{"id":74967,"date":"2025-07-19T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=74967"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:14:48","slug":"namabhasa-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/namabhasa-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Namabhasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SCM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-74968 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SCM-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SCM-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SCM.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Question:<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">Hare Krishna &#8211; I am happy to know how glorious is the holy name from your article i.e., &#8220;Namabhasa offers eternal residence in the spiritual abode of Vaikuntha, especially in Kali-yuga.&#8221; This is the declaration of scripture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">I want to know the scriptural evidence for the above statement. Please help.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Answer:<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">The article you are referring to has not been written by me so I can&#8217;t give you the exact quote. It would certainly be good to give references when saying &#8220;sastra says&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">However the principle expressed in those sentences is correct.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">There are various types of namabhasa. If someone chants in &#8220;sincere ignorance&#8221;, not deliberately wanting to be offensive, he will be purified. There are many instances in sastras that I could tell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One was the case of Ajamila, a well know story that you find in Srimad-Bhagavatam<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the Hari-bhakti-vilasa<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Srila Sanatana Gosvami says that if someone chants the Holy Name only once, even faithlessly, he is delivered from the samsara.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\">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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px\"><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">This is a section of the book \u201cBrilliant As the Sun\u201d(English).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;color: #0000ff\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To buy the complete book,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/brilliant-as-the-sun-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Hare Krishna &#8211; I am happy to know how glorious is the holy name from your article i.e., &#8220;Namabhasa offers eternal residence in the spiritual abode of Vaikuntha, especially in Kali-yuga.&#8221; This is the declaration &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/namabhasa-4\/\" aria-label=\"Namabhasa\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":74968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-74967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-brilliant-as-the-sun-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 02:19:33","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\/74967","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=74967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}