SB 01.05.38 The holy name offers us easy accessway to deeper, richer, sweeter Krishna consciousness

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thank you Naradwani is urging Vyasadev to become a complete seer by outlining the vision of such a seer you see who is a samyak darshan that person who worships the yajna purusha the yajna purusha is Vishnu and normally the very name yajna purusha will indicate that he is the purusha who is to be worshipped through yajna so the conventional or the narrow meaning of the word yajna is fire sacrifice so in elaborate fire sacrifices the various gods are called they are offered oblations but among all these gods there is one supreme god whose worship is central and that is lord Vishnu so that is the lord to be worshipped and one way to worship him is by performing fire sacrifices but there is another way to worship him and that is through sound so just as fire is a means to access the normally inaccessible transcendental supreme lord who is known as a dhokshaja another way is sound so that lord who is not manifest to our vision the word might be thought of by impersonalists as referring to the lord having no murti no form but the bhagavatam itself in various places talks about how the lord has an all-attractive form in this chapter itself in the 19th verse he’s talking about the taste of the lotus feet of the lord how one gets the taste one who gets the taste will never forget that taste so how if that lord’s form is illusory then even his lotus feet would be illusory and how could those lotus feet and the taste for the lotus feet free one from illusion and keep one elevated above illusion because the lotus feet themselves would be a form of illusion so there are various indications which indicate which clearly substantiate the point that the lord does have a transcendental form so he’s amurtikam in the sense that he does not have a material form and his form is not normally manifest to material vision but still he becomes accessible to us through mantra murtikam through the means of mantra so when we chant hari krishna we are not just uttering some sound vibration mindlessly actually we are we are trying to offer our inner self our whole self to krishna through a plan a program offered by his devotees essentially centers on chanting hari on accessing god through sound so that lord who is inaccessible to our senses who becomes accessible in one way through the fire sacrifices becomes another becomes accessible in another way through the sacrifices involving and the offering of consciousness by the medium of sound so krishna manifests as the sound of the holy name and then when we worship him by prayerfully respectfully attentively chanting the holy names then we reciprocate with his mercy and we are able to go closer to krishna by that so the capacity to see krishna’s compassion manifesting in various ways including through the holy name through the mantras which make it easy for us to access him this vision of the magnanimity of krishna manifested in multifarious ways and especially as as the mantras that give us quick and easy access to him this vision is samyak darshanaha so when we are asamyak darshanaha we don’t value the holy name we just utter it inattentively distractedly mindlessly thinking it to be a ritual not recognizing its potency but when we chant attentively then we are able to move towards krishna and by moving towards krishna in this way we are able to ultimately attain his lotus feet so that is our ultimate goal to move towards krishna through the medium of the holy names till ultimately we can feel his presence constantly by attentive chanting of krishna’s names we feel his presence and as we keep chanting then the awareness of krishna’s presence becomes deeper and richer and sweeter and eventually it becomes a constant, soothing, uplifting empowering, enriching joyous presence in our heart and we become aware of krishna’s constant presence which krishna was already present he is constantly present but we are not aware of his presence by tuning ourselves to his presence through the medium of the holy name we gradually become constantly krishna conscious and then we go beyond mental existence we transcend the modes and eventually we attain krishna’s lotus feet so all these wonderful results this first merciful access way to krishna then an increased awareness of the sweeter, deeper, richer, deeper, richer presence of krishna and ultimately constant uplifting krishna consciousness all these come through the holy name and that’s why one who sees the holy name or the mantras as the means by which one can access the lord that the lord has manifested in the mantra that the lord can be worshipped through the mantras one who sees that is samyak darshan