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NAMAPARAADHAS
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NAMAPARAADHAS
(Offence against Divine Name)
The Glory of the Names of the Lord is indes-
cribable. A devotee should try to avoid the sixty-four
offences against Divine Name (Namaparaadhas).
They are: 1. To recognise God as a deity or a
principle, 2. to look upon the Vedas as a book or as
having an author, 3. to discriminate between
Bhaktas on ground of their caste, 4. to look upon
one's preceptor as an ordinary human being, 5. to
regard an image or picture of God as wood, stone,
metal, paper or clay, 6. to treat Prasada (food offer-
ed to the Lord) as ordinary food, 7. to treat Charana-
mrita (water in which the sacred feet of an image of
God have been washed) as ordinary water, 8. to
regard Tulsi (the basil plant) as an ordinary plant,
9. to regard the cow as an ordinary beast, 10. to
regard the Gita or the Bhagavata as an ordinary book,
11. to regard the Divine sports as human activities.
12. to compare the sports of the Lord with earthly
love or sex-pleasure, 13. to regard the Gopis as
others' wives (in relation to the Lord), 14. to regard
the Rasa dance of Sri Krishna as an amorous sport
15. to discriminate (between touchables and untouch-
ables) in festivities connected with the Lord, 16. to
I have no faith in God and the Shastras and to turn an
unbeliever, 17. to practise Dharma with a doubting
mind, 18. to be slothful in discharging one's
religious duties, 19. to judge devotees by external
things, 20. to comment on the merits and demerits
of saints, 21. to have a high opinion about one's own
7
NAMAPARAADHAS
(Offence against Divine Name)
The Glory of the Names of the Lord is indes-
cribable. A devotee should try to avoid the sixty-four
offences against Divine Name (Namaparaadhas).
They are: 1. To recognise God as a deity or a
principle, 2. to look upon the Vedas as a book or as
having an author, 3. to discriminate between
Bhaktas on ground of their caste, 4. to look upon
one's preceptor as an ordinary human being, 5. to
regard an image or picture of God as wood, stone,
metal, paper or clay, 6. to treat Prasada (food offer-
ed to the Lord) as ordinary food, 7. to treat Charana-
mrita (water in which the sacred feet of an image of
God have been washed) as ordinary water, 8. to
regard Tulsi (the basil plant) as an ordinary plant,
9. to regard the cow as an ordinary beast, 10. to
regard the Gita or the Bhagavata as an ordinary book,
11. to regard the Divine sports as human activities.
12. to compare the sports of the Lord with earthly
love or sex-pleasure, 13. to regard the Gopis as
others' wives (in relation to the Lord), 14. to regard
the Rasa dance of Sri Krishna as an amorous sport
15. to discriminate (between touchables and untouch-
ables) in festivities connected with the Lord, 16. to
I have no faith in God and the Shastras and to turn an
unbeliever, 17. to practise Dharma with a doubting
mind, 18. to be slothful in discharging one's
religious duties, 19. to judge devotees by external
things, 20. to comment on the merits and demerits
of saints, 21. to have a high opinion about one's own