"A vaisnava-abhasa chanter may not be recognized as a pure Vaisnava, but still should be respected as a neophyte devotee as long as he is not-contaminated by the mayavadi philosophy. He can easily become elevated by contact with saintly persons. The elevated Vaisnavas consider such neophytes to be innocent and so shower mercy on them. They must not be ignored and avoided like the agnostic mayavadis. The pure devotees will resuscitate the small spark.of devotion in them, encourage their propensity to worship the Deity, and gradually give them sambandha-jnana to establish them in devotional service of the Supreme Lord and His devotees. But if they exhibit strong inclinations to incorrigible mayavadi views then they must be avoided.

Pratibimba namabhasa

"When a person sees pure firm faith in others, he is impressed; thus sraddha-abhasa or the beginning of faith is invoked in him. He desires elevation and so chants constantly, though still with strong attachments to sense pleasures and the desire for liberation. His sraddha is not real but has the symptoms of sraddha. This is defined in the scriptures as pratibimba-sraddha-abhasa.

Racism is the identification of a person/self according to the race of the body that self is in. This is like identifying people with their shirts. If you walk along the street, you will see many different-colored shirts. If one of those shirts is purple, you don't see the person wearing that shirt as a purple person; you see him as someone who merely is wearing a purple shirt. is based on the inability to see that different-colored bodies are just like different-colored shirts.
Siddhaswarupanda

Hence chanting with pratibimba-sraddha-abhasa results in pratibimba- namabhasa. But if by circumstances this sort of namabhasa becomes aberrated by mayavadi philosophy, then the chanter begins to think that the perfect and transcendental name of the Lord is mundane and imperfect, requiring to be perfected by chanting with knowledge. This offense obliterates his little bit of genuine sraddha.

Chaya- and pratibimba-namabhasa

"Chaya-namabhasa arises simply from ignorance. It is rooted in hrdaya daurbalyam or weakness of the heart. It is a type of anartha. But all these faults are rectified by chanting the holy name. However, chanting in pratibimba-namabhasa increases one's offenses. According to the mayavadis, Lord Krsna's name, form, qualities and pastimes are all illusory, false, temporary and contaminated. They similarly misunderstand prema or spiritual love to be merely evanescent. Mayavadi philosophy charac-