Quotes
One who chants the holy name of the Lord is immediately freed from the reactions of unlimited sins, even if he chants indirectly [to indicate something else], jokingly, for musical entertainment, or even neglectfully. This is accepted by all the learned scholars of the scriptures.
(SB 6.2.14 Translation)
My dear Lord, anyone who always keeps Your holy name on his tongue is greater than an initiated brÄhmaáša. Although he may be born in a family of dog-eaters and therefore, by material calculations, be the lowest of men, he is glorious nevertheless. That is the wonderful power of chanting the holy name of the Lord. One who chants the holy name is understood to have performed all kinds of austerities. He has studied all the Vedas, he has performed all the great sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas, and he has already taken his bath in all the holy places of pilgrimage. It is he who is factually the Äryan.
(CC Antya 16.27, Translation)
So you have got this tongue. You can chant KášášŁáša, Hare KášášŁáša. Immediately you become directly in touch with KášášŁáša. Immediately. Because the name KášášŁáša and KášášŁáša-person is not different. Identical. So even if you think that KášášŁáša is far, far away… KášášŁáša is not far, far away. KášášŁáša is not far, far away. KášášŁáša is within you. He’s not far away. He’s far away, at the same time nearest. So even if you think that KášášŁáša is far, far, His name is there. You chant Hare KášášŁáša, KášášŁáša becomes immediately available. AniyamitaḼ. And for making KášášŁáša available in this shortcut way, there is no hard and fast rule. You can chant any time. Immediately you get KášášŁáša. Just see the mercy of KášášŁáša.
(Lecture on SB 1.8.25 – Los Angeles, April 17, 1973)
If we follow Caitanya MahÄprabhu’s instruction, then our life will be successful and we will be happy. And the process is very simple: chanting Hare KášášŁáša. There is no very hard and fast rule for chanting Hare KášášŁáša mantra. In any position, in any place, in any circumstance, you can very easily chant this Hare KášášŁáša mahÄ-mantra. Even small children, they also take part, chant Hare KášášŁáša and dance with the elderly father and mother. So there is very good potency if we simply chant this Hare KášášŁáša mantra.
(Arrival Address – Paris, August 11, 1975)
By chanting the holy name of God gradually your dirty things within the heart will be cleansed and you will see properly your constitutional position and then you will act accordingly and then your life will be happy and prosperous. This is the sum and substance of this KášášŁáša consciousness movement.
(Arrival Address – Berkeley, October 5, 1972)
A devotee accepts the distress of this material world as happiness only due to the causeless mercy of ĹrÄŤ Caitanya MahÄprabhu. By His personal behavior, ĹrÄŤ Caitanya MahÄprabhu showed that He was never distressed but always happy in chanting the Hare KášášŁáša mahÄ-mantra. One should follow in the footsteps of ĹrÄŤ Caitanya MahÄprabhu and engage constantly in chanting the mahÄ-mantraâHare KášášŁáša, Hare KášášŁáša, KášášŁáša KášášŁáša, Hare Hare/ Hare RÄma, Hare RÄma, RÄma RÄma, Hare Hare.
(SB 6.17.30 Purport)
Anyone, anywhere, can easily take to this Hare KášášŁáša movement; one need only chant the Hare KášášŁáša mahÄ-mantra, observe the rules and regulations, and stay free from the contamination of sinful life. Even if one is sinful and cannot give up sinful life immediately, if he chants the Hare KášášŁáša mahÄ-mantra with devotion and faith he will certainly be freed from all sinful activities, and his life will be successful. Paraáš vijayate ĹrÄŤ-kášášŁáša-saáš
kÄŤrtanam. This is the blessing of Lord RÄmacandra, who has appeared in this age of Kali as Lord Gaurasundara.
(SB 9.10.51 Purport)
By the grace of the Lord, if a devotee, at the time of death, can simply chant His holy name â Hare KášášŁáša, Hare KášášŁáša, KášášŁáša KášášŁáša, Hare Hare/ Hare RÄma, Hare RÄma, RÄma RÄma, Hare Hare â simply by chanting this mahÄ-mantra he immediately surpasses the great ocean of the material sky and enters the spiritual sky. He never has to come back for repetition of birth and death.
(SB 4.10.30, Purport)
harer nÄma harer nÄma
harer nÄmaiva kevalam
kalau nÄsty eva nÄsty eva
nÄsty eva gatir anyathÄ
[Cc. Ädi 17.21]
In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way.
(BG 6.11-12, Purport)
To confirm the Lord’s mission, all the people of the world will accept the holy name of the Lord as the common platform for the universal religion of mankind. In other words, the advent of the holy name took place along with the advent of Lord ĹrÄŤ Caitanya MahÄprabhu.
(SB Introduction)
I saw that I had become mad by chanting the holy name, and I immediately submitted this at the lotus feet of my spiritual master. âMy dear lord, what kind of mantra have you given Me? I have become mad simply by chanting this mahÄ-mantra! âChanting the holy name in ecstasy causes Me to dance, laugh and cry.â When My spiritual master heard all this, he smiled and then began to speak. It is the nature of the Hare KášášŁáša mahÄ-mantra that anyone who chants it immediately develops his loving ecstasy for KášášŁáša.
(CC Adi 7.80 – 7.83)
Apart from seeing You, whoever listens to Your holy name is made mad with ecstatic love for KášášŁáša and is able to deliver the three worlds.
(CC Madhya 18.123)