Chanting Hare Krishna purifies the tongue and grants liberation through submission to guru and Krishna's combined mercy.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.30 — November 30, 1974, Bombay 741130SB-BOMBAY [41:54 Minutes] SB-03.25.30_741130SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] tad etan me vijānīhi yathāhaṁ manda-dhīr hare sukhaṁ buddhyeya durbodhaṁ yoṣā bhavad-anugrahāt [SB 3.25.30] Prabhupāda: [indistinct] [break] [02:14] "[My dear son, Kapila,] after all, I am a woman.
It is very difficult for me to understand the Absolute Truth because my intelligence is not very great. But if You will kindly explain it to me, even though I am not very intelligent, I can understand it and thereby feel transcendental happiness." Prabhupāda: tad etan me vijānīhi yathāhaṁ manda-dhīr hare sukhaṁ buddhyeya durbodhaṁ yoṣā bhavad-anugrahāt [SB 3.25.30] So this is submission. The process of understanding transcendental subject matter is not by challenge but by submission. The whole bhakti process is submission.
That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's preaching. tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā amāninā mānadena kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ [Cc. Ādi 17.31] If one is interested to advance by chanting, then Caitanya Mahāprabhu advises that you should be humbler than the straw or grass and tolerant than the tree. Tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā, amāninā: Without feeling oneself becoming very proud of intelligence, he should give respect to others, and in this way one can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra offenselessly. So Devahūti, although mother of Kapiladeva, because she is woman—not only woman; because she is going to be disciple or the student—she is presenting herself as very humble student, not that superior mother. No. Tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā [Bg. 4.34].
One has to learn. The first condition is praṇipāta. Prakṛṣṭa-rūpeṇa nipāta, complete surrender. Praṇipātena.
Then paripraśna. Sad-dharma-pṛcchat. First of all, praṇipāta, full submission; then paripraśna, guided by sevā, service. We have to please the spiritual master, the teacher, by service.
This whole bhakti process depends on service attitude. Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau. I have several times explained this verse. Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ [Cc. Madhya 17.136]. Our present material senses are blunt. By these present senses it is not possible to understand the transcendental nature of Kṛṣṇa, His name, His form, His quality, His pastimes. Everything of Kṛṣṇa, they are all divyam, divine.
Janma karma ca me divyam [Bg. 4.9]. So divyam, transcendental subject matter, is not possible to understand by these material blunt senses. Therefore one has to purify it. That is bhakti-mārga.