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Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to ®rila Prabhup€da.

 

> Any standards to follow in regards

> to chanting these mantras?

 

Yes, ®rila Prabhup€da's.

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

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 first chant 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.

®r… Caitanya-carit€mta, šdi-l…l€, Chapter Seven, Text 4, Purport

 

The Pañca-tattva is a very important factor in understanding ®r… Caitanya

Mah€prabhu. There are sahajiy€s who, not knowing the importance of the

Pañca-tattva, concoct their own slogans, such as bhaja nit€i gaura, r€dhe

y€ma, japa hare kŠa hare r€ma or r…-kŠa-caitanya prabhu-nity€nanda

hare kŠa hare r€ma r…-r€dhe govinda. Such chants may be good poetry, but

they cannot help us to go forward in devotional service. In such chants

there are also many discrepancies, which need not be discussed here.

Strictly speaking, when chanting the names of the Pañca-tattva, one should

fully offer his obeisances: r…-kŠa-caitanya prabhu-nity€nanda r…-advaita

gad€dhara r…v€s€di-gaura-bhakta-vnda. By such chanting one is blessed with

the competency to chant the Hare KŠa mah€-mantra without offense. When

chanting the Hare KŠa mah€-mantra, one should also chant it fully: Hare

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

Hare Hare. One should not foolishly adopt any of the slogans concocted by

imaginative devotees. If one actually wants to derive the effects of

chanting, one must strictly follow the great €c€ryas. This is confirmed in

the Mah€bh€rata: mah€-jano yena gataƒ sa panth€ƒ. “The real path of progress

is that which is traversed by great €c€ryas and authorities.”

®r… Caitanya-carit€mta, šdi-l…l€, Chapter Seven, Text 168, Purport