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		<title>Use of Haribol, Apprehensions and Objections</title>
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?
I have few doubts since long.
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Subject:   Use of Haribol, Apprehensions and Objections<br />
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Dear devotees and Guru Maharaj,<br />
Please accept my humble obeisance at your lotus feet.<br />
?<br />
I have few doubts since long.</p>
<p>1. Call for Haribol or Hare Krishna maha mantra to welcome someone.</p>
<p>2. Apprehension to say Haribol. 2a. Particularly in loud cry as<br />
encouragement.</p>
<p>3. Real objections to chant Haribol, Hariboli<br />
?<br />
Doubt 1. Call for Haribol or Hare Krishna maha mantra to welcome someone.<br />
I understand (I may be wrong), traditionally people were welcomed at the<br />
door by dipak or arati or in ISKCON, devotees were welcoming Srila<br />
Prabhupada by Hare Krishna Kirtan.<br />
?<br />
But for welcoming someone on stage, people would say: ?We welcome Mr. ABC?.<br />
Later, following foreign culture, they will say: ?We welcome Mr. ABC with a<br />
bouquet.?<br />
?<br />
Later in ISKCON devotees also started similarly saying: ? ?We<br />
welcome/appreciate/thank XYZ prabhu by chanting three times ?Haribol? ?.<br />
Then some devotees modified it as: ? We welcome/appreciate/thank ABC prabhu<br />
by chanting three times Hare Krishna maha mantra (whole).?<br />
?<br />
It seems some innovation, though we are taught to follow acharyas and not<br />
add or delete anything to philosophy or traditions. If someone called onto<br />
stage and meanwhile Hare Krishna maha mantra is chanted till the person<br />
comes to stage, that is all right, but when we announce: ? We welcome/<br />
appreciate /thank XYZ prabhu by chanting three times Haribol or Hare Krishna<br />
Mahamantra? that seems very strange to me as if Haribol or Hare Krishna maha<br />
mantra is some vastu/object which is called for in respect of someone, be it<br />
a devotee, who is called onto stage and is engaged in his service.<br />
?<br />
Of course when Srila Prabhupada was welcomed at Airports by devotees,<br />
devotees did not say: ?We welcome you, Srila Prabhupada, by Hare Krishna<br />
maha mantra?, though they sang It.<br />
?<br />
Doubt 2. Apprehension to say Haribol.<br />
I understand that some devotees have apprehension in saying ?Haribol?. Some<br />
devotees say, Guru Maharaj does not like it. I ask them what exactly Guru<br />
Maharaj does not like. I feel devotees are exaggerating or interpreting<br />
differently, Guru Maharaj must be indicating something else.<br />
?<br />
I may be wrong, but I saw in vedabase, many times Haribol is used to address<br />
/call / greet someone, and to express exclamation, ecstasy, ?joy,<br />
excitement, loud cry for encouragement, etc.<br />
?<br />
Here are some quotes:<br />
To address / call<br />
Sarvabhauma: Jai, Jai, Jai, Haribol, Haribol, Haribol! Sati-mata, Sati, my<br />
good wife, Sati-mata! Come immediately, Sati Mata, I have great news, come<br />
immediately!!!<br />
From: The Story of Amogh, CC, Madhya- Ch-15<br />
?<br />
To greet (as we use Hare Krishna to greet someone)<br />
Child: Haribol! Haribol! Haribol! Haribol!<br />
Prabhup?da: Haribol! Haribol! Haribol! (devotees chant japa)<br />
Child: Haribol! (child makes sounds for some time)<br />
Prabhup?da: Let him play.<br />
From: Conversations , 1976 Conversations, August 1976, Evening Darshan,<br />
August 10, 1976, Tehran<br />
?<br />
Excitement / Ecstasy / Joy<br />
Nity?nanda, coming out of His trance, instantly recognised the voice of Sri<br />
Caitanya and with utmost respect He chanted out aloud, ?Haribol!? and upon<br />
seeing the face of Gauracandra was instantly swept away on a wave of ecstasy<br />
that is impossible to describe. Roaring like a lion, Nity?nanda constantly<br />
uttered, ?Haribol! Haribol! Haribol!? and fell to the ground like a stick,<br />
paralysed by intense joy.<br />
From: Chaitanya Bhagavat- Antya &#8211; CB 7- Pastimes with Sri Gadadhar Pandit<br />
?<br />
Raising His (Nitai) arms and saying, ?Haribol! Haribol! Haribol!? and<br />
shedding tears from His two lotus eyes.<br />
