Religious training for Ksatriyas

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> "Oh my Lord, Your Holy Name alone can render all benediction to living

> beings and thus You have hundreds and millions of Names like Krsna,

> Govinda and Christ. In these transcendental Names You have invested

> all....etc."

 

 

> I am not certain that the Names of the Lords pure

> devotees (like Jesus, Mohammed, etc.), while certainly wonderful, are of

> similar potency or applicable?

 

 

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> I was hoping others could provide me with some other Names of God which I

> could add to the list from time to time.

 

 

 

Pardon me, but I think that you first got to make it clear with

yourself wether the names of the Lord's pure devotees are the

names of God or of God's pure devotees. If you don't distinguish

here, then the list of other "Names of God" is really flexible.

You can add any saint or any devotee you have preferences to.

Like Siva, or Durga, or Maharaja Bharata, or Srila Prabhupada,

or St. Peter, Mother Teresa, Draupadi, Arjuna, The Six Goswamis...

 

Otherwise, chanting any of the Holy Names of the Lord is not of

the equal and same potency. Even in the Maha Mantra, chanting

Hare, Krsna and Rama is of different potency. Chanting Visnu's

name is even less potent than these three names, while chanting

the names of Panca-tattva is the most potent (though it is

chanting of Hare Krsna Maha-mantra that is given as process).

What to speak of the names of demigods (who might be the pure

devotees, nevertheless). One of the ten offences against chanting

the Lord's Holy Name is specifically mentioning this.

 

 

 

As far as Christians, if I am not mistaken, Srila Prabhupada

did encouraged chanting the God's name familiar to them - Jehovah.

For Muslims, that is Allah. I would suggest that these you could

add to your chanting of God's names, if you wish so (though it

would be much less potent than chanting Hare Krsna, but the

preferences may be there). While to chant the names of the Lord's

devotees as if supposedly the Holy Names of the Lord Himself, I

would not think that these devotes would be really please with

that. Think wether Srila Prabhupada would approve that you include

his name in the Siksastaka prayer: "Oh, my Lord, Your Holy Name

alone.... Krsna, Govinda, Srila Prabhupada,..." Some offense too

could be involved here. It could be also good to remember that

this prayer was spoken by the Lord Himself, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

So, He is referring here to Prabhupada, Jesus Christ, Mohammed ??

I really doubt that Srila Prabhupada would like us to include his

name in Mahaprabhu's prayer.

 

 

 

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