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Teachings of Lord Chaitanya
Without devotional service nobody can become liberated from the material clutches. Especially in this age, when simply by chanting  Hare Krishna ,  Hare Krishna ,  Krishna Krishna ,  Hare Hare/Hare Rama ,  Hare Rama ,  Rama Rama ,  Hare Hare , one can achieve the highest liberation.”
In the  Srimad Bhagwatam , Tenth Canto, Fourteenth Chapter, it is stated that, for a person who gives up the path of devotional service and simply undergoes some labor of life for knowledge, there is no other profit than taking the trouble to understand what is matter and what is spirit. It is considered useless labor to try to get grains from the husks which are empty. Similarly, in the Tenth Canto, Second Chapter, it is also said that a person who gives up the transcendental loving service of the Supreme Lord and artificially considers himself liberated, never attains to actual liberation. On the contrary, with great labor of austerity and penances he may be elevated to the status of liberation, but for want of shelter unto the Lotus Feet of the Supreme Lord, he falls down again into the material contamination.
The Supreme Brahman cannot be accepted as impersonal. Otherwise the six opulences, meaning the Supreme Personality of Godhead, will not be acceptable in the concept of Brahman. All the  Vedas  and the  Puranas  affirm that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is full of spiritual energies. Foolish persons do not accept the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore His Pastimes and His Activities are derided by them. They misinterpret the transcendental Body of Krishna as a creation of the Material Nature, and this is the greatest offense and sinful act. One should, therefore, accept the words of Chaitanya just as He explained in this assembly.
The individual Personality of the Supreme Absolute Truth is explained in the  Srimad Bhagwatam , Third Canto, Ninth Chapter: “O my Supreme Lord, the transcendental Form which I am just seeing is simple transcendental pleasure without any change and without any contamination of the material modes. It is full of effulgence and there is no greater manifestation of the Absolute Truth than this. O Soul of everyone, You are the Creator of this cosmic manifestation with all the material elements, and I surrender unto You, Your transcendental Form, O Krishna! O Most Auspicious Universe! You advent Yourself in Your Original Personal Form for the Purpose of being worshipped by us. We perceive You either by meditation or by worshipping directly. Foolish persons, mostly contaminated by the material Nature, do not give much importance to Your transcendental Form, and therefore they are understood to be gliding down to hell.”
The same statement is confirmed in the  Bhagavad Gita , Ninth Chapter,