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<div class="heading">If a mantra has so power, why it should be secret? It should be distributed. People are suffering. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "Chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. Anyone who will hear... Even the birds and beasts will hear and they will be liberated." That's all.
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Prabhupāda: ''Veda mantra''. ''Sa jñāta na vṛtti''. ''Vedānta-sūtra-śabdat''. Simply by transcendental vibration of sound, everything can be achieved. 

Gurudāsa: Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: (long pause) What kind of philosophy you are following? May I ask?

John Lennon: Following?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Yoko Ono: We don't follow anything. We are just living.

George Harrison: We've done meditation. Or I do my meditation. I have a ''mantra'' meditation.

Prabhupāda: This is also ''mantra''.

John Lennon: It's not a song, though.

George Harrison: No, no. It's chanting.

John Lennon: We got it from Maharishi. A ''mantra'' each.

Prabhupāda: His ''mantra'' is not public.

George Harrison: Not out loud. No.

John Lennon: No. It's a secret. (laughs)

Prabhupāda: There is a version by Rāmānujācārya. Rāmānujācārya, he was a great ''ācārya'' of this Vaiṣṇava ''sampradāya''. His spiritual master gave him ''mantra'': "My dear boy, you chant this ''mantra'' silently. Nobody can hear. It is very . . ." So then he asked, "What is the effect of this ''mantra''?" He said, "By chanting this ''mantra'', by meditation, you'll get liberation." So he immediately went out, and in a public, big meeting he said that "You chant this ''mantra''. You'll be all liberated." (laughter)

So he came back to his spiritual master, and his spiritual master was very angry that, "I told you that you should chant silently." He said: "Yes, I have committed offense. So whatever punishment you like, you can give me. But because you told me that this ''mantra'' will liberate, I have given publicly. Let everyone hear and be liberated. Let me go to hell. I don't mind. I have disobeyed your order. Let me go to hell. I am prepared. But by this chanting ''mantra'', if anyone is liberated, let it be publicly distributed." His spiritual master embraced him: "You are greater than me." You see? 

So if a ''mantra'' has so power, why it should be secret? It should be distributed. People are suffering. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "Chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mantra''. Anyone who will hear . . . even the birds and beasts will hear and they will be liberated." That's all.
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