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Introduction
Lord Sri Krishna has incarnated again
There is great news for our modern times. After having wound up His pastimes about 5000
years ago, Lord Sri Krishna descended again 500 years ago as Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
There is even a greater news delivered to the world by Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. He
revealed that Kali Kale Krishna Nama Rupa Avatara. Krishna has incarnated in kali yoga as
His Nama. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu distributed the Nama in the particular name-sound
string as Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare. Henceforth, we will refer to the Personality of Mahamantra as the
‘Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu’.
Every incarnation performs specific Lila. Only a few are blessed to be part of His lila. We are
among those few out of 7.7 billion people on this earth, who have been blessed by the
causeless mercy of a greatly empowered Acharya His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Srila Prabhupada. Because we are able to take part in the Lila of the Nama Avatara
by being blessed to welcome and serve Him everyday on our tongues and ears.
What is the specific Lila of Nama Avatara? The lila of this particular Avatara is unfolding of
His desire to purify our hearts as conditional souls trapped in this world and liberate us
from the three modes of material nature and awaken our inherent treasure of love of
Krishna.
Anyone who chants 16 rounds on the order of Srila Prabhupada, being a recepient of this
causeless mercy whether he realises or not, has been sucked into the lila of the Nama
Avatara.
If someone tells us that you were one of the devotees on the earth when Krishna
performed His lilas 5000 years ago and had interactions with Him, how blessed and excited
would you feel! Today, we should feel no less excitement in being blessed to be pulled into
the lila of Nama Avatara even without our realizing the degree of our good fortune. The
most merciful Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu's Lila is to cleanse our hearts of sins and sinful
attitude by giving us the transcendental taste of His sat-cit-ananda association.
Everything else that has happened in our life, good or bad, is far far less important and
insignificant than the fact that somehow we have become recipients of the mercy of the
Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu, who is the current active incarnation on this earth.
Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu is today descending on the tongues of millions of jiva every
moment in different parts of the world and is involved in their lives personally to the extent
they relate with Him personally. Since Srila Prabhupada introduced this chanting, several
decades have passed and hundreds of devotees who have left their body in the midst of
chanting have been delivered from this world by Nama Prabhu. Our turn of this greatest
moment in our life of so called-death will come any moment and the holy will deliver us
too. Realizing this good fortune will make us cry in gratitude to Srila Prabhupada and the
parampara for this greatest undeserved gift of eternal life. Do not forget the fact that the
current period is the golden age as Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu is active on this earth
distributing His causeless mercy.
For the devotees, this is the most important activity of the Lord that is happening currently
in this world of Maya and hence are ambitious to see more and more of this celebration of
Sankirtana on this earth. None of the transient empty material dream-like activities of this
world of karma fall on the screen of eternity except devotional service to the Lord on this
earth.
Srila Prabhupada was chosen by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to continue His work of taking the
Sankirtan movement to every nook and corner of the world. Srila Prabhupada is the current
empowered visionary servant of the six Goswamis, who are original visionaries of Lord
Chaitanya’s transcendental preaching mission.
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In a morning walk conversation on January 4th 1976 in Nellore, the devotees asked Srila
Prabhupada a question:-
Sravanananda Das: Prabhupada, they said that if Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu wanted
Krishna consciousness in the western countries, why didn't He go there Himself?
Prabhupada: So, He left the credit for me (laughter).
Srila Prabhupada spent several years in intense Nama bhajan at Sri Radha Damodar temple
in Vrindavan before leaving for USA. He stated that he lives there eternally in his bhajan
kutir at Radha Damodar temple. This bhajan kutir is still maintained by the sevaits of that
temple. When you are in Vrindvana, I request all of you to go and chant few rounds sitting
before Srila Prabhupada and get spiritually charged.
Srila Prabhupada has said that the Goswamis are still living there. Srila Prabhupada also
revealed that it is the most sacred spot in this universe and it is the hub of the spiritual
world as it is a corner of seva kunj, the spot where rasa dance happened and is invisibly
happening. One can experience the transcendental potency of Japa in that place by praying
to Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Jiva Goswami and Srila Prabhupada and seek their blessings to
serve the parampara. In a few years we are hoping to create some facility there for
devotees from all over the world to come and spend few days of intense bhajan and receive
spiritual inspiration and strength and go back to preach in your respective areas.
Srila Prabhupada has taught us in detail how to respect and serve and associate with the
Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu. Let us scrutinizingly study Srila Prabhupada's, our beloved
spiritual master's revelations in this matter of how to serve the Nama Prabhu respectfully
and take His association and awaken our pure blissful Krishna consciousness.
Ys,
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Subject: On the meaning of the Mahamantra
From Srila Prabhupada in Science of Self Realization

“Rama and Krishna are names of God, and Hare is the energy of God. So when
we chant the maha-mantra, we address God together with His energy. This
energy is of two kinds, the spiritual and the material. At present we are in the
clutches of the material energy. Therefore we pray to Krishna that He may kindly
deliver us from the service of the material energy and accept us into the service
of the spiritual energy. That is our whole philosophy. Hare Krishna means, “O
energy of God, O God [Krishna], please engage me in Your service.” It is our
nature to render service. Somehow or other we have come to the service of
material things, but when this service is transformed into the service of the
spiritual energy, then our life is perfect"
Srila Prabhupada in Chapter 6 of Topmost yoga system

The word Hara is the form of addressing the energy of the Lord, and the words
Krishna and Rama are forms of addressing the Lord Himself. Both Krishna and
Rama mean the supreme pleasure, and Hara is the supreme pleasure energy of
the Lord, changed to Hare (Hah-ray) in the vocative. The supreme pleasure
energy of the Lord helps us to reach the Lord.
The material energy, called maya, is also one of the multi-energies of the Lord.
And we the living entities are also the energy, marginal energy, of the Lord. The
living entities are described as superior to material energy. When the superior
energy is in contact with the inferior energy, an incompatible situation arises;
but when the superior marginal energy is in contact with the superior energy,
called Hara, it is established in its happy, normal condition.
These three words, namely Hara, Krishna and Rama, are the transcendental
seeds of the mahä-mantra. The chanting is a spiritual call for the Lord and His
energy, to give protection to the conditioned soul. This chanting is exactly like
the genuine cry of a child for its mother's presence. Mother Hara helps the
devotee achieve the Lord Father's grace, and the Lord reveals Himself to the
devotee who chants this mantra sincerely.
Srila Prabhupada letter dated 8/7/1969

Oh Hare, Oh Radharani! Oh Krishna! Please engage me in Your service so that I
can get relief from the service of Maya.
ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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On Mahamantra being the medicine for Kali yuga
Kalisantarana Upanishad.
This is a dialog between Lord Brahma and Sri Narada in Kali Santarana Upanishad:
dvaparante narado brahmanam jagama katham bhagavan gam
paryatan kalim santareyam iti
"At the end of Dvapara Yuga, Narada, after traveling the world, approached Lord Brahma
and asked him: 'How may I overcome the (evil effects of) the Kali Yuga?'"
sa hovaca brahma sadhu prshto asmi

sarva sruti rahasyam gopyam tacchrunu yena kalisamsaram tarishyasi
"Brahma said: 'You have asked me an excellent question. I shall reveal to you the secret of
all Vedas, by which you will cross over the (ocean of) samsara filled with the bad effects of
the Kali Yuga. This secret must be preserved and protected.'"
bhagavata adipurushasya narayanasya namoccaranamatrena nirdhrtakalir

bhavati| naradah punah papraccha
"'By merely uttering the names of the Primeval Purusha, who is Bhagavan Narayana, one is
freed from the clutches of Kali.' Narada asked again: 'What are those names of Narayana?'"
sa hovaca hiranyagarbhah
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krshna Hare Krshna Krishna Krshna Hare Hare
iti shodasakam namnam kalikalmashanasanam

natah parataropayah sarvavedeshu drsyate
"Lord Brahma said: 'O Hari, O Rama, O Hari, O Rama, O Rama O Rama, O Hari, O Hari! O
Hari, O Krishna, O Hari, O Krishna, O Krishna O Krishna, O Hari, O Hari! This collection of
sixteen names (of Narayana) destroys the evils of the Kali Yuga. I don't see any other
effective means (of liberation) in the Vedas.'"
Application to japa:
We chant this mantra by reversing the order of the two

halves, i.e. the Hare Krishna first and then the Hare Rama as propagated by Lord
Chaitanya.
The explanation I have heard is that the upanishad being part of vedas there is a vedic
injunction that only one who does not have brahminical samskara cannot chant any
upanishadic mantra.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who is Krishna Himself as Bhakta Avatara wanted to give mercy to
everyone irrespective of their prequalification of being brahmanical etc. So he propagated
the Mahamantra without violating this vedic injunction by starting with Hare Krishna instead
of Hare Rama.
Lord Chaitanya being Lord Krishna Himself can distribute His Names in any combination He
wants. After all, being non different from Krishna, He is the very foundation of all Vedas. He
chose to distribute His Nama as
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare.
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The first effect of association with Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu is that even a mleccha and
sudra becomes sattvik and develop brahmanical qualities or samskara, he becomes fit to
chant vedic mantras.
Ys,
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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( Introduction contd)
Śrīla Prabhupāda distributed all over the world, the process to accessing the treasure house
of transcendental knowledge and divine love which was released into this world by Lord
Chaitanya and the six Goswamis. And the process is mainly chanting and hearing the holy
names of Krishna. It will cleanse our heart of all ignorance of the self and God. It will
awaken our original eternal existential consciousness of being in eternal loving relationship
with Krishna. It will take our soul to the transcendental world.
Lord Chaitanya’s causeless mercy overcomes all our disqualifications that has since time
immemorial kept us away from our rightful constitutional entitlement of Krishna Préma,
which is infinitely distant and different stuff from the so-called love and pleasures of this
world.
The knowledge, love and pleasures of this material world, at best, serve us only as illusory
symbols or reflections to teach us the existence of pure sat-cit-ānanda knowledge, love and
pleasures of the spiritual world. The quality of knowledge, love and pleasures of this world
leave the soul frustrated. This frustration or virakti propels us to search and go after the
real stuff of sat-cit-ānanda existence.
That pure alloyed sat-cit-ānanda stuff is potentially available in the spiritual dimension for
every one of us as we ourselves are eternal particles of sat-cit-ānanda. Sat-cit-ānanda soul
needs sat-cit-ānanda environment. Our present existence is like fish out of the water.
The Personality of holy name, the Hare Krishna Nāma Prabhu, is the subject of service and
worship for neophyte as well as for the most advanced devotees. At the neophyte stage the
biggest obstacle to good japa is the uncontrolled mind which wanders here and there
distracting our attention energy. Such inattentive japa is disrespectful and offensive to
name-sound incarnation of the Lord who has descended into this world.
Though controlling the mind to hold our attention during japa needs mind skills, the
problem of inattentiveness is solved fully only through soulful japa where heart and soul is
also involved.
These modules are extracts from my yet to publish book ‘Soulful Japa’ which is an attempt
to bring together all of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s instructions, concepts and narratives on japa and
systematically implement those instructions. Everything that I write already exists in Śrīla
Prabhupāda’s books but it remains distributed throughout his teachings.
Earnest attempt is made to connect them all by consistently distilling, combining and
presenting the key elements to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the basic
process of japa. It also offers tools and techniques as to how to practically implement the
same.
We are planning to cover these in 108 modules of about 1000 words each and try to
complete it in next one year.
Whenever mind has to be trained one has to be ready for discipline. Knowing cricket game
is different from playing the game. This can happen only by hands-on experiential training.
Without such training, we can, at the most, play it clumsily. One can choose to become a
serious cricket test-player or an amateur cricketer or ones who watches the game from the
bleachers. We can apply the analogy to different types of japa.
Good japa too requires disciplining the mind. it is a common trap of the mind to equate
satisfaction of having knowledge without actual satisfaction of implementation of that
knowledge. We must have a constant self-appraisal of this knowing-doing gap and start
closing that gap by suitable actions. The difference between these kinds of japa is that of
practice or the lack of it. Seriousness or casualness. Being committed or not committed.
Being directed or goalless.
The result of not training ourselves for a good japa is that in spite of chanting 16 rounds
everyday for decades we find ourselves not being sufficiently charged with spiritual
potency. By inattentive japa we don’t even get out of the bodily concept.....contd
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of life. It is only through good soulful japa that we touch the name-sound incarnation of
holy name and kindle our souls with the spiritual potency.
That desire and decision must be made by the reader to become a good japa doer in order
to fully benefit from these modules to continuously repair and improve our japa. If one is
not ready for fresh endeavour after reading the modules, then simply reading these
modules and asking questions will not take one very far in changing the quality of
association with the name-sound incarnation of the Lord.
No doubt, finally good Japa can only happen by the mercy of the Nama Prabhu over and
above our efforts. That too only for him who does japa to please the Nama Prabhu and not
for any other material selfish purposes. A devotee’s material needs for his maintenance and
peaching do not fall under material desires and the devotees has firm faith that he is
maintained and protected and provided for by the Lord in his heart upon whom he is
eternally dependant.
We have to serve Him by chanting and hearing for the purpose of self-purification so that
one may chant and hear more purely for His greater pleasure and also seeking from Him
the grant of the eternal service of spreading His glories. Doing japa for maintaining and
expanding desires for material power, knowledge, love and sense gratification will dilute the
purity of our japa and is a foolish purpose and is offensive.
Your servant,
Madhu Pandit Dasa

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(Introduction contd)
Soulful Japa is not merely some technique. It is perfection of personal relationship.
Practice or training for japa is stressed does not mean practice is everything. While
emphasizing the role of training or tapas, we need to caution ourselves that the perfection
of japa is not just the perfection of practice. No doubt, practice is an essential part. But
perfecting of japa means not only perfecting the yantra’s (body-mind) role in japa as a tool
but it is perfecting the soul’s role to do it from the heart to successfully invoke Krishna’s
mercy in the form of a flow of divine grace into you.
Since japa is a relationship between servant (Sēvak) and the served (Sēvya) through the
service (Sēva), japa is not an one sided experience of the sēvak imagined in his mind
through some mind techniques without invoking the participation of Krishna, who is the
Sevya. Japa is not just an impersonal yantra process or technique such as pranayama or
astanga yoga. We are not interested in merely some techniques on how to do soulless
mechanical yantra japa. We want to offer a soulful japa of loving devotional service to
Krishna which includes yantra japa also.
Techniques typically connote step-by-step impersonal processes. Therefore this caution

should be borne in mind that our japa is not seen as merely some mind technique. See
what Srila Prabhupada says about this.
“There is no mechanical process to see the form of the Lord. It completely depends on the
causeless mercy of the Lord. We cannot demand the Lord to be present before our vision,
just as we cannot demand the sun to rise whenever we like. The sun rises out of his own
accord; so also, the Lord is pleased to be present out of His causeless mercy. One should
simply await the opportune moment and go on discharging his prescribed duty in
devotional service of the Lord. Nārada Muni thought that the Lord could be seen again by
the same mechanical process which was successful in the first attempt, but in spite of his
utmost effort, he could not make the second attempt successful” The Lord is completely
independent of all obligations. He can simply be bound up by the tie of unalloyed devotion.
Nor is He visible or perceivable by our material senses. When He pleases, being satisfied
with the sincere attempt of devotional service depending completely on the mercy of the
Lord, then He may be seen out of His own accord.”
SB 1.6.19/ Purport
Japa, as a mere ‘process,’ is only the preliminary understanding at the plane of the yantra,
since the process generally refers to an impersonal, mechanical steps which delivers some
result if you follow those steps. While japa is also definitely a process at the yantra plane, it
is more of a personal, loving, reciprocal activity with the Lord Himself at the soul plane.
However japa has to be practiced as a process in the begining as it makes our attention
connect with the all powerful holy name which cleanses our heart. It is only after such
cleansing our japa can become more of a personal loving activity and less of a process.
Thus, japa is a combination of processes of the mind-body yantra in the form of a tapas as
well as personal soul’s act of bhakti or love and devotion.
While we are teaching Deity worship, we take the devotee through some training on what
to offer, when to offer and how to offer different items to the Deity though it is a personal
service. Though the devotion behind the ‘offering’ cannot be trained and become robotic,
there is a role for training.
The role of processes of the mind is just like the role of an assistant who hands over each
item in a particular order, one at a time, to the main pūjari to offer. Training the mind for
japa is like preparing mind-slices assitants in our subtle body to support the role of the
chanter’s ongoing personal efforts to offer all of his soul energies from the heart for
chanting and hearing and remembering Nāma.
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Another example; A boatman, uses his hands to work the oars in order to propel the boat
in the direction that he wants to move in. He also must ensure that the sails are set
properly to take advantage of the winds and help move in the chosen direction. If the sails
are set effectively to take advantage of the winds, rowing becomes a pleasure supported by
the sails and the blowing winds. On the other hand if the sails are set ineffectively or
wrongly, the blowing winds makes the rowing strenuous. In the same way as rowing and
moving of the boat is either supported or dragged back by the sails, japa sēva to the Lord
is either helped or dragged by the mind and senses.
The forces of the conditioned mind are like the wind and the mind and senses are like the
sail. It is essential to train them to assist the conscious offering of japa sēva. An untrained
mind will disturb or even obstruct the conscious doing of japa. Just as wrongly set sails can
make rowing tedious or even pull the boat in the opposite direction, the winds and sails of
our conditioned mind and senses are always pulling our attention and other soul
faculties/personal energies - like intention, free will, desire, effort, faith, feelings, etc. - in
different directions other than for the service of the holy Name.
The soul has various faculties or śaktis, starting with free will and attention. A good japa
relationship means offering all these soul energies at the lotus feet of Nama Prabhu. The
discipline of japa on beads is designed by the rishis to systematically offer all these soul
faculties or energies at the lotus feet of the Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu. These are:
Offering intention-desire-purpose energy- āśā śakti

