imitating haridas thakura

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So these are the primary qualification. And alpa-bhasini. Alpa-bhasini. Munayaḥ alpa-bhasini susrūsamane. At the same time, service must be there. And simply, "I'm chanting, but no, I'm not giving service..." That may be possible for Haridasa Thakura. He was simply chanting 300,000 times. That was possible by Haridasa Thakura. But if we imitate Haridasa Thakura, that "I shall chant only," that is not chanting. You'll sleep only, that's all. That is not possible. It is possible only for the liberated person. Therefore we should not imitate. Our Guru Maharaja has condemned this. Mana tumi kisera vaisnava, pratisthara tare nirjanera ghare, tava hari-nama kevala kaitava. In Vrndavana you'll find there are so many, they imitate. In a secluded place they are chanting, but they cannot give up even smoking biḍi. You see? So this kind of imitation has no value. Therefore susrūsamane. Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ [Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu ]. (More...)

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