Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is the inaugurator of the sankirtana movement, anyone who performs sankirtana to please the Lord is very, very glorious. Such a person has perfect intelligence, whereas others are in the ignorance of material existence.
Purport on Srimad Bhagavatam 5.19.24
Performing kirtana and hearing the vibration of the sound Hare Krishna is actually seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly.
Purport on Srimad Bhagavatam 7.4.25-26
If one wants to derive the actual benefit from this human form, he must take to the chanting of the holy name of the Lord.
Purport on Srimad Bhagavatam 7.6.19
1. Ultimately a vaishnava is greater than brahmachari, grihastha or sanyasi. He is a parama-hamsa. Other things are external.
2. Even if you have brahminical qualities, it is of no use unless you become a devotee of Krishna.
3. Now I have become a brahmachari, I have become a sanyasi. And then disappear. What is this? Everyone will face the test. Are you a brahmin? Do you have the brahminical qualities? You are a sanyasi? Do you have the sanyasi’s qualities? Krishna will see that only.
The degree of brahminical qualities tells how advanced you are. Then the question of becoming a vaishnava comes. Otherwise.. kanishthaha-adhikari. Summer salt. One day….Blup! Dived in the ocean of material existence. Doesn’t appear where he has gone. That is why, many come, few survive. Krishna will test all of us, each of us.
Spending fifty percent for the service of the Lord or for propagation of spiritual knowledge in society by way of the sankirtana-yajna is the maximum display of human mercy.
Purport on Srimad Bhagavatam 1.17.42
