Chanting the Holy Name of God

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Srila Prabhupada, New York, May 25, 1966: […] So for this age, it is prescribed that kalau tad dhari-kirtanat. Whatever was possible to perform in the Satya-yuga by meditation and the Treta-yuga by offering of great, I mean to say, costly sacrifices, and in the Dvapara-yuga by offering prayers or arcana in the temple, that can be made possible easily by hari-kirtana, by chanting the holy name of God. That is the prescription.

So, as the Bhagavad-gita prescribes, that you have to perform yajna, now, don’t be afraid that you have to perform the same kind of yajna as it was being performed in the Treta-yuga or Dvapara-yuga by offering thousands and thousands of mounds of clarified butter and grains. That is not possible.

Nobody can secure all those ingredients at the present moment. Neither it is recommended. In the Kali-yuga it is recommended that one can perform the sankirtana-yajna. That will give him the same result which was derived by meditation in Satya-yuga.

So Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu introduced this method of sankirtana-yajna in this age. Five hundred years before, Lord Caitanya advented Himself in India in Bengal in the district of Navadvipa. It is about sixty miles from Calcutta. And He…

Of course, He was born in that particular place, but He, I mean to say, distributed these missionary activities all over India. And He desired that His followers may also distribute this missionary activity in other parts of the world. That is His desire and foretelling.

So this yajna. So far yajna is concerned, we can perform this yajna, sankirtana-yajna. That is not very difficult. Everyone, at home or in this place… What is that?

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

It is the most inexpensive performance of yajna. Anyone can adopt it, just to learn these sixteen words: Hare, Krishna, Hare, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare, Hare, Rama, Hare, Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare, these sixteen words. Anyone, any illiterate man or any rich man, any poor man or any man of any country, these sixteen words anyone can learn. You see?

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

And chant. Go on chanting it. There is no expenditure.
Suppose if you are moving on the street and if you go on chanting

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

There is no expenditure and there is no loss. Suppose you are sitting on the bus, on the car, for two hours. For two hours, if you go on chanting, “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna”, then tremendous result. So why don’t you try it? There is no expenditure; there is no loss, neither loss of time, neither loss of money, neither loss of energy.

There is no loss. Simply and melodiously, in a singing way, if you go on, “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare,” you are… You will be directly associating with the Supreme Lord. You will be directly associating.

Now, suppose, theoretically accepting that if I am directly associating with Supreme Lord, then what else I want more?
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