34 Kṛṣṇa Consciousness: the Topmost Yoga System
6) fading of the body, 7) crying in ecstasy, and 8) trance. But there is no doubt that chanting for a while takes one immediately to the spiritual platform, and one shows the first symptom of this in the urge to dance along with the chanting of the  mantra . We have seen this practically. Even a child can take part in the chanting and dancing. Of course, for one who is too entangled in material life, it takes a little more time to come to the standard point, but even such a materially engrossed man is raised to the spiritual platform very quickly. When it is chanted by a pure devotee of the Lord in love, it has the greatest efficacy on hearers, and as such this chanting should be heard from the lips of a pure devotee of the Lord, so that immediate effects can be achieved. As far as possible, chanting from the lips of nondevotees should be avoided. Milk touched by the lips of a serpent has poisonous effects.
The word  Harā  is the form of addressing the energy of the Lord, and the words  Kṛṣṇa  and  Rāma  are forms of addressing the Lord Himself. Both  Kṛṣṇa  and  Rāma  mean the supreme pleasure, and  Harā  is the supreme pleasure energy of the Lord, changed to  Hare  ( Hah-ray ) in the vocative. The supreme pleasure energy of the Lord helps us to reach the Lord.
The material energy, called  māyā , is also one of the multi-energies of the Lord. And we the living entities are also the energy, marginal energy, of the Lord. The living entities are described as superior to material energy. When the superior energy is in contact with the inferior energy, an incompatible situation arises; but when the superior marginal energy is in contact with the superior energy, called  Harā , it is established in its happy, normal condition.
These three words, namely  Harā ,  Kṛṣṇa  and  Rāma , are the transcendental seeds of the  mahāmantra . The chanting is a spiritual call for the Lord and His energy, to give protection to