Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Ten Offenses
This week we are going to study in the Japa Room about the Ten Offenses to be avoided while chanting the Hare Krsna maha mantra. I think it's valuable to remind myself and everyone about them:
1. To blaspheme devotees who have dedicated their lives to chanting the holy name of the Lord. The holy name, who is identical with Krishna, will never tolerate such blasphemous activities.
2. To consider the names of Lord Siva or Lord Brahma to be on an equal level with the holy name of Lord Vishnu.
3. To disobey the orders of the spiritual master or to consider him an ordinary person.
4. To blaspheme the Vedic literatures or literatures in pursuance of the Vedic version.
5. To give some interpretation on the holy name of the Lord.
6. To consider the glories of the holy name of the Lord as imagination.
7. To think that the Hare Krishna mantra can counteract all sinful reactions and one may therefore go on with his sinful activities and at the same time chant the Hare Krishna mantra to neutralise them is the greatest offense at the lotus feet of Hari-nama.
8. To consider the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra to be one of the auspicious ritualistic mantras mentioned in the Vedas as fruitive activity.
9. It is an offense to preach the glories of the holy name of the Lord to the faithless.
10. If one has heard the glories of the transcendental holy name of the Lord but nevertheless continues in a materialistic concept of life, thinking ���I am this body and everything belonging to this body is mine [aham mameti],��� and does not show respect and love for the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, that is an offense.
Api Pramadah: It is also an offense to be inattentive while chanting.
2. To consider the names of Lord Siva or Lord Brahma to be on an equal level with the holy name of Lord Vishnu.
3. To disobey the orders of the spiritual master or to consider him an ordinary person.
4. To blaspheme the Vedic literatures or literatures in pursuance of the Vedic version.
5. To give some interpretation on the holy name of the Lord.
6. To consider the glories of the holy name of the Lord as imagination.
7. To think that the Hare Krishna mantra can counteract all sinful reactions and one may therefore go on with his sinful activities and at the same time chant the Hare Krishna mantra to neutralise them is the greatest offense at the lotus feet of Hari-nama.
8. To consider the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra to be one of the auspicious ritualistic mantras mentioned in the Vedas as fruitive activity.
9. It is an offense to preach the glories of the holy name of the Lord to the faithless.
10. If one has heard the glories of the transcendental holy name of the Lord but nevertheless continues in a materialistic concept of life, thinking ���I am this body and everything belonging to this body is mine [aham mameti],��� and does not show respect and love for the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, that is an offense.
Api Pramadah: It is also an offense to be inattentive while chanting.
Hare Krsna.
Aruna dd
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