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Introduction
will delay their acceptance of the chanting process and can lead
to offenses against devotees. Since the Holy Name is meant for
the spiritual benefit of the living entities, preaching the glories
of the Holy Name to an unwilling audience goes against the
Lord’s actual purpose for manifesting the Holy Name in
human society.
The tenth offense is to become uninterested in or inattentive to
the Holy Name of the Lord, neglecting one’s chanting even
after understanding the wonderful transcendental nature of the
Holy Name. The effect of chanting the Holy Name of the Lord
is liberation from the conception of false egoism. False egoism
is thinking oneself to be the enjoyer of the world and thinking
everything in the world to be meant for one's enjoyment. The
whole materialistic world is moving under the false egoism of
“I” and “mine,” but the factual effect of chanting the Holy
Name is to become free from such misconceptions. If one
begins the chanting process but then stops due to a mundane
conception of life, this is an offense. One should maintain
chanting and hearing the Holy Name of the Lord continuously,
until the process of purification is complete.
The best protection against committing offenses to the Holy
Name of the Lord is to have firm faith in the instructions of the
scriptures and of one’s personal spiritual master. One should
continue the regular daily chanting of the Holy Names of the
Lord with patience, diligence and enthusiasm. It is wonderful if
one can accept initiation from a bona fide spiritual master in
the disciplic succession from Kåñëa Himself. If possible one
should give up all material activities and join the mission of
Lord Caitanya. Lord Caitanya’s process, harinäma-saìkétana, is
to chant and hear the Holy Name, topics related to the glories
of the Lord and His Holy Name, literature such as Bhagavadgétä,
Çrémad-Bhägavatam and Caitanya-caritämrta, and nice
songs glorifying pure devotional service continuously in the
association of like-minded devotees, until the self-effulgent
glory of the Holy Name becomes self-manifest in one’s
consciousness.
At that point, all the elaborate philosophical instructions of the
scriptures that we have summarized herein are reduced to a
simple matter of experience, and the glories of the Holy Name
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