20220725 Deliverance by preaching the loud chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra Part 1

The following is a Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on July 25th,2022 in Śrī Dhāma Māyāpur, India.

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram

Hariḥ oṁ tat sat!

Hare Kṛṣṇa! Dear Devotees! Haribol! Today we will continue with the compilation of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book. Today's chapter is entitled as:

Deliverance by preaching the loud chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra
Under the section: The Glories of Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.49

prabhu-haridāsa-saṁvāda; prabhura praśne haridāsera uttaraḥ—

eka-dina prabhu haridāsere mililā
tāṅhā lañā goṣṭhī kari’ tāṅhāre puchilā

Translation: One day Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu met Haridāsa Ṭhākura as usual, and in the course of discussion He inquired as follows.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.50

prabhukarttṛka haridāsake kali-yuge sudurācāra antyajādira uddhārera upāya-jijñāsāḥ—

haridāsa, kali-kāle yavana apāra
go-brāhmaṇe hiṁsā kare mahā durācāra

Translation: “My dear Ṭhākura Haridāsa, in this Age of Kali most people are bereft of Vedic culture, and therefore they are called yavanas. They are concerned only with killing cows and brahminical culture. In this way they all engage in sinful acts.

Purport: From this statement by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu we can clearly understand that the word yavana does not refer only to a particular class of men. Anyone who is against the behavior of the Vedic principles is called a yavana. Such a yavana may be in India or outside of India. As described here, the symptom of yavanas is that they are violent killers of cows and brahminical culture. We offer our prayers to the Lord by saying, namo brahmaṇya-devāya go-brāhmaṇa-hitāya ca. The Lord is the maintainer of brahminical culture. His first concern is to see to the benefit of cows and brāhmaṇas. As soon as human civilization turns against brahminical culture and allows unrestricted killing of cows, we should understand that men are no longer under the control of the Vedic culture but are all yavanas and mlecchas. It is said that the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement will be prominent within the next ten thousand years, but after that people will all become mlecchas and yavanas. Thus at the end of the yuga, Kṛṣṇa will appear as the Kalki avatāra and kill them without consideration.

Jayapatākā Swami: In the Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa the holy rivers comes to see Krsna in Dvārakā. There Krsna predicts that for ten thousand years there will be a Golden Age which would start 5000 years after the beginning of Kali-yuga, which is approximately now. So, in this period of time the chanting of Hare Krsna will spread all over the world and people will respect cows and brāhmaṇical culture. After the ten thousand year period is over Kali-yuga will manifest in a horrible way.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.51

ihā-sabāra kon mate ha-ibe nistāra?
tāhāra hetu nā dekhiye,—e duḥkha apāra

Translation: How will these yavanas be delivered? To My great unhappiness, I do not see any way.

Purport: This verse reveals the significance of Lord Śrī Caitanya’s appearance as patita-pāvana, the deliverer of all the fallen souls. Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura sings, patita-pāvana-hetu tava avatāra: “O my Lord, You have appeared just to deliver all the fallen souls.” Mo-sama patita prabhu nā pāibe āra: “And among all the fallen souls, I am the lowest.” How Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu was always thinking about the deliverance of the fallen souls is shown by the statement e duḥkha apāra (“It is My great unhappiness”). This statement indicates that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa Himself, is always very unhappy to see the fallen souls in the material world. Therefore He Himself comes as He is, or He comes as a devotee in the form of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, to deliver love of Kṛṣṇa directly to the fallen souls. Namo mahā-vadānyāya kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya te. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is so merciful that He not only gives knowledge of Kṛṣṇa but by His practical activities teaches everyone how to love Kṛṣṇa (kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya te).

Those who are following in the footsteps of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu should take the Lord’s mission most seriously. In this Age of Kali, people are gradually becoming less than animals. Nevertheless, although they are eating the flesh of cows and are envious of brahminical culture, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is considering how to deliver them from this horrible condition of life.

Thus He asks all Indians to take up His mission:

bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya-janma yāra
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra

“One who has taken his birth as a human being in the land of India (Bhārata-varṣa) should make his life successful and work for the benefit of all other people.” (Cc. Ādi-līlā 9.41)

It is therefore the duty of every advanced and cultured Indian to take this cause very seriously. All Indians should help the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement in its progress, to the best of their ability. Then they will be considered real followers of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Unfortunately, even some so-called Vaiṣṇavas enviously refuse to cooperate with this movement but instead condemn it in so many ways. We are very sorry to say that these people try to find fault with us, being unnecessarily envious of our activities, although we are trying to the best of our ability to introduce the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement directly into the countries of the yavanas and mlecchas. Such yavanas and mlecchas are coming to us and becoming purified Vaiṣṇavas who follow in the footsteps of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

One who identifies himself as a follower of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu should feel like Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who said, ihā-sabāra kon mate ha-ibe nistāra: “How will all these yavanas be delivered?”

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was always anxious to deliver the fallen souls because their fallen condition gave Him great unhappiness. That is the platform on which one can propagate the mission of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, just as Lord Caitanya was very munificent and He cared about how the fallen souls would be delivered and how they would go back to the spiritual world, and how they would be delivered from suffering in hellish conditions. So those who want to follow Lord Caitanya should take on the mood how to help the fallen souls. Haribol!

