“God is not different from His holy Name”

Prabhupada, October 26, 1975, Mauritius: Atah sri-krsna namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih [BRS. 1.2.234] By these material senses, you cannot understand God. Namadi. Even you cannot understand His holy name. Our understanding of God begins by chanting the holy name. So by chanting, chanting, because God is not different from the name, you associate with name…, er, with God, and then you become cleansed. This is the process. God is not different from His holy name. So you chant the holy name of God. That means you associate with God immediately. Just like you associate with the sun immediately, er, sunshine—you become warm—similarly, by associating with God, you become God conscious. This is our program. We are giving chance people to associate with God directly by chanting His holy name. God is omnipotent. His name is as omnipotent as He is. These fools, they do not know that.

Brahmananda: They think it’s some lesser, ordinary.

Prabhupada: Yes. And if you say, “Why, then, Krishna? There are many names,” so Caitanya: “Yes, any name of God, if it is God’s name, it is as powerful.” If it is God’s name. “Any name” does not mean you manufacture some name. That is not. Any name by which one can understand this is God’s name, that is there said. Namnam akari bahudha-nija sarva-saktis tatrarpita niyamitah smarane na kalah. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s preaching. If you do not accept Krishna as a God’s name, then if you have your own name of Krishna, er, God, chant it.

Brahmananda: But it must be standard.

Prabhupada: Must be God’s name.

Brahmananda: Yes.

Prabhupada: That is wanted. But if you do not know what is God’s name, then what you will chant? What you will chant? Then you chant Krishna. We know it is God’s name. Take. Take to our principle. If there is no medical college, come to our medical college. You are welcome. Why you are envious? You have no medical college; at the same time, you are envious of my medical college. Why? Why this nonsense? If you want to learn medical science—you have no medical science, college—come here. This is our proposal. Why you are envious? That means rascal. “Our gold.” Gold is “our gold,” everyone’s gold? “Our gold.” What do you mean, “our gold”? Gold is always gold, either in your hand or in my hand. In your hand it is not Christian gold and in my hand it is not Hindu gold. Gold is gold.

namnam akari bahudha nija sarva saktis tatrarpita niyamitah smarane na kalah etadrsi tava krpa bhagavan mamapi durdaivam idrsam ihajani nanuragah

In the Bible there is no specific name of God?

Brahmananda: Well, they say, “jehovah” and “Yaweh.”

Prabhupada: Not fixed up. The Mayavada… If you have no fixed name of God, then why don’t you chant Krishna? What is the harm? But envious. Therefore paramo nirmatsaranam. One who has completely eradicated from the envious conception of life, they can take to this way. [Break] …climate of this island is good.