Spiritual master, initiation and reactions

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krsna

In Hari-nama-cintamani it is said:

sraddha-hine peye nama aparadhe mare
sange sange guruke abhakta shighra kare

"If a faithless unqualified person gets initiated into the chanting of Krishna's Name, then surely he or she will engage in nama-aparadha and be destroyed. Along with his or her own degradation, the disciple will also convert the Guru also into a non-devotee because the Guru gave the Name is the first place and thus is the cause for the offenses of the disciple."

So aspirant may be very troubled with this description. Sincere student will hesitate....I am surely unqualified person to get initiated into the chanting of Krshna's Name, and surely I do not want to harm my Gurudeva!

So questions are:

   1. Is spiritual master protected from such reaction if his students/disciples are chanting Nityananda and Gauranga Names?
  
   2. Does this description means that for many persons it is better to stay un-innitiated, because according to this verse it will save them and guru from disaster.
  
   3. How we may properly understand that in various lineages/vaisnava communities initiations are widely given. We can practically see that many persons come, many are go away, and only few are staying fixed and determined to practice bhakti-yoga for whole life. Is there some possible danger for taking/giving initiations widely and easily to almost everyone or it is manifestation of audarya, mercy?

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krsna

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