From: Sri Nityanand Charitamrita, Antya Khanda, Prayers to Nityananda, by<br />
Vrindavan das Thakur<br />
?<br />
Advaita ?c?rya would walk behind the Lord and loudly chant ?Haribol!<br />
Haribol!? again and again.<br />
From: CC Madhya 13.87<br />
?<br />
chale-bale l???u kh?y sri-madhuma?gala ?| bagala b?j?y ?ra drya hari-bolo ||<br />
From: Bhoga Arati, Bhakti Vinoda Thakur<br />
?<br />
It is said that when he was an infant in his mother&#8217;s arms he wept<br />
continually, and when the neighboring ladies cried Haribol he used to stop.<br />
From: TLC Prologue<br />
?<br />
When the Lord danced, He raised His arms and shouted, &#8220;Haribol! Haribol!&#8221;<br />
From: TLC 1-Teachings to Rupa Goswami<br />
?<br />
The five-faced Lord ?iva embraces N?rada Muni and repeatedly makes loud<br />
screams of ecstatic joy, while Lord Brahm? dances very ecstatically and<br />
exclaims, &#8220;All of you chant &#8216;Haribol ! Haribol!&#8217;&#8221;<br />
?<br />
Purport by Srila Prabhupada:<br />
And seeing Lord ?iva, he&#8217;s dancing with N?rada Muni, Lord Brahm? also<br />
joined, and he began to say, &#8220;All of you, kindly chant haribol, haribol!&#8221; In<br />
this way, gradually the king of heaven, Indra, he also joined with great<br />
satisfaction and began to dance and chant, &#8220;hari hari bol.&#8221;<br />
From: Ma?gala-Vibh?na-Ekat?l?-4, Srila Bhakti Vinoda Thakur<br />
?<br />
2a. Apprehension particularly in loud cry as encouragement.<br />
Also in war different war cries are used to invoke and increase the<br />
enthusiasm of soldiers like, Jay Sri Rama or Jaya Bajarang Bali by devotees<br />
of Hanuman or Har Har Mahadev by Shaivites or Sat Sri Akal by Sikhs. More<br />
shorter they are, more effective?they are. By Gaudiya Vaishnavas ?Haribol?<br />
as a loud cry is to encourage / enthuse devotees for something like kirtan<br />
or book distribution or cleaning or any other seva.<br />
?<br />
Now after book distribution when someone?s name or score is announced,<br />
anchor call for long Hare Krishna maha mantra. Is it appropriate as a loud<br />
cry to encourage someone? Should it not be very short to shout like<br />
Haribollllllllllii..with more emphasis on middle letter? In English Hurrayi,<br />
Weldonei, Bravoi, etc, they are very short words but very effective and<br />
similarly ours is Haribol, very short but more effective to encourage. Whole<br />
Hare krishna mantra is not short and hence no possibility of putting weight<br />
on particular letter in the middle to invoke enthusiasm.<br />
?<br />
Doubt 3: Objections:<br />
I found some objections to Haribol from Vedabase arei<br />
?<br />
As Srila Prabhup?da sat on the small stage, Lokan?tha Mah?r?ja led his men<br />
in an exuberant kirtan. After singing the standard prayers and the<br />
mah?-mantra, he began chanting &#8220;gaura-nity?nanda bol, haribol, haribol;<br />
gaura-sriadvaita bol, haribol, haribol; gaura-sri gad?dhara bol, haribol<br />
haribol &#8230; with a lot of emphasis on the response of haribol, haribol.<br />
Srila Prabhup?da suddenly signalled him from the stage to stop it; he<br />
apparently didn&#8217;t like it, although he didn&#8217;t say why.<br />
From: A Transcendental Dairy Vol-4, TD 4-4, New Delhi, August 30, 1976<br />
?<br />
After the temple darshan in the evening there is always a big kirtan during<br />
?rati, especially with Lokan?tha Mah?r?ja and his men here, as they are<br />
extremely enthusiastic chanters. However, they have developed a style of<br />
kirtan that is a little different from the ISKCON norm. When the kirtan<br />
reaches its climax, they gather around in a group and start singing<br />
&#8216;nit?i-gaura haribol, haribol, haribol, haribol.&#8217; They get completely<br />
carried away with chanting haribol. Sometimes they go on for five or ten<br />
minutes singing back and forth, &#8216;haribol, haribol! haribol, haribol!<br />
Sometimes it even goes on longer than the chanting of the mah?-mantra. Some<br />
devotees are not happy about it, although no one can fault their enthusiasm.<br />
?<br />
Harikesh Swami objects to it quite strongly, and this evening he went into<br />
the garden to ask Srila Prabhup?da&#8217;s opinion. Since we have never heard<br />
