40 original verses from the scriptures on why it may still take millions of lifetimes to get pure love by chanting Hare Krishna with offenses

WHY NO LOVE?

Book by Bhaktiratna Sadhu Maharaja
(With 40+ scriptural references)
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Why is it such a critical do-or-die emergency to chant Hare Krishna offenselessly?

Here I am presenting 40+ very rare and hidden scriptural references, which you may have never read before, about why we are not attaining pure love for Krishna simply by chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.

Table of Contents

⬤ (1) No one reflects on the reason for us not attaining Krishna’s love ⬤ (2) Hare Krishna mantra considers offenses ⬤ (3) No Love even after many lives of Harinama ⬤ (4) No Krishna after many many lives of chanting ⬤ (5) The Elephant-Offense uproots Bhakti totally ⬤ (6) Offensive Japa waters the weeds ⬤ (7) Millions of years with offensive chanting ⬤ (8) Mountains of offenses even after chanting for many lives ⬤ (9) Krishna’s name delivers an offensive chanter only after a very long time ⬤ (10) Just knowing about Krishna is not enough ⬤ (11) Punishment of impersonal liberation to offensive chanters ⬤ (12) Offenders are heavily punished in Vrindavan ⬤ (13) Srila Prabhupada on the ten offenses ⬤ (14) Srila Bhaktisiddhanta on the ten offenses ⬤ (15) Ecstasy of Offensive Chanters is Cheating ⬤ (16) Steel-framed heart due to our 10 offenses ⬤ (17) Srila Prabhupada says that even 64 rounds won’t be enough ⬤ (18) Srila Haridasa Thakura says that even 64 rounds won’t be enough ⬤ (19) Only Nitai can destroy all our offenses to Harinama ⬤ (20) Chanting the Pancha Tattva mantra a few times daily may not be enough ⬤ (21) The dark reality of our offenses which we don’t want to see

1) No one reflects on the reason for us not attaining Krishna’s love

Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya

Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya 1.42-46 states:

“The entire world is at least theoretically aware of the glories of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra through the scriptures. Despite this fact, why is hardly any soul attaining pure love for Krishna? Please reflect upon this dilemma in your heart. It is the most critical question to be answered in this rarest human form of life. Your soul’s fate literally hangs on it.” (NDM 1.42-46, Original verses here.)

2) Hare Krishna maha-mantra considers offenses. Hence there is no ecstasy of love for Krishna.

2) Sri Caitanya Caritamrita

Srila Krishnadasa Kaviraja Goswami reveals the truth about the offenses to Krishna Nama in Sri Caitanya-caritamrta 1.8.24:

’krsna-nama’ kare aparadhera vichara; krsna balile aparadhira na haya vikara.

Translation: “There are ten stringent offenses which are strictly and constantly considered (vichara) by the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. Therefore, no one in the whole material creation experiences the true ecstatic transformations of love by offensively chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra even after many many lives.”

3) We may still not get love by chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra repeatedly for many lives due to our ten offenses

Sri Caitanya Caritamrita

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta 1.8.29-30 warns us about the root cause of our lack of love for Krishna, which persists even after chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra for many many lives:

hena krsna-nama yadi, laya bahu-bara; tabu yadi prema nahe, nahe asrudhara.

tabe jani, aparadha, tahate prachura; krsna-nama-bija tahe, na kare ankura.

Translation: “One should be intelligent enough to realize that even after chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra continuously (bahu bara) for countless lives, if one does not feel pure love for Krishna with tears of love flowing from one’s eyes, then one is still continuously committing the ten offenses against Harinama in enormous quantities. (prachura). For the same exact reason, the seed of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra is also not sprouting even a little bit in our heart, even after chanting for so many lives.” (Cc 1.8.29-30)

4) One will never get pure love, even after many many lives, if one offensively hears, chants, or sings the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and Radha Krishna’s pastimes

