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The Way of Chanting

and Knowing Krsna

Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare
Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare
Hare. This is transcendental sound vibration. It will
help us to cleanse the dust from the mirror of the
mind. At the present moment we have accumulated
so much material dust on the mirror of the mind,
just as on Second Avenue (New York City) there is
dust and soot over everything due to the heavy
traffic. Due to our manipulation of material activities,
a great deal of dust has collected over our mind’s
clear mirror, and as a consequence we are unable to
see things in perspective. This vibration of transcen-
dental sound (the Hare Krsna mantra) will cleanse
away this dust and enable us to see clearly our real
constitutional position. As soon as we come to
understand “I am not this body; I am spirit soul,
and my symptom is consciousness,” we will be able
to establish ourselves in real happiness. As our con-
sciousness is purified by this process of chanting
Hare Krsna, all our material miseries will disappear.
There is a fire that is always blazing over this mate-
rial world, and everyone is trying to extinguish it,
but there is no possibility of extinguishing this fire of
the miseries of material nature unless we are situated
in our pure consciousness, in our spiritual life.

One of the purposes for Lord Krsna’s descent or
appearance in this material world is to extinguish the
