172 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

Harer Nama Harer Nama Harer Nama Eva Kevalam. Kalau Nasteva Nasteva

Nasteva Gatir Anyatha.

“Tn this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is to
chant the Holy Name of the Lord—and there is no other means of
success.”

In three out of the four millenniums, namely the Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga
and Dvapara Yuga, there was honor in understanding transcendence through
the path of disciplic succession. In the present age, on account of Kali, people
have no interest in the matter of the disciplic succession, but they have invented
many paths of argument and logic. Such an ascending process of understanding
transcendence is not approved according to the Vedic way. The Absolute
Truth must descend from the Absolute platform. It is not to be understood
by the ascending process. The Holy Name of the Lord, Hare Krishna, Hare
Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare|/Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
is a transcendental vibration. Therefore it comes down from the trans-
cendental platform, the Supreme Abode of Krishna. And, because there is no
difference between Krishna and His Name, therefore the Holy Name of
Krishna is as pure, as perfect, and as liberated as Krishna Himself. For under-
standing the transcendental nature of the Holy Name of God, the academic
scholars have no entrance by their logic and argument. The single path to
understanding the transcendental nature of Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna
Krishna, Hare Hare/Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, is to chant
these Names with faith and adherence. Such chanting will release one from the
designated conditions of gross and subtle bodies.

In this age of logical argument and disagreement the chanting of Hare
Krishna is the only means for self realization, and because this transcendental
vibration alone can deliver the conditioned soul, therefore it is the essence of
the Vedanta Sutra. In the material conception there may be duality and differ-
ences between the Name, Form, quality, emotion and activities of a person
and the person himself; but so far as this transcendental vibration is concerned,
there is no such limitation, because it descends from the Spiritual World.
In the Spiritual World there is no such difference between the Name of the
Person Whose Name is a Quality, and the Person of the Quality. There is
no such difference as there is in the material world. The Mayavadi philosophers
cannot understand this, and therefore they are not eligible to utter the trans-
cendental vibration.

Lord Chaitanya then said to Prakasananda Saraswati that, because He
got that order from His Spiritual Master, therefore He was constantly engaged
