk. All the other time, a person is supposed to chant Hare Krishna, not mechanically but with deep concentration and devotion.
If a person is chanting inattentively, it is one of the obstacles, so a devotee must chant with full focus constantly day after day, year after year to attain the pure love for Shri Krishna.
Now, let us be sincere toward ourselves. When will we be able to accomplish this sadhana? Otherwise we may not overcome the ten offenses in chanting Hare Krishna! We may see that even advanced devotees are having problems, even that they are chanting 16.32.or more rounds of Hare Krishna for decades, but still prema is not coming. In this Kali-yuga only very, very rare, pure persons may be able to attain pure love for Krishna by solely chanting Maha Mantra.
The advice of our great acharya, Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura is that a devotee takes shelter of regular chanting of Gaura Naam:
kali jivera aparadha asankhya durvara;
gauranga-nama vina tara nahika uddhara.
from Navadvipa-dhama-mahatmya Chapter 1.
"The offenses and sins of the living entities in Kali-yuga are unlimited and absolutely insurmountable. That is why the souls can never ever be delivered without the regular chanting the most merciful name of Gauranga."
That is the advice and instruction of Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. When we practically consider his words we must accept them as a firm fact. Indeed, the offenses, aparadhas, are unlimited. Even the purest devotees unfortunately commit apparadhas in the process of chanting Hare Krishna. That is fact. Nobody should try to close his eyes before that. Many devotees are saying - just keep on chanting, don't worry, but a devotee is trying, chanting, for decades almost without developing a taste for Krishna, tears are not coming naturally in his eyes, material desires are still strong etc. Was Prabhupada right?- he is asking. Maybe this process is not working etc. That is all because by constant chanting of Hare Krishna or impure level we are constantly making naama aparadhas. That is the fact. Accept this with logic. Those are the statements of our acharyas, not mental speculations. And see by the result. See on your own example.
From the other side, if a devotee takes shelter in the chanting of Nityananda, Gauranga and then Hare Krishna, purest Krishna prema will come in the heart of a devotee:
nitai-chaitanya bali yei jiva dake;
suvimala krishna-prema anvesaye thake.
"If one chants the names of Nityananda and Gauranga, the purest Krishna-prema (pure love of Krishna) comes searching after such a person."
aparadha badha tara kichu nahi kare;
nirmala krishna-preme tara ankhi jhare.
"The offenses (which may be present in the heart) don't create any obstacles in path of achieving this love and tears start flowing from his or her eyes in pure ecstatic love simply by chanting Nityananda and Gauranga."
The best way to test it is to try it. Try it. It is not offensive, it does not cost anything. In chanting Nityananda and Gauranga there is no harm. If you are a devotee and chant Hare Krishna but still without effect, take full shelter in the Names of Nityananda and Gauranga and then chant Hare Krishna. There will be no difference in your sadhana, you will still be chanting the same number of Hare Krishna. But there will be difference in quality. Realizations will simply come. Your rapid advancement will be guaranteed.
Therefore, we must conclude that the only way for any person who wants to attain the pure level of chanting Hare Krishna and pure love for the Lord, is to take shelter in regular chanting of Nitaai and Gaura Naam and then to chant Hare Krishna Maha Mantra. Only in that way, practically the ten offenses in chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra may be completely eradicated and a person may obtain the goal of life - pure prema for Shri Shri Radha and Krishna in Vrindavana.
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!
Daaso’smi,
Ishana Thakura dasa
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Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!
Dandavats and obeissances.
Wow Ishana Thakura dasa you really are on a roll. It's like you are having a creative explosion. I haven't been able to read all your posts deeply because I have been working a lot but I am plan on it eventually. The beauty is that your realizations will be forever with us in this electronic form.
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