Sunday, August 31, 2008
Secret kept secret
Nityananda ! Gauranga ! Hare Krishna !
Vrajanatha: Where to obtain the mantras to worship Lord Gauranga who has come as a covered incarnation?
Babaji: The scriptures that openly give mantras for worshipping the openly manifested incarnations of the Lord, secretly reveal the mantras for worshipping the secret and hidden incarnation of Lord Gauranga. People whose intelligence is not crooked can understand the presence of these mantras.
Bhaktivinod Thakur could have simply answered this question by saying that the mantra is Gauranga. But he did not do this. Rather he said that since it is a SECRET mantra it is revealed secretly in scriptures and only a person whose intelligence is not crooked can understand it. Actually only a pure devotees intelligence is not crooked as he has transcended the 3 modes so only he can understand it but it makes no difference for a pure devotee whether he chants Hare Krishna or Gauranga as it has an equal effect on him. Infact a person whose intelligence is crooked should be given this mantra so that it can help him to come out of his conditioned state faster. Inspite of this fact Bhaktivinod Thakur did not reveal the mantra directly. I think this means that he knew the time had yet not come to reveal this mantra and the Lord by His will would soon reveal it to the world. May be this is also another reason why Srila Prabhupada did not reveal the mantra directly ( though he secretly revealed in his book) to the world and taught the whole world about Radha Krishna so that later on when the Gauranga mantra would be revealed the whole world would be able to understand it much better.
I am sorry if I made a mistake in my above statements but this is atleast how I understand it.
Nityananda ! Gauranga ! Hare Krishna !
Sincerly,
Mihir.
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