What is the relation between Krsna-nama and Diksha

[anadi]

Krsna's name is so powerful. Apaiti nama! sphuranena tat

te, prarabdha-karmeti virauti vedah. Throughout the Vedas it has been

explained that at the very moment krsna-nama appears on the tongue of the

chanter, all karma -- past, present, future, and even this prarabdha karma,

is all totally destroyed.

 

But there is something more. Apaiti nama!

spuranena tat te. It must actually be the name. In other words it must be

suddha-nama, the pure name, chanted without any offence. If that pure name

is not coming, but rather nama-abhasa and especially nama-aparadha are

there, you will have to taste the fruits of prarabdha karma. On the other

hand, if the pure name is coming, that is called sphuranena. Spuranena is

the revelation of Krsna as His name.

 

Atah sri-krsna-namadi / na bhaved grahyam indriyaih / sevonmukhe hi jihvadau

/ svayam eva sphuraty adah (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.2.234). Sphuratyada has

the same meaning as spuranena. Krsna is directly revealed as His name. That

pure name will come by a certain process, and the first step in that process

is sadhu-sanga, association with self-realized devotees. Then, by sadhu

sanga, something of tattva, philosophical established truths, will be

understood, and then one will realize why he should be initiated and how the

desire to serve Krsna can be fulfilled.

 

Guru-nistha, faith in guru, is essential for this, but how will guru-nistha

come? It will come by accepting a high class of devotee and taking real

diksa. By that factual diksa, di -- divya-jnanam, a thick relation with

Krsna, will come. At that time all tattvas, like krsna-tattva, jiva-tattva,

maya-tattva, bhakti-tattva, and all other tattvas, will be known. At that

time all kinds of 'ksa', bad things like offences, worldly attachments,

sense gratification and so on will go away by this quality of name. Also at

that time, one serves gurudeva in a visrambha mood. Visrambha mood means

lokika sada-bandhuvat, serving gurudeva as an intimate friend, and accepting

him as one's very heart.

 

By such chanting of harinama, the pure name will come automatically, and at

that time prarabdha karmeti virauti vedah. Prarabdha karma will disappear.

If prarabdha karma goes away, however, at once the body will die.

 

Therefore,

by Krsna's arrangement the body does not die. If the body dies, how will one

practice bhakti-yoga? The body does not die, but if any illness comes to the

devotee, or any good or bad events, it will be by the wish of Krsna.

 

 

 

 

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( Spoken by BV Aranya Maharaja on the request of Narayan Maharaja -- http://www.vnn.org/europe/EU0107/EU17-6832.html )