Only the fortunate person who comes into contact with a spiritual master, a true servant of God, and who is willing to read the books that transmit the Lord's teachings, is able to escape the material labyrinth.

Surrendering to God, loving Him, and serving Him with love and devotion allows us to put an end to the misfortunes and sufferings we undergo in this world, to approach the Supreme Lord, and to enter His eternal kingdom.

Let us all realize that all bodily conceptions of existence centered on sense pleasures are nothing but products of illusory energy, and let us realize that everything in this world is nothing but the creation of material energy in its aspect of illusory energy. Therefore, if we somehow become conscious of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, regardless of our initial motives, we will eventually realize the Truth as it is, by the grace of the Lord. We will then lose all interest in material pleasures. All we need to do is surrender ourselves completely to Krishna, love Him, obey Him, do His divine will, renew the bond of love with Him, unite our desires, interests, and plans with His, chant the hymn of His Holy Names, and serve Him with love and devotion, to see Maya, or Satan, release its grip and influence over us, for if it had plunged us into illusion, it was simply because it wanted us to turn to Lord Krishna.

Only holy beings, devotees of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are granted access to the perfection of existence. As for one who takes only the first steps on the path of devotional service and, without yet being mature, falls from his position, he is nevertheless superior to the person who devotes himself entirely to the self-interested activities of this world.

Why must we constantly chant the hymn of the Holy Names of God, “Hare Krishna”?

By chanting or reciting the hymn Hare Krishna, the Holy Names of God, we will be delivered from all the difficulties of this material world.

The chanting of the Holy Names of the Lord is the universal religious principle par excellence, perfectly suited to the present age, the dark age, the age of discord, quarrels, hypocrisy, indifference, decadence, and sin. It is also the age of forgetfulness of God.

No more sublime religion can be found for this age than this hymn of the Holy Names, Hare Krishna.

This is the sublime hymn, the marvelous chanting of the Holy Names of God, whose spiritual sound vibrations are transcendental, for they come from the spiritual world.

Hare Krishna, hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, hare hare

Hare Rama, hare Rama, Rama Rama, hare hare

This chant in Sanskrit means: O energy of the Lord, O Lord, allow me to serve you. Hare is the energy of the Lord, Krishna and Rama are His Holy Names, the first two of His innumerable Names.