Prabhupāda: Chanting is purifying all material desires. It will take, gradually. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam (CC Antya 20.12). If you are chanting without any offense, then your heart will be cleansed of all material contamination. Harer nāma (CC Adi 17.21). Bharadvāja: So pulling out the weeds means avoiding the offenses in chanting the holy name. Prabhupāda: Yes. So long we'll have material desires, we'll have to accept a material body and fulfill the desires.
I don't understand how it is possible that from chanting that these weeds grow. So pulling out the weeds means avoiding the offenses in chanting the holy name?
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"I don't understand how it is possible that from chanting that these weeds grow"
|"So pulling out the weeds means avoiding the offenses in chanting the holy name"
Conversations and Morning Walks
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Chanting is purifying all material desires. It will take, gradually. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam. If you are chanting without any offense, then your heart will be cleansed of all material contamination.
Morning Walk -- June 3, 1976, Los Angeles: Bharadvāja: Śrīla Prabhupāda, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa is considered to be the watering process, and sometimes from chanting, the weeds, from watering, the weeds also grow along with devotional service—the weeds of different desires. I don't understand how it is possible that from chanting that these weeds grow.
| Page Title: | I don't understand how it is possible that from chanting that these weeds grow. So pulling out the weeds means avoiding the offenses in chanting the holy name? |
| Compiler: | Mangalavati, Visnu Murti, Rishab |
| Created: | 18 of Feb, 2011 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 1 |