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waste of time, for it will never enable one to understand real religious principles and surrender to Kṛṣṇa

Kṛṣṇa says to Arjuna, “Because you are My very dear friend, I am explaining to you the most confidential

sometimes commit sinful acts, they are protected from sinful reactions because they always chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa

Yamarāja continued: “The Supreme Personality of Godhead is self-sufficient and fully independent. He is the master of everyone and everything, including the illusory energy. He has His form, qualities, and features, and similarly His order-carriers, the Viṣṇudūtas, or Vaiṣṇavas , who are very beautiful, possess bodily features and transcendental qualities almost like His.

Sometimes the members of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness society are afraid of the impending danger of world should be confident of their protection by the Viṣṇudūtas or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as Kṛṣṇa

me only those sinful persons who do not use their tongues to chant the holy name and qualities of Kṛṣṇa , whose hearts do not remember the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa even once, and whose heads do not bow down even once before Lord Kṛṣṇa.

Durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ: instead, they are simply bewildered by Kṛṣṇa’s external, illusory energy One who does not chant the holy name of Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa, who does not bow down to the Deity of the Lord

They cannot understand the transcendental value of performing devotional service or chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa

should fully engage in devotional service by preaching the message of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Kṛṣṇa , namely, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and the other aspects of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

The chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is recommended even for persons who commit offenses, because if Then, by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa without offenses, one increases his love for Kṛṣṇa.

Lord become sudhiyaḥ, intelligent, but this is not so of a Vedic scholar who does not understand Kṛṣṇa’s

the great ṛṣis who occupy the topmost planets cannot ascertain this principle, nor can the demigods or the leaders of Siddhaloka, to say nothing of the demons, ordinary human beings, Vidyādharas, or Cāraṇas

Svāyambhuva Manu, Prahlāda Mahārāja, Janaka Mahārāja, Grandfather Bhīṣma, Bali Mahārāja, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and My dear servants, this transcendental religious principle, which is known as bhāgavata-dharma, or surrender unto the Supreme Lord and love for Him, is uncontaminated by the material modes of nature. It is very confidential and difficult for ordinary human beings to understand, but if by chance one fortunately understands it, he is immediately liberated, and thus he returns home, back to Godhead.

Lord Kṛṣṇa states that principle in the Bhagavad-gītā (18.66): sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ

Direct Connection with Kṛṣṇa

Materialistic persons complacently believe that their nations, communities, or families can protect them

literature contains ritualistic ceremonies that are not transcendental but are meant to keep peace and Real religious principles are nistraiguṇya, above the three modes of material nature, or transcendental The Yamadūtas did not know these transcendental religious principles, and therefore when prevented from

The devotees who have surrendered unto the lotus feet of the Lord and who constantly chant His holy name are praised by the demigods and the residents of Siddhaloka. Those devotees are so respectable and exalted that Lord Viṣṇu personally protects them with the club What to speak of you, if even Lord Brahmā or I were to punish them, Lord Viṣṇu would punish us.

It is to be concluded that with a strong vow one should chant the holy name of the Lord – Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare – for thus by the grace of Kṛṣṇa one will certainly be delivered from the clutches of māyā.

There is no need to conduct research into the significance of the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.