Sri Caitanya Caritamrita

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta 1.8.16 exposes the truth why we will never attain pure love for Krishna’s lotus feet by offensively chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra:

bahu janma kare yadi, sravana, kirtana; tabu ta’ na paya krsna-pade prema-dhana

Translation: “Even though we may sincerely listen to Radha Krishna’s pastimes and genuinely chant and sing the Hare Krishna maha-mantra for countless lifetimes, we may still never acquire the treasure of unadulterated love for Krishna’s lotus feet because of our ten offenses to Harinama.” (Cc 1.8.16)

5) The very first offense in the Hare Krishna maha-mantra totally uproots the seed of love of Krishna forever

Sri Caitanya Caritamrita

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta 2.19.156 reveals the most heinous and insurmountable offense in the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra:

yadi vaisnava-aparadha, uthe hati mata; upade va chinde tara sukhi’ yaya pata.

Translation: “The mad-elephant offense of harboring a critical mentality towards devotees in our mind and through our words or actions is the primary unforgivable offense against the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.” (Cc 2.19.156)

“It totally uproots our tender Bhakti creeper from the very root and utterly squashes it to smithereens. As a result, its leaves shrivel up (upade) and the entire Bhakti creeper cultivated for many lifetimes dies (chinde).” (Cc 2.19.156)

6) Our offensive japa waters the weeds which choke up our chanting of the pure Hare Krishna maha-mantra. So the more we chant offensively, the more we destroy our Bhakti by introducing more offenses

Sri Caitanya Caritamrita

Due to the all-choking weeds of both of our gross and subtle offenses against the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, the seed of the pure Name of Krishna never sprouts in our heart.

Thus, unfortunately, our same offensive chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is also watering both these all-consuming weeds and our tiny bhakti creeper at the same time.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta 2.19.157-161 uncovers how our offensive Hare Krishna mantra chanting waters the weeds and eventually chokes up our Bhakti totally:

tate mali yatna kari’, kare avarana; aparadha-hastira jaiche na haya udgama.

kintu yadi latara sange, uthe ‘upashakha’; bhukti-mukti-vancha yata, asankhya tara lekha.

’nishiddhachara’, ‘kutinati’, ‘jiva-himsana’; ‘labha’, ‘puja’, ‘pratisthadi’, jata upasakha-gana.

seka-jala pana upashakha badi’ yaya; stabdha hana mula-sakha badite na paya.

prathamei upashakhara, karaye chedana; tabe mula-shakha badi’ yaya vrndavana.

Translation: “Even if the gardener (sadhaka) makes a very sincere effort to erect a strong protective fence to prevent the ten offenses against the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, there is still no assurance that this crazy elephant offense of criticism would not develop in his or her heart.” (Cc 2.19.157)

“And in addition to this mad-elephant offense, there are also other very grievous weed-like offenses which subtly take birth in our hearts due to our offensive chanting of Harinama.” (Cc 2.19.157)

“These wicked weeds are in the form of indulging in harmful desires, liberation into the impersonal brahman, and so on. They become present in infinite numbers in our heart due to our offensive chanting of Harinama.” (Cc 2.19.158)

“Other such extremely dangerous yet not-clearly-seen weeds are as follows: indulging in prohibited activities; deceitfulness; violence towards other living entities by our mind, words, and deeds; greed for mundane profit; craving to be worshiped by followers; yearning to become famous and be praised; etc. etc.” (Cc 2.19.159)

“The very same water of our offensive chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and our offensive hearing, singing, and remembering of Radha Krishna’s pastimes also nourishes these harmful weeds and causes them to grow even more luxuriantly.” (Cc 2.19.160)

“Due to this weed-infestation problem, gradually our main bhakti creeper gets totally choked up and withered away and thus cannot grow at all anymore. And eventually it is totally uprooted.” (Cc 2.19.160)

“So the only hope for our main creeper of Bhakti to grow without watering any such weeds is to find a way at the very onset to cut each and every one of these toxic weeds of our offenses to the Hare Krishna maha-mantra as soon as they crop up.“ (Cc 2.19.161)

“This is the only way to stop them from growing at all. Only then will our resulting offenseless Hare Krishna maha-mantra chanting grant us entry into the real Vrindavana Dhama.” (Cc 2.19.161)

Bhaktiratna Bhashya:

Unfortunately in Kaliyuga, we don’t have the strength to even identify the above mentioned weeds. We are totally drowned in them. Hardly anyone cares about becoming free from them. What to speak of deeply understanding them so that we can always remain mindful of not indulging in them?

