Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.7.41 and more :-)

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Dear Prabhus,

Please accept my humble obeisances at the lotus feet of

Srila Prabhupada.

 

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.7.41 "The Sacrifice Performed

by Daksha"

(prayers to the Lord continue)

"The fire-god said : My dear Lord, I offer

my respectful obeisances unto You because by Your favor I am as luminous

as blazing fire and I accept the offerings mixed with butter and offered

in sacrifice. The five kinds of offerings according to the Yajur Veda are

all Your different energies, and You are worshiped by five kinds of Vedic

hymns. Sacrifice means Your Supreme Personality of Godhead."

Srila Prabhupada teaches us (partial purport)

" In Bhagavad-gita it is clearly said that yajna (sacrifice)

should be performed for Lord Vishnu. Lord Vishnu has one thousand popular,

transcendental names, out of which one is Yajna. It is clearly said that

everything should be done for the satisfaction of Yajna, or Vishnu... Any

person who is in Krsna consciousness has dedicated his life for the satisfaction

of Krsna, the origin of all Vishnu forms, and by offering worship and prasada

daily, he becomes the best performer of yajna. In Srimad-Bhagavatam

it is clearly stated that in this age of Kali the only successful performance

of yajna, or sacrifice, is yajnaih sankirtana-prayaih : the

best type of sacrifice is simply to chant Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna

Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. This yajna is

offered before the form of Lord Caitanya, as other yajnas are offered

before the form of Lord Vishnu. These recommendations are found in the

Eleventh Canto of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Moreover, this yajna

performance confirms that Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is Vishnu Himself.

As Lord Vishnu appeared in the Daksha yajna long, long ago, Lord

Chaitanya has appeared in this age to accept our sankirtana-yajna. "

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" Singing

In the Linga Purana there

is a statement about glorifying and singing about the Lord. It is said

there, 'A brahmana who is constantly engaged in singing the glories

of the Lord is surely elevated to the same planet as the Supreme Personality

of Godhead. Lord Krsna appreciates this singing even more than the prayers

offered by Lord Shiva.' "

(from The Nectar of Devotion p. 78)

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(excerpt from My Relationship With Lord Krsna

by Satswarupa das Goswami, chapter 'My Constitutional Position')

"... Our constitutional position is to take the

holy name into our minds and onto our lips, even if we don't yet feel bliss.

We are not chanting for an immediate 'high.' We are not using the chanting

to pursue selfish, temporary interests. We chant to establish ourselves

as the tiny servants of God. We chant because we have survived another

night, and we chant to live another day in devotional service. We chant

because we will have to meet death sooner or later. We chant because we

need to..."

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Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

your grateful servant......

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