Visnu only [not kali-kirtan!]

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So Kunti says that "You have come to teach rascals like this and engage them in this business: sravana, smarana, arhanam." Sravana. Because this is bhakti. Sravanam kirtanam visnoḥ [SB 7.5.23]. But they are so rascals, as soon as they, the Vaisnavas, begin, sravanam kirtanam visnoḥ, the rascal svami will say, "No, any name sravana will do. Any name. Why Visnu? Oh, Kali." You know. In Bengal there is a party, kali-kirtana. What is this nonsense, kali-kirtana? In the sastra there is no such thing as kali-kirtana. Kirtana means sravanam kirtanam visnoḥ, visnu-kirtana. But these rascals have discovered, because they are very fertile brain and they can discover so many things. Yata mata tata patha: "I have discovered this." What is this? Kali-kirtana, durga-kirtana. So... But sastra does not say. Caitanya Mahaprabhu does not say. Sastra says, harer nama: the holy name of Hari, Krsna, not any other name. Not any other name. (More...)

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