Nityananda!! Gauranga!! Hare Krishna!! Yes, that is true Mihir. Since Nityaananda Gauraanga Naama do not consider our offensive mentality, he would have neutralized his reactions towards the offensive chanting of Hari Naama and would have been saved from the ghostly body.
Daaso'smi, BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada.
Dear Gurudev, Ishan Prabhu and devotees,
Nityaananda ! Gauraanga ! Hare Krishna !
Dandavat Pranaams.
Thank you for such a wonderful post. I would like to request you to post more of such nectar daily.
However there is a question that has arisen in my mind. Incase if this cheater brahman would have chanted NGN also along with HKMM then would he have become a ghost or he would have got liberation ? Can someone pls guide me with my query ?
Sincerely,
Mihir.
When Sarasvati Thakura was young he was often taken to visit holy places of Bengal by his father, Bhaktivinoda Thakura. Bengal abounds in holy places connected to Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates. Once they set out for Kulina-grama, a village whose inhabitants were very dear to Caitanya Mahaprabhu (cf. Caitanya-caritamrta Adi-lila 10.80-83). Arriving there late one evening, father and son were given a house to stay in. Next morning the villagers asked, �Did you sleep comfortably?�
Bhaktivinoda replied, �Yes! Thank you very much.� Surprised, the villagers asked, �How could you sleep? That house is haunted by a brahma-raksasa (the ghost of a brahmana). We had no other place to give you. But no-one can sleep there peacefully because of disturbances from the ghost.� Bhaktivinoda Thakura replied, �Yes, that ghost came and tried to disturb us. But I chanted the Hare Krsna maha-mantra very loudly. As a result, not only did the ghost go away, but I can assure you he will not trouble anyone else any more.� Astonished, the villagers asked Bhaktivinoda Thakura, �How could you send him away by chanting Hare Krsna? He was a priest here in this village and he chanted �Hare Krsna� throughout his life. How then, did he become a ghost, and how was it that your chanting has sent him away?�
Bhaktivinoda Thakura explained that the priest�s chanting could not have been actual chanting at all. Sinful people make a show of chanting with the intention of acquiring wealth and reputation. Such so-called chanting is only cheating. It is not actual chanting. Bhaktivinoda Thakura quoted Jagadananda Pandita�s Prema-vivarta: � �asadhu-sange bhai nama kabhu naya, bahire nama-aksara bate, tabe nama nahi haya� �Those not in the association of bona-fide devotees, strictly following theirinstructions, cannot actually chant the holy names. Even though they may externally vibrate the sound, �Hare Krsna,� thatis not actually the name of Krsna.�
The name of Krsna is non-different from Krsna. It is completely pure and spiritual. Krsna-nama does not allow Himself to be hijacked by materialists. This man never actually chanted the Hare Krsna mantra even once in his life. On the contrary, he was a sinful person who wanted to use the name for sense gratification. Because of the great offense of taking Krsna�s name to cheat people, he became a ghost. When I chanted, Krsna was pleased to manifest Himself as that sound. A sinful ghost cannot stay in the presence of such chanting.� This incident was published in a famous daily newspaper of Bengal, the �Amrit Bazar Patrika.�After this, the glories of Bhaktivinoda Thakura becamewidely known for the first time.
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krsna
All glories to Srilla Bhaktivinoda Thakura!
All glories to guru parampara!
Nityanaaaaandaaaa! Gauraaaaaanga!
