Sri Nrsimha Jaya Nrsimha Jaya Jaya Nrsimha...

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Apparently Srila Prabhupada authorized the above chant to go with namaste

narasimhaya... after aratis.

 

Does anyone have the relevant reference; when Srila Prabhupada said it and

to who?

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In a message dated 11/12/2006 7:51:21 PM Pacific Standard Time,

Bhakti.Vikasa.Swami (AT) pamho (DOT) net writes:

Apparently Srila Prabhupada authorized the above chant to go with namaste

narasimhaya... after aratis.

 

Does anyone have the relevant reference; when Srila Prabhupada said it and

to who?

Dear Bhakti Vikas Maharaja

Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All glories to Lord Narasimhadeva

Actually I have never heard about Srila Prabhupada mention this chant except

for when Lord Caitanya visits Simhacalam, at Jiyada Nrsimha CC Madhya 8.5

and as confirmed in the previous verse CC madhya 8.4 , this prayer came from

the

lotusmouth of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, offering praise to His own form of

Lord Nrsimha.When Sri Sri Prahlada Narasimha was installed in Germany in 1982

this mantra became part of the artik and kirtanas, after the Govinda prayers

to

SrI Sri Radha Madan Mohan a recorded version with senior devotees including

Harikesa, Krsna Kstetra Prabhu , I am not sure if other devotees like

BhaktiVaibhava Swami

was part of this recording , however this prayer was sung along with some of

the verses from 108 names of Lord Narasimhadeva

"œr•-nr•sim•ha, jaya nr•sim•ha, jaya jaya nr•sim•ha

prahl•deœa jaya padm•-mukha-padma-bhr•ñga"

('All glories to Nr•sim•hadeva! All glories to Nr•sim•hadeva, who is the

Lord of Prahl•da Mah•r•ja and, like a honeybee, is always engaged in beholding

the lotuslike face of the goddess of fortune.')

Just in sanskrit like Govinda prayers, I am not sure if they still play it

after Harikesa left,

And later when Sri Ugra Narasimhadeva was installed in Mayapure this

chanting continued, it is surely no speculation in the worship of Lord

Narasimhadeva.This prayer is found at the end of 108 names of Lord

Narasimhadeva.Also on

Harinama in Harikseas former zone we used to sometimes chant it with Narasimha

pranati (namaste Narasimhaya) especially when some angry persons where

attacking

the Harinama due to demoniac mentality.

This is surely bonafide to chant in Narasimha worship, but I never heard

Srila Prabhupada introduced it.Narasimha worship is specific to ISKCON as we

face

many asuras in preaching, some persons outside of ISKCON can not understand

that, as they don't face the hard reality of the demoniac influences of Kali

yuga, unless one does Harinama and bookdistribution in the west one cannot

fully

appriciate the usefullness of this chant.

your servant

Payonidhi das