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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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This is also Purāṇa says. Especially it is harer nāma (CC Adi 17.21), it is not gupta. That is in the Kali-yuga it should be openly chanted, and we have to follow our predecessor, Haridāsa Ṭhākura, nāmācārya.
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[[Vanisource:701110 - Lecture SB 06.01.14 - Bombay|701110 - Lecture SB 06.01.14 - Bombay]]
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Prabhupāda: Yesterday there was a meeting. There is a hope of getting eighty-seven Life Member. So if you get some Life Members, say fifty, then we can have immediately one center.

Guest: But anyhow . . .

Prabhupāda: No, either we purchase or we invest (indistinct), but we require some Life Members.

Guest: (talks about making some appointment at between four and four-thirty)

Prabhupāda: But at that time somebody comes to see me. Somebody comes to see me and talk with me.

Guest: . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: All right. If you can make some Life Members.

Guest: . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: You are trying for that?

Guest: Yes.

Prabhupāda: All right. All right.

Guest: . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: So Maharani has got many buildings also, I see.

Guest: (indistinct) . . . I can go to her secretary that . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: She's American.

Guest: She's American . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: She was born in India?

Guest: No, she was born in America. She was the daughter of (indistinct). Her father owned . . . (indistinct) . . . companies . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: She has culture. Just like there is . . . another American woman in Bombay, Mrs. Gwaliya.

Guest: . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Yes. She's American, Gwaliya, a Parsee, a big businessman.

Guest: . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: So you are Mr. Pandiya. You know him? He is also advocate. (Indian men converses)

Guest: You know me? You have seen my books? . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Yes. In devotees' association everyone is blessed. Satāṁ prasaṅgāt mama virya saṁvido ([[Vanisource:SB 3.25.25|SB 3.25.25]]). There is some enlightenment.

Guest: May I sing one bhajana?

Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. We chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Guest: . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: No, Hare Kṛṣṇa. We chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Guest: Hare Kṛṣṇa I chant, but . . .

Prabhupāda: It may not be melodious, but we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. (Indian man starts singing Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, coughs and stops) All right, don't take . . . you want water? Eh? Give this glass. Come on.

(break) nāmaiva eva kevalam kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva nāsty eva ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.21|CC Adi 17.21]]). There is no mention that it should be chanted lowly. So how you can say it is gupta? It is not gupta.

Guest: Purāṇa says it is gupta.

Prabhupāda: This is also Purāṇa says. Especially it is harer nāma ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.21|CC Adi 17.21]]), it is not gupta. That is in the Kali-yuga it should be openly chanted, and we have to follow our predecessor, Haridāsa Ṭhākura, nāmācārya.

Guest: (indistinct) . . . (break)

Prabhupāda: When we chant, when we utter the bīja mantra, that we utter loudly. That is required. That is japa. So this mantra is mahā-mantra, and it should be chanted loudly, or as you like. There is no such restriction. Niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ. Nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ ([[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.16|CC Antya 20.16]]) . . . (indistinct)

And we have to follow the great personalities. Haridāsa Ṭhākura, he was chanting very loudly; Caitanya Mahāprabhu chanted very loudly. So what more evidence you want? My Guru Mahārāja chanted loudly; we are chanting loudly. Whole business finished. (chuckles) Is that all right? Eh?

Guest: . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Our process is very easy. We have to see whether my Guru Mahārāja, his Guru Mahārāja has followed this. Then there will be no more doubt. Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam ([[Vanisource:BG 4.2 (1972)|BG 4.2]]). We receive things by paramparā system. Mahājano yena gataḥ. Sādhu mārgānu-gamanam. We have to follow the footsteps of sādhu.

Guest: . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Even if I am not well conversant with the Vedas and Purāṇas, if I see that my spiritual master is doing that, that is sufficient.
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