Re: The Maha-Mantra Research Project

Dear Lowerthanarat,

        Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances!

        You've given me a good idea. Perhaps we should do something like this for Nitaai Gaura naam to get first-timers to chant the mantrarajas atleast for a while on the pretext of experiments. We should see what effect it has over the long term because having chanted Nityananda Gauranga, they immeditately destroy unlimited sins and offenses and sooner or later they will get the opportunity to become full fledged devotees. Chanting Nityananda Gauranga just once eventually brought me and many others here you know.

         Authentic Silent Manasika Japa  (ASM) of the mantrarajas could be a runaway success story. I personally do it and its spiritual effect is so incredibly strong that an experiment like this with ASM could astonish our modern scientists. Mantraraja meditation in the name of experiments is probably the most subtle way to get people to chant Nityananda Gauranga without letting them overly bothered of what they're following. Maybe I should try to get this popularised in my attempt at preaching. ASM's side effects are strong enough to win many a person's attraction.

        But we must be very careful that while trying to find a good marketing strategy we don't lose the real intention and purpose behind preaching of the holy names of the Lord. The truth has to be presented as it is, but in a way that appeals without losing the original purpose. Like when Srila Prabhupada was preaching to the hippies, he claimed that he was giving them the means to put them on an all time 'high' that would be permanent!! Spiritual drugs to cure material adiction!

        A word aside to the empirical rationalist : Our acaryas though have put all modern science and philosophy through the razor sharp mill of Vedic philosophy . We should put all their theories to the Vedic test so that they don't dictate the terms -- instead they learn to respect the Vedic truth and use that as their measuring scale.

Sincerely,

Srinath

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