{"id":4716,"date":"2019-07-30T08:42:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2019-07-30T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:50:03","slug":"4716-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/4716-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we should not sing the Maha Mantra after singing to Lord Nrsimha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/da1_slideshow-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/da1_slideshow-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/da1_slideshow-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/da1_slideshow-1-728x410.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/da1_slideshow-1-364x205.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/da1_slideshow-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why we should not sing the Maha Mantra after singing to Lord Nrsimha<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nIn some temples you hear that devotees mix songs that have nothing to do one with the others in terms of rasa and also do some kind of \u201cwild mixing\u201d of Mantras.<br \/>\nLike for instance chanting Narasimha Pranama and after Gaura Nitai Ki Jay, and things like that.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting is or should be meditation. Imagine if one is meditating on Narasimha-lila while chanting the mantras and suddenly he is awakened in another pastime that has nothing to do with the previous one.<br \/>\nThis is called rasabhasa, a disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like being awakened in the morning with a sweet shenai and suddenly a devotee comes into your room beating the mridanga and chanting with a loud voice. There is nothing wrong in beating the mridanga, screaming \u201cHaribol\u201d and dancing, we should all do that, but it was the wrong time.<br \/>\nIf one is in a type of meditation, you should not disturb him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if the devotees are not into any kind of meditation, if they are just singing, then anything goes. We can chant Hare Krishna, then Narasimha Pranama, then Radhe Radhe, then Haribol, then Hare krishna, then back to Narasimha again etc.<br \/>\nIn my mind this is a mess but if there is no meditation going on, they are all holy names, and it\u2019s allright.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Manonatha Dasa (ACBSP)<br \/>\n30 jul 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question Why we should not sing the Maha Mantra after singing to Lord Nrsimha &nbsp; Answer In some temples you hear that devotees mix songs that have nothing to do one with the others in terms &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/4716-2\/\" aria-label=\"Why we should not sing the Maha Mantra after singing to Lord Nrsimha\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 10:11:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}