{"id":52838,"date":"2025-12-08T01:44:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=52838"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:50:48","slug":"namabhasa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/namabhasa-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Namabhasa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Question<\/span><\/h2>\n

Hare Krishna – I am happy to know how glorious is the holy name from your article i.e., “Namabhasa offers eternal residence in the spiritual abode of Vaikuntha, especially in Kali-yuga.” This is the declaration of scripture.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to know the scriptural evidence for the above statement. Please help.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Answer<\/span><\/h2>\n

The article you are referring to has not been written by me so I can’t give you the exact quote. It would certainly be good to give references when saying “sastra says”.<\/span><\/p>\n

However the principle expressed in those sentences is correct.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Namabhasa means chanting of the Holy Names at the clearing stage, therefore still imperfect. There is no prema-bhakti at that stage. But even this type of imperfect chanting will confer great spiritual benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are various types of namabhasa. If someone chants in “sincere ignorance”, not deliberately wanting to be offensive, he will be purified. There are many instances in sastras that I could tell.<\/span><\/p>\n

One was the case of Ajamila, a well known story that you find in Srimad-Bhagavatam[1]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Hari-bhakti-vilasa[2]<\/sup><\/a> Srila Sanatana Gosvami says that if someone chants the Holy Name only once, even faithlessly, he is delivered from the samsara.<\/span><\/p>\n

Namabhasa will eventually destroy all unwanted elements in our consciousness. There is no doubt. One has to just continue chanting Hare Krishna.<\/span><\/p>\n

[1]<\/sup><\/a> Sixth Canto Chapter 1.<\/span><\/p>\n

[2]<\/sup><\/a> 11.234<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a section of the book \u201cBrilliant as the Sun\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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