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The Demigods Appeal to the Lord
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“Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear.” Thus as soon as one surrenders unto the lotus feet of Krṣṇa, one certainly becomes free from all contamination.
Kali-yuga is full of contamination. This is described in the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  (12.3.51):
kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ kīrtanād eva krṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet
This age of Kali is full of unlimited faults. Indeed, it is just like an ocean of faults ( doṣa-nidhi ). But there is one chance, one opportunity.  Kīrtanād eva krṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet : simply by chanting the Hare Krṣṇa  mantra , one can be freed from the contamination of Kali-yuga and, in his original spiritual body, can return home, back to Godhead. This is the opportunity of Kali-yuga.
When Krṣṇa appeared, He gave His orders, and when Krṣṇa Himself appeared as a devotee, as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He showed us the path by which to cross the ocean of Kali-yuga. That is the path of the Hare Krṣṇa movement. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared, He ushered in the era for the  saṅkīrtana  movement. It is also said that for ten thousand years this era will continue. This means that simply by accepting the  saṅkīrtana  movement and chanting the Hare Krṣṇa  mahā-mantra , the fallen souls of this Kali-yuga will be delivered. After the Battle of Kurukṣetra, at which  Bhagavad-gītā  was spoken, Kali-yuga continues for 432,000 years, of which only 5,000 years have passed. Thus there is still a balance of 427,000 years to come. Of these 427,000 years, the 10,000 years of the  saṅkīrtana  movement inaugurated by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu 500 years ago provide the opportunity for the fallen souls of Kali-yuga to take to the Krṣṇa consciousness movement, chant the Hare Krṣṇa  mahā-mantra  and thus be delivered from the clutches of material existence and return home, back to Godhead.
Chanting of the Hare Krṣṇa  mahā-mantra  is potent always, but it is especially potent in this age of Kali. Therefore Śukadeva Gosvāmī, while