We are so weak that we are unable to conscientiously cut these infinite weeds from infesting and growing so big in our hearts by our offensive chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.

These weeds are growing so rapidly by receiving the very same water of our offensive chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, which we are so “innocently” pouring upon them daily. And we are foolishly thinking that we are nourishing our creeper of devotion by increasing the quantity of our Hare Krishna japa or kirtana, while totally ignoring its offensless quality which is only possible to achieve by simultaneous Nitaismarana.

Always remember that Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has stated that these ten offenses to the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra are the greatest unforgivable sins which any soul can ever commit in the whole creation.

Why? Because Harinama is the most powerful and merciful form of Krishna in the whole creation, there is absolutely no way for us at all to atone for these ten offenses against the Harinama Prabhu Himself.

Harinama destroys all our normal gross and subtle mundane sins. But how can the sins against Harinama Prabhu Himself be destroyed because there is nothing more powerful than Harinama?

Hence the punishment for these undestructible Namaparadhas is guaranteed to be quite severe, even for the sincere and long-hour Hare Krishna chanters who are still chanting offensively.

This stringent punishment inflicted on us due to our ten offenses against Harinama is the most suffering-inducing calamity among all the karmic reactions in creation.

And these reactions due to our offenses to Harinama are totally irrevocable and unforgivable in comparison to even the most sinful mundane sins of this world, which are in fact atoneable and can be destroyed simply by uttering the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.

Jaiva Dharma, Chapter 25: “Vijaya: ‘Prabhu, what is the result of nama-aparadha?’ Babaji: ‘The accumulation of sins from nama-aparadha is more dreadful than the result of committing the five maha-papa sins millions of times. Thus we can easily estimate the dire result of nama-aparadha.’”

7) Millions upon millions of years will pass by with no love for Krishna if we chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra offensively

Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya

In Sri Navadvipa-dhama-mahatmya Chapter 10.33, the personified holy place Shri Pushkara Tirtharaja personally warns his great devotee brahmana in Navadvipa about this impending danger of Namaparadhas as follows:

koti-koti varsha dhari, sri-krsna-bhajana; tathapi namete rati, na paya durjana.

Translation: “Even if one carries on chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and worshiping Lord Shri Krishna sincerely for millions upon millions of years (koti koti varsha) without fail, one may still not attain spontaneous relish for the holy names. And why is that? Simply because one is chanting Harinama offensively.” (NDM 10.33)

8) If our chanting is offensive, chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra for even many many lives will not be enough to give us love for Krishna

Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya

Shri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya 1.45 divulges the actual reason why we don’t feel pure love for Krishna even after chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra for many many lives:

bahu janma krsna bhaji’, prema nahi haya; aparadha-punja ta’ra, achaye nishchaya.

Translation: “Even after worshiping Sri Krishna through the sincere chanting of His Hare Krishna maha-mantra for many many lives (bahu janme), still our soul is not able to attain pure love for Lord Krishna at all.” (NDM 1.45)

“The simple reason for this all-pervading fact, without a doubt, is that there are mountains upon mountains of previous and present ten offenses to Harinama in our heart. All these offenses have accumulated in our hearts in colossal proportions from time immemorial.” (NDM 1.45)

9) Krishna’s name and Krishna’s abode may deliver us only after a very very long time if offenses are present in our hearts

Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya

Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya 6.89 unmasks the real truth why Krishna’s names, form, pastimes, and abode may deliver us only after a very very long time if we chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra offensively:

jadi aparadha thake, sadhakera mane; krsna-name, krsna-dhame, tare bahu-dine.

