Om namo arihantanam oma namo bhagavate1/29/2024 ![]() Sometimes our Indian friends, puffed up with concocted notions, criticize, “This has not been done. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is going on throughout the entire world, and we also install Deities in different centers. It is specifically mentioned in this verse that one should take consideration of the time, place and available conveniences. The method of worship - chanting the mantra and preparing the forms of the Lord - is not stereotyped, nor is it exactly the same everywhere. In Bhagavad-gītā the Lord personally accepts that anyone, even one of a low species, can be elevated to the highest position and go back home, back to Godhead, simply if he worships properly. But here is tacit proof that if a person accepts the Vaiṣṇava mantra or Vaiṣṇava way of worshiping the Deity, he is allowed to chant the praṇava mantra. Especially in India, the caste brāhmaṇas object greatly when persons from other castes, who are not born in brāhmaṇa families, recite this praṇava mantra. Still, although not a brāhmaṇa but a kṣatriya, Dhruva was allowed, on the authority of Nārada, to pronounce the praṇava oṁkāra. ![]() He at once admitted before Nārada Muni that as a kṣatriya he was unable to accept Nārada’s instruction of renunciation and mental equilibrium, which are the concern of a brāhmaṇa. There is an injunction that those who are not brāhmaṇas cannot pronounce the praṇava mantra. ![]() ![]() This mantra is chanted by Vaiṣṇava devotees, and it begins with praṇava, or oṁkāra. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya is known as the dvādaśākṣara-mantra. ![]()
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