{"id":74537,"date":"2025-06-29T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=74537"},"modified":"2025-06-28T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T13:17:08","slug":"insulting-the-great-saints-is-the-worst-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/insulting-the-great-saints-is-the-worst-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Insulting the great Saints is the worst Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lord-Chaitanya-\u2013-The-Unparalleled-Social-Reformer-Official-Blog-of-ISKCON-Bangalore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-74538 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lord-Chaitanya-\u2013-The-Unparalleled-Social-Reformer-Official-Blog-of-ISKCON-Bangalore-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lord-Chaitanya-\u2013-The-Unparalleled-Social-Reformer-Official-Blog-of-ISKCON-Bangalore-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lord-Chaitanya-\u2013-The-Unparalleled-Social-Reformer-Official-Blog-of-ISKCON-Bangalore.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>The ten offenses during the chanting of the holy name should be canceled. These are described in the Padma Purana, Svarga-khanda:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">satam ninda namnah paramam aparadham vitanute<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">yatah khyatim yatam katham u sahate tad-vigarham<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Insulting the great saints who dedicate themselves to spreading the glories of the maha-mantra Hare Krishna is the worst offense at the lotus feet of the holy name. One should not criticize those who preach the glories of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. Whoever does it is an offender. Nama-prabhu, who is identical with Krishna, does not tolerate this kind of blasphemous deeds, even by those who pass as a great devotee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cBhajana-Rahasya\u201d.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To buy the complete book, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/bhajana-rahasya-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ten offenses during the chanting of the holy name should be canceled. These are described in the Padma Purana, Svarga-khanda: satam ninda namnah paramam aparadham vitanute yatah khyatim yatam katham u sahate tad-vigarham Insulting the &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/insulting-the-great-saints-is-the-worst-offense\/\" aria-label=\"Insulting the great Saints is the worst Offense\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":74366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-74537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-bhajana-rahasya-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 03:32:10","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\/74537","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\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}