Hare Krsna to allPranams
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Below , in two paragraphs, Prabhupada explains the inner workings of chanting the Lords Holy Names.
He gives the three stages of chanting-offensive, clearing or offenseless, and love of God stage.
So we should continue to chant these sacred divine names of God and the result will come.
Hare Krsna
Damaghosa das
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710115SB.ALL Lectures 229620/530501 So the Visnudutas say that “Even though one has committed so many sinful activities, if at the…, if once he utters the holy name of Narayana, he becomes free immediately.” That’s a fact. It is not exaggeration. A sinful man, someway or other, if he chants this Hare Krsna mantra, he immediately becomes free from all reaction. But the difficulty is that he commits again. That is namaparadha, offense. There are ten kinds of offenses. This is the severest offense, that after being freed from all sinful reaction by chanting Hare Krsna mantra, if he again commits the same sin, that is a grievous criminal action. For ordinary man it may not be so severe, but one who is chanting Hare Krsna mantra, if he takes advantage of this mantra, that “Because I am chanting Hare Krsna mantra, even though I commit some sin, I’ll be free,” he’ll be free, but because he is offender he will not achieve the ultimate goal of chanting Hare Krsna mantra. Because he’ll be freed, and again he’ll commit–freed, again he’ll commit–in this way there will be no chance of his liberation. But don’t think that by chanting Hare Krsna mantra one’s sinful reactions are counteracted. That is not exaggeration. That’s a fact. The difficulty is that one chants Hare Krsna mantra, again commits sin, that is greatest sin. That is the greatest offense.
710115SB.ALL Lectures 229630/530501 So the first stage of chanting Hare Krsna mantra is full of offenses. But if one sticks to the principle… Therefore we have to chant regularly sixteen rounds at least. So even there are offenses, by simply chanting and being repentant that “I have committed this offense unnecessarily or without knowledge,” so simply be repentant and go on chanting. Then the stage will come. It is called namabhasa. That is offenseless, when there is no more offenses. That is called namabhasa. At namabhasa stage one becomes liberated immediately. And when one is liberated, if he goes on chanting–naturally he will go on chanting–then his love of Krsna becomes manifest. These are the three stages of chanting: chanting with offense, chanting as a liberated person and chanting in love of God. There are three stage of chanting. The same thing, the example is just like a mango, unripe mango, going on, changes. It is not that chanting brings another thing as a result. No. The same thing becomes manifest in different feature. Just like unripe mango, you taste in a different way; it is very sour. But when it is ripened and it is fully ripened, the taste is changed. The taste is now sweet. So in the beginning we may be very much reluctant in the matter of chanting, but when you become liberated the chanting will be so sweet
that you cannot give up. Just like Rupa Gosvami. He has composed a sloka. He says in that sloka that “If I had millions of tongues and trillions of ears, then the chanting of Hare Krsna mantra would have been relishable. How, what can I do with one tongue and two ears?” So that is liberated stage. That is prema. But that stage is attainable. If you follow regularly the principles, everyone will attain to that stage when he simply likes to chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare. Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. Thank you very much. Hare Krsna.
Harvested beans this summer below, from left to right back row first,we have Romano, Kentucky wonder, Lazy wife, Lowes champions,Good Mother Stollard, Tongues of fire, Rattlesnake, King of the Early, Yin Yang, Speckled Yellow eye, Yellow Wax, Tigers eye, Jacobs cattle and Scarlet runner beans.