Translation: “If the ten offenses (namaparadhas) in the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, the ten offenses (dhamaparadhas) of residing in Vrindavan dhama, and the sixty-four offenses (sevaparadhas) of worshiping Krishna’s deity are still present in the heart of even a sincere Hare Krishna chanter, there is no guarantee that the practitioner will be delivered by his or her chanting or Vrajavasa even after a very very long time (bahu dine).” (NDM 6.89)

10) Even though everyone knows about Krishna and chants the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, still no one is experiencing pure love for Krishna

Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya

The very first chapter of Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya 1.42-46 does not hold anything back in exposing the least-talked-about bitter truth of the results of Harinamaparadhas, which very few devotees want to discuss.

krsna-nama krsna-dhama-mahatmya apara; shastrera dvaraya jane sakala samsara (42)

Translation: “Through all the revealed scriptures, the entire world is at least theoretically aware that the glories of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and Krishna’s abode are unlimited.” (NDM 1.42)

tabu krsna-prema sadharane nahi paya; ihara karana kiba chintaha hiyaya. (43)

Translation: “Despite this obvious fact, why is it that hardly anyone is attaining pure love for Krishna? Kindly do reflect upon this mystery in your heart as it is the most critical question and obstable in this rarest human form of life. The reply to this question might be your only hope of salvation.” (NDM 1.43)

ihate ache ta’ eka gudha-tattva-sara; maya-mugdha jiva taha na kare vichara. (44)

Translation: “Behind this question is a profound and most closely-guarded truth, which all the living entities including even devotees, who are bewildered by the illusory energy, do not wish to deliberate upon. It is as follows.” (NDM 1.44)

bahu janma krsna bhaji’ prema nahi haya; aparadha-punja ta’ra achaye nishchaya. (45)

Translation: “If someone does not attain pure love for Krishna even after worshiping and chanting the Hare Krishna mantra for many lifetimes, it is pretty obvious that such a person has committed and is still committing infinite mountains of the ten offenses against Harinama.” (NDM 1.45)

aparadha-shunya ha’ye laya krsna-nama; tabe jiva krsna-prema labhe avirama. (46)

Translation: “If a living entity was truly chanting the Hare Krishna mantra without offenses, he or she should already be constantly experiencing pure love for Krishna without any obstacles by now.” (NDM 1.46)

11) Offenders to the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and Vraja dhama may end up attaining impersonal liberation, which is worse than hell for devotees

Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya

In Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya 6.86, Lord Nitai Himself discloses to Srila Jiva Goswami the stark truth about the punishments which await an offender to Krishna Dhama and Krishna Nama:

vraja-tattva navadvipa-tattve dekhe bheda; krsna-aparadhi labhe nirvana abheda.

Translation: “Just see the difference between Vraja Lila and Navadvipa-Ekachakra Lila. Offenders to Lord Krishna, in His forms of Vrajadhama and Harinama, are unfortunately punished to become one with His brahmajyoti (niravana abheda) for zillions of years, thereby losing the chance to practice Bhakti for a very very long time.” (NDM 6.86)

12) Offenders to Krishna’s abode and name are called daityas or demons and may be punished heavily

Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya

Sri Navadvipa Dhama Mahatmya 1.56 bares the difficult-to-accept truth about the punishment for our ten offenses each towards Vrajadhama and Harinama:

anyanya tirthera katha, rakha bhai dure; aparadhi daitya danda, paya vraja poore.

Translation: “What to speak of all the other holy places in creation, even in the topmost Vrindavan dhama of Lord Krishna, the souls offensive to Krishna’s abode and holy names immediately become demons (daitya) and are thus punished (danda) heavily for committing these offenses to Krishnadhama, Krishnanama, and Krishnavigraha.” (NDM 1.56)

13) Srila Prabhupada warns us about the strict 10 offenses to Hare Krishna

Sri Caitanya Caritamrta

It is very difficult to achieve pure love of Krishna by offensively chanting the Hare Krishna mantra

The following open purport by Srila Prabhupada to Sri Caitanya Caritamrta 1.8.31 makes this fact crystal clear without leaving any ambiguity at all. But still we conveniently refuse to see it as it is, read it, understand it, contemplate on it, or do anything about it.

