Name of Radharani

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> Senior devotees have told me that chanting the name of Radharani is meant

> only for Brijabasis ,exclusively. And that Prabhupada never chanted Her

> name publicaly , even while in Vraja when some Brijabasi would say Radhe

> Radhe ,Prabhupada would answer back with, Hare Krishna!.

>

> Since , in Vraja ,and specially on Vraja Mandala parikrama many devotees

> are chanting Radhe, Radhe, i would like to know what Prabhupada have

> told us about chanting Radharanis name. And also to make ,perhaps,

> standard rule within ISKCON ,about chanting or not chanting Radharanis

> name ,since very often we can hear ,chanting Radhe Radhe ,within ISKCON

> temples worldvide.

 

Exerpt from morning walk, April 8, 1975, Mayapur:

 

Jay€dvaita: Just like sometimes we'll hear our men. They'll be chanting...

Like yesterday I heard that someone was chanting, "Nit€i-Gaura, Nit€i-Gaura,

Nit€i-Nit€i-Gaura." Like that, I'll hear different mantras. Someone is

chanting: "R€dhe, R€dhe, R€dhe, R€dhe," like that, at k…rtana.

 

Prabhup€da: Well, that is not done by the €c€ryas. But there is no harm

chanting "R€dhe." But sometimes it is degraded to make something new,

invention. Therefore better to stick to "Hare KŠa" and to "®r…-KŠa

Caitanya Prabhup€da-Nity€nanda." Otherwise... Just like the sahajiy€s, they

have invented: "Nit€i-Gaura R€dhe ®y€ma, Hare KŠa Hare R€ma." These things

will come gradually. But they are not approved. They are called chara

k…rtana (?), means "concocted k…rtana." But there is no harm chanting

"R€dhe, Nit€i-Gaura." So better stick to this Pañca-tattva, and mah€-mantra.

 

®r… Caitanya-carit€mta šdi-l…l€ 7.4:

 

Taking advantage of ®r… Caitanya Mah€prabhu, there are many unscrupulous

devotees who manufacture a mah€-mantra of their own. Sometimes they sing,

bhaja nit€i gaura r€dhe y€ma hare kŠa hare r€ma or r…-kŠa-caitanya

prabhu nity€nanda hare kŠa hare r€ma r… r€dhe govinda. Actually, however,

one should chant the names of the full Pañca-tattva (r…-kŠa-caitanya

prabhu nity€nanda r…-advaita gad€dhara r…v€s€di-gaura-bhakta-vnda) and

then the sixteen words Hare KŠa, Hare KŠa, KŠa KŠa, Hare Hare/ Hare

R€ma, Hare R€ma, R€ma R€ma, Hare Hare, but these unscrupulous, less

intelligent men confuse the entire process. Of course, since they are also

devotees they can express their feelings in that way, but the method

prescribed by ®r… Caitanya Mah€prabhu's pure devotees is to chant first the

full Pañca-tattva mantra and then chant the mah€-mantra—Hare KŠa, Hare

KŠa, KŠa KŠa, Hare Hare/ Hare R€ma, Hare R€ma, R€ma R€ma, Hare Hare.

 

ys Yadunandan das.