need to ask aghavit das a question? pl deliver this.

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Mahamantra Prabhu wrote:

 

> I'm Harinama Chintamini, the Thakura writes one description of the holy

> name.

>

> O hare....

> O Krsna....

> O hare...

> O Krsna...etc (in this way 16 different sentences with prayerful

> meditation on the meaning of the holy name).

>

> Basically (to my blunt intelligence) it looks like a definition of the

> holy name appreciated by a sadhaka aspiring for service in Madhurya rasa.

 

In comparison to other explanations given on the maha-mantra (see below)

Bhaktivinode has given quite a unique explanation in this anagram he has

given of the maha-mantra at the end of Hari-nama-cintamani.

While other explanations are there which reflect the concepts of different

sadhakas, this explanation is the mood in which Srimati Radharani Herself

chants. When She is separated from Krishna and is absorbed in the mad

delirium known as pralap Radharani chants this mantra and imagines that She

is enjoying pastimes with Krishna as Bhaktivinode has described.

 

It is actually a quite confidential and intimate description, which perhaps

explains why HH Bhanu Swami and HG Sarvabhavana Prabhu both did not include

it in their translations. Only Kusa included a translation of it and he was

very careful how he worded it. It is something like reading Gita Govinda. I

would not recommend it for the general masses.

 

> I'm asking this because when I chant hare Krsna. I naturally focus on

> Krsna's form. Then when I chant Hare Rama- I meditate on Sri Balarama's

> beautiful White form.

 

> so Is there any Sastric Pramana for such a meditation on the holy name as

> I mention it, or is the one mentioned by Bhaktivinode the only

> understanding of the meaning of the Hare Krsna Mahamantra?

 

There is a nice booklet which has been published by several of the Gaudiya

Math's in Bengali which includes different explanations of the maha-mantra

by Raghunath Das Goswami, Jiva Goswami, Gopal Guru Goswami and Thakur

Bhaktivinode (different than the one at the end of HNC, but not speaking

about sakhya rasa). I think translations of most of these have already been

posted on this conference. So far as "the *only* understanding of the

maha-mantra", of course there are many. As you must be aware Srila

Prabhupada in a couple of places has said that one may consider the name

"Rama" to indicate Balaram.

 

Vaishnava das anudas abhas, Madhavananda Das