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Sometime . . . just like you are chanting, you are, the mantras, because it is not your language, so sometime it appears broken. Just like "guru." Sometimes you say: "goru." Goru means cow, and guru means spiritual master. So the difference of meaning is vast.
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[[Vanisource:690610 - Lecture SB 01.05.11-12 - New Vrindaban, USA|690610 - Lecture SB 01.05.11-12 - New Vrindaban, USA]]
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In India there are many so-called medical practitioners. They are compounders, and after . . . because there is scarcity of medical man. So there was one compounder. Some way or other, he took supply of morphia preparation from my manager. But the license was in my name. I am the proprietor. So I was called by the magistrate.

So he asked my explanation, "Why you have done this?" So I gave my explanation that, "I am, of course, I am proprietor. The license is my name. But actually the business is done by my assistants, manager. So they have done it. In future I shall be strict. There will be no such mistake." So I was excused. But that does not mean that (chuckles) I shall again do that and again ask excuse. Because I confess, that does not mean . . . I'll never be excused. It is a common sense.

So persons who are trying to commit sinful activities on the strength of some spiritual activity, they're the greatest sinners. Nāmno balād yasya hi pāpa-buddhiḥ. That is not allowed. You can neutralize your sinful activities by some spiritual a . . . but that does not mean . . . this is called hasti-snāna. That is also explained. Hasti-snāna. Hasti-snāna means bathing of the elephant. The elephant goes into the reservoir of water, takes bath very nicely, and as soon as come on the land, again takes some dust and throws over the body. Immediately. You see?

So that sort of purification is not required. Once purified, don't commit again. The harer nāma, Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra has got power to purify, but that does not mean that we shall commit again and purify it. That process is not this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. Seven . . . you have got that list? You have now? Ten kinds offenses? In this, is it written there that you cannot commit offense on the strength of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra? Yes, that's . . .

So tad-vāg-visargo janatāgha-viplavaḥ. Viplavati: it vanquishes, it nullifies, it neutralizes. That's a fact. Nāśayati. Yasmin vāg-visarge, vāg-visarge abaddha, abaddhavaty api apaśabdādi-yukto 'pi prati ślokam anantasya yaśasaḥ aṅkitāni nāmāni bhavanti. So such kind of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. Or sometime . . . just like you are chanting, you are, the mantras, because it is not your language, so sometime it appears broken. Just like "guru." Sometimes you say: "goru." Goru means cow, and guru means spiritual master. So the difference of meaning is vast. (chuckling) The spiritual master is not a cow, or a bull. (laughs) But sometimes they . . . because it is not your language . . .

But that doesn't matter, because bhāvagrāhi janārdana. Kṛṣṇa is within you. He knows what you want to chant. Therefore He takes the meaning of guru and not goru, even it is spoken as goru. That doesn't matter. Bhāvagrāhi janārdana. He, Kṛṣṇa, knows that what you are actually . . . just like I know that although you are speaking guru as goru, I, I, I don't take offense because I know that your desire is something else. I do not protest, (laughter) that "You are addressing me goru. I am not goru." (laughter) So that is not a fault.

Similarly, it is said that yasmin prati-ślokam abaddhavati. If somebody does not know how to spell, how to say, but his idea is there, abaddhavaty api, because he wants to chant the holy name of the Supreme Lord, nāmāny anantasya, ananta . . . ananta means the unlimited. His name is being chanted. Nāmāny anantasya yaśo 'ṅkitāni. And His glorification is being done. The effect is śṛṇvanti gāyanti gṛṇanti sādha . . . those who are actually advanced transcendentalist, they'll appreciate, "Oh, how nicely they are doing. How nicely." Although there is broken language of goru instead of guru, that will be appreciated.

But, on the other hand, where there is no such intention—very, I mean to say, nice composition, but there is no . . . just like there are so many poets, they'll give you nice ideas, hallucination. You'll be in the poetic idea. As soon as . . . just like our Ginsberg. Ginsberg gives so many poetic ideas. People throng, "Oh, Ginsberg is speaking." But there is . . . now he's chanting, of course, Hare Kṛṣṇa. But in his poetry there is very rarely we can find about here.

So anyway, these things are not appealing to the persons who are really transcendentalist. But a, a composition which is even in broken language, if it is meant for glorifying the Supreme Lord, that is appreciated. Śṛṇvanti gāyanti gṛṇanti. Śṛṇvanti means they very attentively hear. Śṛṇvanti. Śṛṇvanti means hearing. Śṛṇvanti gāyanti: also repeats the chanting. Repeats. Gāyanti and gṛṇanti.

Gṛṇanti means they take also, "It is very nice. It is very nice composition." Śṛṇvanti gāyanti. This is the distinction. One side, however nice it may be, poetically, rhetorically, but if there is no glorification of the unlimited Supreme Lord, it is rejected by the haṁsas. The . . . just like the play . . . pleasure hunting place for the crows is never accepted by the swans, similarly these kinds of literature . . .

Now you try to understand how Nārada Muni is chastising his disciple like Vyāsadeva that, "You have created some literature which will be enjoyed by the crow class men." You see? Just see. He compiled Vedānta-sūtra. Still, Nārada Muni chastised him that "Your composition will be liked by the crow class men, not the swan class men." You see? Yes. Actually, you will find so many so-called Vedānta philosophers. The Māyāvādīs, they are called Vedāntists. The Ramakrishna Mission here, they are also preaching Vedānta philosophy. They are called . . . Vedānta Church there is in Los Angeles. And in New York there is a Vedānta . . . what is that?

Devotee: Vedānta Society.

Prabhupāda: Vedānta Society. But we, actually we find they are enjoyed by a crow class men. Because they do not know what was the intention of writing Vedānta philosophy. That Vedānta philosophy explanation is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Vyāsadeva actually did it. Bhāṣyaṁ brahma-sūtrāṇām. This is . . . therefore Bhāgavata, it begins with the first aphorism of Vedānta-sūtra: janmādy asya yataḥ.

The author himself explains, because he knew under . . . after the instruction of Nārada Muni he could understand that, "What fault I have done by writing this Vedānta-sūtra, because that will (be) misinterpreted by the crow class men. Therefore I must write my own commentary of the Vedānta-sūtra, so that swan class men will enjoy it." That is the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
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