Understanding "I am not this body" liberates one immediately and alone enables true equality and fraternity.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Arrival Address — August 11, 1975, Paris 750811AR-PARIS [38:58 Minutes] Arrival_750811AR-PARIS [devotee translates into French throughout]
Prabhupāda: [leads chanting of Jaya Rādhā-Mādhava] [prema-dvani prayers] All glories to the assembled devotees. Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances] [05:16] So I am very much pleased to come to this village of France. Caitanya Mahāprabhu's prediction that pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma....
Grāma means village. Sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma [CB Antya-khaṇḍa 4.126]. Everywhere the glories of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu will be spread. So by His grace, we are doing that in America, in Europe, Africa, Australia.
Village to village, town to town, we are preaching the mission of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. So why we are preaching? What is the necessity of preaching? The necessity is to make them happy.
If we follow the Caitanya Mahāprabhu's instruction, then our life will be successful and we will be happy. And the process is very simple: chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. There is no very hard-and-fast rule for chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. In any position, in any place, in any circumstance, you can very easily chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.
Even small children, they also take part, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and dance with the elderly father and mother. So there is very good potency if we simply chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. The potency is, the first benefit is, that our dirty heart becomes cleansed. We have accumulated many dirty things within the heart on account of bad association.
The first dirty thing is to accept this body as self. This conception, bodily concept of life, is existing amongst the animals. It is existing amongst the animals that "I am this body." So actually, I am not this body; I am spirit soul. I am embodied within this body, material body.