Offering free will energy- icchā śakti
Offeriing attention energy- çitta śakti
Offering spirit of sacrifice- tapas śakti
Offering knowledge energy- jnāna śakti
Offering faith energy- śraddha śakti
Offering love energy- prīti śakti
Offering hope energy seeking mercy- krpa apeksha
Offering positive determination energy- sankalpa śakti
Offering negative determination energy- vikalpa śakti
Offering doing effort- kriya çēsta
Offering knowing effort- jnana çēsta
Offering tasking effort to build up the rounds- kārya çēsta
Offering delight energy to chant heart fully- hrstam
Offering delight energy to hear- āhlada
Offering serving attitude of humility- vinamrta bhāvana
Offering ‘being’ potency to become servant of holy name- sēvak bhavān śakti
Offering surrender or sharanagati.
These potencies which belong to us, are at the disposal of our free will and we can decide
on what and where to deploy them. Mind is to be trained to transport these energies from
the soul to Nama Prabhu.
All of us offer these śaktis when we want to relate in loving relationship and service with
someone in this material world with complete interest, absorption or devotion. In the same
way we should consider bringing excellence in our chanting and hearing and tasking our
rounds with the same kind or even more of absorption and love towards the most merciful
Personality of the holy name. We should pull away all our personal energies or śaktis from
every other demand put before us by Maya and offer them to the lotus feet of Nama
Prabhu during japa.
Our Road Map- We will discuss about each of these items and the role played by it to
deliver a soulful japa along with its training module for the mind to facilitate the soul in its
offering of these items in the service of the lotus feet of Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu. But
next module we will be on Nama Avatara. After that we take up the first item in the list
which is āśā śakti which is -intention-desire-purpose energy. And we will take up all the
above soul energies module after module.
Ys Madhu Pandit Dasa

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On two stages of bhakti; disciplined japa and spontaneous japa
Srila Prabhupada Morning Walk April 1, 1974
Abhyāsa-yoga…you practice this. Therefore, we say, “You must chant 16 rounds “This is
Abhyāsa yoga. When one becomes attached to chanting, he doesn’t require to be under
discipline. But so long is not practised he must be disciplined.
Application to Japa: Japa begins with two kinds of driving force. In the beginning stage
of japa most of the driving force is tapas or willful discipline to keep the attention locked on
to chanting and hearing and repeating. Through attentive association by power of discipline
or tapasya we get to touch Nama Prabhu Who is All-pure and we slowly start getting
purified. As we get purified our natural attraction to chant Krishna's names starts rising in
our heart little by little. Even now all of us have some attachment awakened, even if you
are a beginner. But very little and difficult to significantly feel. Otherwise why would we be
attracted to Krishna consnciousness at all. We would not be doing japa at all. Some priti or
love resulting from this attachment is there for any chanter.
Thus two factors drive japa. Voluntary discipline (tapas) and attachment ( resulting in priti)
to whatever extent has awakened. Slowly when we get fully practised, discipline or tapas
portion comes down to xero. Simultaneously attachment keeps rising more and more and
finally the driving power is fully love (priti) due to attachment and attraction.
So it is not that whole life I have struggle with discipline or tapas to chant 16 rounds. Be
relieved. Spiritual life is eventually spontaneous devotional service. Discipline is only the
pathway to that spontaneity. Bhakti is eventually fully driven by love and love driven tapas.
Never dry tapas.That is bhajatam priti purvakam as Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita. But
you have go through the Abhyasa yoga stage. Discipline is a must to awaken bhakti. That is
called sadhana bhakti. Through your tapas shakti follow the instructions of Srila
Prabhupada. That requires the spirit of sacrifice. Sacrifice comes before love.
And in my expereince if we go through seriously the training module for 6 months to one
year, the basic practice stage gets completed. The mind learns. Right now the mind has a
mix of good and wrong japa habits. Only one year of tapas-cum-priti japa. Thereafter the
sails of mind and senses are set in place and winds of conditoned mind join the driving
powers of priti purvaka japa.
Śrīla Prabhupāda often gives the example of how what you learn in the kindergarten
school, that 1+1= 2, is valid even after you do a PhD. This basic attentive japa through
discipline being dealt with now is school maths. Maths does not end in school. Its progress
continues in the university and upto PhD and further, through the rest of the researcher’s
life. The prtiti or love in Priti-japa forever expands since priti has no limits for rest of
eternity but will always include within it the basic attentive japa by the power of priti and
not by force of discipline.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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MESSAGE FOR NEW MEMBERS

FROM GROUP ADMIN
Dear All,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Welcome to this SOULFUL JAPA MODULES group that has been started by Sri. Madhu
Pandit Prabhu. Each modules of about 1000 words each will be posted every fourth day
regularly.
These modules are essence from his yet to be published book 'Soulful Japa'. He plans to
post 108 modules in the next one year. The postings will be designed almost like a course
on basic concepts of soulful japa and hence it would benefit members to stay with the flow
that builds up concept by concept systematically over one year period.
There is another group Soulful Japa / Q&A . Please join that group to by clicking the link at
the end of this message.
FAQ
1. Who can join this group?

Any devotee who has started chanting japa and who have started reading seriously Srila
Prabhupada's books. Even devotees with one or two rounds daily is also fine. You can freely
send invite link to such devotees.
2. Where should I post the questions?

Post your questions to Ananth Kirti Dasa who admin for this group. (9342190589). Make
them short and crisp. I will forward that to Sri.Madhu Pandit Prabhu and he will post his
answers in group along with the questions in the group called Soulful Japa Q&A whose link
is given below. Please join that group too.The names of devotees asking questions will be
withheld and only questions will appear with answers.
3. What kind of questions can be asked?

Try to restrict your postings to three types that are related to the modules that are posted
by Sri. Madhu Pandit Prabhu. Type one is questions seeking more clarity on what he writes.
If you post general scattered questions on japa, he will include the answers in some
modules in future that relevant to the question.
Type two questions are on how to overcome challenges that you are facing as you
implement soulful japa.
Type three is your feedback too on how it is helping you and any suggestions to improve
the group learning. Feedbacks will be individually replied by Sri. Madhu Pandit Prabhu and
may not be posted in the group. That way you have a direct connect with him in the matter
of your japa.
5. Can I ask questions to Madhu Pandit Prabhu for personal spiritual guidance?
Sure. You can directly send the questions to him. But you may have to patiently wait for
the answer as per his time frame. His first priority is to answer questions for the group.
5. Can we send invite to new joiners at any stage ?
All modules from day one are available in this group for a new comer to read. Devotees can
be invited to join the group at any stage. They only have to read all the past Modules to get
into the flow.
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Thank you
Your servant
Ananth Kirti Dasa
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QUOTE 4
On how the mercy of the Lord is freely available for everyone
Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks about the mercy of the Lord:

" The Lord’s mercy upon the fallen souls is equally distributed. The sun rays are open to
everyone, but the capacities of the receptacles differ.”
“By utilizing the sun’s rays, sometimes even stones become valuable, whereas a blind man
cannot see the sun although there are enough sun rays before him. The Lord’s mercy is
open for him, but he is reluctant to receive it. Somehow or the other if someone puts
himself open in the sun rays, he is sure to get requisite benefi t both by heat and ultraviolet
rays.”
Teachings of Queen Kunti, Chapter 12
Application to Japa : Success in japa is about how well we receive the Lord’s sat cit
ananda mercy that is freely available! In the same manner as the sun and sun rays, the
Personality of holy name with his effulgent sat cit ananda energy has incarnated and is
freely available to all of us. It is up to us to receive that mercy by setting up favorable
anartha-free pure ego, intellectual, emotional vibration of our mind-body yantra. That is the
vessel to catch the sacitananda rain of freely flowing mercy of Nama Avatara.
How do we prepare this vessel? We all have a vessel of some capacity due to our past life
or this life sukrti or devotional history even as beginners of japa.
This rain of mercy is so wonderful that with whatever capacity you have you catch that
much mercy. The miracle is that whatever little rain of mercy you capture that will in turn
make your vessel expand and increase its capacity so you can receive more. This process is
called anartha nivritti or removal of anartha.
A day will come when you vessel is perfect. Then your yantra is fully tuned to receive the
rain of satcitananda like sponge absorbs water. Our yantra also soon becomes
satcitananda-ized or spiritualized. Sin cannot touch such a pure spiritual yantra.
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SOULFUL JAPA
Module 4/108
Mindless japa, Mindful japa, and Soulful japa
Mindless japa is when, during japa, your mind goes out of the present and do something
else with your mind, in the space-time frame of ‘then and there,’ instead of being ‘here and
now’. The holy name is really present 'here and now'. You are thinking about something of
the past and/or the future. In mindless japa, chanting goes on mechanically because of
habit. You are mindless about japa.
What is mindful japa? Service to the Personality of holy name, done ‘now and here,’ in the
‘present,’ with full attention, doing with conscious desire, direction, determination, and
delight. Mindful japa is just about giving full attention in the ‘present doing’. It is free from
parallel activity of thought processing which takes one to past and future. Thinking is in the
present in the form of recognizing with appreciative remembrance of each current mantra
before you.
What is soulful japa? When the 'now and here' mindful japa sēva of chanting and hearing is
offered in an enriched background context of time-frame of eternity, transcendental
knowledge, transcendental faith, feelings of humility, respect, love, sacrifice and self-
surrender by the chanter as the eternal servitor with desire to please the eternal Lord while
yearning for His causeless mercy, then that is soulful japa.
In both mindful and soulful japa, the chanting and hearing and tasking or repeating skills of
the yantra are fully engaged in the Nama. In soulful japa, the addition is the rich
background of eternal context or dimension. The space-time framework of soulful japa is
not merely ‘here and now’ space-time capsule of each mantra but it is the uninterrupted
flowing of drops of moments of eternity in eternal context of eternal servitor with eternal
knowledge, eternal faith, eternal feelings of existential surrender etc. Soulful japa is also
called sat-bhāvana japa. Sat means eternal. Bhāvana means thoughts-feelings.
It is only through the practice of mindful japa, which makes us touch the name-sound
incarnation with our serving attention, that we get purified of our material conception of life
and can gradually awaken one’s eternal context of existence. It results in realization of
eternity, transcendental knowledge, transcendental faith, and the transcendental
relationship of eternal belonging of oneself as servant of Krishna. One cannot rush to
soulful japa directly without purification of mind through a trained mindful japa for a
prolonged period.
The off-japa-times training time spent on reading and contemplating on the divine words of
guru, sādhu, and śāstra and then, triggering the same during the japa training period into
the background, is the key to move our mindful japa into soulful japa. Without reading
regularly Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books especially Bhagavad Gita as it is, Srimad Bhagavatam,
teachings of Lord Ćaitanya and Nāmamrta, one will not be able to enrich the background
japa context which gives quality to one’s japa. In fact a good soulful japa will enable us to
appreciate and relish more and more realizations of Śrīla Prabhupāda and his Bhaktivédānta
Purports.
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Just as air-conditioning creates a suitable favourable atmosphere to work in a room, the

sat-bhāvana subtle body (cittam) creates a favourable internal psychological environment
consisting of spiritual servant-doership identity,intentions, desire, purpose, perceptions,
facts, faith and feelings, attractions, attachments, and inclinations of thinking, feeling, and
willing–all related to japa. In fact, the sat-bhāvana subtle body or cittam can be optimally
and carefully designed and cultured as instructed by the Āçāryas, to support the thinking,
feeling and willing atmosphere for a meaningful, ever-expanding, loving service relationship
with the Nama Avatara.
To change the comfort of an ordinary room to one of an air-conditioned room, it takes work
to buy and fit an air-conditioner in the room, and it does not come for free. In the same
way, the right kind of sat-bhāvana subtle body is cultured during off-japa-times and
repeatedly engaged during japa, and it does not come free.
These feelings do not come by chance, into our internal psychic environment, without well
guided, off-japa-times pre-designed contemplation and practice. Our Acharyas are also
transcendental scientists and engineers who have revealed as to what kind of bhāvanas
should be there in the background mind during chanting and hearing and how to culture
and cultivate bhakti exactly in the same way like how scientists and engineers have
combined their efforts to give air conditioners to this world for mundane comfort.
Habit can be a blessing or a curse.

We have to use the power of habit or else the habit will use us arbitrarily. Japa is a daily
activity that we perform. Any a daily activity, whether we realize it or not, habits are
formed. And they could be good or bad habits. If we have not carefully taken care of our
daily repeated japa, our present japa habits are sure to have a mixture of many good and
bad habits. Good habits are blessings, and bad habits are a bane as they block the flow of
mercy from the Nama Avatara and both become our second nature and rule us.
If you repeat inattentive japa every day, then you will train your mind for inattentive japa
forever. If you repeat every day attentive japa, then your mind will learn attentive japa
forever. Habit formation is anyway happening for everyone because japa is a daily activity.
The question is, whether it is getting trained rightly or wrongly.
The mind and body system being a psycho-physio-bio machine, takes a finite time and a
definite process to be trained in the essentials of japa provided we are serious. This will
take an even shorter time for a fresher, since a beginner has not wrongly trained the
yantra, and his slate is clean. For those who are having wrong japa habits, it takes a longer
time to undo these unproductive japa habits.
Thus, simply a large number of years of chanting do not amount to anything great unless
we get ourselves to actually spiritually touch the sound incarnation with our attention all
those years without distraction.
For instance, a devotee who is chanting 16 rounds of japa every day, while he is
continuously thinking about his day’s preaching services or solving problems or doing
creative thinking for Krishna’s service during japa , has got into a bad habit of thinking-
japa. His thinking should be engaged in appreciative remembrance of each name-sound
incarnation as he descends in real time before him. Otherwise such japa-unrelated thinking
permanently blocks the soul from directly touching the Personality of holy name, as his
attention is not on chanting or hearing. He will only stagnate spiritually with that wrong
habit.
And if the sādhaka goes through the phase of disciplining his mind in a certain way in order
to maximize the flow of unlimited spiritual energies to purify the mind and body, then he
makes quick progress.
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Madhu Pandit Dasa
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On Name of Krishna more compassionate than owner of that Name.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Final instructions 23 rd Dec 1936
"The holy Name is more compassionate than the Lord of the name Himself. If one takes
shelter of the name, then it unravels all these philosophical complexities "
Application to japa.
Holy name is the surya or sun of satcitananda. All pure cit emanates from him. Cit means
knowledge and intelligence. Therefore if we take shelter of the holy name by welcoming
him by calling/chanting and touching him with our attentive hearing then all knowledge and
intelligence that we need to come of Maya will flow into our heart opening to us the
treasure house of transcendental knowledge revealing all the secrets of existence.
Let us become strong devotees of Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu.

Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Subject: Mahamantra containing everything
HariNāma Cintamani 2.31
krishnera samagra lila naame vidyamaana

Naama se parama tattva tomara vidhaana
“ The entire panaroma of Lord Krishna’s pastimes is present in the Hare Krishna
maha mantra. Lord Gouranga has personally declared the Hare Krishna
mahamantra to be the highest Absolute Truth”
Application to japa:
Absolute Truth is Radha & Krishna combined. Mahamantra is made of Their Names.His
names are non different from Him and He is non-different from His names. Therefore the
Mahamantra is the Absolute Truth.
Lord Gauranga is Sri Krishna Himself in the form of a devotee wanting to taste for himself
the sweetness of the bhaava or devotion that Srimati Radharani has for Him.
Therefore if we chant Hare Krishna as form of worshipping Gouranga, the highest devotion
to Lord Krishna or Krishna Prema is gifted by Him to the such worshipper and the
mahamantra which contains all the sweet Lilas of Goloka Vrindaban will one day start
playing in the heart of such a fully purified devotee when he utters the Maha mantra just as
sitting in your room you see the news reader who is far away in the TV station.That is the
inconceivable mercy of Guru and Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu upon the chanter.
This is 'tattva' of the Nama. In practice this is very advanced level of japa. Don't expect it
will happen so easily. At least we should know this glory of the holy name whether we are
able to reach there or not in this life.
But the journey begins with the

hearing-touch/ sound-touch of the Nama Prabhu with our serving- attention.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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SOULFUL JAPA Module 4A/ 108
On background context of devotional service
Supreme person is realized through devotional service, which is backed by full knowledge
and detachment from material association……………Devotional service, which is based on
the foreground of full knowledge combined with a detachment from the material
association and which is fixed by the aural reception of the Vedanta Sruti, is the only
perfect method by which the seriously inquisitive student can realize the Absolute Truth.”
SB 1.2.12 purport.
There are two areas of japa improvement. 1. Background of japa 2. Foreground of japa.
Srila Prabhupada says devotional service has to be done in the foreground of full
knowledge. When he use the phrase ‘foreground’, it automatically means there is a
background. It is like dividing the stage of a theatre into two parts of where a play
happens. The stage itself is in the foreground of backdrop settings which acts as a
background for the stage.
It is true that in the foreground of the mind there should be nothing but the service of
chanting, hearing and repeating and counting with full attention. But there are plenty of
items in the background which can be called as japa context which does not take our active
doing attention. It is these items in the japa context with a intent-desire-purpose that
drives the action in the foreground consciousness and locks the attention by making japa
into a meaningful personal activity with foreground active attention. Yet there is
background passive attention supporting the activity in the foreground.
Thus devotional service of japa is to be performed in the foreground of a background

consciousness having japa related knowledge and detachment. Background knowledge
means spiritual knowledge of
-Who is the recipient of the servant (Sevya=Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu)
-Where is He (He is right before you),
-What are you intentions-desires-purpose ( to connect-to touch-to please-to awaken)
-How or what are the directions to execute the service (by distinctly chanting and sharply
hearing with attention and uninterruptedly repeating),
-What is sevak’s relationship with the Sevya ( a humble eternal servant) ,
-What are sevak's devotional feelings towards Sevya ( respect, love, gratitude and
surrender, delight, hope and enthusiasm).
-Detachment means understanding that the three compnents of japa namely Sevya, Sevak
aand Seva are not of temporary material nature and the activity is not a karmic activity.
By a combined offering of these thought-feelings or sat bhaavana in background devotional
service of japa is executed in its foreground with full attention and skill.
What does Srila Prabhupada mean by ‘fixed by aural reception ’ in the quote. It means the
above background knowledge is fixed in our cittam or subconscious mind by receiving japa
knowledge from the absolute source like guru, sadhu and sastra in a descending process
(and not by speculating) by hearing repeatedly from them through off-japa-times service.
So regularly reading the Srila Prabhupada's books especially compilation 'Namamrta' is so
crucial for soulful japa.
Thus japa is not thoughtless, faithless, feeling less forced dry impersonal attentive chanting
and hearing. Even mindful japa needs a minimum items of perosnal aspects being present
in the background consciousness.
What is cautioned against is that one should not bring these items to the foreground
consciousness and expend attention for thought processing these background thoughts and
feelings during japa time at the cost of losing attention on hearing.
Such effort-full contemplation to build up the japa background should be done only during
off-japa-times, the result of which will be that these items of transcendental knowledge,
faith and devotional feelings of respect and love, purpose, desire and intention will settle in
our subconscious mind and get loaded automatically and effortlessly into our background
consciousness from the subconscious memory without distracting attention from chanting
and hearing...
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The good news is that the entire content in the background context is in our hands to
culture it during off-japa times. It is not that during japa on the spot you must scramble
and muster knowledge or faith or respect or love. After having once cultured this
background context, the japa situation as soon as you take the japa bag in hand, it triggers
the loading of the context from the subconscious to the background consciousness. Then
one simply has to give his active attention to chant, hear, repeat and count with those sat-
bhāvana feelings automatically playing in the background.
That simple is soulful japa once pre japa training of hearing and contemplation is done
nicely. Once the background japa context is enriched then what remains is training for the
skills to exactly execute the service in the foreground with delight and enthusiasm. This is
where we meet the challenge of erasing all old japa habits.
The role of background mind is best understood through some example. Suppose you are
at home and someone knocks at the door. You go and open the door. You see your
neighbour standing there. Immediately the sight of him triggers loading from your
unconscious memory all that you know about your neighbour along with all the feelings for
him into your background consciousness. And the background mind does an instant
intuitive processing of everything you know about him using which your foreground mind
responds to the situation by welcoming him into the house and giving him a seat etc. Now
context for relationship is created.
Let us say he tells you that last night his house was robbed, and he wants your help to
report the matter to the police. Immediately again a new context of thought-feelings from
your unconscious mind as to what it means to be robbed and what emotions are involved
and the directions of how to report to the police etc are loaded into your background-mind
based on your past life experience of a similar situation. Based on this new context your
foreground mind creates direction to help him out by going with him to the police to file a
plaint.
So please note that improving quality of Japa means improving two areas. Quaity of
background consciousness and quality of foreground doing skills.
I hope I have made it simple as to how the bhaavnas do not dilute attention on chanting,
hearing, repeating and counting but enhances and locks the attention to japa.
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Madhu Pandit Dasa
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On what pleases Srila Prabhupada most.
Lecture-Detroit, July 16, 1971

" Bahulasva: What is the thing that will please you most, Şrīla Prabhupāda?
Prabhupada: Hm?
Bahulasva: What is the thing that would please you the most?
Prabhupada: Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Devotees: Hare Kṛṣṇa!
Prabhupada: That is the simple thing. You are chanting. I am very much pleased. That’s all.
I came to your country to chant, that “You chant also along with me.” So you are helping
me by chanting. So I am pleased.
Application to our japa
Devotional service is done to please Krishna. How do we know we are pleasing Krishna?
We know that Krishna is pleased when His pure and dear devotee, Srila Prabhupada is
pleased. And what pleases Srila Prabhupada the most. Chanting Hare Krishna.
The desire of disciple to chant his japa is to please Srila Prabhupada and Krishna. Why is
Srila Prabhupada and Krishna pleased when we chant Hare Krishna. They are pleased for us
who are being saved from this world by taking association of the Nama Prabhu as
instructed and directed by him. If your child is sick and does not want to take medicine and
then one day he starts taking medicine you will be pleased for the child as he will soon get
well. Even though our chanting is not pure soulful chanting with full sat bhaavana, it is still
pleasing to Guru and Krishna for this reason.
So one need not think that my chanting is not soulful chanting, so is it really pleasing
Krishna? Now you know the answer is 'yes it is pleasing' and also why. As our chanting
becomes purer and purer with attachment to Nama Prabhu the pleasure of guru and
Krishna increases by our chanting as it moves beyond being a medicine towards a
spontaneous loving service.
We should desire to please guru and Krishna by our japa and take pleasure knowing that
you are giving satisfacation to guru and Krishna and pleasing Them as we move from the
first bead to next bead to next to the last bead of the 16th round and feel a sense of
transcendental accomplishment of following Srila Prabhupada instruction and pleased him.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Quote 8
Srila Prabhupada explains what happens when we chant attentively
The same example which I have recited many times: just like the iron rod. Iron
rod, you put into the fire. It gets warm—warm, warmer, warmer. And when it is
red hot, then it is no longer iron. Iron it is, but it does not act as iron, but it acts
as fi re. That iron rod which is red hot in association with fire, you can take that
rod and touch anything; it will burn. That means it is no longer acting as iron; it
is acting as fire.
Similarly, if you associate with this transcendental incarnation, sound

incarnation of God, then you will be gradually godly. You will be godly. You can
become godly with God’s association, not by any other material, extraneous
things. No. Just like you can have fire only in association with fire, not with
water. If you want to get yourself warm, then you have to associate with fire,
not with water, not with air.
Similarly, if you want to spiritualize your vision, if you want to spiritualize your
action, if you want to spiritualize the whole constitution of your existence, then
you have to associate with the Supreme spirit. And that Supreme spirit is very
kind because He is everything. That we have already explained. Everything is
interrelated with the Supreme; therefore, He is interrelated with sound also. So,
by God’s inconceivable potency, He can present before yourself in sound
incarnation. That is His potency. That is His potency. He can do that. And
therefore, this name, Krishna, and the Supreme Lord Krishna, there is no
difference.
So our, this sound representation of the Supreme Lord constantly will make us...
Just like our association with the fire, the, I mean to say, iron rod’s association
with the fire makes the rod equally qualified, exactly— not equally qualified, but
almost the quality of burning it gets—similarly, by our constant association with
Lord.
(September 8, 1966, New York)
Application to japa
This analogy of a piece of iron being put in the fire becoming slowly red hot is a very
powerful analogy that makes us understand how exactly the Nama Prabhu purifies us.
Nama Prabhu is an oceanic fire of sat cit ananda. If we can connnect with Him through our
serving attention and touch that fire of sat cit ananda, our sleeping soul will get sat cit
ananda-ized or awakned to our original natural Krishna consciiousness.
Attention with a serving mood or serving attention is spiritual energy coming from the soul
and hence it is the conduit to connect the soul and touch the sound incarnation. Only
spiritual energy can connect two spirit substances namely jiva and the Nama. And attention
energy is that energy. Just as the iron has to be in the fire to get red hot, we have to be in
association with the fire of the sat cit ananda energy surrounding the Nama Prabhu. Just
like sun is surrounded by sunlight in the same way Nama Prabhu is effulgent source of sat
cit ananda energies and invests the sound me and you produce with our tongue with all
these energies.
Being in the fire continuously is important for it to become warmer and warmer and get
heated. So attention has to be on chanting and hearing uninteruptedly in japa. The
moment our attention goes into active thought processing our soul is out of the fire. The
tongue of this material body is outside covering of the soul. From the tongue, the Nama
has to go though the ears and mind and reach the heart where the soul is situated. The
route is through the attentive mind. Just keeping the Nama on the tongue without attention
to hear is like keeping the iron peice outside the fire few feet away. Some heating of the
iron peice will happen but not the same way if it is placed in the fire.
This is what is happening to those doing inattentive japa. Whatever effect that is producing
is like heating from outside the fire. That itself is giving us benefit of Krishna consciousness.
Imagine if we do 16 rounds of attentive chanting and hearing what would be experienced.
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He gets filled with existential bliss of Krishna consciousness of being inseparable part and
parcel of Krishna. After this his inclination petty pleasures of sense gratification vanishes.
Srila Prabhupada says in his purports to Bhagavd Gita 2.60 as follows which describes what
this expereince is. " Krishna consciousness is such a transcendentally nice thing that
automatically material enjoyment becomes distasteful. It is as if a hungry man had satisfied
his hunger by a sifficient quantity of nutritious eatables." In other words when one
compares that fulfilling existential bliss of Krishna consciousness with pleasure of sense
gratification, that pleasure is like cheap food for starving beggars.
This expereince of higher taste is also expressed when Krishna says in verse 2.70 " A
person who is not distutbed by the incessant flow f desires that enter like a river in to the
ocean which is every being filled but is always still can alone acheive peice, and not the
man who strives to satisfy such desires"
Only thing we need to remember in this analogy is that the fire is an impersonal energy but
the sat cit ananda energy is personal in nature. It is not impersonal touch of attention that
makes the energy flow into us. It is the serving attention and begging for mercy that
attracts this personal energy to flow into us and enlighten us and fills our mind with true
bliss of Krishna consciousness or that of realizing the self to be the eternal loving servant of
Krishna. Though getting punya and sukrti is an automatic gift just on even imperosnally
touching the Nama with attention, the flow of mercy of transcendental knowledge and
detachment is only by personal reciprocation of Nama Prabhu .
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Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Announcement
Dear All,
For those who are seriously pursuing this group as a study kindly dont miss the question
answers too. Hundreds of questions are being received and I am selecting to answer only
those that helps me explain and elaborate the intricacies of the themes being developed in
the modules. I don't want you to miss out on important concepts that get discussed in the
other Q&A group.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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When to chant and how
Srila Prabhupada letter, January 6, 1972
" Chanting japa should be done early in the morning with full concentration
preferably during the Brahma Muhurta time. Concentrate fully on the sound
vibration of the mantra, pronouncing each name distinctly and gradually your
speed in chanting will increase naturally.
Do not worry so much about chanting fast, most important is the hearing."
Application to japa
Note that Srila Prabhupada says the most important is hearing. And of course distinctly
pronouncing.
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QUOTE 10
There is no prequalification for holy name to start acting
CC Madhya 15.110, Translation
The holy name of Kṛṣṇa is the controller of the opulence of liberation, and it is
identical with Kṛṣṇa. When a person simply chants the holy name with his
tongue, immediate effects are produced. Chanting the holy name does not
depend on initiation, pious activities or the puraścaryā regulative principles
generally observed before initiation. The holy name does not wait for any of
these activities. It is self-sufficient.
Application to japa
Because of this special mercy of the holy name, we can ask everyone to start chanting and
there is no prequalification for it to begin its effect. Even if someone is not following
regulative principles if he starts doing japa daily it will have an effect to release him from
bad habits as long as he faithfully continues his association with chanting and hearing
seeking strength from Him to be released from sinful habits.
Not that we tell someone to wait to begin japa till they follow four regulative principles of
no intoxication, no meat eating, no gambling and no illicit sex. Habits are not easy to
change without the help of Nama Prabhu.
Or someone may think I dont want to chant because I am inattentive and make offenses.
That is not right at all. Even chanting with unavoidable offenses due to weakness of heart,
he will eventually get strength to avoid those offenses if he desires.
Other than the mercy of the holy name there is no way to cure offenses due to weakness of
heart or emotional weakness. It is emotional weakness due to not having tasted higher
devotional emotions that makes one succumb to unregulated sense gratification consisting
of illicit sense pleasures, so called love pleasures, power or Lording pleasures and mental
speculation. If we dont start somewhere we will never ever qualify for our spiritual journey.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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SOULFUL JAPA
Module 5/108
How can a sound uttered by my material tongue be God
The government uses ordinary paper material to print valuable currency. When it does that,
the value of the paper is not the ordinary value of the paper. It has the value that the
government wills to give to that paper. The regular price of the paper on which a five
hundred-rupee currency note is printed may not even be five rupees. There is no
relationship between the regular value of paper and the value assigned to it by the
authority. People have faith that the five-hundred-rupee note is not ordinary paper because
it has been invested functionally with a high value, beyond the matter value of that piece of
paper. The authority is capable of investing that value. Thus objective truth of a substance
is merely the value of the substance but its functional value is different.
This analogy can help us develop faith in the sound incarnation of the Lord. We can state
that, though the Hare Krishna sound produced by the tongue like any other regular sound
vibration of this world, by the will of God, who is the Supreme authority, that Name-sound
has been invested with all the potencies of the Lord, as revealed by Śrī Çaitanya
Mahāprabhu. Its value is changed from ordinary sound to a transcendental sound when the
eternally sounding conscious Nama of Krishna decides to descend into it and merges into it
as the Nāma avatāra. It is mystically both a sound of this world and at the same time a
transcendental Name-sound of the spiritual world. And the transcendental Nama of the
Lord is non different from the Lord Himself. Thus that sound is God with all His energies.
nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis
O my Lord, Your holy name alone can render all benediction to living beings, and
thus You have hundreds and millions of names, like Krishna and Gōvinda. In
these transcendental names, You have invested all Your transcendental
energies.
Śikṣāṣṭakam verse 2 (part)
Nama that we hear with our ordinary ears is not simply a symbol or representation of the
Lord. Lord Himself with His energy has descended in that representation and empowering it
and is called Śaktyāvēşa Nama Avatāra. Any representation of the Lord in His energies is
good as the Lord Himself because He is absolute and can act effectively as Him because
everything in existence is His own energy. There cannot be anything in existence other
than He and His.
If I make a sketch of a person then the sketch is not that person. The person and his
representation are not the same thing. The two are always different. But if I make a sketch
of Krishna and if Krishna decides to incarnate into it by taking a transcendental form
resembling the sketch and then that external sketch can be functionally become as good as
Krishna and everything that you can do to relate with Krishna you can do with the sketch-
Krishna. This is the principle of advaya Jnana or non-dual knowledge. The Lord and His
energies are simultaneously one and different. When he wants He as the source becomes
one with His energy and again when He wants He as the source becomes different from His
energy.
Electric wire-dead or live
Another more complete analogy is that of the difference between a regular electric wire and
one with the live electric current; they both appear the same to our senses. Something
extra which is the electric current has entered the wire and the wire itself is not ordinary
wire but has become an electrified wire because of flow of electric current into it.
The Hare Krishna mantra that we vibrate with our tongue does sound like an ordinary
sound. But, when the eternally sounding effulgent Nama of Krishna in the spiritual world
with all His energies descends into the ordinary sound, it no longer remains an ordinary
sound. The sound we hear is live, intelligent, and God Himself in sound form. For practical
purposes of association and reciprocation He wills to functionally becomes that sound
through His omni-potency and mystic power. contd.......
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Authorised post box is same as General Post office

