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Ten Offences
to the Holy Dham
To
protect your spiritual life and to get the most benefit from your pilgrimage,
the following Ten Offences to the Holy Dham should be avoided:
- To have
contempt or disrespect towards the Guru, who is the revealer of the
Holy Dham.
- To think
that the Holy Dham is temporary.
- To commit
violence towards any of the residents of the Holy Dham, or to any of
the pilgrims who come to the Holy Dham, or to think that they are ordinary
or mundane.
- To perform
mundane activities while living in the Holy Dham.
- To earn
money by, or to make a business of Deity worship and the chanting of
the Holy Name of Sri Krishna.
- To think
that the Holy Dham belongs to some mundane country or province [such
as Bengal], or to think that the Dham of the Supreme Lord is equal to
a holy place connected to some demigod, or to attempt to measure the
area of the Dham.
- To commit
sinful acts while in the Dham.
- To consider
Sri Vrindavan and Sri Nabadwip differently.
- To blaspheme
the Shastras which glorify the Holy Dham.
- To be
faithless and to think that the glories of the Holy Dham are imaginary.
Please
try to avoid all of the above offences while staying at the Math.
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