Sri Harinama Cintamani :: Chapter 14 (part 1)
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stone from Govardhana, and as he worshipped he saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja, directly in the stone. Thinking of how he had received the Govardhana-sila directly from the hands of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Raghunatha dasa was always overflooded with ecstatic love. The amount of transcendental bliss that Raghunatha dasa enjoyed simply by offering water and Tulasi is impossible to achieve even if one worships the Deity with sixteen kinds of paraphernalia. After Raghunatha dasa had thus worshipped the Govardhana-sila for some time, Svarupa Damodara spoke to him as follows: 'Offer the Govardhana stone eight kaudis worth of the first-class sweetmeats known as khaja and sandesa. If you offer them with faith and love, they will be just like nectar."


If there is no self in the body, then there is no reason not to treat that body—human or otherwise—the same as we treat any other composition of matter. The no-self world view is the basis, the rationale, for the uninhibited exploitation of other living entities.
Jagad Guru Speaks


Meditators on the holy name perform bhava-seva

"Meditation upon the holy name of the Lord engenders bhava-seva or spontaneous loving devotional service. O Lord Caitanya, this is Your grace upon the jivas: all the different limbs of sadhana-bhakti or the practice of devotional service finally culminate in prema. One must therefore submerge himself in the nectar of chanting the holy name and forget all other processes of elevation."

It is on the strength of Srila Haridasa Thakura's instructions that a lowly person without means can recite the Harinama Cintamani.