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.52

haridāsera uttara; nāmābhāsera māhātma-kīrtanaḥ—

haridāsa kahe,—“prabhu, cintā nā kariha
yavanera saṁsāra dekhi’ duḥkha nā bhāviha

Translation: Haridāsa Ṭhākura replied, “My dear Lord, do not be in anxiety. Do not be unhappy to see the condition of the yavanas in material existence.

Purport: These words of Haridāsa Ṭhākura are just befitting a devotee who has dedicated his life and soul to the service of the Lord. When the Lord is unhappy because of the condition of the fallen souls, the devotee consoles Him, saying, “My dear Lord, do not be in anxiety.” This is service. Everyone should adopt the cause of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to try to relieve Him from the anxiety He feels. This is actually service to the Lord. One who tries to relieve Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s anxiety for the fallen souls is certainly a most dear and confidential devotee of the Lord. To blaspheme such a devotee who is trying his best to spread the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the greatest offense. One who does so is simply awaiting punishment for his envy.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, he took this anxiety of Lord Caitanya and tried to satisfy Him by delivering the yavanas and mlecchas and even at the advanced age of 70, He went to the West to spread the harināma, following in the mood of Lord Caitanya.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.53

yavana-sakalera ‘mukti’ habe anāyāse
‘hā rāma, hā rāma’ bali’ kahe nāmābhāse

Translation: “Because the yavanas are accustomed to saying ‘hā rāma, hā rāma’ [‘O Lord Rāmacandra’], they will very easily be delivered by this nāmābhāsa.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, in Arabic if one is found guilty of having done something sacrilegious, they say “harāma harāma” but in Sanskrit ha rāma! means oh! My dear Rāma.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.54

mahā-preme bhakta kahe,—‘hā rāma, hā rāma’
yavanera bhāgya dekha, laya sei nāma

Translation: “A devotee in advanced ecstatic love exclaims, ‘O my Lord Rāmacandra! O my Lord Rāmacandra!’ But the yavanas also chant, ‘hā rāma, hā rāma!’ Just see their good fortune!”

Purport: By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda If a child touches fire, the fire will burn him, and if an elderly man touches fire, it will burn him also. Haridāsa Ṭhākura says that a great devotee of the Lord exclaims hā rāma, hā rāma, but although yavanas do not know the transcendental meaning of hā rāma, hā rāma, . they say those words in the course of their ordinary life. For the yavanas the words hā rāma mean “abominable,” whereas the devotee exclaims the words hā rāma in ecstatic love. Nevertheless, because the words hā rāma are the spiritual summum bonum, the fact is the same, whether they are uttered by yavanas or by great devotees, just as fire is the same both for a child and for an elderly man. In other words, the holy name of the Lord, hā rāma, always acts, even when the holy name is chanted without reference to the Supreme Lord. Yavanas utter the holy name in a different attitude than devotees, but the holy name hā rāma is so powerful spiritually that it acts anywhere, whether one knows it or not. This is explained as follows.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.55

nāmābhāsera atula prabhāvaḥ—

yadyapi anya saṅkete anya haya nāmābhāsa
tathāpi nāmera teja nā haya vināśa

Translation: Nāmācārya Haridāsa Ṭhākura, the authority on the chanting of the holy name, said, “The chanting of the Lord’s holy name to indicate something other than the Lord is an instance of nāmābhāsa. Even when the holy name is chanted in this way, its transcendental power is not destroyed.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, in the sixth canto of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Ajāmila named his youngest son Nārāyaṇa, so he would always call his youngest son, “come here Nārāyaṇa, sit down Nārāyaṇa, eat your food Nārāyaṇa, go for a walk with me Nārāyaṇa, so he was saying Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa many times. At the time of death, he called out for his son, “Nārāyaṇa!” and then the Viṣṇudūtās came and saved him from the Yamadūtas. So anyways you chant the names, it still works. In Russia, they told me that, the name for the window sill is Rāma, and in Spanish the tree branch is called rāma of the tree. So if somehow or other if one chants the names of God even if they think of something else, they will still reap the benefit.

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 3.56

nṛsiṁha-purāṇa-vacana—

daṁṣṭri-daṁṣṭrāhato mleccho hā rāmeti punaḥ punaḥ
uktvāpi muktim āpnoti kiṁ punaḥ śraddhayā gṛṇan

Translation: “ ‘Even a mleccha who is being killed by the tusk of a boar and who cries in distress again and again, “hā rāma, hā rāma” attains liberation. What then to speak of those who chant the holy name with veneration and faith?’

Purport: By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda This refers to an instance in which a meat-eater being killed by a boar uttered the words hā rāma, hā rāma again and again at the time of his death. Since this is a quotation from the Nṛsiṁha Purāṇa, this indicates that in the purāṇic age there must also have been mlecchas and yavanas (meat-eaters), and the words hā rāma, meaning “condemned,” were also uttered in those days. Thus Haridāsa Ṭhākura gives evidence that even a meat-eater who condemns something by uttering the words hā rāma gets the benefit of chanting the holy name that the devotee chants to mean “O my Lord Rāma!”

Jayapatākā Swami: So, if one chants the name of the Lord with great devotion or even if one chants the name accidently still the holy name works.

Thus ends the chapter entitled, Deliverance by preaching the loud chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, Part 1
Under the section: The Glories of Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura