Chanting Hare Krishna Works!

"This chanting of Hare Krishna, even if someone does not know what it is, it still works. Once in Hyderabad in South India one man came up to me and said: "Every religious sect have blind faith, blind faith, this is true of any religion without any faith it will still work". This is a post office. This is India you know. People are always asking philosophical questions. Never happened in an American post office. But I was thinking, wow what a question! But I remember I said, no, there is a process, even if you chant without faith the names of God, even if you don't know what it means it still works.

Just like Ratnakar he was chanting murder! Murder! Murder! Kill kill kill in Sanskrit which was Mara! Mara! Mara! Chanting a word which, he was a murderer, he was a robber. When you chant it in sequence mara mara mara it becomes Rama Rama Rama. Chanting Rama even when he was thinking something else it still worked.
So the chanting, like Prabhupada said, it is like fire when you put your hand in the fire whether you believe it or not you get affected, somebody does chant somehow with an open mind if they just chant they will feel some difference from the chanting. So I hope that the devotees here they know about the chanting. If you know about chanting take advantage of chanting. If we know and we don't chant then that is a very great failure on our part to take this opportunity to perfect our human form of life."

HH Jayapataka Swami
Lecture BG 2.14
1st November 2005