- Verse: kṛṣṇa-mantra haite habe saṁsāra-mocana (Caitanya-caritamrta, Ādi lila, 7.73).
- When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu took sannyasa, the advaita-vadis criticised Him for dancing and singing in various places.
- Mahaprabhu received the gopala-mantra from his guru, this mantra gives detachment from sense gratification (he is mantra-raja, the king of mantras).
- Srimati Radhika taught the kama-gayatri mantra to Visvanatha Cakravartipada. To learn more about this mantra, read Mantrartha Dipika.
- Sriman Mahaprabhu instructs Gadadhara Pandita not to speak the mantra aloud and to receive it only from his guru.
- The maha-mantra was born from the heart of Srimati Radhika!
- If you chant the gopala-mantra, little by little the material desires will come off from your heart, but if you chant the mahamantra, you will get krishna-prema!
- There are three names in the gopala mantra: Krsna, Govinda and Gopijana Vallabha, but in the mahamantra we chant Yugala-nama, the names of the Divine Couple.
- At the end of the diksa mantras there is the sampradam-kanaka, when the individual offers himself completely to the deity who presides over the mantra by saying: namaha, svaha and pracchodayat.
- The four rules for attaining mantra siddhi.
- Gayatri mantras protect us from maya and free us from our anarthas (sins); but the mahamantra will give us krsna-prema and sambhanda-jnana, the knowledge of relationship with God.
- The mahamantra manifested from the heart of Srimati Radhika – Kali-Saṇṭāraṇa Upaniṣad, Vyasadeva.
- The meaning of the vocative ‘Hare’ in the maha-mantra.
- The two symptoms manifested in those who have attained prema.
- Verse: evaṁ-vrataḥ sva-priya-nāma-kīrtyā jātānurāgo druta-citta uccaiḥ (Srimad Bhagavatam, 11.2.40).
- Verse: śṛṇvan su-bhadrāṇi rathāṅga-pāṇer
janmāni karmāṇi ca yāni loke (Srimad Bhagavatam, 11.2.39). - The conversation between Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Prakasananda Sarasvati.
- Chant the holy names at the moment of your death, and your life will have been successful.
- There is no point in accumulating knowledge without chanting the holy names.
- The story of Gopa Kumara makes it clear that to enter Vaikunta it is not necessary to chant the gayatri-mantra, only the maha-mantra.
- The maha-mantra of the gopis: “Govinda Damodara Madhaveti”. In Goloka Vrndavana, sambhodana, the mantra with the invocation, is chanted.
Lectures in English, United Kingdom, United Kingdom 2023
