26 Krsna Consciousness: the Topmost Yoga System

millions of such persons on the path of perfection, only one
may understand Krsna. So understanding Krsna is not very
easy. But it is also the easiest. It is not easy, but at the same
time it is the easiest. It is the easiest if you follow the pre-
scribed forms.

Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu has introduced this chanting of
Hare Krsna. He has not exactly introduced it; it is in the
scriptures. But He has especially propagated this formula. In
this age this is the easiest method of self-realization. Simply
chant Hare Krsna. It can be done by everyone. In my class-
room, | am perhaps the only Indian. My students are all Ameri-
cans, and they are taking part in the chanting very nicely,
chanting and dancing. That means that, in any country, in any
place, this can be performed. Therefore it is the easiest. You
may not understand the philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita. That
is also not very difficult; but still, if you think that you cannot
understand, you can still chant very easily: Hare Krsna, Hare
Krsna.

If we want to understand God, Krsna, this is the beginning.
The easiest beginning—simply chanting. Now, there are many
students of my ISKCON institution. This institution is open a
little over a year; but some of the students, by simply
chanting, by the grace of Krsna, have advanced in such a way
that they can talk about the science of God, and they will very
easily answer those human questions. So, this is the easiest
method of transcendental meditation.

Krsna says that out of many millions of people, one may
understand Him. But, by chanting of this Hare Krsna, as intro-
duced by Lord Caitanya—chanting and dancing—you can under-
stand Krsna within a very short time. Knowledge begins not
from Krsna, but from things which we are accustomed to see
every day.

Land is gross. If you touch it, you can feel its hardness. But,
as soon as the land becomes still finer, it is water, and the
