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Çré Viñëusahasranäma
be relieved of all material difficulties simply by chanting these
beautiful Holy Names of the Lord.
Unfortunately, otherwise intelligent people who are
bewildered by the complex combination of anxieties and
suffering in material existence often find it difficult to
appreciate the simple process of chanting the Holy Names,
which is free from all anxiety. They cannot comprehend that
there can be a class of absolute nomenclature beyond limited,
relative knowledge and temporary conditional existence.
Any name that represents a temporary object of this material
world may be subjected to critical arguments, inductive
speculation and experimental verification. Thus all relative
conclusions created by material mental speculation are subject
to uncertainty. But in the absolute world a person and his
name, the fame and the famous, the actor and the act are
identical. Similarly the qualities, pastimes, abode, associates,
Names and everything else pertaining to the Absolute
Supreme Personality of Godhead are also spiritual and
absolute in quality. This is transcendental knowledge beyond
all uncertain processes of inductive speculation. And since this
absolute knowledge is received through the descending process
of paramparä, or disciplic succession from the Lord Himself,
there is no uncertainty or speculation. This is the eternal,
unchanging Absolute Truth.
Actually, the Holy Name is the Supreme Personality of
Godhead Himself, manifesting as a transcendental vibration.
The Holy Name is completely different from material sound:
golokera prema-dhana, hari-näma-saìkértana. “The
transcendental vibration of chanting the Holy Names descends
from the spiritual abode of Kåñëa.” Materialists who are
addicted to experimental knowledge and so-called ‘scientific
method’ have difficulty placing their faith in the chanting of the
Holy Names. Nevertheless it is a fact that one can be freed
from all material suffering simply by chanting the Holy Names
without offense. Let anyone who doubts this assertion subject
it to their experimental verification by chanting regularly
according to the prescribed process and carefully observing the
result.
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