“There are offenses to be considered in chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra… If one chants the Hare Krishna maha-mantra but his life is still full of sinful activities, it will be very difficult for him to achieve the platform of loving service to the Lord.” (Cc 1.8.31 purport)

“Unless one is very fortunate, he should not be induced to worship Radha Krishna directly. A neophyte student who is not sufficiently educated or enlightened should not indulge in the worship of Sri Radha and Krishna or the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra. Even if he does so, he cannot get the desired result.” (Cc 1.8.31 purport)

14) Srila Bhaktisiddhanta reveals the hidden truths about the 10 offenses to Hare Krishna

Sri Caitanya Caritamrta

The Hare Krishna maha-mantra awards love for Krishna to only the eternally pure, offenseless, and liberated souls but never to the offensive souls

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura elucidates this subject very clearly in his Anubhashya commentary to the same Sri Caitanya Caritamrta 1.8.31 verse as Srila Prabhupada did above:

krishna-nama aparadhera vichara karena. aparadhi krishna-nama grahana karilei kakhanei nama-phala labha karena na. krishnaunmukera uccharya krishna-nama anarthayukta avasthaya kakhanei phala pradana kare na.

“The Hare Krishna mantra considers our offenses. Due to this fact, an offensive chanter of the Hare Krishna mantra will never ever (kakhanei) be able to attain the fruit of chanting, which is pure love for Krishna.”

“The Hare Krishna mantra, which is purely utterable only by the rarest souls who are offenselessly surrendered to Krishna, will never ever (kakhanei) award Krishna’s love to a soul offensive to Harinama.”

krishnera udarta kevala mukta, siddha ashritajana ganera upara. sadhaka shikshara apraptite siddhabhimane krishna-namera seva karite udyata haile tahara anarthaei asiya upasthita haya.

“The Hare Krishna maha-mantra shows magnanimity only and exclusively (kevala) upon the fully liberated (mukta) and perfectly (siddha) surrendered souls who are totally free from the ten offenses to Harinama.”

“But, due to not receiving pure spiritual guidance, a foolish Hare Krishna chanter, under the influence of false ego and pride, directly jumps into the indulgence (udyata) of the offensive chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra without considering these truths about namaparadha.”

“What one finds instead by such foolish indulgence is that one’s harmful inclinations (anarthas), instead of decreasing, have only increased rapidly due to one’s offensive chanting of Harinama”

“And eventually, these ten offenses quickly end up totally destroying even the little relish which was initially present in the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra due to chanting for many lives.”

Bhaktiratna Bhashya:

This is why devotees, even gurus, loose their spiritual taste and leave their Krishna Bhakti practice through the chanting of the Hare Krishna so easily and in such big numbers and go back to their previous lives. Unfortunately, out of the 10,000 initiated disciples of Srila Prabhupada, only a few hundred of his exalted disciples practiced chanting till the end or are still practicing the daily chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra. I have always wanted every soul to become a pure devotee of Krishna in this life. I am just sharing this with great sadness to show how chanting offensively is the most serious problem, not just in Krishna consciousness, but in fact in the whole material creation.

15) The ecstatic symptoms of even a constant but still offensive chanter of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra are fake and a deception

Sri Caitanya Caritamrta

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura reveals in his Amrita Pravaha Bhashya commentary to Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Adi Lila, Chapter 8:

ihAte bujhite haibe ye, nAmAparAdhIra sAttvika vikArAdi kevala chalamAtra.

“One should clearly understand and always remember that the so-called eight-fold ecstatic symptoms displayed by an offensive chanter of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra are simply cheating (chalamatra), fake, and a deception to gain fame, followers, and money, even though he or she may be chanting constantly.” (Cc 1.8 introduction)

16) Our steel-framed heart even after chanting Harinama constantly is due to our 10 offenses

Srimad Bhagavatam

One very important verse found in the Srimad Bhagavatam (2.3.24) is spoken by Srila Suta Goswami to Srila Saunaka Rishi. It is so important to the science of chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra that it again appears as Sri Caitanya Caritamrita 1.8.25.