Another example that Śrīla Prabhupāda often gives to explain the function of an incarnation
is that of the authorized post boxes. These post boxes are ordinary metal boxes placed in
different parts of the city by the postal department. Though they are regular, metal boxes,
because they are empowered to receive the letters that are dropped into them, on behalf of
the post office, they are not ordinary boxes. Dropping a letter in a local post box is as good
as delivering the letter at the doors of the General Post Office.
Thus, the ordinarily vibrated Hare Krishna sound or its remembrance (subtle sound) in
mind, no longer remains just an ordinary material vibratory effect or ordinary remembrance
of any material name of this world. Being invested with all the energies of the Lord, it is the
most powerful vibration, sound perception and remembrance in existence.
Anyone chanting Hare Krishna is being touched by this most merciful incarnation of Lord
Krishna gets access to all the pure spiritual satcitananda energies needed to purify oneself
and get out of this illusory world. This is a great reason for excitement for all of the
humanity. Krishna Nāma, in His incarnation on earth, is most mercifully engaged in the līlā
of liberating millions of living entities on this earth by His transcendental association.
“So, in this yuga, this Kali-yuga, the incarnation is Lord Çaitanya, and the
process of worship is this Nāma sabda. That is mentioned. In every avatāra,
every incarnation... Just like Lord Buddha. His name is also mentioned. And
there will be another incarnation, Kalki. That is also mentioned. So, they are
mentioned, yugāvatāra. And Śaktyāvēşa avatāra. Śaktyāvēşa avatāra. All
avatāras, their mission is to preach the message of God. Avatāra has no other
business. The message of God. Śaktyāvēşa avatāra”
This Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare
Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, this is also considered Śaktyāvēşa avatāra, the
incarnation of sound. The incarnation of sound. It is described by Lord Çaitanya
that kali-kale Nāma rūpe avatāra: “In this Kali-yuga, in this age, this incarnation
of the name—Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare—to give
facility to the conditioned soul.” Nāmnām akāri bahudhā nijāśārva-śakti. Śakti,
this word is used, Śakti. And from Śakti, that energy, Śaktya. So, this name is
also Śaktyāvēşa
Śrīla Prabhupāda, Lecture on Śrī Çaitanya-Çaritāmrta, Madhya-līlā 20.245-255 -- December

16, 1966, New York
When we, the ordinary living beings, move from one place to another we cannot be in both
places. When the omnipotent Lord comes from the spiritual world He does not have to
leave the spiritual world when he take up a new form resembling a matter body of stone or
matter sound or flesh and descends into this world..
Unlike us He can have unlimited newer and newer expansions of Himself for enjoying
unlimited varieties of rasa in the unlimited expanse of His varieties of existences. It is
inconceivable for us to even imagine limitlessness of such a personality. We have seen and
heard only of limited personalities like ourselves in this world. Personalities of this nature
belong to a category called Vishnu tattva.
Krishna is an unlimited Supreme Personality and the mathematics of expansions of Lord’s

transcendental satçitānanda body is one plus one is still one and one minus one is still one.
And He transcends all kinds of limitations of space, time and substances that we experience
as tiny persons. He can simultaneously expand into unlimited Name-sounds on unlimited
tongues of unlimited chanters and personally reciprocate with each of them. Thus each of
us have a Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu for ourselves to serve, love and live with us in our
hearts if we choose to. contd.......
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He lives in the hearts of the faithful devotees even at moments they are not chanting. Just
when we chant He is manifesting externally from your heart. When He is not manifest
externally as the sound when we are serving or working etc if he is remembered then He is
also served in our heart. ( tasmat sarveshu kaaleshu) But He is always with His faithful
devotees. Once you finish your 16 rounds He waits in your heart for next day's 16 rounds.
Till then you remember Him with you as silent Nama smaranam in the background while
doing your daily duties. And whenever you get any chance your chant and manifest and
embrace the sound with your consciousness through attention and devotion. Kirtaniya sada
Hari. Nama should be our constant companion whether it is by manifested remembrance
through external sound or unmanifest remembrance in the heart.
You can simply think Sound-Krishna is external manifestation of Name-Krishna who is non-
different from Krishna Himself who has descended upon me. By distinctly pronouncing and
sharply hearing with attention each name of the string of 16 names the soul touches and
serves the sound features of the sound incarnation. By virtue of hearing sharply the
tangible features of the external sound of the incarnation we also touch the intangible all
spiritual transcendental satcitananda Nama of Lord, who has merged into the external
sound as the soul of that empowered external sound. Calling and hearing and remembering
are the three ways to relate with any living name-sound.
Please read this module at least two or three times every day for next few days very
scrutinizingly and ruminate on these truths. Let it enter your subconscious. This is your off-
japa-times Nama seva. That will deepen the faith that the sound on your tongue is Nama
Prabhu who has been gifted to you at the time of initiation to be served, loved and be lived
with eternally.
Before initiation if you have the above faith and faithfully execute His pure devotee Srila
Prabhupada's order to chant 16 rounds with determination, then also He will come to live
with you in your heart if you want Him to. Initiation then is only a formal ceremony, that
will soon come your way where officially Srila Prabhupada in behalf of disciplic succession
formally delivers the Nama to be with you whom you have been already serving by his
order. See below what Srila Prabhupada has said about initiation. You faith and action is
most important than formalities.
Initiation is a formality. If you are serious, that is real initiation. My touch is

simply a formality. It is your determination. That is initiation.
The Search for Divine, BTG # 49
…..Well initiation or no initiation, first thing is knowledge…. knowledge.

Initiation is a formality. Just like you go to a school for knowledge, and
admission is a formality. That is not a very important thing. So our this
movement is successful.
Press interview—October 16, 1976, Chandigarh
One does not have to undergo initiation or execute the activities required before
initiation. One simply has to vibrate the holy name with his lips. Thus, even a
man in the lowest class [candäla] can be delivered.
CC - Madhya 15.108
It is just like if guru installs a Deity form for you by inviting the Lord into the external Deity
form and instructs you that you should such and such specific seva everyday for rest of
your life. In the same way Srila Prabhupada installs in the sadhaka's heart the Sound Deity
of Krishna as Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu and asks us to serve Him minimum 16 rounds
everyday of chanting and hearing and remembering with attention and devotion.
He also plants a seed called bhakti lata bija into our hearts to be watered everyday. And
that watering is chanting and hearing. How much water? 16 rounds minimum. What
happens to the seed? Lord Chaitanya reveals that the seed sprouts into a creeper made of
consciousness called bhakti lata and as we go on watering it, it grows and grows till it
reaches the lotus feet of Krishna in the spiritual world.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Harinaam is delivered to your heart in disciplic succession by Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Prabhupada Letter 19th August 1968

The chanting Hare Krishna is our main business, that is real initiation. And as
you are all following my instruction, in that matter, the initiator is already there.
Now the next initiation will be performed as a ceremony officially, of course that
ceremony has value because the name, Holy Name, will be delivered to the
student from the disciplic succession, it has got value.
Application to Japa
See the last part of the quote. Though faith in Srila Prabhupada's instructions and acting
accordingly makes one a disciple of Srila Prabhupda yet officially initiation ceremony has
got value since in the ceremony the holy name is delivered from the disciplic succession.
Śrīla Prabhupāda, says above that during first initiation the Holy Name is delivered to the
disciple through the disciplic succession by the bonafide spiritual master. Though the sound
of holy name is vibrating all over for everyone to receive and begin one's association with
the Lord, yet there is this process of personal delivery of the holy name by the spiritual
master at one point. He has to take initiation and take delivery of the holy name and place
it in our hearts on the seat of faith and serve Him as instructed if one wants to progress
beyond a certain point.
What does 'delivery' means? Even when Srila Prabhupada was on this planet, externally we
never saw any physical delivery of Hare Krishna Mahamantra into the ears of prospective
disciples during initiation. Yet it is said that the holy name is formally delivered at the time
of initiation. That can only mean that he has transcendentally delivered the Holy Name to
us to our heart because of our faith in him and holy name through a process unseen by our
eyes. It happens simply by his wish to give us the Nama that he is personally worshipping.
So we have with us is the Nama Prabhu of Srila Prabhupada.
Does everyone who grossly hears Srila Prabhupada’s recorded chanting do they get
initiated as disciple? Not as disciple but initiated into the mantra even if he takes up
faithfully even one mala of daily chanting. Only those who have faith in Srila Prabhupada’s
discipline to chant 16 rounds daily and follow the four regulative principles will be eligible to
become his disciple and receive such transcendental delivery of the holy name from the
spiritual master into the his heart. Disciple means discipline.
After being initiated, the Hare Krishna Nāma vigraha in the disciple's heart is like a Deity
installed by Guru for personally serving attentively without offenses by chanting and
hearing the prescribed number of malas daily. Thus gratitude to Guru is a constant feeling
for Śrīla Prabhupāda and Lord Ćaitanya for installing the holy name transcendentally in our
hearts to be worhsipped as instructed by him.
When we chant Nama Prabhu rises from the heart and comes on the tongue and enters the
sound produced by the tongue and invests all powers into it and then that empowered
sound enters the ears and mind and back to the heart. In the process of travelling from the
heart to the tongue to the ears and the mind and back again to the heart He warms up all
of them with satcitananda energy.
Each cycle of chanting and hearing purifies the mind-body system and spiritualizes it.
Repeating this cycle of chanting and hearing mantra after mantra builds up the spiritual
energy in our cittam or consciousness body which eventually awakens the soul's Krishna
consciousness.
Repeating chanting and hearing in japa is like repeatedly polishing the cittam that is
covering the soul to remove the dullening layers of contaminated consciousness and a day
will come when the soul will shine through the senses.
ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Spiritualizing our material bodies
Srila Prabhupada's Lecture on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.1 -- New York, April 10, 1969)
The same example, as I have given several times: just like iron rod. You put into
the fire, it becomes warmer, warmer. The more it is touched with fire, it
becomes warm, warm, warm. And at last it becomes red hot, so that at that
time, if that iron is touched to any other thing, it burns. It does not act as iron; it
acts as fire. Similarly, by this Krishna consciousness, continuous chanting, you
will make your body spiritualized. At that time, wherever you go, wherever you
touch, he’ll be spiritualized. Similarly, the iron... Without being spiritualized,
without being red hot, if you touch, it will not act.
Application to Japa
The satcitananda energy from the Shaktyavesah nama avatara purifies not only the subtle
body and awakens the soul, it also purifies the gross body. Srila Prabhupada says our
material bodies are spiritualized. It will act like a spiritual body. It will be free from three
modes of material nature. Such a body does not have any lusty urges and all his senses are
fully under control.
Just see even the most difficult problems of material desires and sense gratification is
solved by associating attentively with the Nama Prabhu. This is because Nama is said to be
purna shuddha or completely pure. Touch of Him make things pure. It is not that first we
have to become pure and then chant. We should instruct people to chant in whatever
situation they are and they are sure to get purified. It is a question of time.
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Madhu Pandit Dasa
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We cannot hear Krishna with material ears. Therefore sound incarnation.
EK 5: Knowing Krishna’s Energies

