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in chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare|/Hare
Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

“As a result of this chanting, sometimes I become impatient and cannot
restrain Myself from dancing and laughing or crying or singing—just like a
madman. When I first wondered whether I had become a madman by chanting
this Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/Hare Rama, Hare
Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, \ approached My Spiritual Master and informed
him that by chanting this Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare
Hare/Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, ‘I am becoming just
like a madman, so what is my actual position?”

In the Narada Pancharatra it is stated that all the Vedic rituals and Mantras
and understanding are compressed into the eight words Hare Krishna, Hare
Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare. Similarly, in the Kalisantra Upanishad,
it is stated that Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare] Hare
Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare—these sixteen words—are especially
meant for counteracting the contamination of Kali. To save oneself from the
contamination of Kali there is no other alternative than these sixteen words.

Lord Chaitanya informed Prakasananda Saraswati that when His Spiritual
Master understood Him, the Spiritual Master said: “It is the transcendental
nature of the Holy Name of Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna,
Hare Hare/Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare to transport a man
into spiritual madness. Anyone who sincerely chants this Holy Name is actually
elevated very soon onto the platform of love of God, and therefore he becomes
mad after Him. This madness of love of God is the first perfectional stage of
the human being.” Generally the human being is after religiousness, economic
development, sense gratification, and liberation. But this love of God is above
all such perfections of life, The process is that a bona fide Spiritual Master
chants the Holy Name, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare
Hare/Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, and the transcendental
sound vibration enters into the ear of the disciple. If the disciple follows in the
footsteps of his Spiritual Master and chants the Holy Name with equal respect,
that becomes the worship of the transcendental Name.

When the transcendental Name becomes worshipped by the devotee, the
Name Himself spreads His Glories within the heart of the devotee, and when
he is perfectly qualified in chanting such transcendental vibration of the Holy
Name, he is quite fit to become a Spiritual Master for delivering all the people
of the world. The chanting of the Holy Name is so powerful that, gradually,
it establishes its supremacy above all in the world. And the devotee who chants
