Far away I saw someone meditating, Oh! He was a sage,
I at once went closer, thinking he might have a nice adage.
Now I could see him closely,
He was all skeletons and wore his clothes loosely,
Oh! How fiercely was the Maharaja chanting
It seemed as if there were 100 lions roaring.
Trembling in ecstasy and sweating
The great sage was chanting.
Now, I am an illiterate person,
Bringing my ears to his mouth I tried to get the chanting’s darshan,
As the ears got closer, the words got clearer.
And finally I heard what he was chanting.
The great Sage was chanting,
The great Sage was chanting the name of a movie star
Oh! He was no sage, no cool
He was just an ordinary fool,
This movie buff read a spiritual book
And only one teaching, he took.
Chant the name and you feel the transcendental
And he thinks he will experience this movie star
As he keeps on chanting
Oh! What ignorance!,
He does not know what is transcendental,
Nothing of this material world, even the movie star can give the higher taste
It is indeed not so easy to find the sat-chit-ananda or the eternal blissful consciousness
But there is one name which can give the spiritual rasa,
There is one and only one nama which is not of this material world
But is definitely present in this material world.
That name is not a mundane syllable constitution,
One cannot take it as a humdrum sound vibration.
The Holy Nama reflects the omnipotence of our
So, when we chant “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare”
The Holy Nama gives us the experience,
The experience of the potency of the supreme personality of Godhead.
The spiritual nama is thus a gift for us - the fallen souls,
In this material world where everyone is envious,
We have the power of the Holy Name.
The Holy Name which is as powerful as Krishna Himself
That Holy Name which chanted daily with a pure heart
Gives us the bhakti and the Shakti for the whole day.
It is the Holy Name which protected the great Bhakt Prahlad from his vicious father,
It is the very same Holy Name which didn’t let the poison harm the great devotee MiraBai,
Such is the power of the Holy Name
Because
The Holy Name will save you from your greatest misery, sorrow, pain and dangers.
And so chant the Holy Name with full devotion,
because as stated in the Srimad Bhagvatam:
Living beings who are entangled in the complicated meshes of birth and death can be freed immediately by even unconsciously chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, which is feared by fear personified.
