You know, all, that two years ago, in 1966, I started this class alone. I was chanting only. That's all. That was my . . . whatever you call. And these boys and girls, gradually they came, and they became attracted. I did not teach them any artificial method of yoga practice, but simply I requested them, "You chant and hear." So very easy process. You can revive your dormant Kṛṣṇa consciousness simply, śravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaya udaya (vanisource:CC Madhya 22.107). The process is that as you go on chanting, then all the dirty things within your heart will be cleansed. Simply we want to cleanse.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu has recommended this chanting, and He has said that the result of chanting will be, the first installment of your gain will be, that your heart will be cleansed. The first thing, which is being tried by the so many mental speculators, how to cleanse the heart, that will be achieved in the first installment by simply chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahādāvāgni-nirvāpanaṁ (vanisource:CC Antya 20.12). And as the cleansing process of your heart makes progress, then you become freed from the blazing fire of material existence.
- ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahādāvāgni-nirvāpanaṁ
- śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ
- (CC Antya 20.12, Śikṣāṣṭaka 1)
And then again, just like in the moonlight, daily, the moon increases the light. When the moon is rising daily in the bright fortnight, daily you see that the moon is increasing in shape. So this, that very example, is said here also. As soon as your heart is cleansed and you immediately you become freed from all material contamination, then your real pleasure on the platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness increases in the proportion. As the moon increases in the sky daily, and as one day it becomes the full moon, so this process is so nice that increasing daily by chanting, one day it will come that you will simply love Kṛṣṇa and forget everything.
- ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahādāvāgni-nirvāpanaṁ
- śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇaṁ vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam
- (CC Antya 20.12, Śikṣāṣṭaka 1)
And so far knowledge is concerned, you will get it automatically. You will get all knowledge. Our material conditional life is simply due to ignorance, and when you come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the full moonlight of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all knowledge will be at your feet. Everything you will know. Vidyā-vadhū-jīvanam. And ānandāmbudhi-vaṛdhanaṁ: then you increase the ocean of transcendental bliss. The ocean . . . the ocean never increases, but the transcendental ocean of bliss increases daily, daily, and you enjoy it.