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CC Adi 7.77 purport

 

®r…la J…va Gosv€m… states that the substance of all the Vedic mantras

is the chanting of the holy name of the Lord. Every mantra begins with

the prefix nama oˆ and eventually addresses by name the Supreme

Personality of Godhead. By the supreme will of the Lord there is a

specific potency in each and every mantra chanted by great sages like

N€rada Muni and other is. Chanting the holy name of the Lord

immediately renovates the transcendental relationship of the living

being with the Supreme Lord.

To chant the holy name of the Lord, one need not depend upon other

paraphernalia, for one can immediately get all the desired results of

linking with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It may therefore be

questioned why there is a necessity for initiation or further

spiritual activities in devotional service for one who engages in the

chanting of the holy name of the Lord. The answer is that although it

is correct that one who fully engages in chanting the holy name need

not depend upon the process of initiation, generally a devotee is

addicted to many abominable material habits due to material

contamination from his previous life. In order to get quick relief

from all these contaminations, it is required that one engage in the

worship of the Lord in the temple. The worship of the Deity in the

temple is essential to reduce one’s restlessness due to the

contaminations of conditioned life. Thus N€rada, in his

p€ñcar€trik…-vidhi, and other great sages have sometimes stressed that

since every conditioned soul has a bodily concept of life aimed at

sense enjoyment, to restrict this sense enjoyment the rules and

regulations for worshiping the Deity in the temple are essential.

®r…la R™pa Gosv€m… has described that the holy name of the Lord can be

chanted by liberated souls, but almost all the souls we have to

initiate are conditioned. It is advised that one chant the holy name

of the Lord without offenses and according to the regulative

principles, yet due to their past bad habits they violate these rules

and regulations. Thus the regulative principles for worship of the

Deity are also simultaneously essential.

šdi 7.77