Chanting Krishna's holy name transforms any place into Vaikuntha and guarantees eternal spiritual protection.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.2.48 Māgha-melā — January 31, 1971, Prayāga 710131SB-PRAYAGA [28:34 Minutes] SB-06.02.48_710131SB-PRAYAGA Devotee: [introducing recording] Thirty-first January, 1971, Prayāga. Prabhupāda: [sings Śrī Śrī Ṣaḍ-gosvāmy-aṣṭaka with devotees responding] vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau kṛṣṇotkīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau premāmṛtāmbho-nidhī dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau priya-karau nirmatsarau pūjitau śrī-caitanya-kṛpā-bharau bhuvi bhuvo bhārāvahantārakau vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau kṛṣṇotkīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau premāmṛtāmbho-nidhī dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau priya-karau nirmatsarau pūjitau śrī-caitanya-kṛpā-bharau bhuvi bhuvo bhārāvahantārakau vande rūpa-sanātanau raghu-yugau śrī-jīva-gopālakau [break] The conclusion is: na vai sa narakaṁ yāti nekṣito yama-kiṅkaraiḥ yady apy amaṅgalo martyo viṣṇu-loke mahīyate [SB 6.2.48] That one who is engaged in chanting the holy name, for him this is the special facility. What is that? It is guaranteed that he'll never go to the hellish condition of life. That is guaranteed.
He's not degrading to the lowest stage of life, in animal life, or a life of ignorance, lower-born of human life, but he will gradually make progress. And it is also guaranteed that the Yamadūta, the servants of Yamarāja, will never come to see him or he will never see them. They will be out of sight. This is the result. And, yajñati ananyalo mattaḥ: although this material existence is always inauspicious, a person who is engaged in chanting the holy name, he is always living in the Viṣṇu-loka.
He's not living in this material world. That we have several times explained, that if you chant without offense, yatra ananyalo mad-bhakta tatra tiṣṭhāmi, so immediately you create a Vaikuṇṭha-loka, because Kṛṣṇa is coming. When Kṛṣṇa is coming, Viṣṇu is coming; wherever Kṛṣṇa goes, that is Vaikuṇṭha. Just like it is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati [Bg. 18.61]. So Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Lord, is living everyone's hearts.
So there are cats, dogs and hogs—they are also living beings, living entities—so Kṛṣṇa is living in their heart also. But that does not mean He is living with the hog in the abominable condition. He has His own Vaikuṇṭha. Wherever He goes is Vaikuṇṭha.
Similarly, when one chants, that chanting… There is no difference between the holy name and Kṛṣṇa. And Kṛṣṇa says that "I live there where My pure devotees chant." So when Kṛṣṇa comes, when Kṛṣṇa is on your tongue, how you can live in this material world? It is already Vaikuṇṭha, provided your chanting is offenseless. Anyway, in the beginning it may not be offenseless; still, the chanting has got so much power. Kṛṣṇa-karṣiṇī.
Kṛṣṇa-karṣiṇī. There are several qualification of devotional service; one of them is kṛṣṇa-karṣiṇī—attracting Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa attracts everyone, but devotional service attracts Kṛṣṇa. mriyamāṇo harer nāma gṛṇan putropacāritam ajāmilo 'py agād dhāma kim uta śraddhayā gṛṇan [SB 6.2.49] This is the last conclusion, that Ajāmila actually did not mean to chant the holy name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but some way or other his son's name was Nārāyaṇa, he called his son. The name is so powerful that even without aiming or objecting to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, because the name was there, therefore ajāmilo 'py agād dhāmam: he was promoted to the spiritual kingdom.
Kim uta śraddhayā gṛṇan: then what to speak of such persons who are actually trying to chant the holy name without any offense. This is the conclusion, that Ajāmila never meant that he was going to chant the name of Nārāyaṇa actually, but he was calling his son, whose name was Nārāyaṇa. That means it was almost neglectfully done. So even by neglectfully doing or chanting, the holy name has got so much power, and what to speak of others who are very faithfully and, hmm, observing the rules and regulation without any offense, those who are chanting—what to speak of them? That is the thing. Similar instance is there in the Nṛsiṁha Purāṇa: one mleccha, yavana…, from it appears the mleccha-yavana was at that time also, because the mleccha-yavana is Muslims; they hate the animal hog.