तदश्मसारं हृदयं बतेदं, यद् गृह्यमाणैर्हरिनामधेयै: । न विक्रियेताथ यदा विकारो, नेत्रे जलं गात्ररुहेषु हर्ष: ॥ २४ ॥

tad ashma-saram hridayam batedam, yad grihyamanair hari-nama-dheyaih; na vikriyetatha yada vikaro, netre jalam gatra-ruhesu harshah.

tat - that; ashma-saram - is steel-framed; hridayam - heart; bata idam - certainly that; yat - which; grihyamanaih - in spite of chanting; hari-nama - the holy name of the Lord; dheyaih - by concentration of the mind; na - does not; vikriyeta - change; atha - thus; yada - when; vikarah - reaction; netre - in the eyes; jalam - tears; gatra-ruhesu - at the pores; harshah - eruptions of ecstasy.

Translation: “A sincere chanter may chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra (hari-nama) with full concentration and devotion (dheyaih) for many lives. Even then (grihyamanaih), due to his or her offenses to Harinama, his or her heart (hridayam) will still (batedam) certainly remain steel-framed (ashma-saram) and unagitated (na vikriti) without any of the genuine eight ecstatic symptoms (na vikaro) of pure love for Krishna, like tears of pure love (netre jalam), eruptions of blissful goosebumps (gatra ruheshu harshah), etc.” (SB 2.3.24, CC 1.8.25)

17) Even constant chanting of 64 rounds daily may not be enough to destroy our 10 offenses to Harinama

Srila Prabhupada’s Purport

Srila Prabhupada elaborates the above Srimad Bhagavatam 2.3.24 verse in his beautiful commentary:

“As such, even if they make a show of CONSTANTLY chanting the holy name of the Lord, they cannot relish the transcendental taste of the holy name.“ (SB 2.3.24)

“If the reaction (due to bhava) does not take place, even after continuous hearing and chanting of the holy name of the Lord, it may be considered to be due to offenses only.. That is the opinion of the Sandarbha.“ (SB 2.3.24)

“In the beginning of chanting of the holy name of the Lord, if the devotee has not been very careful about evading the ten kinds of offenses at the feet of the holy name, certainly the reaction of feelings of separation will not be visible by tears in the eyes and standing of the hair on end.“ (SB 2.3.24)

“The whole process can be summarized as follows: The advanced devotee who chants the holy name of the Lord in a perfectly offenseless manner and is friendly to everyone can actually relish the transcendental taste of glorifying the Lord. And the result of such realization is reflected in the cessation of all material desires, etc., as mentioned above.“ (SB 2.3.24)

“As such, even if they make a show of CONSTANTLY chanting the holy name of the Lord, they cannot relish the transcendental taste of the holy name.“ (SB 2.3.24)

18) There may not be a single drop of rasa even in those who chant 64 rounds of Hare Krishna daily for many lifetimes

Sri Harinama Chintamani

The above truth revealed by Srila Prabhupada about the inability of chanting even 64 rounds of offensive Harinama to destroy our 10 offenses is validated by our Namacharya Srila Haridasa Thakura himself in Sri Harinama Chintamani, the ultimate handbook of the science of chanting Harinama:

laksha-nama haile purna, sankhya mala gani; hrdaye NAHILA RASA BINDU guna mani (HNC 12.14).

ei ta anavadhana, dosera prakara; visayi hrdaye prabhu, bada durnivara (HNC 12.15).

citta eka dike, ara anya dike nama; tahara mangala kise, haya guna dhama (HNC 12.13)

Translation: “100,000 names of the Hare Krishna mantra may have been completed with careful counting of the daily vow. But alas, oh my Gunamani Lord Gauranga, such chanting has still not awakened (nahila) a single drop of Nama-rasa (rasa-bindu) in that chanter’s heart.” (HNC 12.14)

Translation: “Such a grievous obstacle is due to one’s offenses and faults against the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. Oh my Lord, alas, the heart full with the offenses of sense-gratification is most hopeless and insurmountable.” (HNC 12.15)

Translation: “While one is chanting 100,000 names of Harinama daily with one’s tongue, unfortunately, one’s consciousness is elsewhere during that time. Oh my Gunadhama Lord Gauranga, how can any kind of auspiciousness ever be attained by such a chanter who is committing this mother of all offenses of pramaada or inattentive chanting against the holy names of Krishna?” (HNC 12.13)

Prarthana 46: hari-sthane aparadhe tare harinama, toma sthane aparadhe nahika edana - “Harinama can rescue one’s committal of offenses to Hari, but offenses to the Vaishnava or devotee cannot be gotten rid of by doing Harinama.”

