Pleasing to the Ear and Mind

Shrila Prabhupada says the following in the lecture delivered at LA on June 1st, 1972 on SB 2.3.15 about the Holy Name of the Lord.

A brief on what Prabhupada is saying above:
1] Holy Name is a pleasing medicine – manobhiramat
2] It is chanted actually by liberated souls, but conditioned soul can also take benefit.
3] Holy Name can be taken by anyone regardless of prior background.
4] Holy Name consists of all pastimes – conjugal love – who doesn’t want to hear between the love of a boy and girl? So, it’s pleasing to the ordinary man also!

So many pleasing effects of taking a medicine. Obviously, we all take medicines to cure ourselves, but often they are bitter.
Holy Name is the tastiest medicine. Therefore, it is said – madhuram madhurebhyo ‘pi – it is the sweetest among all sweet things.

King Kulashekhara says that in this material world, there is no use of taking any other medicine. The body is going to meet its desired end. So, the best thing to take is the elixir of Krishna’s Holy Name. That can give us eternal life.
idaṁ śarīraṁ pariṇāma-peśalaṁ
pataty avaśyaṁ śata-sandhi-jarjaram
kim auṣadhaṁ pṛcchasi mūḍha durmate
nirāmayaṁ kṛṣṇa-rasāyanaṁ piba

“This body’s beauty is fleeting, and at last the body must succumb to death after its hundreds of joints have stiffened with old age. So why, bewildered fool, are you asking for medication? Just take the Kṛṣṇa elixir, the one cure that never fails.”

Then he says that surprisingly, people are leaving this nectar of Holy Name and instead engaging in drinking poison.

Sanatana Goswami also mentions Holy Name as the topmost nectar – paramam amrtam ekam jivanam bhusanam me.

We must earnestly pray every single day so that Krishna enables us to taste the nectar of the Holy Name for which we are always anxious.

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