Everything in relationship with God is powerful. But the name in this age is the most powerful

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"Everything in relationship with God is powerful. But the name in this age is the most powerful"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Everything in relationship with God is powerful. But the name in this age is the most powerful: kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet (SB 12.3.51).

760929 - Conversation - Vrndavana

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Therefore it is called mahā-mantra.

Doctor: But I was told that the Sudarśana-cakra words, mahāmāla parakramāyā maha patanivaya bhakta jane kalpanaya, that is a very powerful mantra.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Everything in relationship with God is powerful. But the name in this age is the most powerful: kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet (SB 12.3.51).

Doctor: And the word oṁ has been praised in the Upaniṣads, but . . .

Prabhupāda: Oṁ, veda, praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu. Kṛṣṇa says that raso 'ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu (BG 7.8). Praṇava is oṁkāra. Sarva-vedeṣu, "That praṇava I am." That is sound representation of Kṛṣṇa.

Doctor: Then that one word as a mantra, is it not . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Doctor: . . . the highest sort of word?

Prabhupāda: No. If you keep Kṛṣṇa that, "This praṇava is the sound representation of Kṛṣṇa," then it is all right. If you think it is separately powerful than Kṛṣṇa, that is nāma-aparādha.