We cannot see Krishna with our material eyes, nor hear about Him with material
ears, nor touch Him with our hands; but if we engage our tongue in His service,
He will reveal Himself, saying, “Here I am.”
Application to japa
Ataḥ Śri Krishna Nāmadi na bhavēd grāhyam indriyam - Krishna's Name etc. cannot be
grasped by our material senses. He is transcendental. Therefore he comes down as
incarnation into our plane in a sound that resemble the sound of an external vigraha made
of matter vibration which we can chant and hear and receives our services through them.
Such matter gets fully spiritualized because the Lord has entered the same. This is the
principle of incarnation.
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Srila Prabhupada Lila
*Complete Your 16 rounds of Hare Krishna Manta & Krishna Will Hold You Up*
It was the first time I had ever missed chanting 16 rounds... I had completed 14 and was
so tired I rationalised that it was better to take rest and make them up the next day, as we
had been told we could do...
When I went into Srila Prabhupad's room early the next morning, the first thing His Divine
Grace said to me was... “So, are you chanting all your rounds?”... as always, he knew
everything without requiring any outside information...
I told Him about missing two rounds the previous day, and that I was going to make them
up that day...
Srila Prabhupad said...
“When you are regularly chanting 16 rounds, it is like a young child learning to walk with
the help of the mother... because the mother is holding the child's hand, when the child
starts to fall, the mother holds them up and they don’t actually fall... it is the same with
chanting...
If you are completing 16 rounds and start to fall down, Krishna will hold you up and not
allow that to happen”...
Then with His eyes open very wide and a transcendental move of His hand back and forth
in front of His face, His Divine Grace said...
“However, if you are not chanting at least 16 rounds every day, your whereabouts are
unknown, and you will definitely fall down!”
(From Nanda Kumar, who was Srila #Prabhupada's disciple in the early '70s)
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The principle of Nāma Avatāra.
Let us start with the following quote form
The chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is a transcendental vibration; it is not a

material thing. It is imported from the transcendental abode of Krishna. From
there the transcendental sound of Hare Krishna has come. This sound is like the
sunshine coming from the sun. Although you cannot go to the sun—it is far, far
beyond your reach—you can understand that the sunshine is coming from the
sun globe. There is no doubt about it. Similarly, the vibration of the Hare Krishna
mantra is coming from Krishna's planet, Goloka (golokera prema-dhana). And
this chanting produces love of Krishna. (Prema-dhana means "the treasure of
love for Krishna.
" Journey of Self Discovery -3.2
Srila Prabhupada is revealing that the transcendetal sound of Hare Krishna is like sunshine
coming from the sun. The eternally sounding Suddha Nāma in the spiritual world is non-
different from Krishna Himself and is a sun of satcitānanda. Just as Krishna has shaktis, His
satcitānanda sun of Nāma is also surrounded by effulgent satcitānanda sunshine-like
shaktis around it.
The satcitānanda suns of Suddha Nāmas Hare, Krishna, Rāma expand into the sun of Hare
Krishna Nāma Prabhu who descends into this world surrounded by His satcitānanda
effulgence. This is the 'Kali kale Krishna nāma rupa avatāra'. This one sun of Hare Krishna
Nama Prabhu who has descended from the spiritual world further mercifully enters into the
tangible or external name-sound that we produce with our different tongues just as one
sun reflects on different water bodies on earth. He does this by His omnipotecy and His
sweet will.
When He descends or shines into that externally produced sound, that incarnation is called
Shaktyāvesha Avatara. And the external sound is invested with all His energies. Namnam
akari bahuda nija sarva shakti.
The external sound is called the Empowered Prākrta Nama and the transcendental sound of
the spiritual world resembling that external sound is called Aprākrta Nama. Note that
material tongue or the material ears cannot directly chant nor hear the Aprākrta sound.
Therefore He descends into the prākrta sound and gives access to His Aprākrta Nama
through our attention on such Empowered Prākrta Nama.
The satcitananda shaktis of Aprākrta Nama indistinguishably merges into the prākrta Nama
and their combination is called the Nāma Avatāra. Whatever aprākrta sound wants to do in
the matter plane to gives us his association, the empowered prākrta sound can do.
Thus it is not that we are serving some material vibration by serving the Empowered
Prākrta Nama. Empowered Prakrta Nama is fully spiritualized matter which is as good as
spiritual for above purposes. While our material tongue, ears and mind are serving the
Empowered Prākrta Nāma it is simultaneously serving the identical sounding Aprākrta Nāma
though only in a dream state of the spiritual mind.
While our mind and body is serving Empowered Prākrta Nāma, to the extent of our spiritual
awakening, our spiritual mind is also chanting and hearing the Aprākrta Nāma. Thus the
soul, mind and body, is serving the Nama Avatara.
The Empowered Prākrta Nama purifies our mind and subtle senses and the Aprākrta Nāma
awakens our spiritual mind and senses because of soul's attention connection with it.
Combined the Nāma Avatāra purifies and awakens our love for Krishna.
Thus Suddha Nāma in the spiritual world is the Avātari ( source of avatāra) and the
Aprākrta Nāma is the Satcitānanda Avatāra and the Empowered Prākrta Nāma is the
Satcitānanda-ized Avatāra.
How can He be on millions of tongues? It is just like one sun being reflected on different
water bodies through its sunshine. In the case of the Lord there is no difference between
Him and His reflection.
'Gods reflection and God, there is no difference. Gods bodily rays and God, there
is no difference, advaya-jnana, that they are not in duality or relative world.
They are in the absolute world. Srila Prabhupada on March 25, New York.
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He assumes the name-sounds resembling the external tangible name-sounds and invests it
with all His energies and spiritualizes it. By mere attention-touch ( touch of our attention
energy on it) of such Empowered Prākrta Nama, our consciousness get purified by the fire
of satcitānanda and awakens our consciousness enabling us to eventually to chant and hear
the Aprākrta Nāma with our awakend spiritual mind.
Srila Prabhupada reveals below that the Aprākrta Nama sound takes on a form that
resembles prākrta Nama sound.
Only for us, who cannot experience anything beyond matter in our present
conditioned state, do the dhamas and the Lord Himself, in His arca form, appear
before us resembling matter to give us the facility to see spirit with material eyes. In the
beginning this may be difficult for a neophyte to understand, but in due course,
when one is advanced in devotional service, it will be easier, and he will
appreciate the Lord’s presence in these tangible forms.
Bhakitvedanta Purport . CC Adi 5.20
Note the word 'resembling matter' used by Srila Prabhupada.
When we touch the Nama Avatara through the conduit of attention on the sound features
to chant and hear the prākrta Nama, the spiritual energy from the Empowered Prākrta
Nāma flows into chanter's subtle and gross senses, mind as well as into himself, the soul.
This is because the Aprakrta Nama has mercifully taken on sound features that resemble
the prākrta sound features and we are connected to Him through attention on Empowered
Prakrta Nama.
Sharply hearing the prākrta sound features becomes the gateway for the attention-touch of
the aprākrta sound features even for a beginner.
An iron peice when put in the fire becomes red hot, likewise our soul's consciousness along
with his subtle senses & mind becomes charged with spiritual energies if placed in the fire
of the Aprākrta Nama . But if we are not attentive to the tangible sound then our soul and
mind does not touch the avātara.
If there is no attention on the sound but only the gross tongue, lips and ear are engaged
with the empowered prākrta Nāma, then it will only purify predominantly our gross body
but very little the subtle senses, mind and the consciousness of the soul.
Just see even without attention 1how mercifully the Nāma Prabhu or Nāma Avatāra acts
even on the inattentive chanter. Therefore even inattentive chanting has some effect
because it an empowered sound.
However for quick results we have to solve the attention problem. It is through the
attention energy which originates from the soul and transported by the mind to the ears for
hearing the sound that the makes my spiritual mind to get the attention-touch of the Nāma
avatāra causing it to wake up from my spiritual slumber.
Once soul and mind is connected through attention to the tangible empowered Name-
sound by sharply hearing the sound features in a manner that is discerning one unique
sound from the other, there is flow of spiritual energy from the Nāma avatāra to the
senses, mind and soul. Thus they all get charged with satcitānanda and awakens it spiritual
mind.
Knowing this Nāma tattva increases our faith in the presence of sun-like satcitānanda Nāma
Prabhu from the spiritual world when we do our japa, though unseen by our senses.
Understanding the role of attention in making us connect and touch Nāma Prabhu to warm
up with the flow of mercy of satcitananda energies provides intention for attentive chanting
& hearing.
Also read quote 18.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Nama Avatara as combination of Aprākrta Nama and Empowered Prākrta Nama

Empowered Prākrta Nāma is the power of attorney holder of the Aprākrta Nama. Even
when Empowered Prākrta Nāma is acting it is the shakti of Aprākrita Nama that is acting
through it and purifying us and not the matter vibration.
Srila Prabhupada conversation 25/2/77

There is one word by Bhaktivinoda Thakura, nāmākshara bahir haya nāma nāhi
haya: "The... Simply the alphabets are coming, but that is not nāma."
Nāmākshara, Hare Krishna, the alphabets, are coming out, but it is not the holy
name.
External sound that is produced by our tongue is only the vessel into which the
transcendental Nama sound from the spiritual world is delivered to us. The Empowered
prākrta sound is carrying the Aprākrta Nama and His energies. Naamnaam amari bahuda
nija sarva shakti.
You should not think that the Empowered prākrta sound which is the vessel through which
God's Name comes to you is identical to God's Name. Krishna's name is not a material
sound or just the prākrta sabdha. Its substance is always a transcendental or CInmaya
sound. Cit+ maya in sanskrit becomes cinmaya .Cinmaya Nama sabda is identical to
Krishna Himself . External sound or Empowered prākrta sound is the medium through
which the Lord becomes accessible to us. That medium is the attentive chanting and
hearing of that empowered prākrta sound.
Aprākrta Nama with His shakti is a Personality namely the Nama Prabhu. But Empowered
Prākrta Nama is an spiritually empowered spiritualised sound of this world.
When an electricfied copper wire is electrifiying something what really is acting is not the
copper but the electric current. In common parlance we say the copper wire is electrifying
things. But copper is different and separate from the current . However electrified copper is
in a different state than unelectrified copper. In the same way the prakrta sound is in a
state of being a spiritualised sound but it is not identical with the Lord. Lord is Lord who is
always transcendentally situated in that sound by His sweet will.
Srila Prabhupada explains the difference between prakrta sound and aprakrta sound in the
Purport to SB 2.4.22
" There is a gulf of difference between the two qualities of sound, namely prākrta
and aprākrta. The physicist can deal only with the prākrta sound, or sound vibrated
in the material sky, and therefore we must know that the Vedic sounds recorded
in symbolic expressions cannot be understood by anyone within the universe
unless and until one is inspired by the vibration of supernatural ( aprākrta) sound,
which descends in the chain of disciplic succession from the Lord to Brahmä,
from Brahmä to Narada, from Narada to Vyasa and so on. "
You and me as souls or spirit can have a matter body, then why can't Nama Prabhu, the
Supreme Soul or Spirit have a body of matter sound and act in this world like how we as
spirit act in this world with a matter body. Empowered Prākrta Nama is like the matter body
of the Aprākrta Nama. After all everything in existence is His energy. Though residing in a
body of matter sound, He is nityamukta or ever liberated unlike a jiva who gets trapped in
the matter body.
For purifying our body-mind system, first the Aprākrta Nama acts through empowered
spiritualized matter sound called prākrta Nama. How?
The soul eternally radiates attention or consciousness. But now the spiritual mind is
dreaming and senses are sleeping. But the soul non-stop keeps radiating attention whether
we are conditioned or liberated. This attention of a neophyte is also touching both the
Empowered prākrta Nama and Aprākrta Nama when he attentively chants and hears. This
is called mere attention-touch ( the consciousness touch). Attention touch of prākrta sound
draws purifying spiritual energies into the material mind and purifies it. When mind is
purified the functions of spiritual mind become purified.
Attention touch of Aprākrta Nama gradually awakens the dreaming spiritual mind.
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When that happens the pure chanter continues to chant and hear simultaneously with his
senses of his material body as well as with the spiritual mind and senses. It is just like
when we use our eye glasses we dont see the glass but see through the glass as a
transparent medium what is to be seen.
Nama Avatara on our tongue is to be seen as two in one. Aprākrta Nama ( Transcendental
Personality with His spiritual effulgent energies) and Empowered Prākrta Nama ( the potent
spiritualized matter body of that Personality) .
We are using two different names in order to differentiate the Potent which is Aprākrta
Nama and His potency which is the Empowered Prākrta Nama. They act combinedly on the
conditioned soul. Absolute truth consists of both the Lord and His Shaktis and not Lord
alone. Everything in existence is an action of the Lord and His energies and not Lord alone.
We can apply these principles to Archa vigraha also. The prākrta Vigraha of the Deity is
made of stone or metal and the aprākrta satcitananda Vigraha resembling the form of the
prākrta Vigraha enters and resides in it. Archa avatara is not just stone or metal. It is the
combination of aprākrta and prākrta. The aprākrta satcitananda Vigraha enters and
spiritualizes the matter vigraha which act as the medium for devotees to offer service and
receive reciprocation from the identical looking satcitananada archa avatara residing
therein.
As the devotee chants and purifies himself, he understand the deeper intricacies of
Shuddha nama descending as Nāma Prabhu or Nāma Avatāra who first acts through the
Empowered Prākrta Nāma and then eventually gives us experience of Aprākrta Nāma.This
module is just an explanation of these intricacies.
If as sadhakas, we dont learn these truths we will get doubt as to 'How can a material
vibration which is not satcitananda be Krishna Himself ?' And why I am not able to
expereince all the glorious things told about holy name when He is right on my tongue by
chanting it?
During japa we have to clearly remember in the background that the recepient of our
service, Sevya, is the Aprākrta or the transcendental Lord even if it is through the prākrta
Nama and also appreciate His merciful actions by which He makes it possible to serve Him
with our material senses in our present imprisoned condition.
Krishna's Aprākrta Nama, by His inconceivable mystic power, spiritualizes the external
vibration as the Empowered Prākrta Nama by entering into it by His sweet will. This
knowledge will stabilize our faith in the presence of Aprākrta Nama during japa. Having full
faith that He is present before us and yet we are unable to expereince the direct blissful
chanting and hearing of the Aprākrta Nama creates a feeling of separaton from that
expereince which builds up a craving for the expereince of chanting Aprākrta Nama with
our spiritual mind and senses. This separation and craving will accelerate the awakening of
our spiritual mind and senses. This separation and craving is so a form of perfect Nama
smaran or appreciative remembrance of the holy name.
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Therefore the above faith in the background plays a big role in the quality of our japa
relationship.
Thus our chanting at sadhana stage is like worshipping Aprākrta Nama who is present
before us but in experiential separation.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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SOULFUL JAPA 8/108
The Name of Krishna is not sound vibration of this world
Just because He mercifully takes on a prākrta sound body for our sake, don't limit Him to
that matter body. Srila Prabhupada cautions us thus:
" Krishna is always Krishna, but because we cannot see anything beyond
material elements like wood, stone, and metal, He appears in a form made of
these elements. But He is neither wood, metal, nor stone. When we associate with
the Deity, we associate with Krishna personally. Because Krishna is invisible, He
very kindly takes a form that is visible to us. This is Krishna ’s mercy. Do not
think, “Oh, here is a stone Krishna.”
TLK. Chapter 4
Never reduce Krishna only to a stone.
Now let us adopt the above quote by applying the same principles for Nāma Avatāra. It will
run like this: ( I have just replaced Deity by Nāma Avatāra in the quote.)
" Krishna is always Krishna, but because we cannot hear anything beyond
material sound, He appears in a vibration made by the material tongue. But He is
not material vibration. When we associate with the Śaktyāvēşa Nāma Avatāra, we
associate with Krishna Nama personally. Because transcendental Krishna Nāma
is inaudible to material ears, He very kindly takes a vibrational form that is
audible to us. This is Krishna"s mercy. Do not think, “Oh, here is a material
vibration or sound of Krishna.”
Never reduce Krishna only to a prākrta sabda produced by you.
Suppose you look at a mango juice in a transparent bottle, you should not think that the
juice, its color and its taste is coming from the bottle. Bottle is bottle and juice is juice and
color and taste is coming from juice. The juice may take the shape of the bottle and look
like it.
In the same way Aprākrta Nama and His energies have shined on the prākrta sound and
makes it Empowered prakrta sound. Naamnaam amari bahuda nija sarva shakti.
The Nama Prabhu takes on a sound form that resembles the sound form of our chanting by
His sweet will just like juice fills and takes the form of the vessel.
Whenever we do something the following layers of self are always involved . Gross doing by
the gross senses, subtle doing by the mind, and even subtler doing by the consciousness of
attention of the soul. Last one is important.
So when we give sharp attention to chant and hear the details of prākrta sound,
we are also giving same sharp attention to chant and hear the Aprākrta Nama
because He has detailed sound features identical to prākrta sound. But in the
beginning we can chant and hear Aprākrta Nama only with our dreamy attention
of our dreamy spiritual mind. As we continue with our dreamy attention-touch,
spiritual energy is drawn which will awaken the soul's spiritual mind and
expereince awakened attention-touch of Aprākrta Nama.
The attention, spirit energy in our present state is like our attention in a dream. It's a
dreamy attention. Because of our dreamy distance from the Aprākrta Nama we should not
think that our service now of chanting and hearing is not reaching the Aprākrta Nama. For
the Lord we are never distant. Thus even now our service of offering attention to chanting
and hearing Empowered Prākrta Nama is also simultaneosly reaching Aprākrta Nama .
There is only one person in the scene to accept our service of chanting and hearing. And
that is the most merciful Aprākrta Nama or Nama Prabhu with all His shaktis mercifully
coming to us through the vessel of Empowered Prākrta Nama at all stages from neophyte
to pure chanter.
He is happy that we are offering our attention to touch and serve His Empowered Prākrta
Nama. Even the prākrta sound is to be seen as His spiritualized body of matter sound. If
not for His Empowered Prākrta Nama our serving attention can never reach the Aprākrta
Nama as our attention or consciousness is stuck in matter sound.
Another point we have to understand is that though Aprākrta sound is not identical to
Empowered Prākrta Nama, the moment we utter the glorious Empowered Prākrta Nama He
manifests therein.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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SOULFUL JAPA 9/108
Our journey of self-purification and awakening of the spiritual mind.
The body, ego, mind and intelligence in the material world surrounding the soul is not
spiritual. It is not made of self-conscious substance called cit like the soul stuff. In the
spiritual world everything is made of cit or self conscious substance OR cinmaya vastu.
Jiva or brahman means spirit person ( contrary to impersonal school) . Brahman means the
eternal soul person with its own spiritual mind (consisting of spiritual mind, ego and
intelligence) and capable of eternal personal functions for identifying with a body for 'being'
and 'operating' such a body to seek varieties of ananda or rasa in relationship with other
Parabrahman and other brahman beings.
When seeking rasa in loving service of Parabrahman or Krishna the soul operates a spiritual
body with its spiritual mind. When we seek self centered rasa for ourselves forgetting
ourselves as being part and parcel of Krishna, then our spiritual mind goes into a spell of
illusory ego and spiritual senses faculties goes to sleep. Following this the soul is awarded a
material body by external energy of Krishna. Though the material body is of dead matter, it
is animated into action by spirit energy on the order of the Supersoul seated in these
bodies. The spiritual mind identifies with the animated material body and operates it
through dream ego called false ego and material mind and material intelligence for the
purpose of extracting self-gratification by lording over the material existence.
What is spiritual awakening ? It means waking up the spiritual mind from the spell of
illusion and remembering its own eternal ego, mind and intelligence and desiring loving
service to the eternal Lord.
What is purification? Purifying means purifying the material mind, intelligence and senses
which is currently covering our spiritual mind, intelligence and senses. How does it get
purified? By engaging them in Krishna's service which makes it vibrate in the frequency of
the original functioning of the spiritual mind's thinking, feeling, willing, desiring, and acting,
rasa-ing (seeking devotional service).
When we, as a sadhaka, chant and hear attentively, our dreaming spiritual mind identifies
with the contents of material mind that is engaged in thinking, feeling, willing, desiring and
relating or rasa-ing in service of Nama Prabhu.
This wakes up the soul's presently dreaming spiritual mind which is currently engaging
these soul energies in dreamlike state to operate on dream-like material bodies, senses,
ego, mind and intelligence of the material world for extracting illusory material rasas.
The involvement of spiritual mind will be passive in the beginning as it is still dreaming and
will gradually become parallely active depending on the extent to which it is awakened. This
is begining of soulful japa.
Japa attracts flow of spiritual energies from the Nama Avatara which first spiritualize our
contaminated attention, material mind and senses. In addition to and parallel to this the
attention of the conditioned soul continues to touch the Aprākrta Nama. By such touch the
attention gradually gets purified of the three modes of material nature.
By continuous association with Aprākrta Nama through such purified attention, the
dreaming spiritual mind gradually awakens resulting in pure self-knowledge and it sees it
true self as loving servant of the Lord. This pure self-knowledge frees the soul from the
trap of identification with the material body and mind and senses and it sees the body-mind
merely as an instrument or yantra with which to serve the Lord using his awakened spiritual
mind. The soul goes into a liberated state.
This awkening of spiritual mind further awakens our original sleeping spiritial sense faculties
and engage them to participate to chant and hear the Aprākrta Nama with full experiential
touch. This is a very advanced stage of soulful japa. Thus starting with plain attention touch
we end up in experiential touch of Aprākrta Nama.
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By serving the Aprakrta Nama purely from such a liberated platform till end of life, at the
time of death the soul is awarded a suitable spiritual body in the spiritual world.
Thus the Nama Avatara can give us everything beginning with dis-identification &
detachment from material body, true self knowledge, awakening of love for Krishna in the
self and taking the soul to the spiritual world and giving us a spiritual body. Such is the
priceless treasure of Nama Prabhu given to us by Srila Prabhupada which he has received
through the disciplic succession starting from Krishna Himself.
Note that both the Empowered PrākrtaNama and Aprākrta Nama are simultaneously acting
upon the two planes of existence from day one to purify material mind-body system and
awaken our love for Krishna. One at material mind body plane and the other at the plane of
soul and soul's attention.
The serving attention from the soul is touching both of them simultaneously. Just see the
importance of serving attention as a conduit that connects the soul to the Nama Avatara.
Connecting to Krishna in different ways is called yoga. Here we connect to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead through devoted attention and faith in the Nama Prabhu.
One should take complete shelter of the most merciful Nama Prabhu for all success and
serve Him soulfully as our sole and soul ambition.
And as gratitude to Srila Prabhupad for giving us this Nama Avatara and teaching us serve
Him let us serve His personal mission to distribute to everyone the science and art of
chanting as a preacher of the holy name mainly by distributing his books.
Once Srila Prabhupada asked his disciples why he has written so many books. Different
devotees gave different answers like to give philosophy to save the world etc. Srila
Prabhupada was silent to all these answers. Finally he gave the answer. I have written
these books to make people chant the holy names.
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Madhu Pandit Dasa
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On Aprākrta and prākrta sound
Bhaktivedanta Purport to SB 2.4.22

