This chanting without a crooked mentality causes him to accumulate sukrti.

Pankaja_Dasa · August 13, 2004

Hare Krishna Prabhus!

Just got sent this book. Opened the pages {even before I could look I saw the Maha-Mantra and was forced to chant! Amazing!

Anybody who fears chanting should read this. This should induce you to take up chanting. I'd save it for future refference. Jai!

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Art of Chanting

by

Mahanidhi Swami

Good Results of Nama-aparadha

"The accumulation of sins from nama-aparadha is even more dreadful than the result of committing the five maha-papa millions of times. Thus one can easily estimate the dire results of nama-aparadha. Nevertheless, there are some good results.

"The holy name will give whavever result the nama-aparadhi desires while he is chanting the names, but it will not award krsna-prema. At the same time, the offender has to suffer the result of offences against the holy name. One who commits offences to the holy name, and one who takes the name with a wicked mentality will get the following results: In the beginning, the namaparadhi chants the name with a wicked mentality, but after sometime he occasionally chants the name free from wickedness.

"This chanting without a crooked mentality causes him to accumulate sukrti. Slowly, slowly, as that sukrti increases, its influence enables him to get the association of saintly people who are chanting suddha-nama. The influence of saints induces the nama-aparadhi to chant the holy names constantly, which eventually free him from nama-aparadhas"

(Jaiva Dharma ch.25)