The Conversations With Prakasananda
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in chanting  Hare Krishna ,  Hare Krishna ,  Krishna Krishna ,  Hare Hare/Hare Rama ,  Hare Rama ,  Rama Rama ,  Hare Hare .
“As a result of this chanting, sometimes I become impatient and cannot restrain Myself from dancing and laughing or crying or singing—just like a madman. When I first wondered whether I had become a madman by chanting this  Hare Krishna ,  Hare Krishna ,  Krishna Krishna ,  Hare Hare/Hare Rama ,  Hare Rama ,  Rama Rama ,  Hare Hare , I approached My Spiritual Master and informed him that by chanting this  Hare Krishna ,  Hare Krishna ,  Krishna Krishna ,  Hare Hare/Hare Rama ,  Hare Rama ,  Rama Rama ,  Hare Hare , ‘I am becoming just like a madman, so what is my actual position?’”
In the  Narada Pancharatra  it is stated that all the Vedic rituals and Mantras and understanding are compressed into the eight words  Hare Krishna ,  Hare Krishna ,  Krishna Krishna ,  Hare Hare . Similarly, in the  Kalisantra Upanishad , it is stated that  Hare Krishna ,  Hare Krishna ,  Krishna Krishna ,  Hare Hare/Hare Rama ,  Hare Rama ,  Rama Rama ,  Hare Hare —these sixteen words—are especially meant for counteracting the contamination of Kali. To save oneself from the contamination of Kali there is no other alternative than these sixteen words.
Lord Chaitanya informed Prakasananda Saraswati that when His Spiritual Master understood Him, the Spiritual Master said: “It is the transcendental nature of the Holy Name of  Hare Krishna ,  Hare Krishna ,  Krishna Krishna ,  Hare Hare/Hare Rama ,  Hare Rama ,  Rama Rama ,  Hare Hare  to transport a man into spiritual madness. Anyone who sincerely chants this Holy Name is actually elevated very soon onto the platform of love of God, and therefore he becomes mad after Him. This madness of love of God is the first perfectional stage of the human being.” Generally the human being is after religiousness, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation. But this love of God is above all such perfections of life. The process is that a bona fide Spiritual Master chants the Holy Name,  Hare Krishna ,  Hare Krishna ,  Krishna Krishna ,  Hare Hare/Hare Rama ,  Hare Rama ,  Rama Rama ,  Hare Hare , and the transcendental sound vibration enters into the ear of the disciple. If the disciple follows in the footsteps of his Spiritual Master and chants the Holy Name with equal respect, that becomes the worship of the transcendental Name.
When the transcendental Name becomes worshipped by the devotee, the Name Himself spreads His Glories within the heart of the devotee, and when he is perfectly qualified in chanting such transcendental vibration of the Holy Name, he is quite fit to become a Spiritual Master for delivering all the people of the world. The chanting of the Holy Name is so powerful that, gradually, it establishes its supremacy above all in the world. And the devotee who chants