12 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 1

bhagavan kim ida jatam
karma vo brahma-vadinam

viparyayam aho kastarn
maivam syad brahma-vikriya

bhagavan—O my lord; kim idam—what is this; jatam—born;
karma—fruitive activities; vah—of all of you; brahma-vadinam—of
you, who are expert in chanting the Vedic mantras; viparyayam—devia-
tion; aho—alas; kastam—painful; ma evam syét—thus it should not
have been; brahma-vikriyad —this opposite action of the Vedic mantras.

TRANSLATION

My lord, all of you are expert in chanting the Vedic mantras.
How then has the result been opposite to the one desired? This is a
matter for lamentation. There should not have been such a rever-
sal of the results of the Vedic mantras.

PURPORT

In this age, the performance of yajria has been forbidden because no
one can properly chant the Vedic mantras. If Vedic mantras are chanted
properly, the desire for which a sacrifice is performed must be suc-
cessful. Therefore the Hare Krsna chant is called the mahd-mantra, the
great, exalted mantra above all other Vedic mantras, because simply
chanting the Hare Krsna mahdé-mantra brings so many beneficial effects.

As explained by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu (Siksastaka 1):

ceto-darpana-mdrjanam bhava-mahd-davagni-nirvapanam
Sreyah-kairava-candriké-vitaranam vidyd-vadhi-jivanam

anandambudhi-vardhanam prati-padam pirndmrtasvadanam
sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate Sri-krsna-sarkirtanam

“Glory to the Sri Krsna sarnkirtana, which cleanses the heart of all the
dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life,
of repeated birth and death. This sarikirtana movement is the prime
benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the