Srila Prabhupada sing this mantra, Harikesh had doubts it was actually a<br />
bona fide practice. Prabhup?da had stopped Lokan?tha&#8217;s kirtan at the pandala<br />
in Delhi, but at that time he gave no reason why.<br />
?<br />
Now this evening, Prabhup?da, although not too upset by it, made it clear<br />
that such chanting was not approved by him. He told us that we should mainly<br />
chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. He said &#8216;nit?i-gaura haribol&#8217; is all<br />
right, because they are bona fide names of the Lord, but the real point is<br />
that we should strictly follow only what the ?c?ryas have given. This is the<br />
process.<br />
He said that the ?c?ryas only chant all five names of the Pancha-tattva, not<br />
just two. So although there is no offence in chanting the names of<br />
GauraNit?i, if we deviate and chant our own made-up mantras then this is<br />
guror-Avajnya, or disobeying the orders of the spiritual master, and the<br />
line of ?c?ryas. To make advancement in spiritual life one must always<br />
follow the line of ?c?ryas.<br />
From: A Transcendental Dairy Vol-4, TD 4-5, Sri Vrindavan Dham<br />
?<br />
I have also heard from other devotees, ? Srila Prabhupada says: ?Ours? is<br />
Hare Krishna movement and not Haribol movement? ? but could not find any<br />
reference. Some devotee can help me in this regard.<br />
?<br />
I have mixed my doubts with my opinions (which may be wrong), please ignore<br />
it and clear my doubts. I ask for forgiveness for giving my own opinions.<br />
But devotees please correct me with Srila Prabhupada? and Guru Maharaj?s<br />
words.<br />
?<br />
Your servant,<br />
?<br />
Vijay Krishna das.</p>
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Subject:   Great personalities outside bona fide sampradayas
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Dear devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances unto you.
Hare Krishna.
?
I read or hear Srila Prabhupada extensively quoting Chanakya Pandit and
sometimes Tulasi das, and Jesus [...]]]></description>
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Subject:   Great personalities outside bona fide sampradayas<br />
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Dear devotees,<br />
Please accept my humble obeisances unto you.<br />
Hare Krishna.<br />
?<br />
I read or hear Srila Prabhupada extensively quoting Chanakya Pandit and<br />
sometimes Tulasi das, and Jesus Christ.<br />
He also appreciates Socratis, Jesus Christ, Tukaram, Mirabai?and many others<br />
who are not from bonafide sampradaya.<br />
But is it only occasionally to teach some particular point or he wants us to<br />
learn, study, and?regulaly read?their teachings at length?? Like Chanakya<br />
niti shastra, Jesus&#8217; Bible, Socratis&#8217;?philosophy, Tukaram&#8217;s bhajans,?etc.<br />
?<br />
If it is so then should?we?include other?local devotees or great<br />
personalities whose philosophy or writings to some extent matching with<br />
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu&#8217;s teachings?<br />
?<br />
Then someone will add Narasinh Mehta (Gujarat), Nabhadas (Rajasthan), Namdev<br />
(Maharashtra), Guruvani (Sikhs), Ramananda Swami, Kabir?and others.<br />
?<br />
They are welknown and may be pure devotees?but not from bonafide sampradaya.<br />
I ask this question because many ISKCON devotees profusely quote Goswami<br />
Tulasidas as if propagating Tulasidas&#8217; sampradaya. Then?we disregard our<br />
own?fundamental basic privilege of being in bonafide sampradaya.<br />
?<br />
As for propagating at least should we not stick to Sri Chaitanya<br />
Mahaprabhu&#8217;s teachings which encompass teachings of?all bonafide<br />
sampradayas? Is it not self illuminating? Does it need help of others<br />
(non-bonafide). How a lamp can help to see a Sun? Or do we need to add<br />
something which is lacking in Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu&#8217;s teachings?<br />
?<br />
Please enlighten me in this regard by acharya&#8217;s opinion.<br />
?<br />
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?<br />
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All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga.
Jay Srila Prabhupada.
