Prabhupada, New York, November 20, 1966: […] So in the beginning we have to chant. We may be in whatever position we are; that doesn’t matter. If we begin chanting then our, the first benefit will be ceto-darpana-marjanam: [Cc. Antya 20.12] “The mind will be clear of all dirty things.” Ceto-darpana-marjanam.
And then next stage will be bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam. The next stage will be that the sufferings, the miseries of this material world, will subside. So we’ll have to, I mean to say, make progress stage after stage. But any stage you can adopt this means, any stage. There is no necessity of preliminary qualification, that “You have to come to this stage and then chant.” From any stage you can chant. Full Lecture
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