" There is a gulf of difference between the two qualities of sound, namely
prākrta and aprākrta. The physicist can deal only with the prākrta sound, or
sound vibrated in the material sky, and therefore we must know that the Vedic
sounds recorded in symbolic expressions cannot be understood by anyone
within the universe unless and until one is inspired by the vibration of
supernatural (aprākrta) sound, which descends in the chain of disciplic
succession from the Lord to Brahmä, from Brahmä to Narada, from Narada to
Vyasa and so on. No mundane scholar can translate or reveal the true import of
the Vedic mantras (hymns). "
Purport to SB 6.4.33
In regard to the significant word anāma-rupah, Shri Shridhar Swami says, prākrta-nāma-
rupa-rahito 'pi. The word anāma, which means "having no name," indicates that the
Supreme Personality of Godhead has no material name.
Srila Prabhupada conversation 25/2/77

There is one word by Bhaktivinoda Thakura, nāmākshara bahir haya nāma nāhi
haya: "The... Simply the alphabets are coming, but that is not nāma."
Nāmākshara, Hare Krishna, the alphabets, are coming out, but it is not the holy
name.
Application to Japa
Please read Module 6 and 7.
Empowered Prākrta-Nāma that we utter with our material tongue is an empowered medium
to purify us and give us access for our spiritual mind and senses to experience eternal
Aprākrta-Nāma-rupa. Empowered Prākrta-Nāma is a sound empowered by the Aprākrta-
Nāma. The absolute Lord is prākrta-nāma-rupa-rahito. 'Rahito' means without prākrta-nāma
or rupa.
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Madhu Pandit Dasa,
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QUOTE 15
Subject: Krishna is one and different from His energies
SB 4.11.18 Purport.
How the Lord acts is nicely explained in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa: fire is situated in one
place, while the heat and light produced by the fire act in many different ways.
Another example given is that the electric powerhouse is situated in one place,
but by its energies many different types of machinery move. The production is
never identical with the original source of the energy, but the original source of
energy, being the prime factor, is simultaneously one with and different from
the product. Therefore Lord Caitanya’s philosophy, acintya-bhedābheda-tattva,
is the perfect way of understanding.
Application to Japa
Adopting the above quote for Nama, would read like this: Empowered Prākrta Nama is not
identical to Aprākrta Nama, the original source of energy but being the prime factor,
Aprākrta Nama is simultaneously one and different from the Empowered Prākrta Nama.
Therefore Empowered Prākrta Nama can act as good as Aprākrta Nama in all His lilas
including recieving and reciprocating our services and acting as conduit to transfer His
shaktis or energies to us to purify our material senses and mind are concerned.
The Aprākrta Nama always act spiritually. Empowered Prākrta Nama can move matter
beyond material limitations of posed time, space and its substance as is required to mime
the lilas of the Aprākrta Nama in this world through His atmamaya potency.
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Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Subject: Material mind and Spiritual mind.
SB 4.30.20
" At present we have contacted a material body, material mind and material
intelligence, but when we become free from these material conditions, our
spiritual body, spiritual mind and spiritual intelligence become manifest."
Application to Japa
Read last part of Module 9
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Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Quote 26
Subject: The Nama Avatara is omnipotent or Śaktyāvēşa avatāra.
Śrī Çaitanya-Çaritāmrta, Madhya-līlā 20.245-255 -- December 16, 1966, New York
Kali-yuga in this age, this incarnation of name—Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,

Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare—to give facility to the conditioned soul.” Nāmnām
akāri bahudhā nijasarva-śakti. Śakti, this word is used, Śakti. And from Śakti,
that energy, Śaktya avatāra. So, this name is also Śaktyāvēşa avatāra.
Application to japa
The name that we chant with shakti being invested in it from the prakrta-like Aprakrta
Nama is called Śaktyāvēşa avatāra.
ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Subject: We cannot see the Aprakrta Lord with material senses
Cc. Madhya 17.136

Because we cannot see God with our present eyes, present eyes, because this is
not our proper eyes. They are material eyes. You don’t think that this eye, the
transparent thing which is floating in this, I mean to say, hole... That is not
seeing. Similarly, if you can present, or if you take this eye... You cannot see.
That cannot see. It is simply a lens only. It is only lens. So, none of this body,
bodily part, is actually the thing which is taking part. So therefore, with these
eyes, with these material eyes, you cannot see. Ataḥ śrī-Krishna-nāmādi na
bhavēd grāhyam indriyaiḥ
Application to Japa
Though Aprakrta Nama or Vigraha is prakrta-like in its features and it is a transcendental

sound or form and cannot be chanted or heard or seen with material senses or the material
mind. As far as features of the Nama or vigraha is concerned the Aprakrta is prakrta-like
and the prakrta is Aprakrta-like. From features there are indistingishabe form each other
like identical twins. Attenton on detailed features of one is like automatically placing
attention on the detailed features of the other.
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Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Quote 28
Subject: One Aprakrta Nama of the spiritual world descends into the material
world as many different prakrta-like Aprakrtta Namas on different tongues of
chanters. They are all same personality.
Bhagavad Gīta Lecture March 25th, New York

“But God’s reflection and God, there is no difference. God’s bodily rays and God,
there is no difference, Advaya-jnāna, that they are not in the duality or relative
world. They are in the absolute world.”
Application to japa
Srila Prabhupada gives another example with regard to Supersoul seated in all our hearts.
As sun is situated far away as one, it reflects differently on many different water bodies on
the earth, in the same way one Supersoul is reflected in the hearts of different jivas. In the
case of sun it just remains a reflection and is not the sun. But in the case of God, there is
no different between God and His reflection. They are one. In the same way Kalikale
Krishna Nama rupa avatara means the Lord descends in this world as the prakrta-like
Aprakrta Nama into different prakrta sound produced by our tongues. The prakrta-like
Aprakrta Nama is non different from the Suddha Nama and is a plenary expansion of the
Suddha Nama. Plenary expansion means as powerful as the source from which expansion
happens.
ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Quote 29
Radhastami day 6th September 2019
Subject: Hare is praying to Radharani
Lecture by Srila Prabhupada on Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi 4.89
Srimati Radharani is the eternal consort of Lord Krishna. Five

thousand years ago, when Lord Krishna came to this planet to perform
His pastimes, Srimati Radharani also appeared. This year we celebrate
her appearance on September 06. This special day is known as
Radhashtami.
“On a half-moon night in the month of Bhadra, King Vrishabhanu came to

the Jamuna to bathe and found himself engulfed in a golden aura, the
golden aura of pure love. It was emanating from a lotus, which had a
baby girl standing on its whorl. When the king returned to the palace
with the baby, Queen Kirtida was delighted. She was also shocked that
the girl was blind.
“Lord Krishna's mother, Yashoda, heard that her best friend Kirtida
had a baby, so she came to visit along with her husband and her son.
Krishna crawled up to the cradle and pulled Himself up and looked in.
At that moment, Srimati Radharani's eyes fluttered and opened wide and
blossomed like lotuses. It seems that she did not want to see anything
of this world, only the form of Sri Krishna. Everyone was delighted.
“Srimati Radharani is the mother of the universe, the spiritual mother

of all souls. And the concept of mother is the most sacred symbol—that
of purity, selflessness, caring, sharing, nurturing, and love. That is
why our sacred mantra is the holy names. It is the holy names in the
vocative. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare /
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
“'Hare' means 'Radhe.' It is a plaintive, desperate cry for the

mother. 'Radhe! Please wake us up from this nightmare of mortal life!
Remind us of the father we have forgotten and take us home!'”
In the Krishna consciousness movement, devotees carefully worship

Srimati Radharani as the bestower of devotional service to Krishna, by
attentively chanting her name in the maha-mantra, by worshiping her
deity form, and by following the instructions of the most merciful Sri
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is the combined form of Radha and Krishna.
“(Therefore) Radha is parama-devata, the supreme goddess, and She is

worshipable for everyone. She is the protectress of all, and She is
the mother of the entire universe.”
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Quote 30
Subject: Presence of Lord both prakata prākrta Nama and aprakata aprākrta
Nama
CC Madhya 13.155 Purport

Krishna has two kinds of presence—prakata and aprakata, manifest and
unmanifest. These are identical for the sincere devotee. "
Application for japa.
Aprakata means unmaifest

Prakata means manifest
Aprākrta means beyond prakrti
Prakrta means belonging to prakrti
This quote is with regard to presence of the Lord. Devotees have the question that after
they finish their 16 rounds in the presence of Nama Prabhu before them, where does he go
till next day I begin my 16 rounds. This quote is the answer. When He is aprakata or
umanifests He remains in the heart of the sadhaka as the Aprākrta Nama.
When you stop japa His prakrta Nama stops. But the prākrta-like Aprākrta Nama's existence
is not dependent upon your chanting or not chanting. He simple manifests with prakrta
Nama when we chant. Even If you remember the Nama Prabhu but do not vibrate the
sound , the Aprakrta Nama is can be resent there in his aprakata Nama. And if we become
a devotee of the Nama Prabhu and act as a surrendered servant of Nama Prabhu then He is
always present in our hearts in aprakata or unmanifest form as the Aprakrta Nama even if
we are not chanting. And when we chant it is like Him coming out on our tongue to be
heard by us.
Thus the devotees feels presence of Nama Prabhu either as Prakrta Nama outside of Him
when he chants or as prakrta-like Aprākrta Nama in His heart when he is not chanting. As
far as presence is concerned a sincere devotees can feel His presence either way always.
It is said the gopis of Vrindavan always felt the presence of Krishna everyday even when He
was living in dwaraka. But that aprakata presence was felt as the transcendental Aprākrta
Nama. In the material world also we remember loved persons but by such remembrance
they are not present before you. But in the case of remembering Krishna Nama, actually His
Aprakrta Nama appears there and is present with us.
If the devotees remembers Nama Prabhu always in the background throughout the day
then He will reside in our heart as His Aprākrta Nama. The instruction of Krishna 'Tasmat
sarveshu kaaleshu mam anusmarasya yuddhya ca' meaning always remember Me and fight
can be implemented by remembering Nama Prabhu throughout the day even if you dont
chant externally. And He becomes present. But for this you have develop attachment to
Nama Prabhu. If you think of all that Nama Prabhu has done for you and consciousness
transformation you will feel gratitude, affection and attachment to Him even as a new
devotee.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Quote 31
Subject : Understanding spiritual nature of Nāma
Sri Chaitanya sikshamarta by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
"Even before entering the feild of nama-bhajana one should first know for
certain that Krishna's form, Krishna's name, Krishna's service, Krishna's servants
are all eternally free. That is , they re beyond the grasp of Maya., the illusory
energy. Krishna, Hus transcendental abode and His paraphernalia are totally
beyond material imagination. Similarly, His throne, His rooms, His gardens,
forests , Goverdhan Hill and the river yamuna, in fact everything about Krishna
cannot be touched by Maya. It is especially important to remember this
transcendental nature of Lord Krishna when we approach His service of which
chanting His holy name is foremost. This understanding is not based on blind
belief but on absolute and eternal truth".
Application to japa
In japa there are three components SEVYA, SEVA, SEVAK. All three with their mutual
relationship has to be known by a japa doer and same has to automatically come up in the
background of our attention. SEVYA is Krishna & Radharani or their combination Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu, SEVAK is jiva or devotee ego who is eternal servant of Krishna and SEVA is
bhakti or service of chanting, hearing and tasking a targetted number of repetitions.
Understanding Sevya to be transcendental or Aprākrta is starting point is what this quote

says.
Let us recall the same in a nutshell what we discussed over last few modules and questions
and answers. By now all of us are aware that
the Avatāri who are eternally sounding Suddha Nāmas in the form of the Hare Krishna
Maha Mantra in the spiritual world, out of compassion, mercifully expands into unlimited
prākrta-like Aprākrta Nāmas and descends and empowers the prākrta mantra into a
potentially omnipotent prākrta Nāma avatāra which we chant with our tongue. Though we
cannot have experiential-touch the prākrta-like Aprākrta Nāma because of our sleeping
spiritual senses, as neophytes we are still blessed with the chance of association by the
faith in the automatic attention-touch of the Aprākrta Nāma while engaging in the
experintial-touch of the Empowered Prākrta Nāma.
What is the prescription of experiential-touch touch of the Empowered prākrta Nāma?

