Sound Bhakti

So there’s a conversation with Prabhupada and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Prabhupada is explaining how this is the pinnacle of all speech. Yoko asks, “So why need we say anything else? Why don’t we just say Hare Krishna?” Of course, we have our ordinary dealings through which, uh, by which we deal with the world and take care of our bodies and so forth. But ultimately, one who’s chanting Hare Krishna has some realization that this is worthwhile. How worthwhile is it? Well, there are details that the sages have gone into, that just by chanting Hare Krishna, everything else is available to you. All energies are synchronized in one place because you’re going to the source. So this is the idea behind taking the effort to repeat the mantra over and over again. It’s the supreme combination of syllables, and what’s more, it’s non-different from Krishna. So it gives us contact with the source. Everything that we’ve ever looked for, wanted, is there within our relationship with Krishna. (Excerpt from the talk) To conn