Adi-lila, Chapter 7 63

eventually addresses by name the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By the supreme
will of the Lord there is a specific potency in each and every mantra chanted by great
sages like Narada Muni and other ssis. Chanting the holy name of the Lord im-
mediately renovates the transcendental relationship of the living being with the
Supreme Lord.

To chant the holy name of the Lord, one need not depend upon other parapher-
nalia, for one can immediately get all the desired results of connecting or linking
with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It may therefore be questioned why there
is a necessity for initiation or further spiritual activities in devotional service for one
who engages in the chanting of the holy name of the Lord. The answer is that al-
though it is correct that one who fully engages in chanting the holy name need not
depend upon the process of initiation, generally a devotee is addicted to many
abominable material habits due to material contamination from his previous life. In
order to get quick relief from all these contaminations, it is required that one
engage in the worship of the Lord in the temple. The worship of the Deity in the
temple is essential to reduce one’s restlessness due to the contaminations of condi-
tional life. Thus Narada, in his Pafcaratriki-vidhi, and other great sages have some-
times stressed that since every conditioned soul has a bodily concept of life aimed
at sense enjoyment, to restrict this sense enjoyment the rules and regulations for
worshiping the Deity in the temple are essential. Srila Ripa Gosvami has described
that the holy name of the Lord can be chanted by liberated souls, but almost all the
souls we have to initiate are conditioned. It is advised that one chant the holy name
of the Lord without offenses and according to the regulative principles, yet due to
their past bad habits they violate these rules and regulations. Thus the regulative
principles for worship of the Deity are also simultaneously essential.

TEXT 77

GE SS Meal ATT TS VHS] |
aH CATS CALS CUA GS CSET TAI 99 1

nama laite laite mora bhranta haila mana

SYNONYMS
ei—this; ajAa—order; pafia—receiving; nama—the holy name;/a-i-chant; anuksana—
always; nama—the holy name; /aite—accepting; /aite—accepting; mora—My; bhranta—
bewilderment; haifa—taking place; mana—in the mind.

TRANSLATION

“Since | received this order from My spiritual master, | always chant the holy
name, but I think that by chanting and chanting the holy name | have been
bewildered.