Expereintial-touch of Empowered Prākrta Nāma is achieved by distinctly chanting and
sharply hearing with serving attention, faith and affection or priti.
By association of the all-pure Aprākrta Nāma our material senses, mind and attention
becomes pure which in turns awakens my spiritual mind and senses eventually.
Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Quote 32
Please read from the image below. Words of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura.
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Quote 33
Subject: Sambhanda jnana in japa.
Sri Harināma cintamani 3.26 & 27
Yāvat sambhandha jnāna shira nahi haya

Tāvat anarthe nāmābhāsena āshraya
If a person by a saintly Vaishnava's mercy understands his relationship with

Lord Krishna and chants His holy name, he then attains a the great treasure of
love of Godhead. 3.26
As long as someone does not understand his transcendental relationship with
Krishna, the chanter will take shelter of nāmabhāsa-shadow of the Holy Name.
3.27
Application to japa
Read the application to quote 31

Ys
Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Quote 34
Subject: Krishna Himself speaks to Arjuna about that His Name is the greatest.
Quoted from Adi Purana by Srila Sanatana Goswami in Hari-bhakti-vilasa 11.465-469
465
na nāma-sadrsham jnanam
na nāma-sadrsham vratam
na nāma-sadrsham dhyanam
na nāma-sadrsham phalam
There is no knowledge equal to my Nāma. No vow is equal to My Nāma. No meditation is
like Nāma. No result is like Nāma.
466
na nāma-sadrsha tyagi
na nāma-sadrshah shamah
na nāma-sadrsham punyam
na nāma-sadrshih gatih
No renunciation is like my Nāma. No peace like my Nāma. No piety is like my Nāma. No
goal of life is like my Nāma.
467
nāmaiva paramā muktir

nāmaiva paramā gatih
nāmaiva paramā santir
nāmaiva paramā sthitih
My Nāma is the supreme liberation. My Nāma is the Supreme goal. My Nāma the topmost
place.My Nāma is the Supreme abode.
468
nāmaiva paramā bhaktir

nāmaiva paramā gatih
nāmaiva paramā pritir
nāmaiva paramā smrtih
My Nāma is the Supreme devotion. My Nāma is the Supreme thought. My Nāma is Supreme
happiness. My Nāma is Supreme meditation.
469
nāmaiva karānam jantor

nāmaiva paramā prabhur eva ca
nāmaiva paramārādhyo
nāmaiva paramo guruh
My Nāma is the life of all living entities. My Nāma is the Supreme Lord and master. My
Nāma is supreme object of worship. My Nāma is the supreme guru.
Application to japa
This is an interesting perspective to see the Nāma Prabhu the way Krishna Himself thinks of
His Nāma.
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Subect : Proper chanting means direct connection to Krishna
Srila Prabhupada in Vrindavana - September 16, 1976

"The holy name, chanting of holy name, if we chant it properly, without any
offense, then we are directly in connection with Krishna"
Application to japa
Self explanatory
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Illustration of three component of japa. Sevya, Seva & Sevak Sevya = Hare Krishna Nama
Prabhu
Seva = distinctly chanting,
sharply hearing and
tasking a targeted
repetition.
Sevak = Eternal servant of
Krishna.
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Illustration of ingrediens of a soulful japa described at the end of module 3/108.
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Quote 36
Subject: Special mercy of Nama Avatara
EK 5: Knowing Krishna’s Energies
We cannot see Krishna with our material eyes, nor hear about Him with material
ears, nor touch Him with our hands; but if we engage our tongue in His service,
He will reveal Himself, saying, “Here I am.”
Application for japa

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Subject : Sun acts through sunshine to distribute light and heat
CC Madhya 5.97
Just as the sun can act through the sunshine and thus distribute its heat and
light, so Krishna, by His inconceivable power, can appear in His original spiritual
form in any material element, including stone, wood, paint, gold, silver, and
jewels, because the material elements are all His energy.
Application to Japa
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Quote 38
Subject: Srila Prabhupada beautifully explains Nama Avatara
September 8, 1966, New York
Similarly, there are two kinds of expansions of the Lord. One kind of expansion
is called Viṣṇu-tattva. Viṣṇu-tattva means the expansion, they are as equal as
the God Himself. And there are expansions which are called the jīva-tattva, the
living entities. This expansion of the living entities, they are not equally
powerful, but the expansion of Viṣṇu-tattva is equally powerful, as good as God
Himself. So, the incarnation...
The present senses, cannot have any knowledge of the Supreme God. But how
then we can have knowledge? If my senses are unfit, then how can I make it fit?
Oh, that is the thing. That is the thing, that you have to spiritualize, spiritualize
these material sense, I mean to say, organs. And then, when you spiritualize,
then you can have the spiritual vision and see God and yourself. The same
example which I have recited many times: just like the iron rod. Iron rod, you
put into the fire. It gets warm—warm, warmer, warmer. And when it is red hot,
then it is no longer iron. Iron it is, but it does not act as iron, but it acts as fi re.
That iron rod which is red hot in association with fire, you can take that rod and
touch anything; it will burn. That means it is no longer acting as iron; it is acting
as fire.
Similarly, if you associate with this transcendental incarnation, sound

incarnation of God, then you will be gradually godly. You will be godly. You can
become godly with God’s association, not by any other material, extraneous
things. No. Just like you can have fire only in association with fire, not with
water. If you want to get yourself warm, then you have to associate with fire,
not with water, not with air. Similarly, if you want to spiritualize your vision, if
you want to spiritualize your action, if you want to spiritualize the whole
constitution of your existence, then you have to associate with the Supreme
spirit. And that Supreme spirit is very kind because He is everything. That we
have already explained. Everything is interrelated with the Supreme; therefore,
He is interrelated with sound also. So, by God’s inconceivable potency, He can
present before yourself in sound incarnation. That is His potency. That is His
potency. He can do that. And therefore, this name, Krishna, and the Supreme
Lord Krishna, there is no difference.
So our, this sound representation of the Supreme Lord constantly will make us...
Just like our association with the fire, the, I mean to say, iron rod’s association
with the fire makes the rod equally qualified, exactly— not equally qualified, but
almost the quality of burning it gets—similarly, by our constant association with
Lord.
Appliction to Japa
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Module 12/108
Summing up the discussion on Nāma Avatāra

The eternally sounding sat-cit-ānanda Krishna Nāma in the spiritual world is the Avatāri or
the source of Nāma Avatāra There is no difference between Krishna Nama and Krishna
Himself. When He decides to incarnate into His material energy, He, through his effulgent
sat-cit-ānanda energy expands Himself into several spiritual forms resembling the detailed
features of the form of the external sound as that of the individual name-sounds on our
tongues. It is just like one sun reflects on different waterbodies on the earth. Reflection of
the absolute is non-different from the absolute. This is the prākrta-like Aprākrta Nāma.
Aprākrta Nāma transmits the sat-cit-ānanda energies just as sun distributes its light and
heat through sunshine. This is His specific act of mercy as the avatara. Because the sound
features of the prākrta-like Aprākrta Nāma are identical to the sound features of the
externally produced name-sound or the prākrta sound. Both of them indistinguishably
merge into one perception in the mind of the attentive chanter. The matter name-sound is
spiritualized completely and becomes the potentially omnipotent Empowered Prākrta Nāma
or the Śaktyāvēşa Avatāra.
A simple sense-touch, with our serving attention, of these spiritually charged and
empowered externally perceivable Śaktyāvēşa prākrta Nāma purifies the contaminated
consciousness of the person who touches those features with his attention. Touching the
features means being attentive to the details of name-sound by distinctly chanting with
detailed discerned sharp hearing. To do both these functions properly, attention is a must
and connection is set up with the sound incarnation or Nāma Avatāra.
Since the detailed features of the sat-çit-ānanda Aprākrta Nāma are identical to the
features of the externally produced prākrta Nāma, when our serving attention touches and
serves the features of the Prākrta Nāma with our senses and mind, our attention touches
and serve Aprākrta Nāma too. Therefore, it is extremely important to perceive the sound
which enables attention-touch of the external Prākrta Nāma as they appear to our senses,
in order to establish contact with the sound incarnation.
So soulful japa means distinctly chanting and sharp hearing and tasking of repetition of the
same bead after bead while in the background there is constant effortless recognizing and
remembering of the all-merciful Nāma Avatāra with feelings of affection, faith, humility,
devotion, gratitude and surrender. Hence distinctly chanting and hearing with detailed
discerning sharp attention with faith and above feelings and by avoiding all thought
processing by the mind is the core principle of soulful japa. This makes our serving-
attention touch and serve the Divine incarnation of the Lord and receive the flow of
causeless mercy of the Nāma Avatāra
Note that attention is the bridge for the soul to move from the dimensions of Empowered
prākrta Nāma to the transcendental dimension of prākrta-like Aprākrta Nāma. And due
inattentiveness, we are deprived of the direct association of the Lord’s Avatāra who is an
ocean of satcitananda. By the attention-touch or association of the Nāma Avatāra , all
spiritual perfection is achieved. Just see what we are missing by not being attentive to the
sound incarnation during japa. By absorbing the attention on some thought processing
during japa we get disconnected from the incarnation.
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Aprākrta Nāma is reservoir of all rasas.

Nāma cintāmaṇiḥ Krishnaś çaitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ pūrṇaḥ śuddho nitya-mukto
’bhinnatvān Nāma-nāminoḥ
‘The holy name of Krishna is transcendentally blissful. It bestows all spiritual
benedictions, for it is Krishna Himself, the reservoir of all pleasure. Krishna’s
name is complete, and it is the form of all transcendental mellows. It is not a
material name under any condition, and it is no less powerful than Krishna
Himself. Since Krishna’s name is not contaminated by the material qualities,
there is no question of its being involved with Māyā. Krishna’s name is always
liberated and spiritual; it is never conditioned by the laws of material nature.
This is because the name of Krishna and Krishna Himself are identical.’
Śri Chaitanya-Charitāmrta Madhya 17.133
When Lord Ćaitanya says that the holy names are invested with all energies, (namnam
akari bahuda nija sarva shakti) He is referring to investing energies into the externally
perceivable prākrta Nāma sabda and the question of empowering Aprākrta Nāma, who is
Krishna Himself does not arise as He is Krishna Himself.
The Aprākrta Nāma sabda is described above as chaitanya rasa vigraha. His Name is
eternally self-sounding, all-powerful, all-loving and all-intelligent person called Nāma
Prabhu. Even when He incarnates into this world, He is fully pure (Pūrna śuddha), eternally
liberated (nitya mukta). He is Krishna Himself, appearing before us in the form of His
Name-sound. And that is the Nāma Prabhu,
in additon to empowering, He inconceivably becomes one with this external Nāma Avatāra
for the time being as and when He wishes for our sake of receving our service and
reciprocating with the chanter. This is not difficult for God for He is linked with everything
in existence as its source. The Nāma Avatāra relates with the chanter on the principle of as
you surrender I reciprocate.
One should never think that the external name-sound itself is not an important component
of the incarnation and that it is just a material thing because only behind the external
sound there is the sat-çit-ānanda Name-sound. That would amount to not recognizing the
wish of the Lord, who, for the sake of rasa of mercifully awakening the love for Him in the
conditioned souls of this world, has decided to empower prakrta Nāma by His omnipotence.
In fact, all the benefit for the soul is coming from the empowered external prākrta Nāma,
because our access is only to what is perceivable by our prākrta senses. The external
prākrta Nāma, to whom our senses have access, is as good as the prākrta-like Aprākrta
Nāma for purposes of receiving and reciprocating our services. He is complete in Himself
and yet He becomes His prākrta Nāma body not because it is a need for Him to come into
material dimenson but because He is fulfilling a need for us to get His association. He does
not need to take on a prākrta form to come into the material dimension because the Lord
being absolute can perceive both material world and spiritual world with his original senses
free from all illusions.That is why even all His lilas in this material world are also done by
His spiritual body. And the omnipotent prākrta component of the incarnation carries out the
wishes of the incarnation to mime or support those acts.
One should have faith that if the Lord decides He can become any of His energies. And that
is how, just for us, the Aprākrta Nāma mercifully not only empowers prākrta Nāma but also
mercifully becomes that prākrta Nāma for the time being and receives our services and
reciprocates with us. Just like I can validly say 'I am my hand' but my hand cannot say 'I
am the whole body.' Though, He, being the energetic is spiritually different from His
energy, whenerver He wants He can decides to
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manifest His person in the energy by becoming that energy. That is His omnipotence. When
He does that, then the energy is as good as Him. This is the principle of inconceivable
simultaneous oneness and difference between the Empowered external prākrta Nāma-
sabda and the transcendental Aprākrta Nāma-sabda of the Avatāra. Only those who faith in
the above can have access to the mercy of the Lord’s incarnation.
If the Nāma Avatāra is pleased by sincere devotional service of attentive chanting and
hearing, in obedience to the order and directions of a sad-guru, He will enlighten the
chanter with pure self-knowledge within a very short time. He will liberate him from
misidentification with matter and continue to spiritualize his attention, intelligence and
mind, and spiritual sensibilities resulting in awakening of our love of Godhead.
He takes charge of the material life of such a surrendered devotee. Nāma Prabhu enables
the soul one day, to chant and hear the sat-çit-ānanda Aprākrta Nāma with the soul’s
awakened spiritual mind and spiritualised tongue and ears. If we submit ourselves to the
Nāma avatāra for the association, the Lord will enter our lives in all of its details, to the
manner in which we surrender to Him.
Gradually He will mercifully reveal to the chanter, the Aprākrta or absolute name, form and
lilas on His sweet will.
ataēva kṛṣṇēra ‘Nāma,’ ‘deha,’ ‘vilāsa.’ prākṛtendriya-grāhya

nahe, haya sva-prakāśa
“The holy name of Krishna, His body, and His pastimes cannot be understood by
the blunt material senses. They are manifested independently.”
Sri Çaitanya-Çaritāmrta Madhya 17.13
Once we develop faith and a relationship of loving service with the Nāma Avatāra by the
daily service of chanting and hearing and make it our aspiration in life to surrender and
serve Him and His mission through the sađ-guru, Hare Krishna Nāma becomes the master
of our life. He takes us closer and closer to Him by active reciprocation and relationship as
His servant.
Every moment of our life He will guide and empower us to serve Him. We become part of
His Lila on this earth. This connection is not limited to the only japa but pervades every
aspect of our existence in this material body throughout our day and life and to eternity as
the devotee will have no other material social ambitions of His own. He adopts and serves
the spiritual desires and ambitions of the pure devotee like Srila Prabhupada and becomes
even free from any proprietorship over such desires.
Now that we have covered the basics of Nāma Avatāra , we are ready to understand the
three stages of japa seva and realization of the Nāma Avatāra namely Nāma aparadha
stage , Nāma abhasa stage and Shuddha Nāma stage. Soon we will see how these three
stages are related to progressive realizations of different component of Nāma Avatara. The
three components are 1. The personality of sat-çit-ānanda Nāma Avatari in the spiritual
world. 2. The personality of sat-çit-ānanda prākrta-like Nāma Avatāra. 3. His external,
empowered sat-çit-ānanda-ized prākrta Nāma Avatāra.
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Madhu Pandit Dasa
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Module 13/108
Nama Avatara and Archa avatara- A comparision
Please read scrutinizingly the following two quotes as there is an open secret in them. I say
it is an open because once you disvover it then it is appears open. But until you discover it
is a secret right before our eyes but not understood. That secret is in the underlined words
in the two quotes.
You assume a form resembling a material body just to give us instructions like those
of Bhagavad-Gīta, but actually, you are the Supreme original person. I,
therefore, offer my respectful obeisances unto You.” Śrīmad-Bhagavatam 9.8.24
( Note: We use a single term as 'prakrta-like' to mean 'form resembling a material body' )
Another similar quote:

