"You are invited for the big feast at my house"

[Paramananda das]

PAMHO AGTSP

What is this feast? Some kitri and water and chanting 64 rounds you are invited.Will you attend?Will you attend and chant the sweet names of Krsna with me?

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 nama-svarupa-dvayah
purvasmat parameva hanta karunah tatrapi janimahe
yastasmin vihitaparadhanivah pranisamantad-bhave
dasyenedamupasya so 'pi hi sadanandambudhau majjati

"Dear Holy Name! You exist in two transcendental forms (svarupas),
namely: (1) One form is Your personal form of bliss as the Supreme
Living Person-the object of glorifications in transcendental sound;
and (2) another form is Your form as the Holy Name such as "Krsna",
"Govinda" and other transcendental names which indicate or describe
Your transcendental pastime forms of bliss. You are one and the same
ever-existent in these two transcendental forms. Of the two, I
consider that Your audible form as the Holy Name such as "Krsna,
Govinda, etc." is more merciful than Your visible personal form as the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is because if someone is engaged
in worshiping Your Deity forms and subsequently becomes implicated in
offenses and then takes shelter of Your transcendental form as the
Holy Name chanting "Krsna, Govinda, etc." while worshiping You, My
dear Holy Name, You, out of Your causeless mercy, purify that person
of all kinds of offenses and he is able to relish the nectar of the
unlimited ocean of transcendental bliss."

Verse seven

suditasrita janartirasaye
ramya-cidaghana-sukha svarupine
nama! gokula-mahotsavaya te
krsna purna-vapuse namo namah

"Oh my dear Holy Name! Oh beloved identical form of Krsna in sound!
The devotees who take shelter of Your lotus feet through constantly
chanting You are even saved from destruction due to offenses against
the Holy Name (nama-aparadha) out of Your causeless mercy. You are
manifest as the Supreme Personal Form of concentrated transcendental
ecstasy! You are personally the form of transcendental happiness and a
daily festival for the residents of Gokula (Vrndavana-dhama). You are
the full form of transcendental glory and eternal bliss through which
You manifest through nectarean loving exchanges with Your devotees.
Therefore, my dear Holy Name of Krsna, I offer again and again my
respectful obeisances unto Your lotus feet!"

Verse eight

narada-virnojjivana! sudhormi-niryasa-madhuripura
tvah krsna-nama kamah sphura me rasane rasena sada

"Oh my dear Holy Name of Krsna! You are the life and soul of the
"vina" [stringed instrument like a tamboura] of Devarsi Narada Muni!
You are an eternal tidal wave of full transcendental nectar! I humbly
fall at Your lotus feet and beg for Your causeless mercy to make me
always fixed in Your service so that You may always dance tirelessly
on my tongue, i.e. kindly bless me that I may always be engaged in
chanting You without cessation."

Sadhu-vritti, Sajjana Toshani 11/12:
tinei sad-grihastha-jini pratyah laksha-nama grahana karena, tanhara grihei shuddha-vaishnava-gana prasada grahana karibena.
“Only those devotees are sad-grihasthas (true and ideal householders) who chant 1,00,000 names of Krishna (64 rounds) daily. The pure devotees should accept prasada (foodstuffs) only in the homes of these sad-grihasthas and nowhere else

All devotees willing to chant 64 rounds are invited! At least for one day you can chant 64 rounds?

(121) prabhu bale,-"jana, 'lakshesvara' bali kare? prati-dina laksha-nama ye grahana kare"
"Do you know who is a laksesvara? He is someone who chants one laksa or 100,000 holy names (64 rounds of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra) everyday."
Purport by Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada:
shri gaurasundera balibena-"jini pratidina laksha-nama grahana karibena, tanharai grihe bhagavan sevita hana.
Shri Gaurasundera spoke as follows-"The Supreme Personality of Godhead accepts service only in the home of those who chant one hundred thousand names daily.
"bhagavan tanharai nikate bhoga-dravyadi grahana karena.
"The Lord accepts bhoga (foodstuffs) and other ingredients only from such personalities.
"jini laksha-nama grahana karena na, tahara nikate haite bhagavan naivedya svikara-dvara seva-saubhagya pradana karena na.
"Those who don't chant 100,000 names (64 rounds) daily, are never awarded the great fortune of rendering service to the Lord by offering Him naivedya (bhoga). This is because the Lord never accepts (svikara) their offerings.

your humble servant

Paramananda das

from Srila Rupa Goswamis Padayvali :

alam alam iyam eva praninam patakanam

nirasana-vishaye ya krishna krishneti vani

yadi bhavati mukunde bhaktir ananda-sandra

viluthati caranabje moksha-samrajya-lakshmih

The words “Krishna!” “Krishna!” are sufficient to purify the people’s sins. If they have blissful service to Lord Mukunda, then the goddess of liberation bows before their lotus feet.

—Shri Sarvajna

nancopacara-krita-pujanam arta-bandhoh

premnaiva bhakta-hridayam sukha-vidrutam syat

yavat kshud asti jathare jaratha pipasa

tavat sukhaya bhavato nanu bhakshya-peye

As long as there is hunger and thirst, eating and drinking make one feel very happy. When the Lord is worshiped with pure love, transcendental bliss is awakened in the heart of the devotee.*

—Shri Ramananda Raya

krishna-bhakti-rasa-bhavita matih

kriyatam yadi kuto ‘pi labhyate

tatra laulyam api mulyam ekalam

janma-koti-sukritair na labhyate

Pure devotional service in Krishna consciousness cannot be had even by pious activity in hundreds and thousand of lives. It can be attained only by paying one price—that is, intense greed to obtain it. If it is available somewhere, one must purchase it without delay.*

—Shri Ramananda Raya