SBSSTP’s purport to CB 2.10.29-30: “Mahaprabhu said, ‘If a person knowingly or unknowingly blasphemes a devotee constantly engaged in the service of the Lord like Murari and becomes envious of the devotees by claiming to have taken shelter of Harinama and the Ganges, then that offensive Harinama and the Ganges in fact destroy such a sinful person rather than award him or her any benefit.”

Srila Prabhupada in SB 4.26.24 purport “The conclusion is that if Krsna consciousness is covered by material sins, one can eliminate the sins simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, (but) if one pollutes his Krsna consciousness by offending a brahmana or a Vaisnava, one cannot revive it until one properly atones for the sin by pleasing the offended Vaisnava or brahmana.”

So even 64 rounds of Harinama may not be able to remove this topmost offense to Harinama of Vaishnava-aparadha. However, since Nitai is the only cumulative embodiment of all Vaishnavas, Sadhus, Gurus, Acharyas, Associates, Dhama, Nama (sarva-mantra-svarupa), Seva, Bhakti, and Bhagavana in creation, Nitai’s deep remembrance can instantly remove this first offense of Vaishnava-aparadha and all other 9 offenses to Harinama from the very root, as confirmed in Sri Chaitanya Bhagavata as follows:

19) How only Nitai and no one else in this whole creation can forgive and destroy all our 10 offenses to Harinama, including even the most unforgivable Vaishnava-aparadha

Sri Chaitanya Bhagavata

CB 2.22.136: nityananda-prasade se ninda yara ksaya - “Only by Nityananda’s mercy, the topmost and otherwise unforgivable offense to Harinama of Vaishnava Aparadha is annihilated from the root.”

SBSSTP in CB 2.22.133 purport: “By the mercy of Sri Nityananda, the offenses committed by those wicked persons who offended Advaita are destroyed.”

CB 3.5.626: se carana cintile apada nahi ara, sei-ksane koti aparadhira o nistara - “Simply by meditating on Nitai’s lotus feet, even one who has committed and is committing millions upon millions of offenses to Harinama is immediately freed from suffering the resultant unforgivable reactions and calamities due to those offenses.”

CB 3.5.630: tumi se jivera ksama sarva aparadha, patita-janero tumi karaha prasada - “Oh Nitai, only You can fully forgive all the offenses (sarva-aparadha) to Harinama, Dhama, Vigraha, etc. of each of every single living entity in creation. Because You are the only One who is freely awarding Your causeless mercy specifically to the most offensive and wicked souls in creation.”

CB 3.5.629: e-mata ye tomate aparadha kare, sese seho tomara smarane duhkha tare - “Oh Nitai, even those who commit envious offenses against You and Your Names, Forms, Pastimes, and Abodes are miraculously and instantly forgiven of all those topmost sins and sufferings if they somehow simply remember You deeply (Your all-forgiving liberal Nitaismarana is the only permanent solution to destroy all Harinamaparadhas).”

NDM 1.57: navadvipe shata-shata aparadha kari, anayase nitai-krpaya jaya tari - “Even if one commits hundreds upon hundreds of the most heinous offenses (shata-shata aparadha) to Krishna’s Name, Vaishnavas, Dhama, and Vigrahas in Navadvipa, one will still be completely forgiven and delivered only by the all-forgiving mercy of Nitai.”

CC 1.8.31 Purport of Srila Prabhupada: ““A neophyte student who is not sufficiently educated or enlightened should not indulge in the worship of Shri Radha and Krishna or the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra. Even if he does so, he cannot get the desired result. One should therefore chant the names of Nitai Gaura and worship Them without false prestige. Unless one is favored by Lord Caitanya and Nityananda, there is no need to go to Vrndavana, for unless one’s mind is purified, he cannot see Vrndavana, even if he goes there. In the beginning one should very regularly chant Sri Gaurasundara’s holy name and then chant the holy name of Lord Nityananda. Thus one’s heart will be cleansed of impure desires for material enjoyment. Then one can approach Vrndavana-dhama to worship Lord Krsna.”

