Follow your guru's path without deviation; advancement comes through humble service and compassion for others' spiritual welfare.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: Why should we bother about this and that? Svayambhūr: Prabhupāda, you wrote in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta that the Caitanya mahā-mantra, śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda, there is no offense to that. And so therefore in the Kali-yuga it is actually more beneficial... Prabhupāda: Offense is that what is spoken by the ācāryas, if you do not follow, that is offense. Guror avajñā. That is offense.
To chant gaura-nitāi is no offense. But if our previous gurus have chanted śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda śrī-advaita—why should we go beyond that? That is guror avajñā. Even there is no aparādha, because guru..., Kavirāja Gosvāmī, has sung like that, and my guru has sung, we should follow that.
We should not make any deviation. That is guror avajñā śruti-śāstra-nindanam. Nāmno balād yasya hi pāpa-buddhiḥ. So it comes to be one of the items of the daśa-vidha-aparādha.
Guror avajñā. Svayambhūr: Should we consider that it's more beneficial for people to hear bhaja śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya... Prabhupāda: Why? There is already... Why should you go here and there? There is already śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda.
Why you are so anxious to go out of it? Svayambhūr: No, I'm saying is it more beneficial for people to hear that mantra than the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra? Is it more beneficial for people to hear the pañca-tattva mantra than the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra? Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. You are going to Hare Kṛṣṇa through Nitāi-Gaura.
Nitāiyer karuṇā habe braje rādhā-kṛṣṇa pābe. The principle is: don't try to manufacture. Because you are not experienced, so what nonsense you will manufacture, that will be offensive. Better go on, the simple thing. Svayambhūr: I know one devotee that chants pañca-tattva mantra... Prabhupāda: Let them chant whatever.
We shall chant like this, pañca-tattva... śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. I've explained that. Five features of Lord Caitanya. Svayambhūr: He chants that mantra on his beads. Prabhupāda: Who? Svayambhūr: That boy Richard, in Rādhā-kuṇḍa. Prabhupāda: Rascal. That is his bad association.