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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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We have to note this important thing, that the powerful hari-nāma is so strong that even one unconsciously or conscious... Sometimes they imitate: "Hare Kṛṣṇa." They have no intention to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, but they imitate or criticize, "Hare Kṛṣṇa." That has also effect.
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[[Vanisource:710110 - Lecture SB 06.02.05-8 - Calcutta|710110 - Lecture SB 06.02.05-8 - Calcutta]]:
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The charge of Viṣṇudūtas for the Yamadūta was that they did not know whom to arrest and whom not to arrest. Therefore he was criticise Yamarāja is meant for arresting the criminals, sinful persons. But these Yamadūtas came to arrest Ajāmila, who was already relieved from all sinful actions simply by chanting "Nārāyaṇa." That was not known to them. So in order to criticize them that, "You do not know where to go and where not to go," they described in so many ways.

Now they are positively saying that ''ayaṁ hi kṛta-nirveśo janma-koṭy-aṁhasām api'' ([[Vanisource:SB 6.2.7|SB 6.2.7]]): "Even though he committed sinful activity for millions of years, he is now free." ''Ayaṁ hi kṛta-nirveśaḥ'': "He has completely counteracted all those sinful activities." How? ''Yad vyājahāra vivaśo nāma svasty-ayanaṁ hareḥ''. ''Vivaśaḥ'': "Somehow or other, he has chanted the holy name of Hari."

''Asya pāpena daṇḍe kim artham akrośa kriyate tatrāhur ayaṁ hi'' (Śrīdhara Svāmī commentary). "Why you are attempting to arrest this person as criminal?" ''Yamadūta'', ''yad yada vivaśi 'pi harer nāma vyājahāra uccaritavan'': "There was no intention of chanting the holy name of Hari, but even though consciously or unconsciously he has chanted the holy name of Hari, therefore he is now free."

Now, we have to note this important that the powerful ''hari-nāma'' is so strong that even one consciously or unconscious . . . sometimes they imitate, "Hare Kṛṣṇa." They have no intention to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, but they imitate or criticize, "Hare Kṛṣṇa." That has also effect. That has also effect. Just like the Muhammadans during Caitanya Mahāprabhu's time, they sometimes used to criticize, "These Hindus are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa." So they were imitating. So gradually they also became devotees.

''Yad vyājahāra vivaśo nāma svasty-ayanaṁ hareḥ''. ''Vivaśi 'pi harer nāma vyājahāra uccaritavan na kevalam prāyaścitta''. ''Mātram harer nāma api tu svasty-ayanaṁ makara-sādhanam api''. So Śrīdhara Svāmī says that "This chanting of holy name of Nārāyaṇa, Hari, is not only counteracting his all sinful reactions, but he is now eligible to become liberated and being transferred to the spiritual world. Not only he has been freed from, but there is a reward for it." You see?

''Eka hari-nāme yata pāpa hare'', ''pāpī haya tata pāpa karibāre nare''. A sinful man is very expert in committing sinful activities, but here is a statement that the holy name of Hari is so powerful that even an expert criminal cannot commit as much sinful activity as by once chanting the holy name of Hari it can be counteracted. He is unable. The expert criminal is very advanced in committing sinful life, but ''śāstra'' says that he cannot commit so many sinful. The one chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mantra'' is so powerful.

So one may be not bewildered. They may criticize that it's too much, but it is not too much; it is actual fact. Actual fact. That is ''aparādha''. One who thinks like that, that ''hari-nāma'' has not so much power that it can counteract, they are offender. For them it is not possible. But one who believes in the words of the ''śāstras'', as it is stated here, for him it is actually effective. ''Artha-vāda''. Out of ten offenses, ''artha-vāda'', one who comments like that, that is ''artha-vāda'', and that is offense.

To those who are cultivating this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mantra'', they should have firm faith in the statement of the ''śāstras'' that chanting of ''harer nāma'' is so powerful.

:''etenaiva hy aghono 'sya''
:''kṛtaṁ syād agha-niṣkṛtam''
:''yadā nārāyaṇāyeti''
:''jagāda catur-akṣaram''
:([[Vanisource:SB 6.2.8|SB 6.2.8]])

Now it clearly says that ''catur-akṣaram'', these four alphabet—''nā'', ''rā'', ''ya'', ''ṇa''—four, ''nā'', ''rā'', ''ya'', ''ṇa'', that "Because he has uttered these four alphabets, Nārāyaṇa . . ." But he had no offense in chanting. He sincerely chanted, offenseless chanting; therefore he became free immediately.