Chanting Hare Krishna cleanses the heart and reveals the eternal spirit soul beyond material suffering.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Brandeis University Lecture — April 29, 1969, Boston 690429LE-BOSTON [29:35 Minutes] Lecture_690429LE-BOSTON Prabhupāda: oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur-unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ [Gautamīya-tantra] "I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master, who has opened my eyes of ignorance with the torch of knowledge." My dear boys and girls, I thank you very much for participating in our saṅkīrtana. It is very simple, chanting the sixteen words Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Actually there are only three words: Hare, Kṛṣṇa and Rāma. It is not difficult. Everyone can immediately, within a second, can chant these three names, Hare, Kṛṣṇa and Rāma.
But to make it still easier and suitable, they have been arranged in two lines of eight words each line. That is very rhythmic, and one feels immediately transcendental pleasure to chant. It is not hackneyed. We have chanted about exactly half an hour, but if we chant even twenty-four hours, you'll never feel tired. That is the significance, practical.
You will feel more and more enthusiastic to chant. Our boys and girls do that. In the beginning, of course, you may not understand; but you take to this practice of chanting, you'll feel immediately transcendental pleasure. I saw, although some of you could not join us in dancing and chanting, but you were, from your seat, you were trying to dance. That I have seen.
It is practical. We have seen even children, they immediately take to this dancing and chanting. So it is not very difficult—the most easy process of transcendental realization. We don't ask you to press your nose, or put your head downwards, or make some gymnastic. No.
In whatever condition you are, it doesn't matter; you simply chant these sixteen names. There is no secrecy. We are not charging any fees, that "You pay me so many dollars, I'll give you a secret mantra, and you chan..." No. It is open. It is distributed freely.
Simply you have to take it. That's all. The result will be, oh, great. Make an experiment.
You have no loss. You haven't got to pay anything. But if you take this, the result will be very, very great, which has no comparison in this world. That is practical. So result is...