“In the Nrsimha Purana there is an instance that a Mussulman was attacked by a boar”
Prabhupada, August 15, 1971, London:..Now we have got GBC all over the world. Let them organize. What they’ll do? Organize yajna after yajna, yajna after yajna. So that as at the present moment even if we go somewhere, are known to: “Hare Krishna!” They say. The whole world will say, “Hare Krishna.” Either jokingly or serious, it doesn’t matter. Let them joke, criticize them, “Hare Krishna,” still they will have the effect. Still they will have it. In the Nrsimha Purana there is an instance that a Mussulman was attacked by, what is called? Boar having…
Parivrajakacarya: Tiger? Boar. A wild boar?
Prabhupada: A wild boar. So when the boar attacked him the Musselmans, when they do not like they say, “Haram. Haram.” Condemn means haram. So when the boar attacked him he said haram. “Haram!” But it acted, ha rama, and he got salvation. Do you follow what I say? A Mussulman said, ’ha ram. Ha ram He condemned. It is abominable.
That is the meaning of Urdu, haram. But at the time of death, when the boar attacked him, he said, “Haram.” So it acted ha rama. Ha, he Rama. It acted, chanting the name of Rama, Hare Rama. He meant something else, but it acted as beneficial as chanting He rama.
So therefore this Hare Krishna mantra, either you chant seriously, or those who are criticizing us, jokingly, the effect will be same. So anyway let them chant Hare Krishna. Do you follow? Even they do not take it seriously, if they imitate, joke, still they’ll be benefited. Full Conversation
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