But every one of you in this room is able to chant the name of Rama, correct? Repeat after me, Rama! Everyone! Raise your hands up if you cannot chant the name of Rama. If you are so sinful, that it’s not possible to chant the name of Rama? That means you all are much more pious than Valmiki was. Because he could not do it. He was trying, Narada Muni was saying, “Rama, Rama.” And he was just, he couldn’t do it! Even though Narada Muni convinced him of his sinful reactions that were coming up upon him for all of his deeds, all of his crimes, he could not chant the names of Rama. So, you know the acarya. he is not a self-righteous fanatic that says, “Okay, if you won’t chant the name of Rama, that’s the bonafide mantra. Then I am going somewhere else, I am sorry but I cannot help you.” The acarya is willing to adjust all the rules and regulations to somehow or the other make the person Krishna conscious. Now what acarya has ever taught previously to chant the name of the God of death? Can you think of anyone? What bonafide guru taught, chant mara mara mara mara. Mara is the lord of death, nobody does! But Narada Muni knew that this man is so attached to death, he is so intimate with killing, that he will be able to chant the name of mara with great feeling.
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