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Sam Sara Suthanam Hangun Langay Tegirim Sri Gurum Dina Tarinam Sri Chaitanyamishwaram Hari. You wanted to say something.

You wanted to say something. Hare Krishna. Dear devotees, today we will continue with the reading from Sri Chaitanya Shikshamrita Vashla Sachidananda bhakti Vinod Thakur Number 9 offenses in service and chanting. Vaidi Bhakta should always be cautious of offences in service and chanting. These offences are distinctly categorized according to Varaha Purana and Padma Purana. Offences in service are divided into five types. First, lack of effort. Second, disrespect. Third, impurity. Fourth, lack of statelessness. Five. Fifth, pride. Various offenses related to the worship of the deities have been described in different scriptures. These offenses are primarily categorized into five types. As mentioned earlier, it's challenging to enumerate all offenses. A brief summary of some offenses specified in texts such as Varaha Purana and Padma Purana are provided below.

Considered we are lost. Pure.

So the love for Krishna by the Gopis is considered pure, the pure most. And Krishna, he gets pleasure from the Gopis, especially Radharani.

And he enjoys happiness. He sees excuse enjoying 10 million times more.

When he's enjoying with her, he sees that she's enjoying 10 million times more than him.

So he wants to taste that.

He wants to taste that. But he can't because he is on the wrong aspect of the Rasa. Some of the offenses are given here. Various offenses. Okay. 9.1. 9.1. Lack of effort, having wealth. Yes, yes. Lack of effort, having wealth, yet not organizing regular festival related to the deity. Conducting worship with minor rituals despite having the means. Failing to offer God the seasonal items or fruits available. Remaining without praising, glorifying or offering obeisance to God. Entering the temple without lighting a lamp. These actions stem from lack of effort and diligence. So if a devotee did not put effort into it. Seasonal particular fruits, like offering seasonal particular food fruits. So those things should be offered. So we should be thinking how to please Krishna.

And if we're not doing it because of some.

And if we are not doing it because of some lack of effort, then that's one of the offences. Disrespect. Disrespect involves various actions such as entering the temple with shoes or riding on a vehicle. Failing to offer respect to the deity by not bowing, offering obeisance with one hand, pointing at the deity with fingers, circumambulating in front of the deity, or extending feet towards the deity. Sitting on a chair while reciting prayers Bodily activities such as sleeping or eating in front of the deity, speaking loudly, engaging in conversations, crying or thinking about mundane topics, quarreling or discussing other person speaking matters in the deities present, passing gas in the temple, offering items to others before offering to the deities. Sitting with one's back to the deity, greeting others in front of the deity and seeing the deity at an inappropriate time. Anytime other than the prescribed visiting hours is considered improper. These types of actions all reflect disrespect towards Service.

There are 64 items of deity offense.

So there are 64 items of deity offense. Yeah, so those are summarized here. Showing disrespect to the deities, it having a conversation in front of the deity, it's disrespectful. So these items are expanded. But the thing is disrespect to the deity. Impurity. Various form of impurity are described such as entering the temple with remnants of food or in an unclean state, serving the deity with clothes that have animal hair, speaking during worship and thinking of other matters during service.

Song.

If the pujari is so if a puja is wearing some music, some headphones while he's worshipping the deity, we shouldn't think of other matters during our service. After eating we wash our mouth, our hands.

It.

You shouldn't wear clothes with animal hair. People if they have animal so it's natural to have some animal hair on your cloth.

I want to do that.

I went to New Vrindavan and talked with Kirtananda Swami and his cloth was covered with animal hair. It was very mad to see bad to see lack of statefastness. Lack of state first nights including drinking water before DT service, consuming unoffered food or water, not regularly seeing the deity or attending its services, not offering one's favorite items or seasonal fruits and not observing Ekadasi. Lord Hari stay.

So someone.

