Prameya: Nāmāparādha
Vrajanātha and Vijaya Kumāra were extremely happy to learn the glories of śrī nāma and nāma-svarūpa-tattva. When they arrived home, they chanted fifty thousand names on their tulasī-mālā without offense, and by this chanting of
śuddha-nāma they received direct experience of Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.
It was late at night when they finally took rest.
When they rose the next morning, they discussed the events of the previous night and became very blissful as they expressed
their own realizations. They passed the day in bathing in the
Gaṅgā, worshiping Kṛṣṇa, taking hari-nāma, performing kīrtana, studying Daśa-mūla, reviewing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and performing
vaiṣṇava-sevā and bhagavat-prasāda-sevā. That evening, they
presented themselves at the venerable Bābājī Mahāśaya’s kuṭira at Śrīvāsa-aṅgana. After offering sāṣṭāṅga-praṇāma, Vijaya
Kumāra inquired about the topic of nāma-aparādha-tattva that
had been introduced the previous evening.
On hearing Vijaya Kumāra’s eagerness to know about this tattva, Bābājī Mahārāja was pleased, and lovingly said, “Just as
nāma is the highest truth, so nāma-aparādha (offense against
śrī-nāma) is the most frightening of all kinds of sins and offenses. All other kinds of sins and offenses go away naturally
and automatically as one utters śrī nāma, but nāma-aparādha