Prabhupada says, ‘It’s like someone is shaving with a straight edge razor, and they’re a little careless, they can easily cut themselves’.

So spiritual life is like a razor’s edge: just that takes little bit of bodily identification. a little bit of mental concoction and we can get off the track, and the harvest won’t get back home in this life , maybe in a future life we will get a chance, nothing is lost.

But we want to bring the harvest back home in this life time; this is the special chance that Lord Caitanya is giving us…that we can bring home the harvest in this lifetime.

Prabhupada promised: “Chant your Sixteen Rounds, follow the Four Principles, engage in service to Guru and Krsna your whole life, you will go back to Godhead…That’s the yajna to bring the harvest home.” 

“When Lord Caitanya visited South India, he visited all the temples. Not only the Visnu temples, but also the Siva temples, the Durga temple, the Meenakshi temple, Ganesh temple, Murugan temple. He visited all the temples. But at every temple he would chant the same mantra Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare | Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

He would give this message to everyone, chant the Hare Krsna maha mantra. This is the mantra for the age of Kali and this mantra can be chanted without any restriction, not only the brahmanas but anybody of any caste any community can chant this mantra. So how many of you are regularly chanting? Wow..so many!!

Those who are not chanting should immediately start chanting and those who are chanting should be very determined that chanting is going on. This chanting is the link in our heart, our eternal relationship with Krsna.”

“In the modern world, trademarks are very common. And they are protected. The trademark for marketing the holy name is the causeless mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Gauranga. In this Age of Kali, it is not possible to achieve the pure holy name without chanting the names of the Pancha-Tattva prior to chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.

Whoever wants to market the holy name must be a sincere follower of the Lord and distribute the name under Gauranga’s brand name, or  process, of chanting. Many people chant Hare Krishna maha-mantra, but true followers of Lord Caitanya are especially empowered by His mercy.”

“One time Prabhupada was saying that the ‘BELL’ of the priest in the temple, when he performs the arati ceremony ringing the bell, that bell is more powerful than the nuclear weapon…the atomic bomb, because the bomb will blow up people’s bodies and destroy vegetation and will make a hole in the ground and everything. But the bomb doesn’t change spiritually, the situation that’s happening with any of those souls, with any of those spiritual beings! Again they still have to take birth.

But someone hearing of the ‘BELL’ that’s being offered to Krishna, then what to speak of the kirtan (we just performed), that’s destroying so much karma and that can actually purify ones consciousness, as we’re said to have a transcendental consciousness which is capable of remembering Krishna!“

“Every human in the world is a potential customer (for taking up Krishna Consciousness). There are no restrictions due to caste, color, creed, gender or age. Everyone is a potential customer. Whoever has the proper ‘money’ can buy the goods.

The currency is described as being the pure desire to serve the Lord. Any mixture with other motives create a counterfeit situation. Counterfeit money means that when the customer chants the holy name of Krishna, he will not be able to experience the same transcendental bliss, or the same realization, as does the pure devotees, who has no mundane motive for chanting.

To enter deep into the real ecstasy of Krishna consciousness, one should be sure that his motives are pure, thus avoiding counterfit money, which only resembles money but has no actual purchasing power!.”

In the Siva Purana, the name is mentioned with the syllables. Lord Siva said these two syllables ‘Krish’…’Na’.. these are the reservoir of all pleasure. The all attractive form of the Lord. These two syllables, are param brahma, and they are equal to 3000 times chanting the name of Vishnu, the sahasra-naam of Vishnu.

If you chant 3 times… or if you chant Hare Krishna once… the one name of Krishna has the same effect…That these names are specifically given… There are so many names given, and by chanting those specific vibrations, one gets delivered.

In the Srimad Bhagvatam, it says even if one circumstantially says that vibration he gets delivered. Accidentally if someone says that vibration…

There was one devotee of Lord Caitanya, he would regularly go to one Muslim magistrate and request him to chant “Hare Krishna”. But he would always avoid. but one day he said, “Alright, alright…Tomorrow I will chant Hare Krishna”. Hariiii Booool…..Hariiii Booool…..Hariiii Booool….Hariiii Booool…. “You have already chanted..you have already said the name of Krishna..you’ve begun..now dont stop.go on chanting..you have already delivered by accidentally chanting it. So go on chanting Hare Krishna…Hare Krishna…Krishna Krishna…Hare Hare…Hare Rama…Hare Rama…Rama Rama…Hare Hare…”

HH Jayapataka Swami
Lecture: SB 1.1.14
1989
Chowpatti, Mumbai

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