Text 45]
King Citraketu Meets the Lord
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Caitanya Mahāprabhu introduced this chanting of the holy name five hundred years ago, and now through the Krṣṇa consciousness movement, the Hare Krṣṇa movement, we are actually seeing that men who are considered to belong to the lowest class are being delivered from all sinful activities simply by hearing the holy name of the Lord.  Saṅsāra , material existence, is a result of sinful actions. Everyone in this material world is condemned, yet as there are different grades of prisoners, there are different grades of men. All of them, in all statuses of life, are suffering. To stop the suffering of material existence, one must take to the Hare Krṣṇa movement of  saṅkīrtana  or Krṣṇa conscious life.
Herein it is said,  yan-nāma sakṛc chravaṇāt : the holy name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is so powerful that if once heard without offenses, it can purify the lowest of men ( kirāta-hūṇāndhra-pulinda-pulkaśāḥ ). Such men, who are called  caṇḍālas , are less than  śūdras , but they also can be purified simply by hearing the holy name of the Lord, not to speak of personally seeing the Lord. From our present position, the Supreme Personality of Godhead can be personally seen as the Deity in the temple. The Deity of the Lord is not different from the Supreme Lord. Because we cannot see the Supreme Lord with our present blunt eyes, the Lord has kindly consented to come before us in a form we can see. Therefore the Deity in the temple should not be considered material. By offering food to the Deity and by decorating and serving the Deity, one gets the same result that one derives from serving the Lord personally in Vaikuṇṭha.
TEXT 45
अथ भगवन् वयमधुना
त्वदवलोकपरिमृष्टाश्चयमलाः ।
सुरन्ध्रषिणा यत् कथितं
तावकेन कथमन्यथा मवति ॥४५॥
atha bhagavan vayam adhunā
tvad-avaloka-parimṛṣṭāśaya-malāḥ
sura-ṛṣṇā yat kathitaṁ
tāvakena katham anyathā bhavati