Only for us, who cannot experience anything beyond matter in our present
conditioned state, do the dhamas and the Lord Himself, in His arca form, appear
before us resembling matter to give us the facility to see spirit with material eyes.
In the beginning this may be difficult for a neophyte to understand, but in due
course, when one is advanced in devotional service, it will be easier, and he will
appreciate the Lord’s presence in these tangible forms.
Bhakitvedanta Purport . CC Adi 5.20
The three components of Nama Avatara are

1. The first component: Avatari Nama which is the absolute Suddha Nama in the spiritual
world which is of Aprākrta or spiritual or transcendental nature. Avatari is the source of all
expansions. In the analogy of electricity Avatari can be compared to electric power house.
2. The second component: The expansion of Avatari Nama whose features resemble the
prakrta sound and which is of the nature of Aprakrta or spiritual or transcendental is called
the prakrta-like Suddha Aprākrta Nama. This can be compared to the electricity that is
flowing in the live copper wire.
3. The third component: The spiritually empowered external sound produced with our
material tongue and heard with our material ears and material mind. This is compared to
the electrified copper wire caused by infusion of electricity into the copper.
The three components of archa avatara are

1. First component : The pure original spiritual satcitananda form of the Krishna in the
spiritual world who is the source of all expansions and incarnations. He is the Avatari. This
can be compared to the electric powerhouse which is source of all electricity in the city.
2. Second component: The expansion of Avatari whose features resemble the features of
external prakrta vigraha who is of the nature of Aprakrta or spiritual or transcendental or
satcitananda and is called the prakrta-like Aprākrta archa vigraha. This can be compared to
the electricity that is flowing in the live copper wire.
3. Third componnent: The external Deity vigraha that we have carved out of matter.
Let us see what happens in the case of Deity incarnation.

Let us start from begining. A vigraha is made of material elements that fits description of
the Lord's form in the sastra. Sastric rituals of installation ceremony are done under the
direction of the Acharya. These rituals presscribed in the sastras are for purifying the
material elements and also for invoking subtle material energy of prana and indriyas into
the gross vigraha.
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Then Lord in the spiritual world understands the Acharya's desire to invite Him to incarnate
into that external vigraha. The omnipotent Lord expands Himself into a satcitananda
spiritual form whose form-features resembles form-features of the external Deity vigraha
( eg.The features of form of Vrindavanchandra of Vrindavan temple are different from
Krishnachandra of Bangalore temple. (Different Deities look differently). This is the prakrta-
like Aprākrta Deity archa form which is the second component of archa incarnation. This
form is of satcitananda nature (Aprākrta nature) and is like an identical twin of the
sacitananda-ized external Deity form. The third form is the spiritualised form of the external
Deity archa vigraha which is made of material energy ( prakrti) of Krishna. The second
component adopts the features of the form of this third component and therefore is called
the prakrta-like Aprakrta Archa vigraha.
When the Lord with His satcitananda energies ( like sun surrounded with its brilliance)
incarnates into the external vigraha, the matter of the Deity gets spiritually energised by
the satcitananda or gets satcitananda-ized ( like by the brilliance of the sun is reflected on
different water bodies) and becomes free from qualitative reactions of three modes of
material reactions. Matter is converted for time being to spirit because it acts like spirit for
the time being.
Note that the omnipotent Lord can expand Himself into unlimited number of forms and
names and they are all non-different from each other. As jivas it is inconceivable of one
person having so many transcendental bodies, names and forms and each acting like a
complete person with unique lilas and yet non-different from each other. That is how God
person is different from jiva person.
Now let us understand the differences in the three components of Nama Avatara.
What is difference between first and second. Both are Krishna Himself and are Absolute
Name. Only the features of the sound differ. If the chanting you produce with your material
tongue and the sound incarnation that has descended were compared with each other they
will have sound features that are identical.
What is the difference between the second and third? Second is Krishna Himself but third is
His spiritualised and empowered matter energy like the electrified copper wire. Basically
substance of third is matter energy and the substance of second is Lord Himself. Big
difference in substance through the the features are alike . To think that copper is
electricity is ignorance of the truth of electricity. There is big difference between saying it
electricity and saying that it acts as good as electricity when it flows through it. The latter is
the accurate description.
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Five points of similarlity between Archa Avatāra Vs. Nāma Avatāra.

1.
a. ARCHA AVATĀRA
Matter vigraha or parakrta vigraha of the Deity is fully spiritualized and made potentially
omnipotent by the descending into it of the omnipotent sac-çidānanda prakrta-like Aprakrta
Archa vigraha resembling the form of the external matter vigraha.
b. NĀMA AVATĀRA
Matter name-sound or prakrta Nama is fully spiritualized and invested with all energies and
made potentially omnipotent by the descending into it of the transcendental omnipotent
sac-çidānanda prakrta-like Aprakrta Name-sound resembling sound vibrated by our tongue.
Nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija sarva śakti.
2.
a. ARCHA AVATĀRA
Sac-çid-ānanda prakrta-like Aprakrta Archa vigraha which has descended into the Deity is a
merciful incarnation of original sac-cid-ānanda form of the Lord in the spiritual world
expanding into a form similar to matter form and merging into the features of matter form
to reside and receive services from the conditioned souls through the spiritualized matter
form.
b. NĀMA AVATĀRA
Sac-çid-ānanda prakrta-like Aprakrta Nāma Avatāra who descends into that vibrated prakrta
Nāma the merciful incarnation of the original Aprakrta Nāma in the spiritual world by
becoming a sound similar in features of the materially vibrated sound to receive the
services from the conditioned souls who can only touch spiritualized matter now with their
materia mind and senses.
3.
a. ARCHA AVATĀRA
The external form of that matter, i.e., Prakrta archa vigraha whenever rendered service
with faith, it is tantamount to serving the incarnated Sac-çidānanda prakrta-like Aprakrta
Archa vigraha who has descended and merged its features into the spiritualized matter
though He is not seen directly since our spiritual mind and senses of pure seeing is not
awakened due to ignorance.The ignorance that I can enjoy through them independently of
devotional service. Experientially we are not able to see sac-cit ānanda Deity form though
existentially we are touching Him with our attention and faith.
b.NĀMA AVATĀRA
The external sound of that vibrating matter is spiritual-ized and can be called sac-cit-
ananda-ized Śaktyāvēşa prakrta Nāma Avatāra. When chanted, heard and remembered
attentively as a service, it is tantamount to serving the sac-cit-ananda prakrta-like Aprakrta
Suddha Nāma Avatāra who has descended into the spiritualized vibrating form of the
matter with attention and faith even though we may not yet be hearing the spiritual name
with our spiritual senses as our sense of spiritual speaking and hearing is not awakened
due to ignorance covering our spiritual tongue, ears and mind. The ignorance that I can
enjoy through them independently of devotional service.
4.
a. ARCHA AVATĀRA
We can commit offenses to the Deity by not respecting His act of descended presence of
Sac-çidānanda prakrta-like Aprakrta Archa vigraha and by not treating or serving Him
attentively and respectfully as God should be served. This is called sēva aparadha.
When service is rendered to the Archa vigraha faithfully on the instruction of Guru with
faith in the presence of the Aprakrta Lord without offenses, we are gradually purified and
liberated from the material covering by the service of chanting and hearing attentively and
our mind and senses become purified.
b. NĀMA AVATĀRA
We can commit offenses to the Nāma avatara by not respecting His act of descended
presence as sound incarnation of prakrta-like aprakrta Nama by incarnating into the
vibrating sound with our tongue. Instead we see the sound like any otherordinary sound.
That is called Nāma aparadha.
When service is rendered faithfully to the Nāma avatara on the instruction of Guru with
faith in the presence of the Aprakrta Lord without offenses, we are gradually purified and
liberated from the material covering by the service of chanting and hearing attentively and
our mind and senses become purified.
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5.
a. ARCHA AVATĀRA
By such regular association through the practice of devotional service of Deity worship to
the Archa avatara , our purification is completed, and we can transcendentally see and
serve the pure Sac-çid-ānanda Deity and experience His experiential presence (prakata)
with our spiritually awakened senses. Thus, both existential (aprakata-presence) presence
and pure experiential presence ( prakata-presence) of the Deity takes place. When one
attain experiential seeing of the Sac-çidānanda prakrta-like Aprakrta Archa vigraha with
ones awakened spiritual eyes, one gets all symptoms of ecstacy just as Chaitnaya
Mahaprabhu fainted on having the darshan of Lord Jaganath.
b.NĀMA AVATĀRA
By regular service and association of Nāma Avatāra, through devotional service of chanting
and hearing, the purification is completed. At that stage, we can transcendentally perceive
and serve Śuddha Nāma with our awakened spiritual tongue, ears and mind. Thus, both
existential presence and experiential presence of Śuddha Nāma or Pure holy name takes
place. At that time we will seek a million ears and tongues to taste the sweetness of Nāma
as Rupa Goswami has described that experience.
But as beginners, we can only perceive the external Deity vigraha or exernal Nama with our
senses until we develop spiritual eyes of faith to start perceiving in His fullness as all three
features of the incarnation in one. It means to see with the vision that the Deity or Nama
as three in one as God (Avatāri), God’s own expansion (avatāra) and spiritualzsed material
energy (external vigraha). There is no spatial or temporal distance between Them. Thus
the Deity or Nama Avatara is the complete absolute truth or Advaya jnāna. There is nothing
material there.
" The Deity is known as the arça-vigraha or arça-avatāra, an incarnation of the

Supreme Lord in the form of a material manifestation (brass, stone or wood).
Ultimately there is no diff erence between Krishna manifest in matter or Krishna
manifest in spirit because both are His energies. For Krishna, there is no
distinction between matter and spirit. His manifestation in material form,
therefore, is as good as His original form, sat-çidānanda-vigraha"
Brahma Samhita 5.1
Obviously the Nama avatara is more accessible to masses than Archa avatara. You have to
go to the Archa vigraha to meet Him but in the case of Nama avatara, He comes to where
we are just for moving the tongue with faith. Installing and worshipping Archa avatara
requires so many pure ingredients and is very elaborate procedure. But worshipping Nama
avatara does not require any ingredients nor any preparations, not even a bath. Simply we
have to receive the Nama with faith from a pure devotee and chant under His guidance. We
have to appreciate the super merciful nature of Nama Prabhu and take full advantage of His
free distribution of His mercy.
The Acaryas in our line perfectly combined both these worships in our daily life.
Pancharatrika vidhi of Deity worship and bhagavata vidhi of chanting and hearing.
Ys
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From Srila Prabhupada in Science of Self Realization

Srila Prabhupada in Chapter 6 of Topmost yoga system

Srila Prabhupada letter dated 8/7/1969

sa hovaca brahma sadhu prshto asmi

bhagavata adipurushasya narayanasya namoccaranamatrena nirdhrtakalir

iti shodasakam namnam kalikalmashanasanam

We chant this mantra by reversing the order of the two

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Soulful Japa is not merely some technique. It is perfection of personal relationship.

Techniques typically connote step-by-step impersonal processes. Therefore this caution

Offering intention-desire-purpose energy- āśā śakti

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Srila Prabhupada Morning Walk April 1, 1974

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Śrīla Prabhupāda speaks about the mercy of the Lord:

Mindless japa, Mindful japa, and Soulful japa

Just as air-conditioning creates a suitable favourable atmosphere to work in a room, the

Habit can be a blessing or a curse.

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Final instructions 23 rd Dec 1936

Let us become strong devotees of Hare Krishna Nama Prabhu.

HariNāma Cintamani 2.31

krishnera samagra lila naame vidyamaana

But the journey begins with the

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On background context of devotional service

Thus devotional service of japa is to be performed in the foreground of a background

Lecture-Detroit, July 16, 1971

Application to our japa

Similarly, if you associate with this transcendental incarnation, sound

Srila Prabhupada letter, January 6, 1972

CC Madhya 15.110, Translation

How can a sound uttered by my material tongue be God

nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis

Authorised post box is same as General Post office

Śrīla Prabhupāda, Lecture on Śrī Çaitanya-Çaritāmrta, Madhya-līlā 20.245-255 -- December

Krishna is an unlimited Supreme Personality and the mathematics of expansions of Lord’s

Initiation is a formality. If you are serious, that is real initiation. My touch is

…..Well initiation or no initiation, first thing is knowledge…. knowledge.

Srila Prabhupada Letter 19th August 1968

Spiritualizing our material bodies

We cannot hear Krishna with material ears. Therefore sound incarnation.

EK 5: Knowing Krishna’s Energies

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The principle of Nāma Avatāra.

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The chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is a transcendental vibration; it is not a

" Journey of Self Discovery -3.2

Note the word 'resembling matter' used by Srila Prabhupada.

Nama Avatara as combination of Aprākrta Nama and Empowered Prākrta Nama

Srila Prabhupada conversation 25/2/77

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The Name of Krishna is not sound vibration of this world

Never reduce Krishna only to a stone.

Never reduce Krishna only to a prākrta sabda produced by you.

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Our journey of self-purification and awakening of the spiritual mind.

Bhaktivedanta Purport to SB 2.4.22

Srila Prabhupada conversation 25/2/77

Subject: Krishna is one and different from His energies

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Subject: The Nama Avatara is omnipotent or Śaktyāvēşa avatāra.

Śrī Çaitanya-Çaritāmrta, Madhya-līlā 20.245-255 -- December 16, 1966, New York

Kali-yuga in this age, this incarnation of name—Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,

Cc. Madhya 17.136

Though Aprakrta Nama or Vigraha is prakrta-like in its features and it is a transcendental

Bhagavad Gīta Lecture March 25th, New York

Lecture by Srila Prabhupada on Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi 4.89