20) Chanting the Pancha Tattva mantra a few times daily may not be enough

Chanting the Pancha Tattva mantra a few tens of times daily may not be enough to remove the ten offenses to Harinama we are doing against the at least 1728 Hare Krishna maha-mantras, which we may be chanting daily in the form of 16 rounds.

This is confirmed by the fact that even those who chant the Pancha Tattva mantra are falling victim to the 10 offenses to Harinama and gradually losing taste in Bhakti Herself.

This is because our 10 offenses to Harinama can only be removed by actually deeply remembering Nitai, not just by chanting even the Pancha Tattva mantra a few times only and that too without deeply remembering the Pancha Tattva while chanting it.

Simple utterance of the Pancha Tattva mantra may destroy occasional offenses and all mundane sins. But actual continued and deep remembrance of Nitai or the Pancha Tattva while chanting Harinama or while singing Their Names is needed to fully uproot and obliterate our constant and duplicitous offenses to Harinama.

This is confirmed in Sri Chaitanya Bhagavata as follows:

CB 3.5.626: se carana cintile apada nahi ara, sei-ksane koti aparadhira o nistara - “Simply by meditating on Nitai’s lotus feet, even one who has committed and is committing millions upon millions of offenses to Harinama is immediately freed from suffering the resultant unforgivable reactions and calamities due to those offenses.”

CB 3.5.629: e-mata ye tomate aparadha kare, sese seho tomara smarane duhkha tare - “Oh Nitai, even those who commit envious offenses against You and Your Names, Forms, Pastimes, and Abodes are miraculously and instantly forgiven of all those topmost sins and sufferings if they somehow simply remember You deeply (Your all-forgiving liberal Nitaismarana is the only permanent solution to destroy our Harinamaparadhas).”

21) The dark reality of our offenses which we want to always hide from

Bhaktiratna Bhashya:

Very few are qualified nowadays in this fastly degrading, wicked, and highly offensive Kaliyuga to chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra without the all-offense-destroying remembrance of Nitai and also for physical Vrajavasa in an offensive state of consciousness. Read here how Lord Krishna Himself forbade even the most exalted and qualified Lord Anantadeva to go to Vrindavan to remember Radha Krishna and instead take full shelter first of remembering Nitai Gaura.

Indulging in offensive Harinama and Vrajavasa without proper qualification is sense gratification, in the words of Srila Prabhupada himself, and the cause of further exponential aparadhas. This is because your 10 Harinamaparadhas and the 64 Vigrahasevaparadhas will also infinitely increase just by physically living in Vraja in an unqualified state or by chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra offensively, in addition to the 10 dhamaparadhas which have already come into play there.

And the heinous spiritual sins you will be accumulating in your soul by foolishly increasing all these infinite spiritual Nama, Dhama, and Seva aparadhas, which produce an increasingly spiralling dynamo effect in conjunction with each other, may stain your soul for zillions of future lives because there is simply no atonement for them in the whole creation. Zillions of mundane sins are nothing in comparison to even one of the 10 offenses to Harinama.

Jaiva Dharma, Chapter 25: “Vijaya: ‘Prabhu, what is the result of nama-aparadha?’ Babaji: ‘The accumulation of sins from nama-aparadha is more dreadful than the result of committing the five maha-papa sins millions of times. Thus we can easily estimate the dire result of nama-aparadha.’”

Hence, speaking only as your humble well-wisher with no ulterior motives, I want to awaken your eyes to the fact, which no one else may tell you, that you are willingly putting an axe on your own foot and drinking poison by offensively chanting Harinama and by doing physical Vrajavasa and Krishna Vigrahaseva without Nitaismarana in an offensive state of consciousness.

You are thus unnecessarily accumulating the topmost unatoneable spiritual offenses in the whole creation, which will set your soul back in this material world for many more future lives, as very clearly and repeatedly confirmed in all the verses above.

To help you attain Hari Nama Prema in this very lifetime, I am your aspiring humble servant working day and night tirelessly in your menial service to help brighten your offenseless and love-laden remembrance of our all-forgiving Lord Nitai’s form in all your Bhakti Yoga practices, 

Bhaktiratna Sadhu.