The Whirlwind Wrote:
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> IanKoviak Wrote:
> >
> > Your above quotes about Bhaktivedanta saying
> that
> > you can chant this or that name of god from
> > assorted traditions to equal effect is called
> > pandering. He didn't believe that nor do his
> > scriptures.
>
> That's not true. Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.6, and
> Bhagavad-gita 18:66 (to name just two examples),
> for example, bear this out. There are numerous
> quotes from the previous acaryas which bear it
> out, too. For example:
>
>
"He preaches that human thought should never
> be allowed to be shackled with sectarian
> views....The religion preached by Mahaprabhu is
> universal and not exclusive. The most learned and
> the most ignorant are both entitled to embrace
> it...The principle of kirtana invites, as the
> future church of the world, all classes of men
> without distinction of caste or clan to the
> highest cultivation of the spirit.""
>
> --Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur>
>
"There is nothing very extraordinary,
> rationally speaking, in chanting the Name of
> Krishna in the company of bona fide devotees. It
> is the simplest conceivable form of worship in
> which a number of persons can actually and fully
> join. It is possible to induce other people to
> join in the function by substituting the names
> Allah and Jesus in place of Krishna. But even so
> there are not a few persons who, although they put
> up with much in their own religion that is
> regarded as conventional, will refuse to repeat a
> new name in company as being nothing short of a
> silly performance instead of being the highest
> religion."
>
> --Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura
> Prabhupada>
>
"Thus when we chant the holy name of God,
> like the name Krsna, Krsna is personally present.
> One need not chant the name Krsna; one may chant
> any name that he knows is God's. God has many
> names, which may be chanted with the same effect
> in different languages and in different
> countries."
>
> --A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PRabhupada>
>
> Guru, shastra, sadhu, IanKoviac. :-)
The Kali Santarana Upanishad (in terms of secular archeology) is at least a couple of thousand years old. The practice of the chanting of the maha-mantra is not some modern invention by any means. Just for everybody' information:
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