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Comment by Paramananda das on March 9, 2011 at 9:38am

Srila Rupa Goswami has advised us to daily chant 64 rounds of the Mahamanta

Comment by Paramananda das on March 9, 2011 at 9:45am

Sri Sri Krsna-nama-astakam
By Sri Rupa Gosvami


Verse one

nikhila-sruti-mauliratnamala
dyuti-nirajita-padapankajanta
ayi! mukta-kulair-upasyamanah
paritastvah harinama sahsrayami

"Oh my dear Harinama (Holy Name of Krsna)! You are identical with Lord
Sri Krsna's transcendental form according to all of the upanisads. The
upanisads personified glorify the effulgence emanating from Your lotus
feet. In other words, all of the personified Vedas taking shelter at
Your lotus feet sing Your transcendental glories with chosen verses
and yogis, rsis, and all kinds of liberated souls appropriately
worship Your lotus feet. Therefore, I completely surrender myself unto
Your lotus feet."

Verse two

jaya namadheya! munivrndageya!
jana-ranjanaya paramaksarakrte
tvamanadaradapi managudiritah
nikhilogratapa-patlih vilumpasi

"Oh my dear Krsna-nama (Holy Name of Krsna)! You are eternally
glorified by the realized souls! Just to attract the consciousness of
conditioned souls throughout the material universes out of Your
causeless mercy You manifest in an audible form of transcendental
sound vibration. Your mercy is so great that when someone chants You
accidentally or in neglect even for one time you destroy inconceivable
quantities of their accumulated sinful reactions from many births
together. My dear Holy Name of Krsna, all glories unto You!"

Verse three

yadabhaso 'pyudyan kavalita-bhavadhvanta-vibhavo
drsah tattvandhanamapi disati bhakta-pranayinim
janastasyodattah jagati bhagavan-nama-tarane
krti te nirvaktuh ka iha mahimanah prabhavati

"Oh my dear Holy Name of Krsna, You are more brilliant than the sun!
You are so merciful that if someone utters you out of fear or merely
as a "nama-abhasa" (imperfect stage prior to offenseless chanting)
even then Your mercy is so great that You destroy their material
ignorance and binding attachments to conditioned life and gradually
bless such conditioned souls devoid of spiritual knowledge with
transcendental knowledge of devotional service to Lord Sri Krsna! Oh
my dear Holy Name! Who in this universe can sufficiently glorify Your
transcendental qualities even amongst the great realized souls? All
glories unto You!"

Verse four

yad brahma saksat-krtinistayapi
vinasamayati vina na bhogaih
apaiti nama! sphuranena tatte
prarabdha karmeti virauti vedah

"By unbroken and concentrated meditation upon the impersonal Brahman
one is unable to destroy the primordial sinful and pious karmic
reactions which lie beyond the immediate renunciation of material
enjoyments but come from time immemorial. However, my dear Holy Name!
By Your vibrating on the tip of the tongue, in other words, by merely
pronouncing You these primordial karmic reactions are destroyed!"

Verse five

aghadamana-yasodanandanau nandasuno
kamalanayana-gopicandra-vrndavanedrah
pranata-karuna-krsna-vityaneka-svarupe
tvayi mama ratiruccairvardhatah namadheya

"My dear killer of the Aghasura! My dear beloved son of Mother Yasoda!
My dear son of Maharaja Nanda! My dear Lotus-eyed! My dear beloved of
the gopis! My dear Lord of Vrndavana! My dear worshipful merciful
Lord! My dear Lord Krsna! Oh my beloved Holy Name in these and Your
countless other forms! You manifest Your transcendental vibration in
this world to deliver the conditioned souls from the bondage of the
repetition of birth and death in material life out of Your causeless
and inconceivable mercy! My dear Holy Name! May spontaneous attraction
for chanting You increase unlimitedly by Your causeless mercy upon
me!"

Verse six

vacyah vacakamityudeti bhavato

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