Preface
XVII
Achintya Bhedabheda Tattwa  (simultaneously one and different)—most practically for everyone among the mass of people, simply by chanting the Holy Name of the Lord. He says that the Holy Name of the Lord is the Sound Vibration Form of the Lord. The Lord being the Absolute Whole, there is no difference between His Holy Name and His Transcendental Form. Therefore, by chanting the Holy Name of the Lord, one can directly associate with the Supreme Lord by Sound Vibration. This Sound Vibration of the Lord has three stages of development, namely: (1) offensive stage, (2) clearing stage, and (3) transcendental stage. In the offensive stage one may desire all kinds of material happiness or distress as one acts, but in the second stage of chanting, one becomes cleared from all material contamination. But when one is situated on the transcendental stage, one achieves the most covetable perfection, the stage of loving God. Lord Chaitanya recommended that this is the highest stage of perfection for the human being.
Yoga practice is essentially meant for controlling the senses. Mind is the central controlling factor of all senses; and therefore one has to practice first controlling the mind by engaging the mind in the matter of Krishna Consciousness. The gross activities of the mind are expressed through the external senses, either for acquiring knowledge or functioning under the will, and the subtle activities of the mind are thinking, feeling, and willing, according to the different attitudes of consciousness. This consciousness is either polluted or clear. If the mind is fixed up in Krishna (His Name, Quality, Form, Pastimes, Entourage, and Paraphernalia), then the whole of the activities, subtle and gross, is changed favorably. The  Bhagavad Gita's  process of purifying consciousness is to fix the mind on Krishna—to talk of His Transcendental Activities, to cleanse the Temple of the Lord, to walk to the Temple of the Lord, to see the Beautiful Transcendental Form of the Lord nicely decorated, to hear His Transcendental Glories, to taste foodstuffs offered to the Lord, to smell the flowers and Tulsi leaves offered to the Lord, to associate with the Lord's devotees, to engage oneself in the activities for the interest of the Lord, and to become angry also at those who are envious of the devotees. No one can stop the activities of the mind or the senses, but one can purify such activities by changing the account. This change of account is recommended in the  Bhagavad Gita  (Chapter II/39). A human being is sometimes restricted in the matter of sense-gratification under certain circumstances of disease, etc. But that prescription or regulative principle is for the less intelligent class of men. Such less intelligent men, without knowing the actual process of controlling the mind and senses, either want to stop them by force, or to give them up or to be carried away by the waves of sense-gratification.
The eight formulas of practicing Yoga—regulative principles, following the rules, practicing the different sitting postures, breathing exercise, and thus to withdraw the senses from the sense objects, etc.—are meant for the persons who are too engrossed in the bodily concept of life. But the intelligent man who is situated in Krishna Consciousness, does not forcibly stop his senses from acting on behalf of Krishna.