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Haridāsa Ṭhākura did not let this disturb him, however. Consequently Lord Caitanya, who is Lord Jagannātha Himself, came daily to see Haridāsa. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to go see Haridāsa Ṭhākura daily when the Lord was going to bathe in the The Lord would enter Haridāsa’s cottage and ask, “Haridāsa, what are you doing?” and Haridāsa would reply, “Please come in, my Lord.” This then is the actual position of a devotee.

tasmād bhārata sarvātmā bhagavān īśvaro hariḥ śrotavyaḥ kīrtitavyaś ca smartavyaś cecchatābhayam

He is called Hari because He alone can undo the conditioned existence of a living being.

But because the Lord is Hari, He is able to cause the disappearance of our conditioned life by giving

In the Hari-vaṁśa the spiritual nature is explained by the Supreme Lord Himself as follows: “The glaring

In this present age the same result can be achieved by the process of hari-kīrtana, glorification of Hari, Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

This hari-kīrtana was started five hundred years ago in Bengal by Lord Caitanya. Kīrtana means hari-kīrtana. One cannot say, “Oh, you are Vaiṣṇava. You can perform hari-kīrtana. The Vedic scriptures do not authorize any kīrtana other than hari-kīrtana. Kīrtana means hari-kīrtana, the glorification of Kṛṣṇa.

So this process of hari-kīrtana is very simple: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare

anarpita-carīṁ cirāt karuṇayāvatīrṇaḥ kalau samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasāṁ sva-bhakti-śriyam hariḥ puraṭa-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandīpitaḥ

Therefore one has to take to this process of hari-kīrtana.

prāpañcikatayā buddhyā hari-sambandhi-vastunaḥ mumukṣubhiḥ parityāgo vairāgyaṁ phalgu kathyate

That is hari-kīrtana, paraṁ vijayate śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtanam: glorification of the Supreme.

irresistibly sweet fragrance And its tales of heroes The full-blown petals Fully opened by the talk of Lord Hari

In the Bṛhan-nāradīya Purāṇa it is clearly stated that it is only chanting of the holy name of Hari (

Lord Caitanya recommended, kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ [“Hari, Kṛṣṇa, is constantly to be praised” (Śikṣāṣṭaka Similarly, Madhvācārya quotes, vede rāmāyaṇe caiva hariḥ sarvatra gīyate [“Hari is sung about everywhere