— Chapter Fifteen —

The Bhajana of Confidential Worship

All glories to Sri Gadadhara Pandit and Lord Gauranga; all glories to Lord Nityananda; all glories to Sri Advaita Acarya, the Lord of Mother Sita; all glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya. One who rejects all other processes of elevation and simply immerses himself in the chanting of the holy name is truly a magnanimous soul and is glorious in all respects.

Science of the holy name revealed

LORD CATTANYA SAID, "O Haridasa! Simply on the strength of your wonderful devotion, you are conversant with all knowledge. All the Vedic philosophical conclusions about the topics of the Absolute Godhead, the jiva, maya, the pure name of the Lord, namabhasa and namaparadha are revealed in your speech.

Because self-awareness is a completely subjective experience, you cannot directly experience the reality of another self's existence. Therefore, on a practical level, you cannot deny your own existence, but you find it easy to deny the existence of other selves.
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It is therefore rightly said of you that the Vedas gleefully prance upon your tongue." Lord Caitanya desired that the percepts of namarasa, the topmost spiritual science of the mellows of the holy name, be revealed through the mouth of Srila Haridasa; and so the Lord spoke in that way.

Lord Caitanya continued, "Now please instruct Me about namarasa. How can a jiva become eligible to receive it?" Srila Haridasa Thakura then prayed at the Lord's lotus feet, submitting that whatever he would speak on this subject would be inspired by the Lord Himself.

The concept of rasa

Srila Haridasa replied: "The Vedas proclaim rasa, or transcendental mellow, to be of the same spiritual substance as the Supreme Absolute Truth and the realm of pure transcendence. Worldly poets dabble in a rasa that is totally mundane; factually