Is following. If someone is not following basic practices, so then it is considered as an offense to Krishna. During service, one must consider oneself a humble servant of God. Instead, if one praises oneself or thinks of oneself as the best worshipper, it is called pride during service. Performing deity worship with many materials and grandeur while considering one's greatness also reflects pride. So.

Internal reasons why Lord Jai Jana.

Descended so the internal reason for Lord Caitanya's descent is one of Radharani's glories is she is free of pride. Krishna is grateful to all the devotion of the Gopis.

This as I said, he reciprocates with all the Lord's service.

So he says that he reciprocates with all of the Gopi's service.

But he admits that the Gobis.

He said that Gopis. So he said that the Gopis of Vrindavan have offered such pure service that he can't repay it.

So.

Radharani's voice, she's free of pride.

So one of Radharani's qualities is she is free of pride. So it's in the. In the Padma Purana it's mentioned if one takes shelter of Lord Hari, then all his offenses are vanquished. All offenses committed in the service of the Lord are destroyed by taking shelter of the Holy Names. The Holy Name alone delivers Vaishnavas. But those who have taken shelter of the Holy Name must give up the 10 offenses in chanting. Otherwise they surely fall down even though they have taken shelter of the Holy Name. By being cautious of these five types of service offences, devotees should perform deity worship. These offenses are appropriately divided among those who install deity the priests, the general devotees. A person who is a bhajanashila, a devotee engaged in devotional service, must carefully avoid offenses to the Holy name as well. Savannah1 7. Your voice is very low.

So.

Here the pattern of Quran says how one takes shelter the Holy Name of Krishna.

So here in the Padma Purana it says how if one takes the shelter of the Holy Names of Krishna, he.

Is freed from all offenses.

He is freed from all offenses, but he has to avoid the offenses to the Holy name. There are 10 offenses.

Those are the.

Those have to be strictly avoided. 10 offenses enchanting. The 10 offenses enchanting are as follows. Criticizing saintly persons Considering Shiva or other demigods to be independent of the Supreme Lord. Disrespecting the spiritual Master. Criticizing the Vedic scripture or literature in persons of the Vedic version. Considering the glories of the Holy Name of the Lord to be an exaggeration. Giving interpretations to the Holy Name of the Lord, Committing sinful activities on the strength of the Holy Name Considering the Holy Name the chanting of the Holy Name to be an auspicious ritualistic activity offered in the Vedas as fruitive fruitive activities. Karmakanda Instructing the glories of the Holy name to the faithless 10. The last one not having complete faith in chanting of the Holy Name and maintaining material attachments even after understanding so many instructions on this subject matter.

Is the chant of tongues is the chanting of the Holy Name.

So these are the 10 offenses to the chanting of the Holy Names. And one has to be very careful not to perform this.

First thanks His I think devotees Dedicated themselves to chanting the holy name.

The first one is criticizing the devotees who have dedicated themselves for the chanting of the holy names.

We have to avoid.

So we have to avoid those 10 kinds of offense. Says to the holy name.

Sam.

Too low. Yes. All are nodding yes. Then she can come and repeat. Then she feels so. So.

We saw his challenge.

So how many of you saw the Bhishma Panchak challenge? Very nice. I think Gorangi Gandharvika and she said the next challenge is in April. Vaishak challenge.

I was saying that start at the Greater Southern.

I was thinking we can start at Advaita Saptami and end it at the Nithyananda Trayodasi. After that have a virtual Parikrama during the God Purnima. Then after that Vaishak month. It's during the month of mark.

So people have extra.

People so people can have extra blessings. Things like Lord Advaita did. He called Lord Chaitanya to come. He got initiated by Madhavendra Puri and Lord Nithyananda. He came a little before Lord Chaitanya.

Pictures of Lord Natai.

So maybe there are pictures of Lord Nithai that are painted that they can paint.

I don't know a person.

I don't know whether if this fits into the challenge. Krishnir Matiras too. Madhushri.

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