Giriraj Swami read and spoke from Bhagavad-gita 9.3 during the Sunday program in Dallas.
“Once, I was at airport in America with Srila Prabhupada when a reporter asked him. ‘What does this chanting achieve?’ Srila Prabhupada smiled so broadly—just this oceanic, effulgent smile. He looked at the reporter and said. ‘Chanting accomplishes chanting.’ There is nothing higher than chanting. And chanting accomplishes more chanting. In the beginning one may chant a certain number of rounds as a regulative principle which is good. But later, when we develop taste, we don’t want to stop chanting. It’s like twenty four hours is not enough. One devotee commented that earlier chanting was something that got in the way of his life. Now he feels that his life gets in the way of his chanting. Rupa Gossami prayed. ‘With one mouth and two ears what can I chant? If I had millions of mouths and billions of ears then I could begin to chant.’ Because there is so much relish. One mouth and two ears is not enough. that comes from associating from those that have taste.”
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