Hare Krsna Festival at La Salle Pleyel - God's Name Is as Powerful as God Himself – Simply Chanting Purifies and Connects You to Krishna

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Lecture at the Hare Kṛṣṇa Festival at La Salle Pleyel — June 14, 1974, Paris 740614LE-PARIS [64:17 Minutes] Lect_740614LE-PARIS Prabhupāda: [sings Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [leads prema-dhvani prayers] [break] [03:00] [translated into French throughout by Jyotirmayī dāsī] Jyotirmayī: ...kindly taking part in this saṅkīrtana movement. This saṅkīrtana movement means vibration of the transcendental sound. In the beginning of creation, [disturbing noises from audience] sound is the origin of all creation. That is admitted in the Bible also.

[aside:] Where is that paper? Yes. Read it. We are reading a passage from your Bible.

Nitāi: The Gospel according to St. John, Chapter One. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not." Prabhupāda: [aside:] Where it is? So the same thing explained in the Vedic literature. Here it is said that "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God." So God being Absolute Truth, there is no difference between God, His form, His qualities, His word and everything relating to God.

That is also God. Just like in the material world the name and the subject, or the substance, they are different. Just like when you are thirsty, you simply utter the word "water, water," it will not quench your thirst. But in the spiritual world, the name "God," or "Kṛṣṇa," and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are the same.

Just parallel to this Bible passage I'll quote one Sanskrit verse from the Vedas. Therefore it is said, nāma-cintāmaṇi-kṛṣṇa caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ pūrṇaḥ śuddho nitya-mukto abhinnatvān nāma-nāminoḥ [Cc. Madhya 17.133] Namely, the name of God is as powerful as God is Himself. It is called pūrṇa.

Pūrṇa means complete. And śuddha. Śuddha means without any material contamination. Pūrṇaḥ śuddha nitya. Nitya means eternal.

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