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Teachings of Lord Chaitanya
Harer Nama Harer Nama Harer Nama Eva Kevalam. Kalau Nasteva Nasteva Nasteva Gatir Anyatha.
“In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is to chant the Holy Name of the Lord—and there is no other means of success.”
In three out of four millenniums, namely the  Satya Yuga ,  Treta Yuga  and  Dvapara Yuga , there was honor in understanding transcendence through the path of disciplic succession. In the present age, on account of Kali, people have no interest in the matter of the disciplic succession, but they have invented many paths of argument and logic. Such an ascending process of understanding transcendence is not approved according to the Vedic way. The Absolute Truth must descend from the Absolute platform. It is not to be understood by the ascending process. The Holy Name of the Lord,  Hare Krishna ,  Hare Krishna ,  Krishna Krishna ,  Hare Hare/Hare Rama ,  Rama Rama ,  Hare Hare  is a transcendental vibration. Therefore it comes down from the transcendental platform, the Supreme Abode of Krishna. And, because there is no difference between Krishna and His Name, therefore the Holy Name of Krishna is as pure, as perfect, and as liberated as Krishna Himself. For understanding the transcendental nature of the Holy Name of God, the academic scholars have no entrance by their logic and argument. The single path to understanding the transcendental nature of  Hare Krishna ,  Hare Krishna ,  Krishna Krishna ,  Hare Hare/Hare Rama ,  Hare Rama ,  Rama Rama ,  Hare Hare , is to chant these Names with faith and adherence. Such chanting will release one from the designated conditions of gross and subtle bodies.
In this age of logical argument and disagreement the chanting of  Hare Krishna  is the only means for self realization, and because this transcendental vibration alone can deliver the conditioned soul, therefore it is the essence of the  Vedanta Sutra . In the material conception there may be duality and differences between the Name, Form, quality, emotion and activities of a person and the person himself; but so far as this transcendental vibration is concerned, there is no such limitation, because it descends from the Spiritual World. In the Spiritual World there is no such difference between the Name of the Person Whose Name is a Quality, and the Person of the Quality. There is no such difference as there is in the material world. The Mayavadi philosophers cannot understand this, and therefore they are not eligible to utter the transcendental vibration.
Lord Chaitanya then said to Prakasananda Saraswati that, because He got that order from His Spiritual Master, therefore He was constantly engaged