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

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Dandavats DEar Madhavananda Das Prabhu. Jaya PRabhupada

 

> > 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.

 

Can anyone who has these translations send them to me?

 

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.

>

 

I'm simply a beggar trying to understand my attraction for Krsna Balarama

when I chant Hare Krsna and I'd like to know If our acharyas specifically

Bhaktivinode Thakura has shed any light on chanting in other moods.

 

ys MMDASBR