Gaura-Pūrṇimā – February 29, 1972, Māyāpur

720229GP-MAYAPUR [63:09 Minutes]

Prabhupada: …commit any sinful activities, that is required. So far his past activities that is excused during the time of initiation as soon as he chants-but one should not commit again. This is very important point, not that I am a great chanter of Hare Krsna mantra therefore let me do all kinds of nonsense. No, no, one should be very much careful so; apavitraḥ pavitro va sarvavastham gato 'pi va yaḥ smaret punḍarikaksam [Garuḍa Purana]. This is Krsna, the name Krsna is identical with Krsna,

The name of Krsna and Krsna: non-different. The name of Krsna is as pure, as complete, as spiritual as Krsna. Abhinna-tvat-there is no difference between the name and the Lord, in the material world, relative world, there is difference between the substance and the name. But in the spiritual world there is no such difference everything is spiritual. So this transcendental Hare Krsna mantra is not a sound production of this material world.

It is the transcendental vibration from the spiritual world, golokera prema-dhana, hari-nama-sahkirtana. Golokera prema-dhana, this hari-nama-sahkirtana is not a man-made musical sound. No. Golokera prema-dhana, this is the song to develop love of God and it is descended as Krsna descends, avataran. Avatara, similarly the sound has descended so there is no difference between Krsna and His name. If we chant carefully without any offense then our life is successful. This is the meaning of this verse:

Bahya means-external; and abhyantaram-internal; both of them, one should always keep purified, cleansed, bahyabhyantaraḥ. Bahya means-externally; so we should take regular bath three times with soap, oil or even if one cannot get soap. Then ordinary dirt he can smear over the body and become fresh. Cleanse the teeth, cleanse hands, legs, no nails, these are the cleanliness. "Cleanliness is next to godliness," unless you cleanse yourself outwardly externally, you cannot be purified internally. And internally purified means always chanting, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, so keep yourself always cleansed by bahyabhyantaram.

Then gradually you will be completely purified. How it is possible? This material body how it can become purified? Yes it can be, the example is just like you take an iron rod and put it in the fire and get it warm, it becomes warm, warm, warmer and at last it becomes red hot. At that time it is no longer iron rod, it is fire. You touch anywhere it will burn, similarly if you chant Hare Krsna mantra regularly according to the principles then gradually the your whole body becomes spiritualised. Then it is apapa-vidham no more skin. So you have to make your life completely pure then you will be admitted into the kingdom of God, back to Godhead, back to home. Thank you very much.

Devotee: All glories to …

Brahmananda: Srila Prabhupada. The 10 offences.

Prabhupada: Now you just hear the 10 kinds of offences. Read it.

Brahmananda: Yes. There are 10 kind of [break]

The offences are as follows:

(1) To blaspheme the devotees who have dedicated their lives for propagating the holy name of the Lord.

(2) To consider the names of demigods like Lord Siva or Lord Brahma to be equal to or independent of the name of Lord Visnu. Sometimes the atheistic class of men take it that any demigod is as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu. But one who is a devotee knows that no demigod however great he may be, is independently as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore if someone thinks that he can chant "Kali, Kali!" or "Durga, Durga!" and it is the same as Hare Krsna, that is the greatest offense.

(3) To disobey the orders of the spiritual master.

(4) To blaspheme the Vedic literature or literature in pursuance of the Vedic version.

(5) To consider the glories of chanting Hare Krsna to be imagination.

(6) To interpret the holy name of the Lord.

(7) To commit sinful activities on the strength of the holy name of the Lord. Because by chanting the holy name of the Lord one can be freed from all kinds of sinful reactions. It should not be taken that one may continue to act sinfully and after that chant Hare Krsna to neutralize his sins. Such a mentality is very dangerous offense and should be avoided.

(8) To consider the chanting of Hare Krsna to be one of the auspicious ritualistic activities which are offered in the Vedas as fruitive activities karma-kanḍa.

(9) To instruct a faithless person about the glories of the holy name. Anyone can take part in chanting the holy name of the Lord, but in the beginning one should not be instructed about the transcendental potency of the Lord. Those who are too sinful cannot appreciate the transcendental glories of the Lord and therefore it is better in the beginning not to instruct them in this matter.

(10) To not have complete faith in the chanting of the holy names and to maintain material attachments even after understanding so many instructions on this matter. Every devotee who claims to be a Vaisnava must guard against these offences in order to quickly achieve the desired success.

Prabhupada: [Bengali]

Devotee: [Bengali] [break]

Guest speaker (1): [Bengali]

Prabhupada: [Bengali] [break]

Guest speaker (2):

Revered Swamiji, and the devotee's, I first of all offer my prostrations before you. As today is an auspicious day and we are staying here in Sridam Mayapur where Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu over 186 years back appeared. There today is His birthday and an auspicious because our revered Maharaja has laid the foundation stone for the future temple which will be higher and the highest one in Bengal. He has done a lot of service in this cult propagating the message of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu throughout the world as it is told in Srimad-Bhagavatam,

Bhuvi grnanti ye bhūri-da janaḥ, one who distributes sri-nama, nama-sahkirtana, the divine name he is called a great... donor. That is not an ordinary donor, but the greatest one. Because Caitanya Mahaprabhu though he was born in the poor brahmana family He never give anything solid to the public but he gave krsna-prema.

So now who is distributing the namam throughout the world? He can be called the greatest donor. That is he is scattering the divine name throughout the world. From north pole to south pole, eastern and western hemispheres none prior to him has done such greatest service to humanity. So we can respect him and we cannot able to... We cannot able to describe it he is greatness through our few words. So this much I can say now because all of our people will speak in Bengali, please hear, and of course one thing is many of you do not know Bengali.

But in Krsna has got 64 gunams in it He has got one qualification, vividhadbhuta-bhasa-vit. Krsna knows all the languages spoken, animate and inanimate so naturally the jiva also has got infinite simile. That quality to know the languages even languages spoken by others. So if one speaks in Bengali though you don't understand actually atma can understand it. So don't bother about it, so they will speak in Bengali [Bengali] our Damodara Maharaja will speak.

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Damodara Maharaja: [break]

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Guest speaker (3):

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Guest speaker (4):

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[singing]

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Prabhupada:

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Devotee: All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

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