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Subject:   Multimedia for children and others<br />
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Please accept my humble obeisances.</p>
<p>All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga.</p>
<p>Jay Srila Prabhupada.</p>
<p>There several devotional videos available within iskcon which includes some<br />
made by devotees and ITV(http://www.itvproductions.net) has large collection<br />
of videos made outside the iskcon also like Prabhupada DVD library, Sampurna<br />
Ramayana etc. There are many popular videos like Ramayana &amp; krishna(By<br />
Ramananda sagar), Mahabharat(By BR Chopra).</p>
<p>There are many animation films by ISKCON devotees and also by others like<br />
damodara lila, stories from panchatantra etc.<br />
There are many video based on science-religion like origin of mankind, moon<br />
hoax etc. Especially children and new comers like to see videos. Also for<br />
students we use some video based on science and religion.</p>
<p>How much it should be promoted within devotee  communities and for new<br />
comers?</p>
<p>Please share on this subject matter.</p>
<p>Your Servant<br />
Damodara Chaitanya Das</p>
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		<title>Bharuch Yatra</title>
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Date:      20-Mar-10 05:50 -0500<br />
To:        BVKS Sanga Mail [4612]  (received: 20-Mar-10 11:59 +0100)<br />
Subject:   Bharuch Yatra<br />
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(7, 8, 9 May), please let me know.</p>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t want bad cows</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Devotee (8): Prabhupada? Some of the people I&#8217;ve met&#8230; Like in the later
volumes of Srimad-Bhagavatam, some of the information is so much against
what the living entities are experiencing and being educated in, that I&#8217;ve
noticed that some people have turned away from Krsna who already had some
attraction when they hear these different topics, like the situation [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Devotee (8): Prabhupada? Some of the people I&#8217;ve met&#8230; Like in the later<br />
volumes of Srimad-Bhagavatam, some of the information is so much against<br />
what the living entities are experiencing and being educated in, that I&#8217;ve<br />
noticed that some people have turned away from Krsna who already had some<br />
attraction when they hear these different topics, like the situation of the<br />
universe.</p>
<p>Prabhupada: Hm? What is that?</p>
<p>Brahmananda: That because in Srimad-Bhagavatam the knowledge there<br />
contradicts the mundane scientific knowledge, people who had some faith in<br />
Krsna become discouraged and turn away from Krsna.</p>
<p>Prabhupada: Let him go away. Don&#8217;t care for him. Let all the fools go away.<br />
There is Bengali proverb, &#8220;Instead of maintaining some bad cows, let the<br />
cowshed be vacant.&#8221; We shall prefer the cowshed vacant, no cow, than keeping<br />
all bad cows who does not give any milk, create disturbance.</p>
<p>Devotee (8): In our temple&#8230;</p>
<p>Prabhupada: We are giving chance, but we don&#8217;t want bad cows. We haven&#8217;t got<br />
to agree with their views. They must agree with our views, then they can<br />
live. Otherwise let them go away. This is position.</p>
<p>Morning Walk &#8212; November 1, 1975, Nairobi</p>
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		<title>Srila Prabhupada on disciples&#8217; problems, 1969</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada wrote:
If all problems come to me, even personal problems, then it becomes a heavy
task for me. I received your letter, full of problems; Gargamuni&#8217;s, full of
problems; Rayarama&#8217;s, full of problems, and similarly Iskcon Media&#8217;s, full
of problems. If everyone&#8217;s problems are sent by me, then who will solve my
problems? I have divided these departments [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Srila Prabhupada wrote:</p>
<p>If all problems come to me, even personal problems, then it becomes a heavy<br />
task for me. I received your letter, full of problems; Gargamuni&#8217;s, full of<br />
problems; Rayarama&#8217;s, full of problems, and similarly Iskcon Media&#8217;s, full<br />
of problems. If everyone&#8217;s problems are sent by me, then who will solve my<br />
problems? I have divided these departments to solve problems, but if in the<br />
end they are all sent to me and I have to tackle, then just imagine what is<br />
my position. The best thing would be to stop all activities and simply chant<br />
Hare Krishna.</p>
<p> &gt;&gt;&gt; Ref. VedaBase =&gt; Letter to: Brahmananda  &#8212;  Columbus, Ohio 15 May,<br />
1969</p>
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		<title>Books On The Home Front, Another Venue For BD</title>
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Text PAMHO:19281248 (44 lines)
From:      Vijaya (das) HDG (USA)
Date:      17-Mar-10 02:13 -0500 (11:13 +0400)
To:        BDN (Book Distribution Nectar) [3006]
Cc:        Benelux Free Forum [5451]  (sender: Manohara das [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Forwarded Message &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Text PAMHO:19281248 (44 lines)<br />
From:      Vijaya (das) HDG (USA)<br />
Date:      17-Mar-10 02:13 -0500 (11:13 +0400)<br />
To:        BDN (Book Distribution Nectar) [3006]<br />
Cc:        Benelux Free Forum [5451]  (sender: Manohara das (Radhadesh -<br />
BE))<br />
Subject:   Books on the home front, another venue for BD<br />
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<p>In Sydney, I mainly do book distribution on the street. We are also very<br />
