One lady opened the door and listened to our presentation about the Gita. Her daughter, Alicia, (12 yrs old), sitting in the living room watching TV, half listened too. After mom bought the Gita, we taught her the maha mantra. By that time her daughter had gone into another room. But, I told the mom that Alicia should come back out to learn the mantra too. So, mom called out, "Alicia, come in her and learn this mantra!" Alicia came in but was too shy to repeat after me. So, mom said, "I will teach her."
Then mom proceeded to teach her daughter the mantra, making her repeat it after her, the same way that I had just taught her. The daughter laughed while saying the mantra, but she chanted the whole mantra. "One who chants the holy name of the Lord is immediately freed from the reactions of unlimited sins, even if he chants indirectly [to indicate something else], jokingly, for musical entertainment, or even neglectfully. This is accepted by all the learned scholars of the scriptures." SB 6.2.14
All glories to the MSF of twenty-thousand!
YS,
Vaisesika Dasa
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