Japa of the Gauranga Mantra on beads. Reply to the earlier questions

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>Therefore one

>who chants the mantra "gauranga" and one who chants the names of Radha and

>Krsna are on the same level.

 

Could that mean that chanting the Maha mantra, on the order of guru and

gauranga at least just as good.

 

Krsna Caitanya,

Nityananda Rama

Jayadvaita: ...names of Krsna as the spiritual master or the acaryas have

chanted them, but sometimes I'll hear that our devotees will be chanting

Krsna's name in different ways that I haven't heard, in kirtana.

Prabhupada: I do not follow what you say.

Jayadvaita: Just like sometimes we'll hear our men. They'll be chanting...

Like yesterday I heard that someone was chanting, "Nitai-Gaura, Nitai-Gaura,

Nitai-Nitai-Gaura." Like that, I'll hear different mantras. Someone is

chanting: "Radhe, Radhe, Radhe, Radhe," like that, at kirtana.

Prabhupada: Well, that is not done by the acaryas. But there is no harm

chanting "Radhe." But sometimes it is degraded to make something new,

invention. Therefore better to stick to "Hare Krsna" and to "Sri-Krsna

Caitanya Prabhupada-Nityananda." Otherwise... Just like the sahajiyas, they

have invented: "Nitai-Gaura Radhe Syama, Hare Krsna Hare Rama." These things

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

kirtana (?), means "concocted kirtana." But there is no harm chanting

"Radhe, Nitai-Gaura." So better stick to this Panca-tattva, and maha-mantra.

Just like "Nitai Gaura Radhe Syama, Hare Krsna Hare Rama." There is

"Nitai-Gaura, Radhe Syama," but it is not approved. Mahajano yena gatah sa

panthah. We have to follow the mahajana. In Caitanya-caritamrta you'll find

"Sri-Krsna-Caitanya Prabhu-Nityananda, Sri-Advaita Gadadhara...," never

"Nitai Gaura, Radhe Syama." So why should we do that?

 

============ REF. Morning Walk -- April 8, 1975, Mayapur

 

 

 

I think this may apply. Of course ou are not advocating that "concocted

mantra, but we look to Srila Prabhupada as the representative previous

acarya and no one recalls his chanting Gauranga Nityananda on his beads,

or in kirtan. He had firm faith that the maha mantra is "sarva mantra

sar".

He did aadvocate worshiping Gaura Nitai deities before worshiping Radha and

Krsna.

 

============ REF. Morning Walk -- April 8, 1975, Mäyäpur