Faith in Krishna's teachings, cultivated through chanting and sadhu-sanga, purifies the heart from bodily identification and alone grants eternal association with the divine.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: [break] You told me, from the siddhi... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Someone came this morning. He was asking that... He was hoping that because he had heard that you had some mystical powers, so he was hoping that you could help his situation by demonstrating some of these mystical powers. Prabhupāda: Some magic. Our magic is already there.
Throughout the whole world they are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Is not that magic? Hmm? Foreign countries, foreign religion, and they are accepting Kṛṣṇa and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Is not that magic? Indian man (1): It is. Prabhupāda: And still more magic? The world is chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Boliye? yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ sa me yuktatamo mataḥ [Bg 6.47] He is yogī. There are many varieties of yogīs.
And Kṛṣṇa concludes, "Of all the yogīs, big, big yogīs, the person who is always remembering Kṛṣṇa and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra is first class." This is said by Kṛṣṇa, not by me. Therefore it is authorized statement. Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all these mystic powers... They may be temporarily some magic, but Kṛṣṇa says that "One who is always remembering Me," satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ [Bg 9.14], "he is first-class yogī." So all these persons who are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa according to the prescribed rules and regulations, without any offense...
There are ten kinds of offenses. So in the beginning there may be offenses. It doesn't matter. It will be rectified.
Offenseless chanting means mukti, and then pure chanting means love of Godhead. There are three stages. In the beginning, when one begins chanting, it is not pure; there are so many offenses. But chanting, chanting, the offenses become purified.
[background talking] Offenseless chanting is not purified completely, but it is offenseless. So offenseless chanting makes one liberated, and then pure chanting makes one lover of God. This is the process. So chanting is a great mystic power.