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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 24]
maitreya uvāca ity anukrośa-hṛdayo bhagavān āha tān chivaḥ baddhānjalīn rāja-putrān nārāyaṇa-paro vacaḥ
maitreyaḥ uvāca—the great saint Maitreya continued to speak; iti—thus; anukrośa-hṛdayaḥ—very kindhearted; bhagavān—the lord; āha—said; tān—unto the Pracetās; śivaḥ—Lord Śiva; baddha-añjalīn—who were standing with folded hands; rāja-putrān—the sons of the king; nārāyaṇa-paraḥ—Lord Śiva, the great devotee of Nārāyaṇa; vacaḥ—words.
TRANSLATION
The great sage Maitreya continued: Out of his causeless mercy, the exalted personality, Lord Śiva, a great devotee of Lord Nārāyaṇa, continued to speak to the King's sons, who were standing with folded hands.
PURPORT
Lord Śiva voluntarily came to benedict the sons of the King as well as do something beneficial for them. He personally chanted the  mantra  so that the  mantra  would be more powerful, and he advised that the  mantra  be chanted by the King's sons ( rāja-putras ). When a  mantra  is chanted by a great devotee, the  mantra  becomes more powerful. Although the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra  is powerful in itself, a disciple upon initiation receives the  mantra  from his spiritual master, for when the  mantra  is chanted by the spiritual master, it becomes more powerful. Lord Śiva advised the sons of the King to hear him attentively, for inattentive hearing is offensive.
TEXT 33
श्रीरुद्र उवाच
जितं त आत्मविद्वर्यस्तये स्वस्तिरस्तु मे ।
भवताराधसा रादं सर्वात्मा आत्मने नमः ॥३३॥
śrī-rudra uvāca jitaṁ ta ātma-vid-varya- svastaye svastir astu me bhavatārādhasā rāddhaṁ sarvātmā ātmane namaḥ