fortunate to have a strong team of six Devamrita Swamis bramacaris opening<br />
the<br />
storehouse of love of God on the streets of hundreds of suburbs in Sydney.</p>
<p>Since I took to the Grhasta asram, I have found another avenue for book<br />
distribution &#8211; inside our house. We set up a shop in the foyer with mainly<br />
books but other paraphenalia also. So we do home programs and some people<br />
buy<br />
books during the programs. But some of the most enlivening experiences are<br />
when<br />
people come to do some work for us or people knock on our door to sell us<br />
things.  We had a plumber come to do some work. He ended up sitting down for<br />
a<br />
full meal of prasadam and bought a Gita and cookbook for $50. He also told<br />
us<br />
about these South American guys who install Pink Bat installation in the<br />
roof<br />
to give extra cooling in summer and heating in winter. He said they do it<br />
for<br />
free as the government offers this benefit to people so they use less air<br />
conditioning etc. So I called them up. They came around a few days later and<br />
installed the insulation. I cooked a simple lunch of Upma, tomato<br />
chutney, strawberry lassi, halava and custard. We all sat on the back lawn<br />
and took lunch prasadam. They all loved the prasadam and one man in<br />
particular<br />
was asking a lot of questions about our philosophy. He out of the four men<br />
asked for seconds and thirds of prasadam!  They went back to work and when<br />
finishing, this one man asked if he could stay and ask some questions. We<br />
sat<br />
down in the shop and he asked very intelligent questions for 1 or 2 hours.<br />
He<br />
ended up buying a variety of books and gave $60.</p>
<p>Sometime later we were preparing for the birth of a child. We planned to do<br />
a<br />
home birth so we got in touch with a professional midwife who has been doing<br />
homebirths for 20 years. On the day she came with her assistant. The birth<br />
went<br />
well and we were chanting Hare Krsna along with Prabhpada on a CD. We also<br />
fed<br />
the midwifes prasadam on the day. After the birth the midwife came for a<br />
visit<br />
and she took a keen interest in the books. She was eagerly looking over them<br />
in<br />
the shop and ended up getting $100 worth of books! The other midwife did not<br />
get any books then, but I met her on the street in her home town some weeks<br />
later and she purchased a Bhagavad Gita.</p>
<p>Also we have had a number of people knocking on our door to sell us<br />
something.<br />
Most of them walk away with a book and some of them are happy to sit down<br />
and<br />
take prasadam with us.  So I encourage all Grhastas to keep a good stock of<br />
books in your house because you don&#8217;t know who will knock on your<br />
door and you can have them walk away with the supreme benefit; Krsna<br />
conciousness, through Srila Prabhupada&#8217;s books.</p>
<p>Your servant, Rupa Raghunatha das<br />
(Text PAMHO:19281248) &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;- End of Forwarded Message &#8212;&#8212;</p>
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		<title>Pradyumna&#8217;s Attachment For Krsna</title>
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Whenever he was ordered by his father to execute something, he would
immediately execute the order, taking the task as nectarean even though it
may have been poison. Similarly, whenever he would find something to be
disapproved of by his father, he would immediately reject it as poison, even
though [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pradyumna&#8217;s attachment for Krsna was always exhibited by his action.<br />
Whenever he was ordered by his father to execute something, he would<br />
immediately execute the order, taking the task as nectarean even though it<br />
may have been poison. Similarly, whenever he would find something to be<br />
disapproved of by his father, he would immediately reject it as poison, even<br />
though it may have been nectarean.</p>
<p>from NOD</p>
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		<title>Truce With The Mind While Chanting</title>
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Date:      16-Mar-10 06:55 +0530
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Subject:   Truce with the mind while chanting
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All glories to Srila Prabhupada &#38; Srila Gurudev
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Date:      16-Mar-10 06:55 +0530<br />
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Subject:   Truce with the mind while chanting<br />
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Dear Devotees,<br />
Please accept my humble obesiances<br />
All glories to Srila Prabhupada &amp; Srila Gurudev</p>
<p>It is said, to make a truce with the mind while chanting Hare Krsna just as<br />
the demigods were instructed by the lord to make a truce with demons while<br />
churning the milk ocean. Practically, when we chant, even if our mind takes<br />
us somewhere else and we are not hearing the holy name properly and without<br />
any disturbance, there is something which keeps us going and instructs that<br />
this activity of chanting is important. But, the mind, which is part of<br />
subtle body rejects this as if guarding our false ego and intelligence.</p>
<p>As our mind is part of our material body and that something which keeps us<br />
going may be spiritual, then why do we have to make a compromise with the<br />
mind which is part of our material body and does not allow us to hear the<br />
holy name,though hearing is important while chanting.</p>
<p>Your servant<br />
Karun Dhamija<br />
New Delhi</p>
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