Dhruva Maharaja

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CC: Chapter 7 Adilila, Text 76.

 

"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

connecting or 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 conditional life. Thus Narada, in his

pncartriki-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. Srila Rupa Gosvami 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".